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Avik Porel

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Summary

Results-driven professional with over 5.4 years of IT expertise in Cloud Administration (Azure, AWS) and DevOps, with expertise in Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Ansible, and Shell Scripting for automating the provisioning and management of Azure cloud resources.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Azure DevOps Engineer

Capgemini India
Kolkata
08.2023 - Current
  • Gained experience in using Terraform to write IaC for automating and managing infrastructure provisioning, and implemented different Terraform workspaces for different environments.
  • Configured Azure Application Gateway for advanced traffic management, including SSL termination and URL-based routing, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performance web traffic handling, reducing load times by 20%.
  • Set up and managed Azure Load Balancer (LB) for high availability and efficient distribution of application traffic across multiple VMs, ensuring 99.95% uptime, and improving application performance during peak traffic periods by 30%.
  • Automated resource provisioning and configuration using Terraform, leading to 20% faster deployment times, and greater consistency across environments.
  • Developed Ansible playbooks to automate the reboot of Linux machines, and perform application health checks.
  • Experience DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipeline, and configuration management tools like Ansible. Used Grafana to check server health in real time.
  • Collaborated with development teams to optimize the performance of the application, and managed Git repositories as a source code management tool. Handling commits, clones, and pull requests.
  • Implemented robust monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to maintain real-time visibility into cluster health, reducing downtime by 25%.

Azure Cloud Engineer/Windows

Capgemini India
Kolkata
02.2020 - 07.2023
  • Configured and managed Azure Compute Services (VM, VMSS), and Azure Network Services (VNets, Subnets, NSGs, VNet GW) to enhance security and connectivity for applications, enabling secure multi-region access, and reducing network latency by 15%. Configured the Application Gateway, and configured it according to the application requirements.
  • Utilized Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Share for high-performance data storage, optimizing cost and access speed, with monthly data access rates of over 2 TB and achieving a 20% reduction in storage costs through efficient configuration.
  • Creation of Azure storage accounts, containers, and file shares, and mounting them on Windows machines as per the request, also managing the expansion of the file shares, access keys, and SaaS keys.
  • Responsible for the creation of Network Security Groups and adding inbound/outbound rules for various ports to allow access only from/to network address prefixes, to provide utmost security.
  • Creating a Recovery Service Vault to back up virtual machines, and creating policies to schedule backups. Restoring virtual machines and Azure file shares on Azure. Troubleshooting Azure Backup failures, and coordinating with vendors to fix the issue as well.
  • Planned and performed monthly patching activities through Azure Update Manager, WSUS, and SCCM.
  • Decommission the Azure VMs, storage accounts, application gateways, VNets, and subnets.
  • Performed cleanup activity on Azure by deleting unattached disks, snapshots, and public IPs to save costs.
  • Troubleshoot all the issues related to Azure and the OS on a daily basis. Attend calls with Microsoft to solve different types of issues and find the root cause analysis.
  • Cloning and restoration of the servers. Attend calls with Microsoft to fix issues.
  • Configured DNS and DHCP servers, along with a sound knowledge of Hyper-V.
  • Deployed the virtual machine, template, and snapshots; disk expansion and CPU, memory upgrade activity on Vcenter. Also, VM Migration, Datastore Migration, and Cross Vcenter Migration.

Education

B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

St. Mary's Technical Campus, Kolkata
Kolkata, India
08-2023

Diploma Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Ramakrishna Mission Shilpamandira
Belur, India
08-2019

Skills

  • Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS, and OCI
  • Source control: GitHub
  • CI/CD: Azure Pipelines, Jenkins
  • Software tools: VS Code
  • Source control: GitHub, Azure Repos
  • Infrastructure as code: Terraform and Ansible
  • Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, and Zabbix
  • Operating systems: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, Oracle) and Windows
  • Ticketing system: ServiceNow

Certification

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
  • AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator
  • AI-900 Microsoft AI fundamentals

Languages

Bengali
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Azure DevOps Engineer

Capgemini India
08.2023 - Current

Azure Cloud Engineer/Windows

Capgemini India
02.2020 - 07.2023

B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

St. Mary's Technical Campus, Kolkata

Diploma Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Ramakrishna Mission Shilpamandira

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