Akash Varma Kammella

Azure Cloud Engineer @TD

CA

Designed and managed scalable Azure infrastructure for critical banking applications, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and strict compliance• Optimized networking architectures using VNets, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and Application Gateway for secure and high-performance hybrid and multi-region deployments• Administered and optimized Azure SQL and MySQL databases for secure data operations, high availability, and performance tuning of mission-critical workloads• Applied cloud security measures with Azure Security Center, Sentinel, and RBAC to safeguard sensitive data and meet regulatory compliance• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions to streamline build, test, and deployment processes• Deployed and orchestrated containerized workloads using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), implementing scaling, resilience, and cost-efficiency best practices• Implemented advanced monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Prometheus to proactively detect and resolve performance bottlenecks• Led end-to-end workload migrations from on-premises to Azure using Azure Migrate, ensuring minimal downtime and post-migration validation for compliance• Applied cost management strategies, including workload rightsizing, Reserved Instances, and automated scaling policies, to optimize operational costs• Automated operational tasks and environment provisioning using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python scripting to enhance efficiency and reduce manual effort