Pavithra Shivakumar

Qualified DevSecOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering professional with 8.5+ years of experience in enterprise CI/CD, AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, application migration, and secure software delivery. Results-driven DevSecOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering professional with 8.5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines, AWS cloud infrastructure, platform engineering solutions, application migration, and secure delivery automation. Strong expertise in Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and AWS Cloud Services.

Experienced in building scalable platform engineering capabilities that enable development teams to accelerate software delivery through standardized CI/CD frameworks, reusable templates, automation, and self-service DevOps solutions. Proven experience in application migration, platform modernization, repository migration, CI/CD migration, and cloud transformation initiatives, ensuring seamless transition from legacy environments to cloud-native platforms. Skilled in designing and implementing automation and integration solutions across development, security, operations, source control, artifact management, and deployment platforms to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise administration, repository governance, GitHub Teams management, GitHub Copilot enablement, access management, and developer productivity tooling. Expertise in containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, including deployment automation, application onboarding, cluster management, namespace provisioning, and production support. Strong experience in JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray administration, artifact lifecycle management, image promotion workflows, package management, and software supply chain security.

Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation for automated provisioning and infrastructure standardization. Experienced in integrating security controls, compliance checks, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, and container security validation into CI/CD pipelines as part of DevSecOps practices. Skilled in automation development using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, YAML, and scripting frameworks to streamline operational and governance processes.

Extensive experience collaborating with development, security, cloud, infrastructure, and operations teams to implement scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise solutions. Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, Release Management, Cloud Adoption Frameworks, Platform Engineering principles, and DevSecOps best practices. Proven ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives through automation, standardization, process optimization, and platform enhancements that improve developer experience and deployment relia

DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer at Alcon Laboratories Pvt India Ltd (2023-05 – Present)

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to automate application build, validation, security scanning, and deployment workflows.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployment automation solutions to improve scalability, consistency, and operational efficiency across environments.
• Manage and optimize containerized application deployments using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, reliability, and security.
• Create and maintain Kubernetes manifests, Helm Charts, Confirms, Secrets, Ingress configurations, and namespace onboarding processes for enterprise applications.
• Implement deployment strategies including rolling updates, zero-downtime deployments, and automated rollback mechanisms in Kubernetes clusters.
• Configure and monitor container health using Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes to improve service stability and operational visibility.
• Administer and maintain JFrog Artifactory repositories, artifact promotion pipelines, image repositories, and package lifecycle management processes.
• Build and manage Docker images, secure container registries, and automated image publishing workflows integrated with enterprise CI/CD platforms.
• Integrate DevSecOps security controls including static code analysis, dependency scanning, container image scanning, and compliance validation into build and release pipelines.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to drive DevSecOps adoption and automate software delivery processes.
• Manage enterprise GitHub administration activities including repository governance, GitHub Teams management, branch protection policies, and GitHub Copilot access governance.
• Develop automation solutions leveraging GitHub REST APIs, PowerShell, Python, and Azure DevOps REST APIs to streamline operational processes.
• Design and maintain reusable pipeline templates, variable groups, release workflows, and deployment standards across multiple projects and teams.
• Support migration initiatives involving source code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and application deployment platforms from legacy environments to modern cloud-native solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build, deployment, infrastructure, networking, and container platform issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Implement artifact promotion and release management workflows using JFrog Artifactory, Xray validation, and approval-based deployment processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by standardizing DevOps practices, reducing manual effort, and improving deployment reliability and delivery speed.
• Work closely with stakeholders to evaluate, onboard, and support developer productivity tools including GitHub Copilot and enterprise DevSecOps platforms.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and deployment procedures for support and audit requirements.
• Participate in production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and platform reliability improvement initiatives.

Cloud Engineer at Capgemini (2018-08 – 2023-03)

• Used AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to build, customize, provision, deploy, and automate AWS infrastructure and services for business applications and customer environments.
• Collaborated with internal teams to ensure AWS cloud environments met business requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Implemented AWS solution using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto Scaling Group for high availability, durability, secured and scalable cloud architecture.
• Created and managed users, groups, roles, and policies through IAM.
• Troubleshooting operational and security incidents using CloudTrail
• Implemented cost saving measures such as elastic load balancer consolidation, automatic public IP updates using Route 53, managing instance runtime with AWS Instance Scheduler using CloudFormation.
• Deployment and management of SSL Certificates using ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager) to secure HTTP request to client’s environment.
• Implemented a roadmap to reduce dependency on IAM user credentials by using trusted IAM roles attached to EC2 instances, improving security and credential governance.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using CloudFormation for quick customization and deployment of resources on AWS cloud platform.
• Designed and implemented the networking environment needed for multi-tier application deployment, by creating VPC, private and public subnet, create route tables, internet Gateway, Nat Gateway, NACLs, and creating VPC gateway endpoints to securely access objects stored in S3.
• Integrated API gateways, AWS Lambda, S3 buckets, Dynamo DB, SNS for serverless microservice deployment.

Bachelor of Engineer in CSE – Gopalan college of engineering and management (2016)