Abhishek Pal

Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Senior/Lead DevSecOps, DevOps, SRE Engineer with 12+ years of experience in designing, automating, and optimizing mission-critical cloud infrastructure and application deployments in AWS environments. Expertise in building scalable CI/CD pipelines, implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and managing containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes. Strong background in reliability engineering, high availability architecture, performance optimization, security integration, and SLA-driven operations. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, improve system resilience, and drive automation across large-scale distributed systems.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

Tech Lead – Senior DevSecOps Developer & SRE Engineer

IBM

02.2025 - Current

Lead and mentor DevSecOps and Application Operations engineers across multi-project environments, driving Agile execution, release planning, performance reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with Development, QA, Security, and Product teams.
Architect and maintain secure end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git, integrating automated testing (BrowserStack, TestRail), code quality scanning (SonarQube), and DevSecOps controls; automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, Docker, and Podman across AWS and hybrid cloud platforms.
Establish enterprise-grade SRE and observability frameworks using Grafana, ELK (Kibana), Splunk, Dynatrace, and Instana; lead incident management, RCA, capacity planning, auto-scaling, self-healing architectures, and platform lifecycle management to ensure high availability, scalability, and SLA compliance.
Environment: AWS, Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, Docker, Podman, Python, Shell, Java, SonarQube, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Dynatrace, Instana, Linux

Lead Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer

EPAM Systems (Client: Uber)

09.2020 - 02.2025

Designed and optimized enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Git, Docker, and Terraform on AWS, enabling automated builds and deployments for microservices-based systems.
Led Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including system health monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, incident response, and root cause analysis using Grafana, ELK, M3/M3QL, Linux, and Go-based services to maintain high uptime and operational stability.
Environment: AWS, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Docker, Terraform, Shell, Python, Java, Go, Linux, M3, M3QL, Grafana, ELK

Lead DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Boku Inc

01.2017 - 09.2020

Implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Git, and JFrog Artifactory for production and non-production environments, improving release automation and deployment consistency.
Containerized applications using Docker and orchestrated deployments with Kubernetes, while automating infrastructure provisioning through Terraform and Ansible on AWS; implemented monitoring using Zabbix and MySQL-backed systems.
Environment: AWS, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Shell, Python, Java, Linux, Zabbix, MySQL

Software Engineer – DevOps / Build & Release

HCL Technologies – Nomura Investment Bank

01.2014 - 01.2017

Engineered and maintained build and release pipelines using Bamboo, Maven, Git, SVN, and Nexus, supporting production and non-production deployments for banking applications.
Contributed to infrastructure setup and environment management, improving deployment stability and microservices release coordination across Java-based systems.
Environment: Bamboo, Maven, Git, SVN, Nexus, Shell, Java, Sybase, Informatica, Autosys

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

North Maharashtra University

Jalgaon, MH

07-2013

Skills

CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub Actions, End-to-End CI/CD Pipeline Design, Release Management
Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Podman, Rancher, Kubernetes, Helm, Red Hat OpenShift
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation (CFT)
Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, NAT, NACL, Security Groups, Lambda, CloudWatch), IBM Cloud
SRE & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Zabbix, SumoLogic, PagerDuty, Instana
Security & DevSecOps: SonarQube, MEND Administration, Code Quality Gates, Vulnerability Management, IAM & Access Controls

Automation & Scripting: Shell Scripting (Bash), Python
Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Stash
Databases: MySQL, M3, PostgreSQL
ITSM & Agile Tools: JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow
Operating Systems: Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, macOS
AI Tools: IBM WatsonX, IBM BOB, Claude