Saurabh Pabale

Navi Mumbai,

Summary

Having around five years of experience as an ASE and DevOps engineer.
Excellent knowledge of AWS cloud and its services, like EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and Lambda.
Hands-on experience in Linux/Unix/Windows, shell scripting for automation of maintenance tasks, deployments, and server operations.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, integrating GitHub, Docker, and Kubernetes for seamless deployments.
Having monitoring experience using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, and setting alerts and dashboards.
Handling Canary deployments, improving rollout reliability, and minimizing downtime.
Enforced security with IAM policies, automated image scans, and integrated DevSecOps practices.
Containerised applications using Docker, and orchestrated workloads with Kubernetes and Helm.
Conducted root cause analysis, maintained SLIs/SLOs, and improved reliability using SRE principles.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

DEVOPS - SRE Engineer

HDFC BANK (Payroll - Hitachi Solutions India Pvt Ltd, Pune)

07.2022 - Current

As a DevOps Engineer my main role is to handle the deployments of this application in dev. and UAT environment

Technical Associate

ICICI Bank

Mumbai

10.2020 - 07.2022

Company Overview: Type of Industry: Banking
Type of Industry: Banking

Intern

ICICI Bank

03.2020 - 09.2020

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science -

Mumbai University

Mumbai

Skills

SQL Developer
Git
Github
Docker
Kubernetes
Jenkins
Terraform
Prometheus
Grafana

JIRA
MySQL
Oracle
Bash shell scripting
AWS
Continuous integration
Infrastructure as code
Deployment automation
EC2 / IAM / S3 / VPC

Interests Hobbies

Cricket
Reading
Drawing

Professional Experience:

Developed and maintained infrastructure automation using Terraform for provisioning AWS services like EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and Lambda, ensuring consistency, scalability, and compliance.
Maintaining end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, integrating GitHub, Docker, and Kubernetes, enabling frequent and reliable application releases across dev, test, and UAT environments.
Created reusable Shell scripts to automate system maintenance tasks, log rotation, health checks, and infrastructure housekeeping activities.
Deployed and managed containerised applications using Docker and orchestrated workloads using Kubernetes, including Helm charts for configuration management.
Configured Kubernetes components such as Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, and Secrets, maintaining secure and scalable clusters.
Implemented centralised logging using ELK Stack for observability into distributed applications across environments.
Built proactive monitoring dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana, including custom alerting rules to detect performance anomalies and trigger alerts before service degradation.
Maintained AWS CloudWatch alarms, metrics, and logs for infrastructure-level monitoring and incident management.
Managed cloud infrastructure cost optimisation by analysing usage patterns, right-sizing EC2 instances, and leveraging Auto Scaling and Spot Instances.
Defined and enforced IAM roles and policies to secure AWS resources and restrict access based on least privilege.
Integrated AWS Lambda for lightweight, serverless backend tasks, including automation of S3 lifecycle policies and cloud resource tagging.
Conducted Canary deployments to minimise downtime and ensure safe rollouts of new features.
Facilitated secret management using AWS Secrets Manager and Kubernetes Secrets, ensuring encryption at rest and in transit.
Implemented SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets as part of adopting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to drive service reliability
Participated in incident response rotations, troubleshooting real-time issues, performing post-incident reviews (PIR), and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Defined branching strategies in GitHub for parallel feature development, hotfixes, and release tagging.
Enabled end-to-end environment replication using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, allowing consistent Dev., QA, and Prod environments.
Wrote and maintained internal documentation, onboarding guides, and architecture diagrams for better knowledge transfer and operational continuity.
Collaborated closely with developers, QA, and product teams to drive DevSecOps practices, integrating security scans into the build pipeline.
Conducted root cause analysis (RCA) for P1/P2 incidents and implemented preventive measures to reduce MTTR and improve overall availability.
Managed container registry integration and automated image scans for vulnerabilities using tools like Trivy
Developed self-service deployment tools for internal teams using Jenkins Shared Libraries and Kubernetes Jobs, reducing dependency on Ops teams.
Designed a secure, multi-AZ and high-availability network architecture using AWS VPC, subnets, NAT Gateways, and Route Tables.

Timeline

DEVOPS - SRE Engineer

HDFC BANK (Payroll - Hitachi Solutions India Pvt Ltd, Pune)

07.2022 - Current

Technical Associate

ICICI Bank

10.2020 - 07.2022

Intern

ICICI Bank

03.2020 - 09.2020

Bachelor of Computer Science -

Mumbai University

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