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Manas Sahoo

Bangalore

Summary

DevOps lead with over 15 years of experience in cloud DevOps and platform engineering within banking and e-commerce. Expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automation frameworks for complex distributed systems. Proven track record of architecting scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud-native solutions using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, resulting in significant operational efficiency improvements and reduced downtime. Strong background in containerization, automation, and governance best practices, with hands-on experience in managing cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Lead

Standard Chartered Bank
Bangalore
05.2019 - Current
  • Led end-to-end CI/CD strategy, automation planning, and DevOps transformation initiatives across multiple enterprise applications, defining toolchain, branching strategy, release governance, and infrastructure standards.
  • Architected and implemented scalable automation frameworks using Ansible, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and AWS Cloud, enabling standardized and repeatable deployments across environments.
  • Successfully migrated 100+ applications from OpenShift to SKE, optimizing infrastructure utilization and achieving ~$120K annual cost savings.
  • Led repository migration of 200+ source code repositories from Bitbucket to Azure DevOps, standardizing CI/CD pipelines, improving governance, and enhancing traceability.
  • Designed and containerized enterprise applications including Apache, NGINX, Tomcat, Spring Boot, Keycloak, SCDF, and JBoss, creating Kubernetes/OpenShift objects such as: Deployments, Services, Routes & Ingress, ConfigMaps, Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs)
  • Built reusable Helm Charts for consistent application packaging and version-controlled deployments across non-prod and production clusters.
  • Developed self-service CI/CD frameworks using Jenkins and Rundeck, enabling development teams to independently trigger builds and deployments, significantly reducing DevOps dependency.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS EC2 using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ensuring scalable and repeatable environment creation.
  • Engineered an automation solution to deploy multi-instance Spring Boot applications on a single VM with a single execution.
  • Designed a standardized Spring Boot deployment framework supporting:
    Latest build artifact retrieval, environment-based configuration management, automated server startup, multi-environment deployment (Non-Prod & Prod), zero manual intervention, which reduced deployment time from 2 hours to 10 minutes (90% effort reduction).
  • Led Proof of Concept (POC) for Dynatrace APM, coordinating with vendor teams for multi-environment evaluation and performing cost-benefit analysis for enterprise adoption.
  • Automated Load Balancer configuration updates across environments using Ansible playbooks, eliminating manual errors and ensuring configuration consistency.
  • Designed and implemented a centralized Grafana monitoring framework across 20+ environments, providing: CPU & memory utilization
    disk space monitoring, application/server startup status
    API endpoint health checks, build artifact version visibility (UI, Tomcat, Fuse, Spring Boot)
    unified single-pane-of-glass dashboard
  • Drove DevOps governance practices including documentation, Jira workflow management, release tracking, architecture presentations, and executive reporting (PPTs).

Senior Associate L2

Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
07.2012 - 05.2019
  • Worked as a Senior Associate L2, involved in CI/CD automation planning, orchestrating etc using Ansible, Packer, terraform, Jenkins and GCP cloud.
  • Involved in automating to instantiate cloud resources using infrastructure as a code for all the envs.
  • Involved in nightly build and deployment along with code coverage, selenium testing, performance testing, security vulnerability checks.
  • Involved in automating the entire deployment pipeline in non-prod and PROD with zero down time.
  • Involved in orchestrating of Jenkins agents and master as a proof of concept based on the load.
  • Involved in branching strategy and release management process, documenting all the process in confluence.
  • Review the automation code, implementation plan, branching strategy, etc.

Senior Software Engineer

Virtusa India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
12.2007 - 07.2012
  • Worked as a Senior Software Engineer, involved in CI/CD automation using Ant, Maven, Shell scripting, Batch scripting, Jenkins, buildforge, SVN etc.
  • Involved in build and deployment, code vulnerability checks automation etc.
  • Supported for building and deploying application across all the environments daily basis.
  • Configured the entire process with buildforge and Jenkins.
  • Automated all the gaps to minimize the manual work wherever required.

Education

B.E - Information Technology

Utkal University
Bhubaneswar

Skills

CI/CD & SCM : Jenkins, AzureDevOps, Rundeck, GIT, Bitbucket, SVN

Cloud : AWS

Infrastructure as a Code : Terraform

Configuration Management : Ansible

Containerization & Orchestration : Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, SKE, Helmcharts

Scripting : Shell, Python

App & Web Servers: Apache, Nginx, Tomcat

Monitoring & Security : Grafana, Prometheus, Filebeat, Kibana, Hashicorp Vault, Sonarqube, Checkov, Aqua, Nexus

Leadership & Core Competancies : Mentoring, Collberation, Technical leadership, Problem Solving

Collaboration & Agile : JIRA, Azure Board, Confluence

Certification

• GitHub Copilot (GH-300)

• AWS Solution Architect Associate (SAA-C03)

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform (SCJP)

Timeline

DevOps Lead

Standard Chartered Bank
05.2019 - Current

Senior Associate L2

Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 05.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Virtusa India Pvt Ltd
12.2007 - 07.2012

B.E - Information Technology

Utkal University
Manas Sahoo