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Senior DevOps Engineer | 9x Azure Certified + CKA + Terraform | Azure • AWS • Kubernetes • Terraform • GitOps | 📉 30% Cloud Cost Cut • ⚡ 60% Faster Deploys • 🎯 99.9% Uptime on AKS & CI/CD

About

I've spent the last 5+ years making cloud infrastructure behave — building the pipelines, platforms, and guardrails that let engineering teams ship code on a Friday afternoon without anyone losing sleep. Most of the teams I've worked with hit the same wall: deployments take too long, cloud bills keep climbing, and "it works in staging" becomes a recurring punchline. My job is to fix that. I design Azure and AWS environments that scale without surprises, automate the boring-but-critical work with Terraform and Bicep, and build CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions that turn multi-hour releases into minutes. A few things I'm proud of: ✅ Cut deployment time by 60% and cloud costs by 30% for a retail platform running on AKS ✅ Hit 99.9% uptime on production Kubernetes clusters with Istio, Helm, and proper SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets — the real stuff, not dashboards for show) ✅ Led a zero-downtime GCP-to-Azure migration for an enterprise client, on time, no drama ✅ Onboarded 2 enterprise clients to a multi-cloud DevOps platform in 4 months with a 100% satisfaction score 🔧 The stack I live in: Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes (AKS), Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Python, PowerShell, Bash. 🎓 Certifications: 9x Microsoft Azure Certified (AZ-400, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-700), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Terraform Associate. What I care about: ▪️ Automation-first thinking — if we're doing it twice, we're scripting it ▪️ DevSecOps done properly — shift-left, not bolt-on ▪️ FinOps discipline — because "the cloud is expensive" usually means "nobody's watching" 🎯 What's next: I'm looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer role where I can own cloud platform strategy end-to-end — ideally somewhere that takes reliability, security, and developer experience seriously. 📩 Open to conversations — reach me at kshitijgholap11@gmail.com or drop a message here on LinkedIn.

Location

Pune Division

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Work experience

Senior Platform Engineer at Mastercard, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

DevOps Engineer at DuploCloud, Nov 2025 - Jul 2026 · 9 mos, Pune City, Maharashtra, India, • Working on DuploCloud’s no-code/low-code DevOps platform, enabling rapid provisioning and deployment of application infrastructure with minimal manual intervention across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) • Automating end-to-end infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Terraform, reducing provisioning time by 70% and ensuring consistency across development, staging, and production environments • Successfully onboarded 2 enterprise clients within 4 months onto the DuploCloud platform with 100% customer satisfaction index, leading end-to-end migration of applications with zero downtime and providing ongoing operations support post-migration • Architected production-grade Kubernetes (K8s) clusters across client environments with live observability stacks using Grafana and Prometheus for real-time monitoring, alerting, and performance insights • Leveraging AI-powered agents (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) to accelerate troubleshooting, automate documentation, and enhance productivity in day-to-day DevOps workflows • Implementing AI-driven project management practices to streamline task prioritization, sprint planning, and delivery tracking, resulting in improved team efficiency and on-time delivery • Managing and delivering multiple client projects simultaneously; led successful migration of from GCP to Azure, owning project timelines, stakeholder communication, and on-time delivery • Provided hands-on operational support including incident response, root cause analysis, and performance tuning for client workloads running on Kubernetes clusters • Implementing Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines, reducing code build and deployment time by 30% while enabling zero-downtime releases • Applying SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices including defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure service reliability across production environments

Sr. Software Engineer at Mindfire Solutions, Sep 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Remote, • Spearheading infrastructure automation using Terraform and Azure Bicep, ensuring scalable, repeatable, and secure deployments across environments. • Led end-to-end setup of production-grade CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, reducing deployment time by 60% • Designed and maintained highly available, multi-zone AKS (Kubernetes) clusters with autoscaling and rolling updates, achieving robust uptime and fault tolerance for critical applications. • Implemented cost optimization strategies including Azure Spot Instances and right-sizing node pools, reducing infrastructure cost by up to 30% without impacting performance • Integrated Prometheus monitoring and configured Grafana dashboards to provide real-time cluster and application metrics, enabling proactive alerting and capacity planning • Managed RBAC policies, resource tagging, budget alerts, and custom policies for governance and cost optimization • Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) aligned with DevOps best practices to improve deployment speed and reliability • Implemented infrastructure testing and security scanning using tfsec, integrated into CI pipeline • Designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, enabling faster and more efficient software delivery • Collaborated directly with clients to define cloud architectures, SLA requirements, and deployment workflows • Conducted UAT demos, architecture walk-throughs, and team knowledge transfers • Deployed Log analytics, Azure Alerts, and custom dashboard’s on Dynatrace for production environments • Architected and tested high availability and disaster recovery (DR) strategies for business critical applications • Led Migrations of internal pipelines to infrastructure-as-code using YAML and GitOps workflows • Conducted technical interviews accessing expertise in Azure, DevOps, Monitoring tools, Infrastructure Deployments and Cost optimization.

Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Dec 2021 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, •Responsible for installation and configuration of Azure services. •Azure Networking Experience (VNET, Subnet, Load Balancing, VNET peering, VPN) •Strong understanding across Azure infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud Infrastructure engagements that includes assessment and migrations. •Troubleshoot Azure Related issues and engage internal teams and vendors for issue resolutions. •Automate Deployment and troubleshoot mechanisms for quick service. •Develop and implement new processes and document it. Assist with all stages of the test, development and maintenance. •Plan and Develop roadmaps and deliverables to fasten the migration of existing solutions on-premise systems/applications to Azure cloud. •Use of Azure native solutions for workload Migrations such as Azure Migrate, Azure DMS for performing the Re-Host Migrations. •Building a new Setup for Re-Platform Migration using a Infrastructure as a Code methodology. •Infrastructure as a code (IaC) in Terraform, Azure resource management. Created reusable Terraform modules in Azure. •Expertise in the creation of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps. •Good hands-on knowledge of Source Code Management (Version Control System) tools like Git.

Assistant System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Nov 2021 - Dec 2021 · 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Assistant System Engineer - Trainee at Tata Consultancy Services, Nov 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, •Hands-on implementation of Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, SQL etc. •Manage Azure subscriptions, resource groups, role-based access control. •Installing different tools in the provisioned virtual machines like splunk, commvault, sccm and flexera etc. •Deploy and manage virtual machines (Create and configure VMs for Windows and Linux)Manage VM’s backups. •Experience working in different Azure services •Role Based Access Control. •Manually provisioned the azure services. •Exposure working in different azure cloud services.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University