Palash Ghosh
DevOps Specialist | Cloud | SRE Engineer
Pune
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 17+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native platforms, along with solid exposure to AI technologies. Over 8 years at Vodafone Cloud Platforms & Automation (CP&A), delivering Kubernetes-based CaaS solutions with large-scale CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, observability, and SRE best practices. Proven track record in leading Kubernetes lifecycle management and version upgrades across multi-tenant AWS clusters, enhancing reliability, performance, and security.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
DevOps Engineer Product & Services
Technology _VOIS
Pune
07.2014 - Current
- Supported Vodafone's CaaS platform, enabling multi-tenant Kubernetes workloads across the AWS platform.
- Coordinated with Giant Swarm for Kubernetes upgrades, lifecycle ops, cluster validation, and a smooth rollout.
- Managed Kubernetes components: Docker,Velero, OPA, Falco, Ingress, Fluent, Kyverno, Dex.
- Supported AWS infra: EC2, VPC, ELB, Route 53, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch
- Managed CI/CD using Jenkins, Git, and Terraform.
- CI/CD Enablement: Managed Jenkins pipelines and Git workflows; integrated image scanning, quality gates with Nexus, and SonarQube.
- Automation and IaC: Standardized cluster provisioning and config drift control using Terraform.
- Observability and Reliability: Implemented dashboards, PagerDuty, Kafka, Prometheus, Instana, and Splunk.
- Cloud Engineering: Built and supported AWS foundations—EC2, VPC, ELB/ALB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling.
- Application Migration: Migrated workloads from Vodafone Germany Ratingen DC to AWS Frankfurt; executed cutovers, validation, and post-migration support.
- Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
System Engineer
SEAMLESS Distribution Pvt Ltd
Kolkata
09.2013 - 05.2014
- Linux operations at scale (RHEL installs via NFS/HTTP); Nagios monitoring; Apache load balancing; MySQL installation, replication, and backups; SS7 configurations.
- Resolved complex technical issues through effective problem-solving techniques and root cause analysis.
System Engineer
Alumnus Software Pvt Ltd
Kolkata
11.2010 - 09.2013
- E2E customer support for MTN telecom Group;Linux ops; Nagios and Ganglia setup; MySQL installation/replication; incident & ticket SLAs.
System & Network Engineer
Fiables IT Outsourcing Services
Hyderabad
11.2007 - 06.2010
- Core Linux services (DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS, Samba), app servers (JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat), VMware setup, MySQL administration, and network device support.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SSITM Aligarh
Aligarh, India01-2006
Diploma - Industrial Electronics
L.A.M.I.Technology Dhamangaon Amravati
Amravati, India01-2002
Skills
DevOps Tools: AWS, Docker,Kubernetes, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus,SonarQube,Ansible
Kubernetes: Velero,Kyverno
Infrastructure as code: Terraform
Monitoring Tools: Instana, Prometheus,PagerDuty,Splunk
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - 922e365043624d60a11f26e9afa94b2d
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - 922e365043624d60a11f26e9afa94b2d
03-2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA): Certificate ID Number - LF-zv6r0tpiq
08-2020
DevOps Engineer Product & Services
Technology _VOIS
07.2014 - Current
System Engineer
SEAMLESS Distribution Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 05.2014
Red Hat EL5 Certified Engineer (RHCE)
11-2010
System Engineer
Alumnus Software Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 09.2013
System & Network Engineer
Fiables IT Outsourcing Services
11.2007 - 06.2010
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SSITM Aligarh
Diploma - Industrial Electronics
L.A.M.I.Technology Dhamangaon Amravati
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Received “CP&S Star Award” awards from Vodafone for individual excellence for extraordinary contribution
- Received “TSSI events AaGaz Champion Award” award from Vodafone for consistent performance and commitment towards work.
- Successfully completed the Disaster Recovery (Geographical Redundancy) solution in MTN Benin (Africa) client.