Sasikanta Sahoo
Principal DevOps Engineer
Bhubaneswar
Summary
Versatile DevOps/Platform/SRE professional with strong expertise in building scalable CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, and managing enterprise application deployments in cloud-native environments. Proven success in migrating applications to AWS EKS, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube, and Artifactory. Skilled in implementing monitoring and observability using Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, and Jmagic. Proficient in deploying and administering Java-based applications across Tomcat, WebLogic, and JBoss, with a focus on reliability, performance, and high availability. Experienced in defining SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs to drive operational excellence. Known for mentoring teams, leading POCs, and supporting large-scale deployments in financial services and high-tech domains.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
19
19
years of post-secondary education
9
9
Certifications
Work History
DevOps Specialist
Chubb
Bhubaneswar
08.2024 - Current
- Re-engineered existing Jenkins pipelines to promote ease-of-use and improve system security and reduce failure rates.
- Developed Multiple Pipeline templates and library for the best reuse of the code .
- Automated critical Windows Server operations with PowerShell and integrated them into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual effort and improving deployment consistency
- Implemented and managed AWX for centralized job scheduling and role-based access control. Developed Ansible playbooks to automate and streamline the deployment process.
Principal DevOps Engineer
Fidelity Investments
Chennai
07.2017 - 07.2024
- Led cloud(AWS) and container(EKS) migration and upgrade of ALM tools including Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, SonarQube, and Jenkins.
- Administered and monitored ALM tools to ensure high availability, performance, and seamless integration.
- Planned infrastructure and developed CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications to enable automated delivery.
- Troubleshot critical server issues, collaborated with vendors, and implemented preventive measures.
- Built performance test suites using JMeter to validate system scalability and reliability.
- Migrated Oracle databases to AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) using AWS DMS, enhancing performance and scalability.
- Analyzed logs and metrics to diagnose and resolve application performance issues.
- Set up logging and monitoring on enterprise applications leveraging tools like Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Jmagic and Prometheus.
- Developed reusable pipeline libraries and automation suites to standardize and accelerate CI/CD processes.
- Ingest and enrich this data using Snowflake, Jenkins, RDS, DynamoDB, and Pandas, providing actionable insights for informed decision-making.
- Innovatively design and implement pipelines, Python scripts, SQL, Step Functions and Lambda functions to gather comprehensive metadata on SDLC tools;
Technology Lead
Infosys Ltd
Chennai
02.2013 - 07.2017
- Involved in discussions in collaboration with development and QA team to get the input for planning, designing and defining the CICD pipeline to improve the frequency and quality of software delivery.
- Created CICD pipeline jobs for using Jenkins and groovy scripts integrating with tools GIT, MSBuild, Nunit, Karma, SonarQube, Nexus and OctpusDeploy.
- Involved in GIT version control management, defining branching and merging strategy.
- Worked on customizing Hygeia Dashboard and integrate with GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube and JIRA tools.
- Developed PowerShell scripts to support build, deploy and reporting process.
- Installed/Configured and Managed Nexus Repository Manager and all the Repositories.
- Manage hardware request and support from developers and infrastructure.
- Written ant build script to integrate with unit testing and code coverage tools.
- Involved in preparing client specific status reports using JIRA and Microsoft Excel.
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
11.2009 - 02.2013
- Responsible for Deployment architecture design and Implementation in production environment.
- Weblogic cluster and HACMP configuration for high availability and failover.
- Apache http webserver configuration and SSL implementation for security enhancement.
- Installation of the required software for application implementation.
- Spanning multiple organizations are notified in advance.
- Supporting users and network administrators.
- Daily backup plan for the application, resource monitoring and housekeeping of the servers.
- Operational management training and documents handover to the customer at client site.
- Developed automation tools using shell scripts to reduce the manual effort in day to day activities.
Education
Master in Computer Application - Computer Engineering
College of Engineering And Technology (CET)
Bhubaneswar, Odisha 07.2006 - 06.2025
Skills
CICD
Cloud migration
Automated deployment
Jenkins administration
Monitoring and logging
Incident management
Infrastructure automation
Performance optimization
Maintenance and troubleshooting
Containerization
Release management
Infrastructure as code
Performance testing
Configuration management
Database administration
System administration
Certification
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Timeline
DevOps Specialist
Chubb
08.2024 - Current
Principal DevOps Engineer
Fidelity Investments
07.2017 - 07.2024
Technology Lead
Infosys Ltd
02.2013 - 07.2017
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2009 - 02.2013
Master in Computer Application - Computer Engineering
College of Engineering And Technology (CET)
07.2006 - 06.2025