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DevOps Engineer @ Cognizant | Cloud Infrastructure · CI/CD · Automation | Azure & AWS Certified

About

There's a version of DevOps that's just running pipelines. And then there's the part I find genuinely interesting — understanding why a release fails at 2am, why a certificate expires silently, why a deployment that worked in staging breaks in production. I'm a junior DevOps engineer at Cognizant, managing release pipelines and infrastructure for enterprise portfolios. Most of my day involves Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, SSL/TLS lifecycle management, and a healthy amount of SQL. The work is operational by nature, but I try to bring some engineering rigour to it — automation where repetition creeps in, observability where things feel opaque. My side projects lean into the parts of the stack I don't touch at work — GitOps with ArgoCD, DevSecOps gates with SonarQube and Trivy, containerized monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. I find it easier to understand systems by building them, even imperfect versions. I also spent a few months at IISc Bangalore doing research-adjacent work — building tools for researchers, implementing optimization algorithms, and learning that "elegant" and "practical" are often in tension. I'm curious about how reliability engineering evolves as systems get more complex, and I'm actively looking for a role where I can grow into that space. If that's something you're working on, I'd like to hear about it.

Location

India

AI stack

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codex

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deepseek

lovable

Work experience

DevOps Engineer at Cognizant, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 y 5 mo, India, - Manage release orchestration across 7 enterprise application portfolios via Azure DevOps, promoting builds through Dev, Test, Staging, and Production environments. - Maintain platform stability by resolving 70+ weekly ServiceNow change and incident requests, executing SQL deployments and XML configuration changes via SSMS. - Administer end-to-end SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle for 250+ domains (DigiCert, Internal CA), ensuring uninterrupted platform security. - Support 24/7 production operations; author monthly BAU reports and technical SOPs to standardize release processes across global teams.

Community Ops at TechTribe, Feb 2025 - Present · 1 y 6 mo, India

Website Development Volunteer at ConnectFor, Mar 2025 - Sep 2025 · 7 mos, Delhi, India, Built and maintained website for a nonprofit NGO.

Chief Executive Officer at E-Cell, TCE, Aug 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr, Overseeing 5 divisions : 1. Operations 2. Content 3. Marketing and Outreach 4. Product 5. Finance

Chair at IEEE Computer Society, Aug 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr, I mostly do the same work as before but now they are bigger with higher stakes ;)

Joint Secretary at IEEE Computer Society, Oct 2023 - Jul 2024 · 10 mos, Curated and Organised innovative events for students such as workshop on Web Development and Jira Workflow. Organised and Coordinated two hackathons, 1. PowerAI Hackathon : A 24 hour hackathon themed on Power Management using AI (Smart Grids, Energy Efficient Building Management, Renewable Energy forecasting and Integration, etc.) with a prize pool of Rs.50,000. PowerAI Hackathon saw a participation turnout of over 200 participants. Ideated, Curated and Managed Content, managed the participants and optimised the overall workflow of the event. 2. PSGiTech x TCE Hackfest '23 Regional round was held at TCE, Madurai. Accelerated promotions and garnered over 500+ participants state-wide. I was one of the coordinators and convened the event.

Head of Content at E-Cell, TCE, Jun 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Managing Content of E-Cell,TCE Spearheaded a team of 30+ members and introduced Terminal, the flagship magazine of E-Cell,TCE.Designed innovative posters for Instagram, LinkedIn for maximum reach. Conducted workshop for students in the Department of Computer Science and Business Systems (CSBS) on developing research paper writing skills.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Thiagarajar College of Engineering

kendriya vidyalaya

Public links

github: https://github.com/gokul-badrappan