Viquaruddin M.

About Viquaruddin M.

Results-driven IT professional with over 12 years of experience in IT infrastructure architecture, design, delivery, and observability solutions. Specializing in cloud, containerization, and infrastructure, with proven expertise in public cloud, including Landing zone designs, security, hybrid connectivity, disaster recovery, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.• Experienced in implementing Best Practice policies for service restoration in a 24x7x365 environment.• Skilled in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and proficient in managing message queuing systems (MQ) and event streaming platforms like Kafka.• Extensive knowledge in SOC security practices and protocols.• Hands-on experience with a wide range of Azure services, including Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Extensive experience in migrating applications to Azure and delivering microservices securely from the cloud using cloud-native services.• Proficient in using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.• Proficient in monitoring and observability solutions, with hands-on experience in the implementation and stabilization of multi-directional infrastructure environments. Proven ability to fulfill monitoring and observability requirements and provide best practice approaches to internal stakeholders for cloud solutions.• Expertise in using Terraform for infrastructure as code. Proficient in using Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Datadog monitoring tools.• Experienced in designing and implementing DevOps strategies in a mix environment of Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Windows) servers, with a focus on cloud strategies based on both Azure and AWS.• Proven ability to work closely with teams to ensure high-quality and timely delivery of builds and releases across multiple sectors.Active Certifications- Certified Kubernetes Administrator- Microsoft Azure Administrator- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals- Red Hat Certified Engineer- Red Hat Certified System Administrator- VMware Certified Associate – Cloud- Certified Programming from Big Data University- Certified Big Data Analytics from Big Data University- Moving Big Data into Hadoop from Big Data University- Microsoft Certified System Engineer- Microsoft Certified Professional- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist- CompTIA A+- CompTIA Server+- PRINCE2 Foundations- ITIL4 Foundations

Experience

1. Vice President Sr Lead

   Northern Trust

   Oct 2025 — Present · US

Education

• Big Data University

  IBM Certificate, Big Data Analytics - Demos (BD100EN)

• Big Data University

  IBM Certified, Introduction to MapReduce Programming

• University of Bedfordshire

  Masters, Computer Networking (United Kingdom)

• Big Data University

  IBM Certified, Moving Data into Hadoop