Lead DevOps Engineer at Capgemini India Pvt Ltd (2022-10 – Present)
Lead a team of 9 DevOps engineers responsible for CI/CD platform operations, Kubernetes administration, cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation across enterprise applications.
- Manage a large-scale cloud-native ecosystem of 2,000+ microservices and 10,000+ CI/CD pipelines, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Architect and optimize enterprise CI/CD solutions using Jenkins, CloudBees CI, Groovy, and Jenkins Shared Libraries — supporting 250–300 production deployments monthly.
- Drive Kubernetes platform engineering on Amazon EKS: managing application deployments, resource optimization, rollout strategies, cluster maintenance, and production troubleshooting.
- Spearheaded on-premises to AWS EKS migration, improving scalability, deployment consistency, and operational efficiency across enterprise application portfolios.
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure (EKS, EC2, VPC, ALB, Route53, S3, RDS, EBS, EFS, CloudWatch) using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Implement enterprise DevSecOps practices by integrating SonarQube, Fortify, Nexus IQ, HashiCorp Vault, Cypress, Playwright, JMeter, and Octane into CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate operational processes using Groovy, Shell, and Python scripting, reducing manual effort and improving deployment consistency.
- Lead sprint planning, work allocation, technical reviews, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing initiatives to drive team productivity and engineering standards.
- Conduct production incident investigations, root cause analysis (RCA), and preventive planning to improve platform stability and service reliability.
- Scaled CI/CD platform to support 2,000+ microservices and 10,000+ deployment pipelines with 99%+ reliability.
- Drove 250–300 monthly production deployments through scalable automation frameworks, improving release velocity by 40%.
- Led on-premises to AWS EKS migration, modernizing application hosting and reducing infrastructure costs.
- Established Jenkins Shared Libraries and deployment standards adopted by multiple engineering teams, cutting onboarding time by 60%.
- Embedded DevSecOps controls (security, quality, performance, testing) directly into CI/CD workflows — zero critical security escapes post-implementation.
- Integrated Amazon Bedrock into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automatically analyze build failures, perform AI-driven root cause analysis, and generate actionable remediation recommendations, significantly reducing manual troubleshooting effort and accelerating incident resolution.
DevOps Engineer at DELL Technologies (2017-08 – 2022-08)
- Designed, built, and maintained CI/CD pipelines for 50+ enterprise applications using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Git, reducing average build time by 35%.
- Containerized and orchestrated applications using Docker and Kubernetes, migrating 20+ services to container-based deployment models.
- Developed automation scripts in Shell and Python to streamline operational workflows, cutting manual intervention by 50%.
- Integrated SonarQube and Fortify for static code analysis and security scanning within software delivery pipelines, reducing defect escape rate.
- Participated in production support, on-call incident response, and RCA activities, maintaining SLA compliance across critical services.
Storage Administrator at Capgemini India Pvt Ltd (2012-12 – 2017-08)
- Administered, configured, and troubleshot SAN storage environments including LUN masking, LUN migration, and host/switch connectivity across high-end servers.
- Provided day-to-day storage operations support: allocation, monitoring, performance reporting, and capacity planning using SRM tools.
- Investigated and resolved SAN hardware and software issues, ensuring minimal downtime and high availability of storage infrastructure.
