Kalpana Valasapally

• Provisioning and managing Azure resources such as virtual machines, storage accounts, virtual networks, and databases.
• Configuring and monitoring Azure services like Azure Active Directory, Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, etc.
• Implementing and managing Azure governance features such as Azure Policy, Resource Manager templates, and RBAC.
• Designing, implementing, and managing Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) to connect Azure resources securely.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Azure networking components such as Virtual Network Gateways, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, and Azure Firewall.
• Implementing network security solutions and best practices, including Network Security Groups (NSGs), Azure DDoS Protection, and Azure Firewall.
• Monitoring and optimizing network performance, including traffic flow analysis and network bandwidth management.
• Automating infrastructure deployment and configuration using tools like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and repeatability of infrastructure deployments.
• Ensuring network security by implementing security controls, encryption, and compliance standards in Azure environments.
• Performing regular security assessments and audits to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Implementing Azure Security Center for threat detection, security monitoring, and compliance management.
• Monitoring network performance and availability using Azure Monitor, Azure Network Watcher, and third-party monitoring tools.
• Troubleshooting network connectivity issues, performance bottlenecks, and security incidents in Azure environments.
• Implementing logging and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify and address network-related issues.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams such as developers, system administrators, and security specialists to design and implement Azure solutions.
• Providing technical guidance and support to stakeholders regarding Azure networking best practices, architecture, and solutions.

• Responsible for overall management and administration of Azure resources within the project.
• Provisioning, configuring, and monitoring Azure services required for the project
• Implementing security controls, access management, and compliance measures.
• Collaborating with project stakeholders to ensure Azure resources meet project requirements and objectives.
• Designing, deploying, and managing the infrastructure components of the project in Azure.
• Configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, virtual networks, and other infrastructure services.
• Optimizing infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Implementing backup, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions for project infrastructure.
• Designing, configuring, and managing Azure networking components for the project.
• Setting up virtual networks, subnets, VPN gateways, and ExpressRoute connections.
• Implementing network security measures such as Network Security Groups (NSGs), Azure Firewall, and DDoS protection.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting network connectivity and performance issues.
• Implementing security controls, compliance measures, and threat detection mechanisms within the project's Azure environment.
• Configuring Azure security services such as Azure Security Center, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, etc.
• Conducting security assessments, vulnerability scans, and remediation activities.
• Collaborating with other project teams to ensure security best practices are followed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Managing data-related services and solutions within the project's Azure environment.
• Setting up and configuring Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake Storage, etc.
• Implementing data governance, encryption, and compliance measures.
• Optimizing data storage, retrieval, and processing for project requirements.
• Implementing DevOps practices and automation within the project's Azure environment.
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or other tools.
• Implementing infrastructure as code using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
• Automating deployment, monitoring, and management tasks to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Managing Azure services and resources specific to the project's applications or workloads.
• Configuring and optimizing Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), etc.
• Monitoring application performance, availability, and scalability.
• Collaborating with developers and other stakeholders to ensure smooth operation of project applications in Azure.

• Automating infrastructure provisioning and management, such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, AWS CloudFormation, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Writing infrastructure code to define and deploy cloud resources, ensuring consistency, reliability, and scalability.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Automating software build, test, and deployment processes to accelerate delivery cycles and improve quality.
• Implementing best practices for code branching, versioning, and release management.
• Managing configuration drift and ensuring consistency across environments using tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or PowerShell DSC.
• Automating configuration tasks, software installations, and updates to maintain system integrity and compliance.
• Implementing monitoring solutions to track system performance, availability, and health using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, or Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Setting up centralized logging and log aggregation for troubleshooting and analysis using ELK stack, Splunk, Azure Log Analytics, or similar tools.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Managing containerized applications, scaling clusters, and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Implementing security best practices and compliance standards in cloud environments, including identity and access management, network security, encryption, and data protection.
• Automating security controls and vulnerability assessments to enforce security policies and mitigate risks.

● Design and develop platform architecture and provide solutions to the projects.

● Migrated data and applications from On Premise Big data to Azure cloud.

● Set up the azure cloud set up and define the process for Azure Data Lake and Analytics platform.

● Created the centralized Log Analytics dashboard to monitor difference Azure subscriptions.

● Set up Key vault and Service principle for each source and use cases.

● Experience on deploy HDInsight cluster, Databricks, APIM, Web App, SQL Server using ARM templates.

● Design and Develop CICD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

● Migration from ADLS Gen1 to ADLS Gen2.

● Validate the code and project the code standards using Sonar Cube.

● Discussed with Project teams, validate project architecture, and provide suitable solutions.

● Set up capacity queue for all projects based on the utilization, dynamic queue creation.

● Resolve customer & project architect clarifications and change architecture based the cluster set up.

● Installation and configured Hadoop, HDF, Dispense clusters.

● Change the configurations based on the customer needs, without effecting to the other projects.

● Implemented Capacity Queue Management, Quota Management successfully.

● Provided L2 and L3 support for critical issues.

● Install Network SSL certifications both source and Azure side. ● Monitor the pipelines and fix the failures.

● Replicate the production bugs in development environment and find the root cause.

● Involved in workshop and suggest architectural changes.

● Designed and developed data ingest factory model to ingest data very easily with minimal setups.

• Migrated the on-premises workloads to Azure cloud based on the requirement.
• Design and deploy Azure Backup and other Confidential backup solutions for Azure.
• Strong design and live migration experience from on-premises to Azure IaaS & PaaS.
• Azure network experience, VPN and Express route, Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, and Load Balancers.
• Responsible for systems and application performance monitoring.
• Strong Proficiency in all the services offered by Confidential Azure including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
• Implementation experience on AD B2C Custom UI and Custom Attributes, Role based access (RBAC) and AD Groups.
• To ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems.
• Build of new environments for development and test in Azure.
• Responsible for managing network storage in Azure.
• Successfully migrated 25k user mailboxes to office365 from Exchange 2013 to create a hybrid deployment. Used Azure AD Connect for directory synchronization and federation with Confidential 3.0.
• Developed PowerShell Scripts to automate processes and tasks.
• Maintained system documentation logs and assisting in troubleshooting and diagnosis of system Problems.
• Monitor, Administer, Troubleshoot and provide L1/L2/L3-Server Level of support for email infrastructure hosted on Confidential Exchange Server 2010,2013, and O365 for a user base spread across multiple environments and time zones.
• Troubleshoot and administer the exchange server health, mail flow, exchange active sync, queue viewer, message tracking, auto discover.
• Conducted Exchange server 2013 datacenter fail over test.
• Provided support and maintenance of DAG, transport rules, and on-prem user mail box issues.
• Cisco Iron port support fail over test, block listing, white listing and Mail flow logs.
• Responsible for Incident Management i.e. troubleshooting and leading critical or urgent issues on email and mobility infrastructure and driving them to resolution as per the agreed SLAs with customer.
• Available 24/7 to perform on call/stand-by duty and to perform scheduled changes.
• Attended SRT for high severity incidents (Sev1/2). Providing Root Cause Analysis and defining Action items accordingly.
• Attended Daily Service Review (DSR), Change management meeting etc. conducted trainings on outlook and mail environment to Local IT.
• Coordinated with AD team, backup team, network team to resolve problems related to Exchange Issues.

• Performed requirements gathering and process planning for a farm migration from WSS 2.0 to SharePoint 2010.
• Performed environment inventory of the existing WSS 2.0 environment to mitigate and migration problems.
• Utilized Quest third-party migration tools to implement migration processes.
• Performed gap analysis between the current implementation and Microsoft best practices, producing a detailed plan to reorient the existing environment under said best practices.
• Deployed Access client application to SharePoint using Access web application services.
• Performed query optimization to enhance performance on large lists.
• Utilized view throttling to enhance user experience while navigating the SharePoint environment.
• Assist in the configuration of SQL Server Reporting services.
• Developed several detailed reports utilizing SSRS and integrated the report view into the existing SharePoint environment.
• Monitored and captured SharePoint 2010 farm utilized resources, network latency, and pages waiting-time to identify bottlenecks.
• Developed custom C# .NET workflows to audit changes made to custom list items and created reports for displaying on custom pages.
• Developed a feature receiver which creates Lists and Content Types when the Feature is activated.
• Developed custom web parts in Visual Studio 2012 for the portal utilizing CSOM and jQuery.
• Customized the ribbon API to add new options to users and created modal application pages.
• Created and scheduled custom Timer Jobs to automatically send reminders of expiring contracts.
• Using JavaScript and JQuery, Created several customized features for SharePoint 2013.