ASHUTOSH SHARMA
Dewas
Summary
Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and operating high-scale cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms across Azure . Proven track record in CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and cost optimization, delivering zero-downtime releases, improving system reliability, and reducing operational costs. Strong ownership mindset with experience supporting mission-critical telecom systems and collaborating across engineering, security, and operations teams.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer / SRE
Amdocs
Pune
06.2022 - Current
- Designed and operated production-grade Azure infrastructure (AKS, VMSS, VNets, Load Balancers, Key Vault, Private Endpoints, Log Analytics, storage account and disk) supporting high-availability telecom workloads.
- Led Kubernetes platform design using Helm-based deployments, enabling blue-green releases, autoscaling and standardized microservice onboarding.
- Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, quality gates, secret scanning, and vulnerability scanning, reducing production incidents by ~50%.
- Standardized release strategies to enable zero-downtime deployments across multiple environments.
- Implemented Terraform-driven IaC, improving environment reproducibility and reducing setup time by ~35%.
- Implemented observability stack using ELK, Azure Monitor, Prometheus and Grafana reducing downtime by ~50% through proactive alerting.
- Drove cloud cost optimization via rightsizing, cleanup automation, and data retention policies, achieving ~$100K annual savings.
- Led incident response, RCA, and long-term preventive actions in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Mentored junior engineers and led internal knowledge-sharing sessions, reducing onboarding time by ~30%.
- Supported high-throughput telecom charging systems serving millions of daily transactions.
- Client: AT&T, Product: Openet charging solution
DevOps Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Thane
09.2019 - 05.2022
- Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, ELB, Auto Scaling, S3, CloudWatch) for production environments.
- Developed reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure provisioning across teams.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Ansible, SonarQube and Docker.
- Automated application deployments and OS patching across 100+ Linux servers, improving consistency and reliability.
- Containerized applications using Docker and Docker Swarm, enabling faster and repeatable deployments.
- Wrote Python and Shell scripts to automate deployments, monitoring tasks, and log processing.
- Supported production releases with focus on availability, rollback safety and minimal downtime.
- Client: Honeywell
Education
B.E - Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engineering
Acropolis Institute of Technology & Research
Indore03-2019
Skills
- Cloud & Infra: Azure, AWS, Terraform
- Containers & Platform: Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, Helm
- CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub , Maven, Ansible
- Reliability & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor
- SRE / DevSecOps: SLIs/SLOs, Alerting, Incident Response, Trivy, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP
- Languages: Python, Bash
- OS: Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu)
- Streaming & Databases: Kafka, VoltDB, MySQL
Certification
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Accomplishments
• Recognized multiple times by clients and leadership for excellence in automation initiatives and cost optimization
• Received 8× 'On-the-Spot' Awards for outstanding contribution and ownership.
• State-Level Boxing Championship Medalist - Silver & Bronze.
• Received 8× 'On-the-Spot' Awards for outstanding contribution and ownership.
• State-Level Boxing Championship Medalist - Silver & Bronze.
Timeline
DevOps Engineer / SRE
Amdocs
06.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
09.2019 - 05.2022
B.E - Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engineering
Acropolis Institute of Technology & Research