Pavan S

DevOps Engineer with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure). Proven ability to automate, monitor, and secure scalable deployments using Terraform, Helm, and Docker. Actively pursuing CKA certification to deepen Kubernetes specialization.

DevOps Engineer - Rightdata

(2025-04)

• Designed and implemented Kubernetes manifests from scratch, leading the migration of standalone Docker-based applications to Kubernetes deployments, improving scalability, reliability, and resource efficiency in staging and production.
• Developed reusable Helm charts to replace manual Kubernetes deployments, standardizing rollout processes and enabling automated, version-controlled releases across teams.
• Implemented monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana, providing real-time visibility into system performance, health metrics, and resource utilization.
• Configured centralized logging with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), improving incident response and debugging efficiency.
• Automated AWS ECR cleanup with Bash and cron jobs, reducing Docker image storage costs by 75% by efficiently removing unused images.
• Authored Terraform scripts to provision cloud infrastructure, including VPC, subnets, security groups, EKS clusters, RDS, and a hardened jump server. Implemented least-privilege IAM roles and users, ensuring compliance and security across environments.
• Built multi-branch DevSecOps pipelines in Jenkins, integrating SonarCloud for SAST, Trivy for container scanning, and automated artifact management (S3, Nexus), with deployments across Dev, QA, and UAT environments.
• Integrated SAST and DAST tools (SonarQube and RapidScan) into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring early vulnerability detection and secure application delivery.
• Managed artifact repositories used JFrog Artifactory to store Docker images and Nexus to store JAR files, standardizing artifact versioning and improving release management.

DevOps Engineer Intern - WeSalvator

(2025-02 - 2025-04)

• Migrated database from AWS RDS to OCI Docker PostgreSQL, optimizing cost and performance.
• Containerized Django web application and PostgreSQL using Docker, ensuring seamless inter-container communication.
• Implemented multi-stage Docker builds for Django, using Gunicorn for efficient application serving.
• Configured Nginx as a reverse proxy with SSL/TLS encryption for enhanced security.
• Integrated SonarQube and Trivy in Jenkins for security scanning and code quality analysis.
• Configured email and Slack notifications for Jenkins pipeline success/failure alerts.
• Set up self-hosted Gitea and migrated repositories from GitHub, enabling private, secure version control.
• Designed and implemented Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for automating Docker image builds, pushes, and deployments.

Bachelor Degree - Bachelor of Computer Application - Surana College (2024-06)