sajid Ali

Professional Summary

9+ Years of experience in automation and transporting enterprise technology-based solutions into small and large level topology environments and holding profound technical and leading experience on stated technologies.

Cloud based Technology 

Microsoft - Azure Support, App service, Storage, DB,  VM, Load balancing, VPN, Monitoring, DevOps, Git, GitHub, AZ Automation, SharePoint , SharePoint online, Office 365,  Docker and Kubernetes, ARM Template, Terraform, Linux, etc.  

AWS – EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Cognito, Cloudwatch, VPC, subnet, API Gateway,  Route 53, Amplify, EKS (Kubernetes), Fargate, ECS, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, terraform, etc.

Professional Summary

9+ Years of experience in automation and transporting enterprise technology-based solutions into small and large level topology environments and holding profound technical and leading experience on stated technologies.

Cloud based Technology 

Microsoft - Azure Support, App service, Storage, DB,  VM, Load balancing, VPN, Monitoring, DevOps, Git, GitHub, AZ Automation, SharePoint , SharePoint online, Office 365,  Docker and Kubernetes, ARM Template, Terraform, Linux, etc.  

AWS – EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Cognito, Cloudwatch, VPC, subnet, API Gateway,  Route 53, Amplify, EKS (Kubernetes), Fargate, ECS, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, terraform, etc.

Employment Record   

  Work Experience and Project essential Role and Responsibilities: 

Azure Support: 

• Experience in Azure and Architecture
• Resource deployment using Pipeline and Terraform 
• Vnet and sub net configuration with proper accessibility 
• Experienced with azure resource deployments, Maintenance and troubleshooting applications.
• Managing creating user and Azure role base access (RBAC) and subscription. 
• Azure monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting and providing solutions for technical issues
• Managing Azure App service and issues and supporting 
• Azure resources and clustering & high availability using Virtual Machine Scale Sets and Service Fabric cluster
• Supporting the development team and creating a different type of DB’s and WebApp
• Creating and supporting Azure CDN and Traffic manager
• Supporting update management and automation and support and create a storage account 
• Generating monthly uses report order to optimize the cost. 
• Azure resource Monitoring and alert configuration and troubleshooting. 
• Linux VM deployment and port and permission configuration
• Design Azure virtual machines (VMs) and VM architecture.
• Managing, creating, and supporting the VM's and Network.
• Create VM from VHD to Azure and create a virtual machine.
• Azure virtual private network (VPN) and ExpressRoute architecture and design

AWS Support:         

• Deploying infrastructure using terraform and pipeline
• Vnet and subnet configuration as per business requirements
• Configure high availability and Security
• Development support and new updated code deployment
• Managing EKS fargate deployment
• Resource deployment as per new project requirements 
• AWS Kubernetes support
• Linux support and Administration

DevOps Support:

• Working with the Project manager to streamline the project delivery.
• End to end user site creation automation using Yaml, ARM and CI/CD. 
• Supporting solution team to deploy the solution using Pipeline
• Setup distributed version control environment for development, staging, demo, and production.
• Handling developer issue like version, commit, status, integration, using bash scripting,
• Automating the project deployments using CI/CD.
• Working with other team to automate development system using Git, Github, devOps, and other required tool. 
• Develop and improve monitoring and alerting systems. 
• Managing Docker container and Volumes using scripting
• Managing containerized workloads and services and automation using Kubernetes
• Hosting micro services on Kubernetes.

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology:             Nov-2018- Till now

Project Description: KAUST is an emerging technical university and research center. Here we're supporting the scientist and researcher and different departments as well as KAUST community and Facilities and providing the latest technology and solution to make their life and work culture easy

Now we’re upgrading our current IT environments and migrating the current application and harware on azure cloud. Also, implimenting the automation solutions to make developer and end user support quick. 

Azure Support: 

• Experience in Azure and Architecture
• Experienced with azure resource deployments, Maintenance and troubleshooting applications.
• Managing creating user and Azure role base access (RBAC) and subscription. 
• Azure monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting and providing solutions for technical issues
• Managing Azure App service and issues and supporting 
• Azure resources and clustering & high availability using Virtual Machine Scale Sets and Service Fabric cluster
• Supporting the development team and creating a different type of DB’s and WebApp
• Creating and supporting Azure CDN and Traffic manager
• Supporting update management and automation and support and create a storage account 
• Generating monthly uses report order to optimize the cost. 
• Azure resource Monitoring and alert configuration and troubleshooting. 
• Design Azure virtual machines (VMs) and VM architecture.
• Managing, creating, and supporting the VM's and Network.
• Create VM from VHD to Azure and create a virtual machine.
• Azure virtual private network (VPN) and ExpressRoute architecture and design
• Multi-tier architectures: Load Balancers, Web Servers, Application Servers, Networking and Databases design.

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology:  Feb-2014- Nov-2018

Project Description: KAUST is an emerging technical university and research center. Here we're supporting the scientist and researcher and different departments as well as KAUST community and Facilities. 

As Sr. SharePoint and office 365 administrator and handling different topology, SharePoint 2013 large level high availability environments, such as the internet, intranet, farm including demo, dev, test and Project server 2013. Also, we have office 365, SharePoint Online, Microsoft team, Planner, MS stream, MS Flow, and another office 365 tool and dedicated .net environment for custom applications. 

Now, we're handling more than 1k internal and external high availability sites and upgrading SharePoint 2013 environment to SP 2016 as well as SharePoint Online. Furthermore, planning to implement a hybrid environment. Meantime, supporting the custom solutions deployments and troubleshooting issues. 

Also, supporting the end-user to maintain the site content, permissions, create sites and permissions and documents templates list, libraries as per department requirements.

Significant role and Responsibilities:

• SharePoint Installation, configuration, and maintain a high availability environment. 
• SharePoint patching with the most stable CU's. 
• Configure authentication and Hoster web applications. 
• SharePoint service application configuration and fine tune search service application.  
• Backup Configuration, Implementation, and Monitoring 
• Environment monitoring and Log Analysis including diagnostics and IIS 
• Moving content and configuration changes from Staging Environment to Production Environment
• Move the site from staging to the production environment
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•   TORO US Product based Company:                  

Project Description: Toro is a US-based gardening product company.  

I worked as a SharePoint administrator with the US team to support the end-user and partners. I have also worked with the development team or solution team to deploy custom solutions. Toro is a high availability environment. Therefore, we have to keep an eye every time and monitoring the environment to maintain high availability. 

Microsoft patching as per Microsoft recommendation. Support power users for site creation and permission management. Issue troubleshooting for solution deployment and end-user issues and make sure all applications are working and up and running. 

Significant role and Responsibilities: SharePoint Admin

• Daily environment monitoring to maintain high availability.
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability Planning, Configuration, and Testing
• New Site and site collection creation using PowerShell and assign the site permission.
• Document Library and list creation 
• Deploy and configure sites, lists, and web parts 
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• Eco-System Engineering Portal(EE-Portal) 

Description:   The Ecosystem Engineering Portal is used to manage the certification process to certify a partner's product and to get listed in the Hardware Compatibility List of VMware. The Hardware Certification team uploads the logs into the portal from the FTP location generated by the workbench tool, and then these logs get processed by the portal. 

The certification teams can add/edit/delete Partners, Products, and Releases in the Portal can declare any product as equivalent. Therefore, it automates the complete Certification cycle for Certification Team

Environment: MOSS 2010, SharePoint Designer 2007, Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0,   Asp.Net, C# .Net, SQL Server 2005, Html, JavaScript, CSS, Windows Server 2003, WSS 3.0, Perforce, MYSQL 5.1, Ajax

Significant role and Responsibilities: SharePoint Developer 

• Direct client Interaction and requirements gathered directly from the business owners.
• I have implemented the requirements into the application and design user manual and bug fix and add a new feature.

Education and Certification 

• Bachelor of Technology and Engineering (Computer Science) 
• Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements (Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator role) 
• Microsoft Certified SharePoint Server 2013 
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): SharePoint 2010. 
• Microsoft Certified Sales and Marketing Competency Assessment for Product and Collaboration 

Declaration:               

           I declare that all the stated information is correct to the best of my knowledge & beliefs. Let me know, you need any further information.                                                                                                                                                                                                        (SAJID ALI)

Bachelor of Technology