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Suruz A.

Suruz A.

Azure Solutions Architect | FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization

Azure costs drift when FinOps and architecture have no clear owner. I help SMB and mid-market teams reduce Azure spend through cost optimization, rightsizing, reservations, and practical cost governance. I am an Azure solutions architect with 16+ years of experience across cloud architecture, migration, security, DevOps, and Microsoft AI. SELECTED OUTCOMES - Reduced Azure infrastructure costs by up to 30% through rightsizing, Reserved Instances, and storage optimization - Delivered 200+ cloud migrations with 99.9% uptime SLAs and zero unplanned downtime across on-premises, Hyper-V, and VMware environments - Cut deployment times by 60% through CI/CD automation with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Terraform - Implemented Azure AD / Entra ID hybrid deployments for 10+ enterprise clients - Built enterprise SOC/SIEM environments with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender - Designed Azure virtual networks supporting 300+ endpoints at 99.9% uptime HOW I CAN HELP - Azure FinOps - cost assessment, rightsizing, reservations and savings plans, budgets, tagging, and cost allocation - Architecture and migration - landing zones, hub-spoke networking, Azure Migrate, AKS, App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Virtual Desktop - DevOps and IaC - Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD - Security and governance - Entra ID, Conditional Access, Azure Policy, Sentinel, Defender, Zero Trust - Microsoft AI and data - Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform HOW I WORK Every engagement starts with written scope, defined deliverables, milestones, assumptions, and a rollback plan before anything reaches your tenant. Read-only assessment first; production changes only in an agreed change window. CERTIFICATIONS Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Cybersecurity Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert, Fabric Data Engineer Associate, and Azure AI Engineer Associate - all active on my Microsoft Learn transcript. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Associate, valid to 2029. A practical starting point is a cloud architecture review with cost and security recommendations - from $149, 3-day delivery. Tell me your current Azure challenge, the outcome you want, and any constraints I should design around.

🇲🇾Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia$65/hr100% JSS4.88 (16)Since Jan 2022

Earnings and projects

MRR
$584

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#71,445 / 412k
🇲🇾Country#117 / 1,138
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $3.5k

Total earnings
$10k

Billed in all: $11k

World#193,461 / 412k
🇲🇾Country#440 / 1,138
Per project
$266

$701 in the last 6 months

World#241,517 / 412k
🇲🇾Country#648 / 1,138
Projects, last 6 months
5

Across 6 contracts

0% fixed100% hourly
World#41,746 / 412k
🇲🇾Country#80 / 1,138
Projects in all
39

Across 51 contracts

53% fixed47% hourly
World#77,390 / 412k
🇲🇾Country#194 / 1,138

Earnings, last 30 days

$10.8kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$10.4k$10.6k$10.8k$11.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 15% in Cost Management

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  8. #303Microsoft Power Automate1,387 freelancers · 🇲🇾 #1Top 22%