Parthasarathi Panda

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer with 4 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and production operations. Currently working with Apar Technologies on a DHL Germany client, supporting enterprise DevOps and cloud operations with AKS, GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, Terraform, and automated dependency management. Hands-on experience building and maintaining multi-environment deployment pipelines, containerized workloads, reusable infrastructure, release automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.

Strong expertise across Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Helm, Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Terraform Cloud, ArgoCD, Octopus, SonarQube, Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Azure networking, RBAC, Key Vault, and observability.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Apar Technologies - Bengaluru, India

(2026-04)

Currently working with Apar Technologies on a DHL Germany client, supporting enterprise DevOps, cloud infrastructure, application deployments, and operational reliability.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions for automated validation, build, deployment, and release activities across multiple environments.
• Manage containerized application deployments on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including Kubernetes workloads, configuration, scaling, troubleshooting, and controlled releases.
• Provision and maintain Azure infrastructure with Terraform and Terraform Cloud, using version-controlled Infrastructure as Code for repeatable and consistent environments.
• Support Trask deployments on AKS and troubleshoot deployment, configuration, infrastructure, and pipeline issues across environments.
• Use Renovate for automated dependency update management and maintenance of software dependencies.
• Collaborate with development, platform, security, and delivery teams to resolve CI/CD failures, Kubernetes issues, infrastructure problems, and production incidents.
• Apply DevOps, cloud security, and operational best practices across Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and secrets management.

Azure DevOps Engineer - SNP Cloud Technology - Hyderabad, India

(2023-02 - 2026-03)

• Designed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions to improve deployment consistency and release reliability.
• Deployed and managed AKS-based microservices using Docker, Helm, and Kustomize across development, testing, and production environments.
• Provisioned Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, including VMs, VNets, NSGs, Application Gateways, storage resources, and Key Vault integrations.
• Implemented monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and PagerDuty to improve infrastructure visibility and incident response.
• Provided L3 production support for CI/CD failures, network and firewall issues, infrastructure incidents, and zero-downtime deployment activities.
• Supported global clients including Nacha, Eriez, TruBridge, Arvinas, and Atricure, collaborating with client and cross-functional teams to resolve critical DevOps issues.
• Worked with Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Octopus, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Bash, and PowerShell in enterprise environments.

MCA - Jain University (2027)

BCA - The National College (2022)