Sharath R

About Sharath R

Certified Azure Cloud Architect with 9 years of IT experience with a great in-depth knowledge in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps. Expertized tools like Ansible, Chef, Docker and Kubernetes. Hands-on experience on Build, Release Engineering, Linux and System Administrator also provided support for the teams utilizing Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies with a great knowledge in several coding languages and monitoring tools.

Experience

1. Azure Architect

   Microsoft

   Jun 2022 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   Meeting with clients to understand their needs and determining gaps between those and technical functionality, and collaborating with all stakeholders to generate mutually agreeable and advantageous solutions.Developed infrastructure as a code using Terraform while applying a fully modularized approach. Built networking infrastructure, Virtual Networks, Subnets, Load Balancers, Application Gateway in Azure cloud.Successfully created and implemented python script to import the existing large scale Azure resources (Vnets, Subnets, Load Balancer, Route tables) across multiple subscriptions into terraform state.Responsible for configuring CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process, accommodate software teams with compilation and artifact deployment requests in an Azure cloud environment.Migrated VMware servers into Azure Cloud, using VMware OVF and Hypervisor VHD images. •Deployed microservices based applications in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) by using Helm Charts, Ingress API Gateway.Load-tested the application with JMeter using different scenarios, ensuring that it met the requirements for several concurrent users performing various workflows. Worked with developers to identify and address bottlenecks. •Developed CI/CD Pipeline for Infrastructure and Code Deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory from code check-in to Production Deployment.Define and deploy Azure monitoring, metrics, and logging systems.Implement cost-control strategies such as resizing, off-hours downsizing and shooting for optimum utilization ratio. •Azure AD, B2C and B2B authentication, authorization and RBAC implementation for corporate, social and system integration for diverse business needs including customizing B2C templates and providers.DevOps and App Center implementation with multi targeted build and multistage pipeline for unit testing, deployment, automation, and integration testing to publish stable solution.