Shilpa Sivakumar

Azure Cloud Engineer / Administrator with 5+ years of professional experience supporting and administering Microsoft Azure infrastructure across cloud operations and enterprise environments. Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Subnets, NSGs, Storage Accounts, Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Availability Sets, Entra ID and Azure PowerShell. Experienced in infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, backup and disaster recovery, resource administration and supporting application/development teams.

Currently based in Trier, Germany and developing German language skills.

Azure Administrator at Quess Corp Pvt Ltd (2024-03 – 2025-06)

• Created and managed Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks and Subnets.
• Remotely accessed Azure Virtual Machines to troubleshoot, monitor and support application deployments.
• Created and managed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound application traffic.
• Monitored Azure VM health and investigated infrastructure performance issues.
• Increased VM disk capacity and resized VM configurations according to infrastructure requirements.
• Worked with Azure Backup and Site Recovery solutions to support backup and disaster recovery requirements.
• Configured SQL environments on Azure SQL Virtual Machines.
• Worked with Azure Load Balancer and Availability Sets to support application availability and infrastructure requirements.

Azure Administrator at Cognizant Technology Solutions (2022-12 – 2023-11)

• Administered Microsoft Azure compute, networking and storage services.
• Configured and managed Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts and Resource Groups.
• Migrated Azure resources between different subscriptions according to project requirements.
• Managed day-to-day Azure infrastructure deployments and operations.
• Deployed Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based on client requirements.
• Administered Azure VM backups, including file-level and folder-level backup and restore activities.
• Configured backup policies and performed VM and data restoration according to operational requirements.
• Administered Azure services using Azure PowerShell.
• Managed Microsoft Entra ID users and groups, including MFA-related administration and password resets.
• Worked with Azure Storage Explorer for storage administration activities.
• Managed VM disks, including attaching new disks and resizing VM resources.
• Configured and supported Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Availability Sets and Auto Scaling.
• Monitored Azure VM health and performed day-to-day cloud environment administration.

Cloud Engineer at Wipro Limited (2019-12 – 2021-08)

• Created and managed Microsoft Azure compute, networking and storage resources.
• Created and administered Windows Virtual Machines and attached additional disks as required.
• Monitored Azure VM health and supported infrastructure operations.
• Configured and supported Azure Load Balancer.
• Troubleshot Azure infrastructure issues and coordinated with internal teams and vendors for resolution.
• Managed day-to-day cloud environment operations and supported development teams with infrastructure requirements.
• Created and managed Azure VNets and Subnets and configured inbound/outbound security rules.
• Created and managed Network Security Groups (NSGs) according to infrastructure requirements.
• Restored Virtual Machines from Azure Vault backups and performed file restoration.
• Configured Azure Automation Accounts to schedule VM start/stop activities.

Cloud Operations Engineer at IN Technet Limited

• Administered Microsoft Azure infrastructure including Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Resource Groups and Load Balancers.
• Remotely accessed Azure VMs for troubleshooting, monitoring and application deployment support.
• Managed Microsoft Entra ID users and groups, including account creation and Active Directory attribute updates.
• Supported Disaster Recovery activities.
• Configured and monitored alerts using Azure Monitor.
• Managed day-to-day Azure environment operations and supported development teams with infrastructure requirements.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering – Osmania University (2014-09 – 2018-05)