Kalpana Valasapally
Houston,TX
Summary
Highly skilled Cloud Devops Engineer with over 10+ years of experience in cloud technologies, specializing in Azure and AWS. Expertise in managing Windows Server OS, Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions. Proficient in software-defined networking, network traffic security, Azure DevOps, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, Privilege Identity Management, and PowerShell scripting. Innovative DevOps Engineer known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Possess specialized skills in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code (IaC), and cloud services management. Excel in collaboration, problem-solving, and adaptability, ensuring seamless development and operations integration.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Devops Engineer
NRG Energy
05.2023 - Current
- Responsible for the overall management and administration of Azure resources within the project.
- Experienced in implementing and configuring Azure services such as Virtual Networks, NSGs, Route Tables, NAT Gateway, ExpressRoute, AKS, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, DHCP, DNS, storage solutions, Application Gateway, and Traffic Manager.
- Experience in configuring and troubleshooting Traffic Manager endpoint monitoring and health checks to detect outages and performance issues, ensuring high availability of services.
- Developed and maintained shell and PowerShell scripts to automate routine tasks, such as system provisioning, configuration management, and backup processes in Azure.
- Implementing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions for project infrastructure.
- Designing, configuring, and managing Azure networking components for the project.
- Implementing network security measures, such as Network Security Groups (NSGs), Azure Firewall, and DDoS protection.
- Implemented and managed Azure VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute connections, providing secure and reliable site-to-site and point-to-site connectivity.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting network connectivity and performance issues using the monitoring tool Dynatrace, Azure Monitor.
- Worked on the deployment of server infrastructure by using ARM templates and Terraform, and automated those scripts using CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
- 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 that security best practices are followed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Experience in integrating Key Vault for secure storage and management of sensitive application data, ensuring compliance with best practices for security and encryption.
- Experience in diagnosing and resolving load balancer and ingress controller issues in AKS, ensuring proper routing of external and internal traffic.
- Managing data-related services and solutions within the project's Azure environment.
- 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.
- Managing Azure services and resources specific to the project's applications or workloads.
- Configuring and optimizing Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Monitoring application performance, availability, and scalability.
- Expertise in creating, updating, and troubleshooting Kubernetes ConfigMap and Secrets, ensuring proper volume mounts, and application configuration in production environments.
- Experience configuring and managing Ingress controllers and gateways in AKS to efficiently manage external access to services within a Kubernetes cluster.
- Collaborating with developers and other stakeholders to ensure the smooth operation of project applications in Azure.
Devops Engineer
Citibank
09.2022 - 04.2023
- Designed, configured, and deployed Azure Automation Scripts for a multitude of applications utilizing the Azure stack (including Compute, Web & Mobile, Blobs, ADF, Resource Groups, HD Insight Clusters, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, and ARM), services, and utilities focusing on automation.
- Designed and developed a CI/CD pipeline using Azure Pipelines, configured and managed AKS clusters for deployment, and implemented automated build, test, and deployment processes.
- Integrate Azure DevOps services, such as Azure App Service, and Azure Container Registry.
- Monitor and troubleshoot application issues in production.
- Built an application environment to operate at high availability in different Azure regions by using CDN, Azure Traffic Manager, App Services-Web Apps, Active Directory, Storage Queues, Cognitive Services, Azure Search, Storage Blobs, Redis cache, and SQL Database.
- Created and managed Azure AD (Active Directory) tenants, managed users and groups, and configured application integration with Azure AD.
- Integrate on-premises Windows AD with Azure AD, configure multi-factor authentication (MFA), and federated single sign-on (SSO).
- Experienced in creating complex IAM policies, roles, and user management for delegated access within AWS.
- Created cloud modules for interacting with Azure services, which provide the tools to easily create and orchestrate infrastructure on Azure, and automate cloud-native applications in Azure using Azure microservices, such as Azure Functions and Azure Kubernetes Services.
- Involved in serverless services (Azure Functions), where I created and configured HTTP triggers in the Azure Functions with Application Insights for monitoring and performing load testing on the applications using the Azure DevOps Test Plans. I also configured shared dashboards with required metrics and logs.
- Worked on Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup, deployed instances in Azure environments and data centers, migrated to Azure using Azure Site Recovery, and collected data from all Azure resources using Log Analytics, analyzing the data to resolve issues.
- Created self-hosted agents on Windows and Linux.
- Automated the Azure cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform templates.
- Provide L2 and L3 support for critical issues.
- Created Kubernetes manifests (YAML files) for deploying and managing resources, such as pods, services, and ingresses.
- Configuration of DHCP, DNS, MySQL, and MS SQL Server installation on servers.
- Experience in conducting security assessments, vulnerability scans, and remediation activities.
- Strong hands-on experience in scripting languages such as Python, JSON, YAML, Bash, XML, CLI, and Shell scripting.
- Experienced in creating various dashboards, metrics, alarms, and notifications for servers using Datadog, New Relic, and Cloud Watch.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters using tools like kubectl and customized them for configuration management.
- Experience in debugging Traffic Manager profiles and endpoints, identifying configuration errors, and implementing corrective actions to ensure accurate traffic management.
- Proficient in diagnosing SSL/TLS and HTTP errors in Traffic Manager, ensuring secure and reliable connections between clients and endpoints.
- Experienced in troubleshooting multi-region failover issues in Traffic Manager, ensuring robust disaster recovery, and minimal service downtime.
Cloud Engineer
Nextgen Health Care
03.2021 - 08.2022
- Deployed and managed Azure resources, including virtual networks, virtual machines, storage solutions, and Azure Active Directory.
- Configured and maintained Azure Site Recovery and backup solutions, ensuring data integrity and availability.
- Experienced in creating complex IAM policies, roles, and user management for delegated access within Azure.
- Developed scripts and automation workflows to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
- Created a virtual network with frontend and backend subnets, and assigned frontend and backend network security group rules to these subnets.
- Extensive involvement in designing Azure Resource Manager templates and in designing custom build steps using PowerShell.
- Work on escalated tasks related to interconnectivity issues, complex cloud-based identity management, user authentication, service interruptions with Virtual Machines (their host nodes), and associated virtual storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues).
- Provided 24/7 on-call support to the team, troubleshooting and identifying performance, connectivity, and other issues for the applications hosted on the Azure platform.
Cloud Devops Engineer
ANZ
04.2019 - 03.2021
- Configuration of Azure Virtual Networks, Subnets, DHCP, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers, Front Door, Application Gateway, and Traffic Manager.
- Created and configured load balancers as per application requirements, needed to maintain high availability of servers.
- Set up and maintained ExpressRoute and VPN gateways for reliable and secure hybrid connectivity between on-premises infrastructure and Azure.
- Deployed and managed load balancing solutions, including Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway, to distribute traffic and ensure high availability.
- Managed DNS zones and records using Azure DNS, ensuring high availability and resilience of DNS services.
- Experience in monitoring and optimizing data solutions in Azure, including using Azure Monitor.
- Creating an Azure Backup vault and protecting the required VMs to take the VM-level backups.
- Utilized Azure Traffic Manager to manage traffic distribution across multiple regions, improving performance and resilience.
- Shaped the backup and retention policy for the client, and leveraged Azure Backups.
- Provisioning the infrastructure using Terraform for the different environments according to the ServiceNow request.
- Monitored system performance and resource utilization, implementing tuning and scaling strategies to meet business demands.
- Provided support and troubleshooting for network-related incidents, ensuring quick resolution and minimal impact on operations.
Cloud Engineer
Global Blue
06.2017 - 03.2019
- Handled AWS cloud administration tools and management frameworks.
- Managed system administration work on EC2 instances.
- Worked on AWS services like EC2, VPC, IAM, SNS, and RDS, etc.
- Configured Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, IAM, and Security Groups in public and private subnets in VPC, and other services in the AWS.
- Responsible for managing the source code repository, Git, creating tags, branches, and branch merges.
- Configured GIT with Jenkins, and scheduled jobs using the Poll SCM option.
- Installed and configured Docker on the deployment servers.
- Manage AWS and install web certificates (SSL, Client Authentication Certificates).
Build and Release Engineer
WebMD
11.2014 - 05.2017
- Documented all build and release process-related items.
- Level one support for all the build and deploy issues encountered during the build process.
- Responsible for automating and designing the build process, such as setting up jobs and writing build scripts.
- Created and maintained documentation of build and release processes, and application configuration, to comply with audit requirements and industry best practices.
- Backing up previously built and used artifacts.
- Involved in troubleshooting when pipelines failed, and coordinated with the application team.
Education
Information Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India04-2012
Skills
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Azure Active Directory
- Azure Admin
- Azure DevOps
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- Prometheus
- Cosmos DB
- ServiceNow
- PowerShell
- Application Gateway
- NSG
- MYSQL
- Redshift
- DynamoDB
- PostgreSQL
Certification
- Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate: AZ-104
- Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert: AZ-400
Timeline
Cloud Devops Engineer
NRG Energy
05.2023 - Current
Devops Engineer
Citibank
09.2022 - 04.2023
Cloud Engineer
Nextgen Health Care
03.2021 - 08.2022
Cloud Devops Engineer
ANZ
04.2019 - 03.2021
Cloud Engineer
Global Blue
06.2017 - 03.2019
Build and Release Engineer
WebMD
11.2014 - 05.2017
Information Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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