Aakriti Verma
About the Candidate
Aakriti Verma
New Delhi, India
www.linkedin.com/in/aakriti-verma-03555835
M: +91 9873810756
Email: aakriti_verma1812@yahoo.in
Azure|AzureDevOps|Terraform|CI CD|Cloud Migration
An AWS/Azure certified professional with about 4.5+ years of experience focused on Azure and hands-on experience in AWS and GCP. Has experience in customer-facing roles and success leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers. Responsible for end-to-end delivery of multiple cloud projects and migrations from on premise workloads to the Cloud within a large-scale business.
Extensive experience across core pillars of public clouds, including security, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency
Ability to drive the project with teams from around the globe – experience working with onsite/off-shore models and multi-stakeholder environment
Passion for learning new technologies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Rackspace, Gurugram June 2020 – Current
Azure Build & Release Engineer II | Managed Cloud Team
Working as Azure Public Cloud Specialist
Acting as a technical liaison to the customers across EMEA Region
Working closely with Solution Architects and customers to finalize technical details of the architecture
Educate customers on the value proposition of managed services on Microsoft Azure, and participate in technical discussions to address customer challenges with cloud workloads
Engineering solutions on client’s Azure Platform using Infrastructure-as-Code methods (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines using technologies like Terraform, Azure DevOps, PowerShell)
Responsible for building highly resilient, scalable, reusable, and performant Azure infrastructure in an automated and efficient manner
Review customer’s existing environment and identify opportunities to better align to industry best practices for security, availability, and operational excellence.
NIIT Technologies Ltd, Greater Noida
Senior Associate –Datacenter Services |Cloud Practice Team Jan 2018 – May 2020
Working as Public Cloud Specialist and a Cloud Migration SME
On-Site placement in UK for Cloud Projects
Managing workload migrations from on premise and other cloud platforms to Azure
Infrastructure Provisioning and Management
Discovery and Assessment of customer’s infrastructure using various tools (MAP, Cloudamize, etc.)
IaaC -Automation of architectures and solutions using Cloud Formation
Identifying architecture design alternatives to deliver optimization and reduce solution TCO
Working on POCs (Azure/AWS) – IaaS/PaaS/Devops/IaC
· Write specifications – High level and low design documents
HCL Technologies Ltd, Noida
Senior Analyst |Cloud Practice Team Dec 2015 – Jan 2018
Worked as Public Cloud Engineer (IaaS) on Microsoft Azure
Infrastructure Deployment and Post provisioning tasks
Migration of datacenter from VMware to MS Azure
Technical Demos and assistance to customers
Grofers India Pvt. Ltd, Gurugram
Executive | Content Team Aug 2015 –Dec 2015
Managed catalogue products and inventory.
Quality check the data on the app to ensure that information is accurate
Collected, curated and updated store inventory on Grofers application
Ensured that the product information on the app is sufficient and accurate for the consumer to make a purchase decision
Data Analysis using Excel
DOMAIN EXPERTISE
· Extensive knowledge of cloud technologies
· Detailed knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Azure and its relevant build, deployment, automation, networking, and security technologies (IaaS, PaaS, IaC)
· Azure or AWS based Cloud Architecture and migration skills
· Experience developing and refining solutions and services for Microsoft Azure/AWS Landing zones
· In-depth understanding of entire Cloud Migration Eco-System with respect to Applications & Infrastructure
· Hands-on experience in migrating and leading large scale complex enterprise applications to Azure
Deploying solution designs utilizing methods including IaC (Azure DevOps & Terraform)
Exposure to following Microsoft Azure Services:
o Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking, Identity, Security
o Azure Site Recovery for datacenter migration, Azure to Azure DR & AWS to Azure Migration
o PaaS Services
o Azure Automation, PowerShell, Terraform for Azure, ARM Templates
o Update Management in Azure
o Azure DevOps (Managed CI/CD Pipeline integrated with SonarQube and JFrog)
· Exposure to following AWS Services:
o EC2 Instances (Compute), Virtual Private Cloud (Network) and S3 and EBS (Storage)
o AWS Database Migration Service
o Cloud Formation
o AWS Application Discovery Service
o AWS Server Migration Service – Azure to AWS Migration
Citrix on Azure Management
· Experience working with Dynatrace, OpsRamp, MAP Tool, Cloudamize
Possess data management skills using MS Excel, SAS and Microsoft Power BI
SELECTED PROJECTS
Client Organization: Charity Share, UK
VMware based Datacenter migration to MS Azure for approx. 500 servers
Worked closely with customer , as part of this went to On-Site (London,UK) for Knowledge Transfer and Migration related tasks
Customer facing role to manage Windows 10 Citrix on Azure , as part of this went to On-Site (London,UK) for managing end-customers and smooth roll out of Windows 10 VDI systems to 1000+ users
Discovery of current estate using Cloudamize Tool and assisting delivery team for deployment of Cloudamize
Assessment of IT estate for migration to Azure
Setting up of Express Route
Migration of servers to Azure using ASR and post migration hyper care , infrastructure and cost optimization
Azure Automation, Azure Backup for patching of servers post migration
Created SOPs and assisted Operations Team as a part of handover for maintenance of Cloud Infrastructure post migration
Client Organization: SIAM City Cement, Thailand
Establish Express Route Connectivity and Multi-Site VPNs to office locations
Set-up disaster recovery to Azure for On-Premises SAP Applications (VMware and Physical Machines)
Perform DR Drills
Client Organization: The Automobile Association, UK
Discovery of current infrastructure using MAP tool
Assessment of infrastructure for migration to Azure and presented recommendations
Client Organization: SITA, USA
Deployment of staging environment for PoC for Application Testing on Azure
Azure to Azure DR
Infrastructure deployment as a Code using AWS Cloud Formation for another Application
Client Organization: Wolters Kluwer, Europe
· Prepared Standard Operating Procedure Documents for various functionalities of Azure IaaS
· Assessment of WK ASM and ARM Subscriptions according to the Services running
· Validation of certain use cases on the customer environment
Client Organization: De Beers, UK
VMware based DC migration to MS Azure
· Implemented Azure Site Recovery for On-Premises to Cloud Migration (VMWare to Azure)
· Assisted Operations team to carry out smooth migration of business applications
· Implemented Azure Backup
· Assisted and provide KT to Ops Team for post migration hand-over
SCHOLASTICS
B.Tech. (Information Technology) from Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Tonk.
Year: 2011-2015
Result: 65.7%
XII (Science) from South Delhi Public School, New Delhi – C.B.S.E. Board
Year: 2010-2011.
Result: 87.4% with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics and English subjects.
X from South Delhi Public School, New Delhi – C.B.S.E. Board
Year: 2008-2009.
Result: 89% with Mathematics, Science, English, Social Science and Hindi subjects.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
· Art Page (The Craft Hymn) on Instagram
· Participated in marathons, painting and dancing competitions
· Event management
· Joined NSS for 2 Years
· Joined Horse Riding
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Gender : Female
Nationality : Indian
Father’s Name : Late Mr. N.S. Verma
Hobbies : Painting, Art