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Suraj Kurkure

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Last update: 06.09.2022

Cloud/Devops Consultant/Architect

Graduation: BE IT
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Limited professional)

Attachments

Suraj Kurkure (Cloud Architect).pdf

Skills

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect with 11+ years of experience in Infrastructure architecture. In-depth experience with Cloud and virtualization technologies, DevOps and Web development.
• Rich experience in Technical Leadership and providing solutions for various requirements by laying down the most optimal architecture.
• Have good exposure to various domains like Financial, Banking, Telecom and Manufacturing.

Project history

07/2020 - Present
Cloud Architect
Amdocs (Internet and Information Technology, >10.000 employees)

● Own the Azure/AWS/GCP cloud customer engagements including architectural design sessions and specific implementation projects.
● Ensure solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability.
● Be the voice of the customer, share insights and best practices, and connect with engineering teams to remove key blockers.
● Responsible for migrating solutions to the cloud platform- Provides design, implementation, testing, maintenance, delivery and support for the full life cycle of activities related to systems and subscriptions in Azure Cloud environment.
● Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers to drive long-term cloud adoption.
● Understand the customer's application portfolio, priorities and success measures to migrate infrastructure, and applications using the principles of DevOps and automation.
● Apply technical knowledge and customer criteria to create a cloud modernization roadmap.
● Collaborate with other cloud architects to develop complex end-to-end enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.

05/2019 - 07/2020
Technical Lead
Accenture (Internet and Information Technology, >10.000 employees)

● Working as Cloud consultant to design Automation solutions for various cloud platforms.
● Engage actively with customers in understanding and documenting their requirements and customizations.
● Designing solution with suitable cloud services and carrying out implementation by collaborating with the development and engineering teams.
● Work directly with Business Development Executives, Technical Account Managers and internal Service Teams to find issues in Services and drive customer communication during critical events.
● Investigate new infrastructure technologies to meet the Compliance business requirements.
● Design and implement Automated IaaC solutions for Operational optimization.
● Create Terraform templates solution from scratch for provisioning customer environments across multiple accounts in AWS.
● Automation of tasks with Ansible playbooks.
● Good experience in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
● Manage all aspects of the end to end build and release process.
● Excellent problem solving, analytical, communication skills and able to effectively manage time and prioritize multiple projects.
● Develop data architecture design to facilitate targeted customer analysis.

10/2018 - 05/2019
Technical Lead
Globant India Pvt. Ltd. (Internet and Information Technology, >10.000 employees)

● Engage actively with customers in understanding and documenting their requirements and customizations.
● Architected & implemented public cloud infrastructure in highly distributed environment.
● Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
● Investigate new infrastructure technologies to meet the Compliance business requirements.
● Design and implement Automated IaaC solutions for Operational optimization
● Created Azure ARM templates solution from scratch for provisioning customer environments across multiple subscriptions.
● Creation of shared infra for a customer such as Resource Group, Virtual Network, Local Network Gateway, HDInsight, API Management, WAF etc.
● Automation of tasks with PowerShell, ARM templates and Azure DevOps.
● Good experience in CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
● Manage all aspects of the end to end build and release process.
● Excellent problem solving, analytical, communication skills and able to effectively manage time and prioritize multiple projects.

05/2017 - 10/2018
Cloud/Devops Consultant
Arrowsoft Solutions (Internet and Information Technology, 10-50 employees)

● Analyze and define clients’ business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.
● Formulate strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.
● Gather detailed business requirements and use cases and translate technical specifications into product requirements.
● Create team strategies and establish project scope of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.
● Develop web apps using frontend technologies such as ReactJS, AngularJS.
● Design, Develop and Deploy web apps to Azure Cloud.
● Provide solutions for customers on various cloud platforms such as MS Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform
● Work directly with Business Development Executives, Technical Account Managers and internal Service Teams to find issues in Services and drive customer communication during critical events.

09/2010 - 05/2017
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. (Internet and Information Technology, >10.000 employees)

● Ensures, at all times, the contracted services do not jeopardize or put at risk the client’s business functions, reputation or TCS reputation.
● Diagnose and repair Linux and Windows processing errors and implement solutions to improve efficiency.
● Created solution based on Hyper-V, such that the end user can use multiple environment at
the same time from his local machine.
● Automated delivery of the images and installation of images on end users’ machine with PowerShell reducing the manual efforts by 2 days.
● Lead development of technical proposals including estimating labor and sustainment of proposed solution.
● Central resource for coordinating efforts between offshore resources, Operations, Project Managers and Security to deliver images that support the requirements.
● USB bootable custom images created with the end user requirements for upcoming Windows Threshold.
● Designed Azure infrastructure for existing on-prem applications for migration.
● Integration of the legacy Nokia services to the Microsoft Azure AD.
● Performed PoC and lead the design team, for designing of a Desktop Virtualization solution used by Lumia Developers built on Hyper-V.
● Managed virtual environment with VMware ESX 3.5, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0 using VMware vCenter Server and Xen servers
● Lead virtualization team of 10 engineers
● PowerShell scripts used for cold and hot migration of on-prem servers to VMware
● Extensively used shell scripting for automation of daily tasks reducing the workload by 75%
● Designed and implemented web-based tool for deploying Application code to various environment’s
● Create and manage Windows 2003/2008 OS clusters over VMware environment

Local Availability

Only available in these countries: India
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