Ankita Banerjee

Working here as a consultant, I help to provide multiple solutions to customers globally for the betterment and enhancement of the service, as per industry standards.

Azure Infrastructure Expertise:

• Skilled in the assessment, design, configuration, optimization, and deployment of Azure IaaS and PaaS services, including compute, storage, networking, hybrid cloud architectures, Azure Databricks, and Azure Data Factory.
• • Solution Delivery and Ownership:
• Proven track record in technical delivery, ownership of infrastructure solutions, and supporting enterprise applications through architectural design.
• • Migration & Security:
• Experienced in migrating on-premises workloads to Azure IaaS, cloud security, compliance, and disaster recovery planning. Use of Unity Catalog for Azure Databricks compliance and better security governance.
• Key Achievements: Code and Cost Optimization:
• Spearheaded a cost optimization initiative by identifying ideal and unused resources, and fine-tuning Databricks cluster sizes, resulting in a 75% reduction in overall costs. Using the SonarQube analysis tool for better code quality.
• Automation of Data Pipelines:
• Developed and automated Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines, eliminating manual intervention and streamlining workflows for improved operational efficiency.
• Security Compliance:
• Ensured a secure and compliant customer environment by automating the clearance of security compliance checks across multiple subscriptions using PowerShell scripts. Proper management of IAM services. Implementation of Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing.

As a Microsoft Partner, we offer solutions to its customers across the globe.

I am playing multiple roles here as an Escalation Engineer for a team with 80 members at Mindtree.

• Deployment & Management:
• • Managed Virtual Machines (VMs), including marketplace images, scale-sets, availability-sets, and custom images.
• Set up alerts and monitoring, cloned VMs, and resolved access issues (RDP, SSH, reboot loops).
• Storage:
• • Configured and optimized Azure Storage (Standard, Premium, Blob) and managed/unmanaged disks.
• • Performed storage stress testing, tuning, and configured storage pools, RAID, trim, and throttling.
• Networking:
• • Set up and troubleshooted Site-to-Site and Point-to-Site VPNs, VNet, subnets, public IPs, and NSGs.
• Tools & Troubleshooting:
• • Implemented Azure RBAC, Service Principals, VM Disk Encryption, and Key Vault.
• • Experienced with JSON, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python, and Azure API tools (Postman, Chocolate).
• • Utilized Azure Extensions like OMS, VM Agent, BG Info, VM Access, and Backup Agent.