Name: Syed Yakoob Ali

 E-Mail: [email protected]

Mobile No: +91-7893724541

SUMMARY:

 Having overall 10 years of experience in IT industries across different platforms like DevOps,
Azure, Windows and Linux.
 CI/CD framework including IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Cloud infrastructure, Version control operations,
software configuration management, Build Process, Scripting, Container Orchestration,
Continuous integration and Continuous delivery under variety of technologies.
 Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into Micro services, improving
developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
 Implemented and managed continuous delivery systems and methodologies on Cloud
infrastructure
 Highly experienced in Cloud platforms like Azure.
 Preparing designing and SOP’s documents.

TECHNICAL EXPOSURE:

 DevOps: Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Nagios, Consul.

 Cloud: Microsoft Azure, AWS
 Binary Repository: Jfrog Artifactory.
 Operating Systems: Windows & Linux.
 Hypervisor: VMware ESXi 4,5,5.5, Hyper-v.
 Automation: Power Shell, Basic knowledge in Shell Scripting, Yaml
 Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Application Insight, AppDynamics
 Log Analysis Tools: Splunk.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

 B-Tech in Electronics and Communication from Jawaharlal Nehru technological university (Mar
2004 – Mar 2008), Hyderabad, India.

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS:

 AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification

 AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
 AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect
WORK EXPERIENCE:

Organization 1: Softobiz Technologies Private Limited

Location: Hyderabad

Duration: Dec-2020 to July-2023

Role: DevOps Architect

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Used Azure Repos, GitHub to store the IAC for the infrastructure deployment and to run
the CI/CD pipelines.
 End to End infrastructure deployment using the Terraform in the CI/CD pipeline.
 Setting up different environments for testing like UAT, Dev, Pre-Prod and Prod.
 Automation of the infrastructure deployment using the Azure DevOps Pipelines.
 Creation of the Service Principals and adding the CustomRoles as required.
 Tracking the Service Principals expiry and renewing it on Time to time.
 Automating the Monitoring and Alerting in Azure Monitor using Terraform.
 Deployed PostgreSQL Single Server, PostgreSQL Flexible Server, MariaDB, Container
Registry, FrontDoor, Application Gateway, AKS, Container Instance, Log Analytics
Workspaces, Application Insights using Terraform as IAC.
 Worked on FrontDoor to host the domains with both AFD managed certificates and
Custom certificates as required.
 Setting up the dashboards for different metrics.
 Integrated the Teams channels with the Pipeline to get the notifications for the build and
release pipelines for pass or failures.
 Worked on Alert notifications on SMS, call alerts, email and Teams channels alerts.
 Pipeline migrations from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions.
 Yaml pipelines creation for the GitHub Actions Deployments.
 Deployment of services in AKS Cluster, Container Instances.
 Used Azure Container Registry to store the images to be used in AKS deployments.

Organization 2: Drake & Scull

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Duration: Mar 2015 – Feb 2020

Role: Technical Architect

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Azure Cloud Infrastructure design and implementation using ARM templates, NSG's, VM scale
Sets, storage accounts, Active Directory, DNS and Application gateway load balancer etc.
 Deploying the web applications into the Azure Web App services and monitor website resources
with the help of Application insight.
 Configuring Virtual machines scale set, Auto Scale in and scale out, Load balancer as per the
customer requirement.
 Configuring and managing the shared storage using Azure File service.
 Creating and Modifying ARM templates
 Creating and Managing Availability Set as per the customer requirement.
 Creating and managing Directories under the Active Directory in Azure Cloud.
 Creating Azure Backup vault and protecting required VMs to take the VM level backups and
restoring Files from the Backup.
 Migrating SQL Database from on premises to Azure SQL Database
 Experience in building and maintenance of Infrastructure on Azure (Virtual Networks, Azure
Storage, Virtual Machines, Azure AD, SQL Database, Web apps).
 Migrating Virtual machine from on premises to Azure with the help of Azure Migrate and Azure
site recovery
 Working on Azure DevOps, creating repositories and pushing the code via GitHub and creating
delivery pipelines
 Creating and Managing Azure SQL Database, configuring geo replication and Failover clustering
etc.
 Experienced in handling and troubleshooting the issues during the azure resource deployment.
 Experienced in Azure Application Gateway Load Balancer (configuring backend pools, rules,
health Probe etc.)
 Creating and Managing the Event Hub, capturing the application related the logs on Azure Blob
storage etc.
 Creating Azure Cosmos DB account and creating containers as per the application requirement.
 Created Azure App Service for staging environment deployed the application.

DevOps:
  Creating and Managing Azure Kubernetes cluster,
 Deploying application pods on the AKS cluster, scaling the nodes and pods as per the application
resource utilization.
 Creating and Managing Azure Container registries, pushing the images to the repository.
 Installing and Miniating Nginx Ingress Controller on Azure Kubernetes Cluster.
 Creating and Managing customized Nginx ingress rules.
 Experience in writing HELM charts in Kubernetes for effective application deployments.
 Expertise in writing Jenkins Pipelines to automate the complete CICD for both Linux based as
well as Windows based applications.
 Experienced with Docker container service. Creating Docker files, Docker Images & Containers.
 Experience in writing Ansible playbooks and triggering them from Ansible core for our
Continuous delivery.
 Create many Ansible automation scripts by using different ansible modules.
 Expertized in Git /Git tortoise tools
 Expertized in GitHub, creating a branch, raising pull request, merging with main branch,
managing webhooks etc.
 Creating and managing the Redis pod as per the application requirement.
 Automated Application deployment on Kubernetes cluster by using GitOps process with Flux.
 Experience in Jfrog Artifactory in managing artifacts as well as the artifact workflow promotion.
 Experience in CICD for microservice architecture and deploying them in cloud releases.
 Hands-on with Jenkins Shared libraries while providing the CICD to various teams across our
organization to ensure we have the same CICD process across all the product teams.
 Experience with Log Management tool like Splunk for application level logs.

Windows/VMware/Linux:

 Expertise in creating and Managing VM’s on VMware,

 Creating HA, DRS on ESXI server,
 Creating Luns and attaching to the ESXI Servers.
 Migrating Virtual Machines (Cold, Suspended, vMotion, Storage vMotion)
 Creating and Managing VCenter Server.
 Troubleshooting VMWare related issues
 Expertise in managing Windows servers (2003, 2008R2, 20012R2, 2016 and 2019)
 Troubleshooting Windows OS related issues
 Expertise in Azure Active Directory (Managing the Domain, creating User accounts, creating
Service accounts etc.)
 Hands on Experience on DNS and DHCP
 Creating and Managing Linux VM’s
 Creating a small shell script and execute the commands on remote hosted Linux VM’s

PERSONAL DETAILS:
 Name: Syed Yakoob Ali
 Gender: Male
 Marital Status: Married
 Language: English, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Arabic
 Address: Hyderabad