Azure Work Highlights

• Built Terraform automation for deploying and configuring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Automated AKS private endpoints, private DNS records, networking, and Azure Firewall integration.
• Implemented AKS add-ons including NGINX Ingress, Linkerd, Kured, dashboards, and Azure Workbooks.
• Integrated AKS workloads with Azure Key Vault through AKV2K8S and workload identity.
• Planned and supported AKS cluster and node operating-system upgrades.
• Configured AKS maintenance schedules and automatic node-image upgrades.
• Enabled AKS image cleanup to reduce unused container-image storage.
• Implemented AKS ingress with TLS certificates, Cert Manager, and Key Vault.
• Tested AKS networking models including Azure CNI, Kubenet, load balancers, NAT Gateway, and UDR.
• Implemented AKS storage using Azure Disk, BlobFuse, and Azure Blob NFS.
• Evaluated AKS backup, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, ExternalDNS, and Karpenter.
• Developed end-to-end Python automation and testing for AKS deployments.
• Built Terraform modules and pipelines for Azure jump-host virtual machines.
• Built Terraform automation for Azure mid-server virtual machines and load balancers.
• Built Terraform automation for Kafka, Prophet, healing, ADLS, and template-based virtual machines.
• Automated Azure load balancer deployment and configuration for AIOps services.
• Created reusable Azure infrastructure templates, configuration layers, and environment variable files.
• Developed Azure DevOps YAML and classic release/build pipelines.
• Automated Azure DevOps pipeline migration, import, and repository comparison activities.
• Built Azure DevOps onboarding automation for application and infrastructure services.
• Developed container-image management and reporting automation for Azure Container Registry (ACR).
• Automated copying, pulling, promoting, and deleting images across Azure container registries.
• Created Azure private endpoints for AKS and ACR services.
• Developed Azure CLI scripts for AKS, ACR, ADLS, Key Vault, networking, and Terraform operations.
• Automated Terraform initialization, validation, planning, staging, and deployment in Azure.
• Implemented Azure naming, tagging, inventory, and infrastructure documentation standards.
• Developed and deployed Azure-hosted Python predictor, scoring, collector, and transformer services.
• Built Azure pipelines and container deployments for Java microservices.
• Supported Azure Event Hubs, Blob Storage, and Data Lake integrations.
• Created Azure VM agent installation, maintenance, and operational scripts.
• Diagnosed and remediated AKV2K8S secret-injection issues in deployed services.
• Maintained operational documentation and runbooks for Azure, AKS, ACR, and Azure DevOps.
• Completed hands-on Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, ingress, storage, networking, and CI/CD exercises.