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Farooq Akbar

Cloud Engineer

Islamabad, Pakistan
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A highly motivated Cloud & Systems Engineer with Seven plus years of experience in designing, 
implementing, and managing Hybrid infrastructure solutions. Seeking opportunities to leverage 
my expertise and contribute to support Hybrid or Cloud Only infrastructure.

Careers

Cloud & Systems Engineer

Kidan Sarl

Full time08/2020 - 12/2023
  1. Responsible for configuraƟon and management of company’s AcƟve Directory / Azure
  2. AD, Intune and KACE
  3.  Manage Domain controllers, including Setup of Group Policies, Users, Permission for
  4. shared folders / drives etc
  5.  Design and implement Azure-based soluƟons for various clients, uƟlizing IaC principles
  6. with Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuraƟon management
  7.  Leverage Azure Policy and Azure Security Center to enforce compliance and security best
  8. pracƟces across the Azure environment.
  9.  Involved in mulƟple implementaƟon projects of MicrosoŌ Cloud security Suite including
  10. MicrosoŌ SenƟnel & M365 Defender, MicrosoŌ Defender for Cloud
  11.  Collaborate with development and operaƟons teams to opƟmize applicaƟon
  12. performance and ensure high availability through load balancing and auto-scaling
  13. configuraƟons.
  14.  Manage Azure resources efficiently, opƟmizing costs by implemenƟng reserved instances
  15. and rightsizing virtual machines.
  16.  Develop PowerShell scripts to automate rouƟne tasks of User Onboarding/OĪoarding
  17.  Configure and maintain virtual networks, VPN gateways, and site-to-site connecƟons to
  18. ensure secure communicaƟon between on-premises and cloud environments.
  19.  Deploy and manage Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, and Storage Accounts to
  20. support client applicaƟons and services.
  21.  Collaborate with cross-funcƟonal teams to gather requirements and design scalable,
  22. secure, and cost-effecƟve cloud architectures.
  23.  Conduct security assessments and implemented best pracƟces for securing cloud
  24. resources, resulƟng in improved compliance and reduced risk exposure.
  25.  Document architecture diagrams, procedures, and guidelines to facilitate knowledge
  26. sharing and onboarding of new team members.
Network/Systems Engineer

FutureNow Technologies

Full time01/2017 - 07/2020
  1. Responsible for managing High-end Cisco routers and switches such as 3550,3650.
  2.  Responsible for managing and Configuring Cisco Firewall ASA 5510.
  3.  Responsible for ensuring Maximum upƟme for network devices and meeƟng stringent
  4. SLA Ɵmelines.
  5.  Planning and configuraƟon of RouƟng protocols like OSPF and BGP.
  6.  Assist in management of ManageEngine Log360 SIEM.
  7.  Assist in managing AcƟve Directory, Windows servers and Exhange server 2016.
  8.  Assist in management of Dell EMC Isilon & PowerProtect DataDomain(PPDM)
  9.  Assist in Azure cloud engineering tasks like VNets, VMs, storage accounts etc config.
  10.  Assist in configuraƟon & maintenance of F5.
  11.  CreaƟng Outage noƟficaƟons/RCA for all reported issues.

Education

COMSATS

Computer Engineering

08/2011 - 12/2015Bachelor's DegreeClass of 2015

My projects

Migration from Datacenter to Azure Cloud

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Worked in a lead role to migrate company's datacenter infrastructure to fully in Azure.

Role: Lead

Completed: 7/2022

Live project: .

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Skills
Microsoft Azureinfrastructure as codeTerraformCloud SecurityAmazon Web ServicesSystems solutionsGithubSystemsEmail Proficiency
Experience5-8 years
Hourly rate$50/hr
Open to
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