GURNAM SINGH
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic Senior Technical Professional (Cloud) with Kyndryl Solutions, specializing in Azure cloud operations. Achieved 99.95% uptime for enterprise clients by automating infrastructure with Terraform and enhancing team collaboration. Expert in Azure Infra and DevOps, driving significant efficiency improvements and cost management, fostering a culture of innovation.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Professional – Azure Cloud
Kyndryl Solutions
09.2021 - Current
- Owned end-to-end Azure infrastructure operations for 20+ enterprise customers across multiple geographies and subscriptions.
- Designed, deployed, and supported highly available Azure environments, consistently achieving 99.95% uptime for mission-critical workloads.
- Implemented Azure Monitor and DataDog alerting solutions, reducing production downtime incidents by 30%.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, ARM templates, and Azure Automation Runbooks, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes.
- Built and maintained Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Optimized Azure cloud costs through right-sizing, automation, and continuous monitoring, resulting in 15% cost savings.
- Improved security and compliance by managing VM patching using Azure Update
Automation Engineer – Azure Cloud Operations
IBM
03.2016 - 09.2021
- Supported Azure cloud infrastructure and operations for global Fortune 500 clients in 24x7 production environments.
- Developed automated alert remediation solutions using PowerShell, Bash reducing manual intervention by 50%.
- Enabled 30+ enterprise accounts for leveraging Ansible Automation & deployed 40+ playbooks.
VMware Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
10.2014 - 03.2016
- Managed over 5000 virtual machines across multiple geos on VMware vSphere / ESXi clusters.
- Performed server provisioning, migrations, and decommissioning with high availability.
- Ensured ITIL v3 compliance by handling incidents, changes, and SR on ServiceNow.
Cloud and Virtualization Engineer
CtrlS Data Centers Ltd
01.2012 - 10.2014
- Administered 2000+ Windows and Linux servers in large-scale data center environments.
- Managed VMware and Hyper-V infrastructure supporting 24x7 operations.
- Performed NOC activities including system monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery drills.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
JNTU
Hyderabad06-2011
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
JNTU
HyderabadSkills
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Virtual Networks
- NSGs
- Load Balancer
- Application Gateway
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- Azure Update Manager
- Azure Backup
- Keyvault
- Serverless
- Azure AD
- RBAC
- Azure Policy
- Cost Management
- Deployments
- AKS
- Azure DevOps
- Repos
- CI/CD pipelines
- Releases
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as code
- ARM Templates
- PowerShell
- Azure Automation Runbooks
- Ansible Tower
- DataDog
- ITIL v3
- ServiceNow
- Azure infrastructure
- Change management
- Problem solving
- Team collaboration
- Microsoft certification
- MS Teams
- Cloud computing
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
- IBM Certified Mentor, Speaker, and Design Thinking Practitioner
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Punjabi
- Telugu
Timeline
Senior Technical Professional – Azure Cloud
Kyndryl Solutions
09.2021 - Current
Automation Engineer – Azure Cloud Operations
IBM
03.2016 - 09.2021
VMware Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
10.2014 - 03.2016
Cloud and Virtualization Engineer
CtrlS Data Centers Ltd
01.2012 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
JNTU
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
JNTU