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Suresh Shankar

Maidstone,United Kingdom

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Cloud Specialist Engineering

HSBC UK
London, United Kingdom
05.2021 - 12.2024
  • Designed architecture for End-to-end cloud private landing zone for developer hosts their intranet applications for DEV/PROD/PREPROD/PROD
  • Redesigned and migrated the hub networking architecture to updated cloud resources, enhancing network connectivity and implementing secure firewall configurations.
  • Designed and implemented secure traffic balancing solutions to enable external network connectivity for accessing App Services and Function Apps within isolated environments , managed inbound traffic routing across DMZ and internal network zones.
  • Deployed applications on AKS cluster with nodes setup, enabling teams to access application through Nginx-Ingress Controller and load balancer using YAML and terraform script
  • Developed Dockerfiles to create container images in pods, using private container registries for image storage, ensured zero downtime and enhanced node management through optimized deployment strategies
  • Deployed VM with automatic updates of HSBC managed images using DevOps to meet security standard and remediate vulnerability issue.
  • All VMs are backed up in Azure Recovery Vault, ensuring data protection, and auto scaling is implemented to efficiently manage traffic during peak hours.
  • Automated API calls using Python scripts for domain joining and image promotion to production, incorporating scans and validations during the process.
  • ADF infrastructure using terraform, and ARM template to efficiently manage ADF components including SHIR, Linked service, managed private endpoint and data pipelines.
  • Achieved Microsoft Intune with Red Hat 8.9 to enable HSBC managed mobile users to securely access on-perm application using HSBC approved inbound pattern across multiple regions
  • Provisioned Infrastructure for the ETL process, enabling Dynamic 365 data from GCP to be processed by ADF and sent to Dynamics via storage account, Azure Database migration service facilitates the migration of database from on perm to azure
  • Landing zone is monitored using alerts and triggers, notification via the X-matters ticketing tool
  • Collaborating with Azure security team to ensure compliance of all resources and mitigate azure security standard
  • Simultaneously engaged with multiple project teams, assisting in setting up landing zones, providing training for Post KT management, and thoroughly documenting all activities
  • Managed subscription group, Networking, Storage, Security, Routing, Azure Virtual Machine, ASR, Auto scaling, Load Balancer, Domain Management, Automate Runbook tool, Web App, ASE, Custom metrics, Azure container, Docker, Kubernetes, private DNS, SSL, Key vault, IAM, RBAC, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure CLI, API Management, Cost Management, AZURE PowerShell, Python, MS Tunnel gateway, Traffic Manager, Application gateway, Azure data factory, Database Migration Service, Microsoft 365, Crowd Strike, Container registry, AI services

Cloud Consultant

Prodapt
Reading, UK
03.2020 - 05.2021
  • Company Overview: Prodapt is a consulting and managed service provider singularly focused on the Telecom/Digital service provider ecosystem that helps clients transform their IT, Cloud infrastructures, DevOps, operation and network to meet their strategic objectives
  • Designed cloud Hub and Spoke networking (Palo-Alto firewall) to securely access between cloud to on-premise
  • Implemented auto scaling which helps to maintain application availability and achieved horizontal scaling to add additional resource during peak performance
  • Secured virtual machines using custom policies, backup, Azure monitoring, alerting, metrics, automated patching, encrypting and CIS benchmark
  • Build complete CI/CD pipelines using YAML templates to provision infrastructure and application deployments across environments
  • Successfully migrated all the backend APIs, including the payment module from an on-perm data centre to AKS managed cluster, uninterrupted data delivery to end-users, achieving zero downtime during the migration process
  • Followed Kanban board to manage our work that helps to complete the task in a timeline and allow tracking user's bandwidth
  • Prodapt is a consulting and managed service provider singularly focused on the Telecom/Digital service provider ecosystem that helps clients transform their IT, Cloud infrastructures, DevOps, operation and network to meet their strategic objectives
  • Managed subscription group, Networking, Storage, Security, Routing, Azure Virtual Machine, ASR, Autoscaling, Load Balancer, Domain Management, Automate Runbook tool, Web App, ASE, Custom metrics, Azure container, Docker, Kubernetes, private DNS, SSL, Key vault, IAM, RBAC, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure CLI, API Management, Cost Management, AZURE PowerShell, Palo-Alto Firewall

Cloud Consultant (Azure & AWS)

Cognizant
London, UK
05.2016 - 02.2020
  • Company Overview: WPP is a British multinational public relation company that involved in developing various templates for migrating cloud resources into centralized subscriptions
  • Achieved Cloud logs/cost/report for Azure and AWS into centralized location, which helps client to manage visually
  • Implemented scripts using Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and AWS CLI to take resource level report, managing tags
  • Moved data from production server to Data Lake using Data Factory, which helps analyzing live report without disturbing production server
  • Liaise with application support teams, product vendors, Cloud Platform teams, digital security and other project stakeholders
  • Managed full application testing in Cloud environment
  • Prepared production cutover plans and executed successfully
  • Stabilized application's availability by upgrading to Docker in cloud container registry into multiple Kubernetes POD
  • Manages and leads a DevOps team to create CI/CD pipelines (code Plan/Commit/Build/Release/Deploy/Monitor) to automate cloud provisioning, versioning code and deployments
  • Achieved n-tier architecture with dedicated infrastructure for hosting external services using Infrastructure code
  • Established connectivity between on premise and Cloud, which helps application team to consume test data
  • WPP is a British multinational public relation company that involved in developing various templates for migrating cloud resources into centralized subscriptions
  • Azure: VM with availability set, ASR Vm, Auto scaling, backup, storage account, Diagnostics, Application Insights, Azure bus, ASE, API Management, Function app, SSL Certification, Azure AD Domain services, App registration, RBAC, CDN, Networking, Cosmos DB, VM Hardening(Cis-Benchmark), Azure Advisor, Azure Active Directory, B2C Tenant, Managed Subscriptions, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data lake, Azure Search, Graph API, Microsoft API, Express Route, Peering, Network Watcher, Automate Patching, Azure Container Registry, Docker, Private DNS Zone, Azure Kubernetes service and octopus
  • AWS: SSM Document, Scaling, EC2, S3, Route 53, NACL, Elastic search, Backup services, IAM, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Networking, Lambda, Data pipeline, SQS, EKS

Cloud Engineer

Tech Mahindra
Chennai, UK
04.2013 - 05.2016
  • Company Overview: This is an Ecommerce application to manage orders and payment between business and customers
  • Worked as Cloud engineer and helped the client on designing and building the cloud infrastructure setup to Web based applications
  • Azure infrastructure design for the cloud suitable applications and architectural best practices
  • Implemented the automation of CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to build, test, deploy to various environments
  • Azure AD and AD B2C authentication and authorization
  • App registration, User Migration, Managed Customized Role and AD Managed identities
  • Introduced Azure Active Directory authenticate mechanism to secure web application and reducing code work
  • Present the proposed architectures and low-level designs to TDA (Technical Design Authority) and digital security stakeholders
  • Introduced Cloud messaging services, which helps application team to manage payment related process
  • Monitoring, Logging, metrics and recommended cost-effective cloud solutions
  • This is an Ecommerce application to manage orders and payment between business and customers
  • SQL Server, Networking, Storage, Cost Management and Billing, Manage Tags, Application Insights, Azure CLI, ARM Template, Azure Active Directory, Jenkins

Software Engineer

Zylog Systems
Chennai, Singapore
03.2012 - 04.2013
  • Company Overview: Field power is a leading commercial field service management application which is used to optimize internal operation efficiencies
  • Design and developed various Web Forms & re-usable Class Libraries, customized calendars in .NET & C#
  • Assessed requirement gathering, collation
  • Effectively implemented Authentication & Role Based Authorization
  • Used ADO.NET development used to bind data
  • Used SQL and created Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, and Indexes
  • Field power is a leading commercial field service management application which is used to optimize internal operation efficiencies
  • Environment: C#, ASP.NET 3.5, ADO.NET, SQL, Visual Studio.NET 2005, Net Framework 3.5, Ajax

Dot Net Developer

Prism new media solutions
Chennai, India
05.2011 - 03.2012
  • Company Overview: Interactive way finder is a pre-show planner mainly used by attendees of Tradeshows across United States
  • Developed/Worked on Web Applications/Web Sites, Microsoft Azure, Web Services, WCF Services (Developed & Consumed)
  • Managed all the service call tickets resolved on-time
  • Writing stored procedures, complex queries, triggers, sued defined functions and other data objects
  • Provide 1st line 24/7 application support for customer issues
  • Interactive way finder is a pre-show planner mainly used by attendees of Tradeshows across United States
  • Environment: C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL, Visual Studio.NET 2005, Net Framework 3.5, WCF, Ajax

Software Engineer

Larsen & Turbo
Chennai, India
06.2008 - 05.2011
  • Company Overview: This is an L&T's service to synchronize data from master database to Multiple platforms using Visual Studio
  • Writing C# code for business calculation and logic
  • Designed Web services to expose business logic
  • Code review using reshape and FXcop to ensure code quality
  • This is an L&T's service to synchronize data from master database to Multiple platforms using Visual Studio
  • Environment: C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL, Visual Studio.NET 2005, Net Framework 3.5, Ajax

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

Anna University
India

Skills

Cloud Platforms and Services

  • Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS)
  • Terraform & Packer
  • ARM Template & AWS CloudFormation

Containerisation and Orchestration

  • Kubernetes (AKS) & Yaml
  • Docker and Helm
  • Podman
  • Azure Containers & Container Registry

DevOps and Automation Tools

  • Azure DevOps
  • Octopus
  • Jenkins
  • Azure Automation Run book
  • Chef & Ansible

Databases and Data Engineering

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Data Bricks
  • Data Lake
  • SQL, My SQL, Cosmos DB
  • AWS DataPipeline

Load Balancer

  • Traffic Manager and Azure Front Door
  • Application Gateway & Load Balancers

Programming Languages and Frameworks

  • Python
  • C Sharp and Dot Net
  • jQuery and JavaScript

Scripting & Command line Tools

  • PowerShell
  • Azure Power shell
  • AzCli and AWS Cli
  • Shell Script

Cloud Security and Identity Management

  • Azure Active Directory
  • Identity Access Management & Role Base accessed Control
  • AWS Cognito

AI, Machine Learning, and Advanced Analytics

  • AI Search
  • AI Studio, Chat Bot, Open AI

Cloud Monitoring

  • Azure Monitoring, Metrics, and Alerting
  • Log Analytics Workspace
  • Azure Insights
  • Azure and AWS Search
  • Grafana and Prometheus

Messaging and Event Streaming Services

  • Azure Service Bus, Message & Subscribe
  • AWS SQS, SNS and Kinesis

Cloud Governance and Cost Management

  • Cloud Health
  • Trusted Advisory
  • CloudCheckr

Serverless and Cloud-Native Computing

  • Azure Functions
  • API Management
  • Lambda Functions

Operating Systems

  • Windows
  • Red Hat, Ubuntu, Cent Os, Debian and Amazon Linux

Certification

  • Az300 & 301 – Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
  • SAA-C01 - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Accomplishments

  • Cognizant “Associate of the month”/” Associate of the quarter awards.
  • Received appreciation and reward from customer for highest quality in delivery – TechM IN
  • Received Going Above and Beyond Award issued by HSBC – 06/2022
  • Runner up Fresh Skills Award issued by HSBC – 06/2022

Personal Information

Visa status: TIER2 DEPENDANT

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Windows, RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux, Terraform, ARM Template, Cloud formation, Docker, Cloud container service, Kubernetes, Microservice Architecture, MySQL, SQL server, Dynamo DB (AWS), Document DB (AWS), Cosmos DB (Azure), TFS, VSTS, Octopus, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Visual Studio Code Editor, AWS Code star, Azure DevOps, GitHub, SVN, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, AWS SNS, Azure Storage Queues, Azure Service Bus Queues, AWS Lambda, Azure functions, API Management, Azure monitoring, metrics, alerting, Cloud Watch (AWS), Cloud Trail (AWS), Azure Power Shell, Azure CLI, AWS CLI, Shell Script, Azure Chatbot, Cognitive service, Machine Learning, .Net, C#, jQuery, Python, JavaScript, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Data Lake, AWS Data pipeline, Elastic Search, Azure Search, Cloud Health, Trusted Advisory (Azure), Cloud Checker, Azure Active Directory, AWS Cognate, IAM role, RBAC, Power's, Azure Insight, Azure analytics, log analytics workspace, Zenos monitoring

Timeline

Cloud Specialist Engineering

HSBC UK
05.2021 - 12.2024

Cloud Consultant

Prodapt
03.2020 - 05.2021

Cloud Consultant (Azure & AWS)

Cognizant
05.2016 - 02.2020

Cloud Engineer

Tech Mahindra
04.2013 - 05.2016

Software Engineer

Zylog Systems
03.2012 - 04.2013

Dot Net Developer

Prism new media solutions
05.2011 - 03.2012

Software Engineer

Larsen & Turbo
06.2008 - 05.2011

Bachelor of Engineering -

Anna University

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