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Lead Platform Engineer | OpenShift & Kubernetes Specialist | Multi-Cloud | GitOps | AI Agents

About

Platform Engineering leader with 13+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale. Currently leading Kubernetes and OpenShift platform initiatives supporting 30+ clusters and 100+ production workloads in a highly regulated financial services environment. I specialize in Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and AI-enabled Operations. My focus is on building secure, scalable, and self-service platforms that improve developer productivity, strengthen platform reliability, and accelerate software delivery. Key areas of expertise: • Platform Engineering – Design and operate enterprise Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms across on-prem and cloud environments. • Cloud-Native Architecture – Build highly available, resilient, and scalable platforms on AWS and Azure. • GitOps & Automation – Implement GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible to reduce operational overhead and improve deployment reliability. • Reliability & Observability – Establish monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational excellence practices using Prometheus, Loki, and Dynatrace. • Security & Governance – Integrate security, compliance, and policy controls into platform engineering workflows while enabling developer agility. • AI for Platform Operations – Explore Agentic AI, MCP, and AI-assisted operations to improve troubleshooting, automation, and platform efficiency. Passionate about building platforms that empower engineering teams, simplify operations, and deliver measurable business outcomes. Open to Lead Platform Engineer, Principal Platform Engineer, Platform Architect, and Platform Engineering leadership opportunities. 📩 DMs open for brainstorm, collaborations and tech insights.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Lead DevOps/Platform at Voya Financial, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, About Company: Voya Financial is a leading American financial services company that specializes in retirement planning, investment management, and employee benefits. It serves million individual, workplace, and institutional clients, offering a wide range of retirement products, insurance solutions and workplace savings plans. As a Lead DevOps/Platform Specialist, I am responsible for: • Managing a platform that runs 100+ critical application workloads with millions of transactions. • Designed and deployed 10+ OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.x clusters on both On-Prem and Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) environments, supporting multi-region applications with 99.95% uptime. • Designed GitHub Actions based CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications (including Node.js, Java services), enabling automated build, test, image creation and promotions. • Implemented GitOps-driven infrastructure provisioning using ArgoCD and Kustomize, automating 95% of platform deployments and reducing manual errors. • Led the successful migration from Service Mesh 2 to Service Mesh 3 across 10+ clusters, improving security posture and traffic observability. • Deployed IBM Guardium integrated with OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) on key clusters, ensuring compliance and data security for enterprise workloads. • Automated OpenShift cluster upgrades and operational tasks, cutting manual intervention time by 70% and improving system stability. • Implemented Cert Manager on OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters to automate the issuance and seamless auto-renewal of SSL/TLS certificates and eliminating manual certificate management overhead. • Implemented/Upgrade of CrowdStrike Falcon Node Sensor/Kubernetes Admission Controller (KAC) across clusters, integrating real-time threat detection with policy enforcement to proactively prevent security breaches and misconfigurations, thus enhancing overall container workload protection and compliance posture.

DevOps/Openshift Consultant (Short-term consulting engagement) at aramco, Jul 2024 - Nov 2024 · 5 mos, Dhahran, Eastern, Saudi Arabia, Enabled Data Scientists Teams in Model Development and Deployment: Facilitated the creation and deployment of data models, machine learning models, notebooks, functions on IBM Cloud Pak for Data hosted on Openshift platform, by establishing and enforcing best practices, optimizing platform resources.

Engineering Manager DevOps/DataOps at Sigmoid, Nov 2023 - Mar 2024 · 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Led client communication to capture requirements, estimated project scope, designed DevOps architecture, managed implementation with team members, and accountability of on-time project delivery. • Successfully addressed business challenges in scalability and cost optimization by harnessing AWS and open-source solutions. Led the implementation with Terraform as IaC for provisioning EKS clusters and Airflow applications. Established an efficient CI/CD pipeline utilizing GitHub Actions

Associate Manager DevOps Openshift at Accenture, Jan 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, India, • Designed and implemented the overall DevOps strategy and architecture within the organization. Collaborated with development teams to understand their current build and release processes and made recommendations for improvement. • Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders, including development, operations and security to streamline processes. • Provided guidance to development teams to improve performance and operability of the solutions they develop. Designed and built CI/CD pipelines to improve developer productivity, agility, and code quality. • Mentored and managed a team of 6 DevOps Engineers for 2 ongoing projects for Barclays on different tech stacks. • Automated the build & deployment process by designing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins with security integration and Openshift. • Migrated 40+ APIs for Barclays Credit Card operations from V3 to V4 PaaS in less than 6 months. Won an award from the client. • Architected and deployed OpenShift 4.x disconnected clusters on AWS, emphasizing High Availability, Scalability, resilient within the cloud infrastructure design. • Credential of achieving highest level of customer satisfaction in maintaining the platform stability (5/5 CSAT Score).

Senior Consultant at Infosys Ltd, Nov 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Played a key role in designing and implementing 2 OpenShift 3.x Clusters on AWS Cloud with 3 different regions. • Contributed significantly to the scaling and resource management of the OpenShift platform, which could handle 1,000+ applications with a 99.9% production platform uptime. • Strategized platform upgrade with Blue-Green deployment approach and achieved near zero downtime of Openshift platform. • Implemented a proper monitoring for the cluster with Prometheus monitoring stack for metrics and logs. • Played an important role in ensuring delivery of excellent solutions, actively involved in regular interaction with clients to discuss and understood their business requirements. ● Gathered & analysed data, designed high performant, scalable, reliable and secured applications On Premise and as well as on AWS cloud platform. • Communicated effectively with the team members to enhance their understanding of the opportunities and limitations of information. Created and effectively managed the stakeholders, incorporated all project work-streams.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science/Studies, BGS Institute of Technology - India