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Manjuldas Solanke

Manjuldas Solanke

Lead DevOps Engineer

Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 14+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, and cloud platform engineering, with expertise in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Contributed to a GenAI project using tools like Seldon Core, MLflow, and LangChain to enhance AI/ML model deployment and orchestration.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Lead DevOps Enigneer

Kotak Mahindra Bank
Pune
04.2024 - Current
  • Architected and operated hybrid-cloud Kubernetes platforms, leveraging Rancher and AWS EKS (Kubernetes).
  • Designed enterprise DR strategies for containerized applications, aligning RPO/RTO objectives through cross-region Kubernetes cluster replication, orchestration, and active-passive failover drills.
  • Defined and enforced Kubernetes security posture, implementing namespace isolation, RBAC, network policies, pod security policies, and Vault-backed secrets management.
  • Built GitOps-driven IaC pipelines with Terraform and Ansible for reproducible infrastructure provisioning, integrated with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI) to deliver immutable environments and automated rollback capabilities
  • Engineered secure, multi-account AWS Landing Zones, using AWS Organizations, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, and centralized SIEM/logging pipelines to enforce compliance and network segmentation.
  • Developed comprehensive observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and custom alerting.
  • Optimized and secured Kubernetes environments, implementing best practices to improve scalability, security posture, and cluster efficiency.
  • Led AWS Landing Zone network operations, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant cloud infrastructure for enterprise workloads.
  • Led cloud governance, security and cost optimization initiatives, identifying VACA risks, deploying automated rightsizing jobs and spot instance strategies, and delivering real-time cost dashboards via AWS Cost Explorer APIs.
  • Implemented Istio as the service mesh and ingress controller, configuring Gateways, VirtualServices, and DestinationRules to enable mTLS, advanced traffic management (canary, A/B deployments), and unified ingress security policies across microservices.

Specialist in Kubernetes - DevOps Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
07.2021 - 04.2024
  • Successfully deployed and configured Seldon Core, MLflow, Langchain, and Minio as integral components for the Generative AI project, ensuring a robust and scalable environment on Kubernetes.
  • Deploying and Configuration of Embedding Services and Vector Databases, such as Qdrant DB for GenAI
  • Implemented seamless deployment of Hugging Face's LLM models on the Kubernetes platform, ensuring efficient and scalable management of language models
  • Utilized CUDA to optimize and accelerate ML model training on GPU-enabled servers, enhancing performance for large-scale data processing and deep learning workloads.
  • Innovative and results-driven DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of designing and implementing high-availability solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters.
  • Skilled in integrating GPU resources to optimize performance for AI/ML workloads, ensuring robustness and scalability
  • Integrated and configured essential Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as cert-manager, Istio, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana for observability, and Argo-CD for continuous delivery, ensuring a seamless and well-integrated DevOps workflow
  • Implemented the Kubernetes platform for streamlined application deployment and management, enhancing scalability and resource efficiency
  • Achieved a significant reduction in cloud costs by implementing various tools, including Vcluster, optimizing resource allocation, and enhancing cost efficiency
  • Implemented robust Kubernetes security measures and ensured adherence to best practices for cloud, container, cluster, and code security, enhancing overall system integrity and resilience

Consultant

Globallogic
10.2018 - 06.2021
  • Working as a DevOps Engineer in setting up Kubernetes platform on AWS cloud for Microservices-based architecture
  • Implemented centralized logging using Kibana, Elasticsearch and Filebeat/Fluentd
  • Implemented and optimized AWS Elasticsearch for efficient search and analytics, enhancing data retrieval and query performance
  • Implemented and optimized Amazon ElastiCache to enhance the performance and scalability of distributed applications through in-memory caching
  • Implemented Velero tool for backup, restoring and performing disaster recovery
  • Repeatable and templated deployments for Kubernetes applications with the help of Helm
  • Implemented Argo-CD for declarative applications, version-controlled, lifecycle management, automation, auditable, and idempotent application deployments

Team Lead

Persistent System Limited
11.2016 - 10.2018
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab CI) for infrastructure and application delivery.
  • Provided L3 production support and incident response for Linux and cloud environments, leading root-cause analyses, authoring post-mortem reports, and implementing preventive measures to reduce MTTR
  • Orchestrated AWS infrastructure provisioning via Terraform and CloudFormation, covering VPC architecture, public/private subnets, Internet Gateways, EC2 instances, NAT Gateways, and CloudWatch dashboards and alarms.
  • Implemented self-service DevOps tooling for cross-functional teams, including automated database backup routines, environment cloning scripts, and user-friendly playbook libraries for common ops tasks
  • Designed and enforced infrastructure-as-code (IaC) standards, collaborating with Database, Engineering, and Support teams to model environments, version control configurations, and automate lifecycle management.
  • Documented end-to-end system topology, operational runbooks, and security procedures, ensuring up-to-date knowledge transfer and compliance with organizational policies.

Senior Specialist

HCL Technologies
10.2013 - 11.2016
  • Supporting the critical application in development and production env running on Linux servers (RHEL, OLE, SUSE, and CentOS) in VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure
  • Live migration of VMs and storage using VMotion and Storage VMotion within and across ESXi hosts/storage arrays without service disruptions
  • Migrating virtual machines across the data centre, ESXi cluster and cloud environment
  • Working closely with the IT security team to Security Vulnerability scanning and fixing security issues on Linux servers
  • Adding compute resources, storage and network card to VMs in vSphere and cloud

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
03.2011 - 10.2013
  • Delivered 24x7 OS support to more than 1000 mission-critical servers running Database and Applications on Solaris and Linux boxes
  • Hardware replacement including Battery, Hard Disk, System Board, Power supply, Fan and HBA Card in Redhat servers
  • File system management for ext3/4 and XFS
  • Installation, Upgradation, Configuration, Maintenance, Patch/Package management and Troubleshooting of the Operating systems and Services
  • Performance, networking, hardware monitoring and troubleshooting the OS-related issues
  • Administration and maintenance of VERITAS Cluster Server
  • Freezing, switching service, and checking the status of nodes in VERITAS Cluster and Red-hat Cluster during the maintenance window in 2-node clusters
  • Monitoring system performance of servers and troubleshooting OS-related issues

Education

Master of Science - Master of Computer Science

SRTM University
04.2001 - 01.2012

BCS - Bachelor of Computer Science

Skills

Kubernetes Expertise

AWS Expertise

MLOps

  • Containerization Expertise

  • Automated Deployment Processes

  • Security ( Cloud, K8s, Container and Code)

  • GitOps Implementation

  • Terraform

  • Observability

  • Linux Proficiency

  • Bash Scripting

  • Python

  • Helm Proficiency

  • Service Mesh Implementation (Istio)

Security

Awards

  • Night in town Awards in Hitachi Vantara
  • Eminence Awards - GlobalLogic
  • Bravo award twice in Persistent systems limited.
  • Best team award (within Citi Bank project) in Wipro Technologies.

Technical Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Security
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
  • (ISC)² - Cybersecurity Certified
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
  • VMware Certified Professional in vSphere 5.5
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator

Timeline

Lead DevOps Enigneer

Kotak Mahindra Bank
04.2024 - Current

Specialist in Kubernetes - DevOps Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
07.2021 - 04.2024

Consultant

Globallogic
10.2018 - 06.2021

Team Lead

Persistent System Limited
11.2016 - 10.2018

Senior Specialist

HCL Technologies
10.2013 - 11.2016

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
03.2011 - 10.2013

Master of Science - Master of Computer Science

SRTM University
04.2001 - 01.2012

BCS - Bachelor of Computer Science

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