Kalyan Manukonda

Azure Cloud and Devops Engineer

Genpact

Hyderabad, Telangana

07.2019 - 01.2023

Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on Azure.
Implemented and managed Azure resources such as Virtual Machines, App Services, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Key Vault SQL Databases, and Storage Accounts.
Handling any issues related to the machines available in Azure such as RDP, Disk Space, CPU, Memory, VM performance, domain connectivity, and VM connectivity.
Creating new resource groups and moving them to other resource groups as per the requirement.
Certificate renewal and installing new certificates on application servers (Windows & Linux).
Added and configured data disks to Azure VMs, optimizing storage and performance according to application requirements.
Design and configure virtual networks, VPNs, and network security groups (NSGs).
Configure and manage Azure security services, including Azure Active Directory.
Creating users in Azure Active Directory from the Azure Portal.
Configured and managed Azure Backup services to ensure regular, automated backups of critical Azure VMs.
Created and managed snapshots of Azure VM disks to capture point-in-time states, facilitating disaster recovery and system rollbacks.
Monthly patching of more than 300+ servers using Azure Update Management.
Configuring alerts for IaaS and PaaS services in Azure Monitor.
Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub, resulting in faster and more reliable deployments.
Configured Azure pipelines to automate build and release of applications, leveraging YAML pipelines and integrating with Azure Repos for version control.
Deploy and manage Azure resources including Virtual Machines, App Service, App Functions, Application Gateway, WAF, Virtual Network and Azure Storage through Azure DevOps using Terraform to support application development and deployment.
Configured self-hosted agents on Linux and Docker for running Azure CI/CD pipelines.
Configured Ansible setup for the client environment and created playbooks for installing web applications, restarting service/servers when needed.
Creating and managing an AKS Cluster in Azure. Performed the cluster upgrade in blue-green model.
Creating a dashboard using Grafana and Prometheus for data acquisition, for monitoring AKS resources.