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Pankaj Devrani

@pankajdevrani

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India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, own CI/CD for containerised apps, and improve observability, reliability, and cost efficiency—while collaborating across teams to deliver production-grade platforms.

I’m an Infrastructure Specialist with 10 years of experience across Azure cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD. I design and deploy reliable infrastructure end-to-end, with a strong focus on scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

In my current role at Publicis Sapient (Dec 2022–Present), I modernised and transformed a UK leading bank by designing and deploying cloud infrastructure across four environments within 9 months. I authored design documentation and architectural blueprints, and built disaster recovery with an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes, supported by runbooks.

I’ve led teams and delivered a templated pipeline architecture for containerised application and infrastructure deployments. I built a self-service platform and deployed 200+ microservices on AKS using Helm, autoscaling, and Istio for improved security, observability, and traffic management.

I also raise the bar on security and reliability—improving posture in Azure Defender for Cloud from 48% to 98% and integrating security scans (Trivy, Snyk, Trufflehog, Sonar Cloud, Checkov) during build. From observability with Application Insights, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus to FinOps savings (up to 75% cloud cost reduction), I aim for secure, resilient, cost-effective systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Infrastructure Specialist

Current

Publicis Sapient

Dec 2022 - Present (3 years 6 months)

Modernized a full-scale enterprise banking application by designing and deploying cloud infrastructure across four environments within 9 months. Built DR with RTO 1 hour and RPO 15 minutes, launched a self-service platform deploying 200+ microservices on AKS, improved Azure Defender for Cloud security posture from 48% to 98%, and reduced cloud costs up to 75%.

Azure Cloud Terraform Terragrunt CI CD Pipelines Helm Istio Kafka

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Asteria Aerospace

May 2020 - Dec 2022 (2 years 7 months)

Instituted DevOps practices and managed production deployments using root-cause analysis to resolve incidents. Built Azure infrastructure and CI/CD workflows for 30+ containerized microservices and 15 trigger services across three environments, and designed cloud infrastructure for live streaming and 3D rendering using Terraform and Azure Pipelines/AWS.

Azure DevOps CI CD Azure Services Azure Functions Terraform Security Scanning (SonarQube Trivy Mend)

Senior DevOps Engineer

3Pillar

Jul 2019 - Mar 2020 (8 months)

Deployed Azure infrastructure and managed CI/CD for Azure App Services and AKS. Administered Azure DevOps projects and ensured Kubernetes cluster reliability and performance.

Azure Cloud Azure DevOps CI CD Azure Services AKS Kubernetes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Wolters Kluwer

Sep 2018 - Jul 2019 (10 months)

Managed Azure DevOps processes by establishing environments and building release pipelines. Automated scripts and configured CI/CD to trigger test automation for effective testing.

Azure DevOps CI CD

Senior Software Engineer

LTIMindtree

Oct 2015 - Sep 2018 (2 years 11 months)

Developed and tested Java microservices using the Spring Boot framework. Built and maintained environments and CI/CD release pipelines in Azure DevOps to streamline build/deploy and test automation triggers.

Java Spring Boot Microservices Azure DevOps CI CD Pipelines