Career Profile
Senior DevOps and Cloud Platform Engineer with 11+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating large-scale cloud and Kubernetes platforms. Strong expertise in IBM Cloud VPC, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Python automation, and production incident management. Proven ownership of multi-region deployments, on-call operations using PagerDuty, and platform scalability across global environments.
Education
Experience
- Own CI/CD pipelines and release management across pre-int, int, staging, and prod
- Operate Kubernetes-based platform services enabling VPC compute
- Handle 24x7 on-call using PagerDuty with incident triage and RCA
- Automate deployment validation using Python and Bash
- Lead new region and mzone bring-up with production cutover
- Optimize pipelines to reduce deployment time and manual effort
- Deployed Kubernetes on bare metal Dell R650 servers
- Prepared BIOS, RAID, firmware, and BMC configurations
- Deployed applications using Helm charts
- Configured ConfigMaps, Secrets, Volumes
- Implemented ELK stack on Kubernetes
- Performed scale-in and scale-out of cluster nodes
- Deployed OpenStack NFVI using OOO model
- Integrated OpenStack with NetAct monitoring
- Configured networks, flavors, images, and host aggregates
- Performed cluster hardening and ATP validation
- Developed VNFD packages using Ansible and Bash
- Created and tested HOT and TOSCA templates
- Customized CentOS images for customer needs
- Supported ATP, testing, and production handover
- Deployed RHOSP13 using OOO
- Integrated bare-metal nodes using Ironic
- Deployed applications using Heat templates
- Performed troubleshooting and production support
- Deployed and operated OpenStack clouds for multiple customers
- Managed tenants, projects, images, and VNF deployments
- Integrated LDAP authentication and monitoring
- Performed UAT and customer handover
- Engineered BGP and OSPF routing for managed customers
- Configured Cisco routers and WAN connectivity
- Performed packet analysis using Wireshark