Saurabh Shah

(Transitioned to Persistent Systems as part of a strategic partnership between OneAdvanced and Persistent Systems, continuing work for the OneAdvanced project.)

• Continuing all previous responsibilities from the Senior DevOps Engineer role, including CI/CD pipeline management, AWS EKS infrastructure oversight, GitHub Actions workflows, and DevOps team mentorship.
• Serving as DevOps Lead, overseeing DevOps operations, and driving observability transformation initiatives across the organization, establishing enterprise-wide observability standards, improving system visibility by 40%.
• Designed and implemented Platform Alloy as a centralized telemetry collector, consolidating metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources into a unified observability platform.
• Implemented automated synthetic monitoring in Grafana Cloud using Terraform, enabling proactive detection of service degradation, and reducing incident response time by 25%.
• Leveraged Harness IDP to create self-service workflows for DevOps operations, empowering development teams with on-demand access and easy creation of infrastructure resources.
• Automated CI/CD pipeline generation for new API services using scaffolding templates reduces pipeline setup from hours to minutes.
• Implemented monitoring dashboards to provide real-time visibility into system health metrics for both technical staff and business stakeholders alike.
• Leveraged AI-assisted development tools, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and GitHub Copilot, to accelerate troubleshooting and development workflows, significantly reducing resolution time for complex technical issues.
• Collaborated closely with developers to troubleshoot production issues quickly while maintaining focus on root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences.
• Promoted a culture of DevOps adoption across the organization by providing expert guidance on best practices, tool selection, process improvements, and training initiatives

• Designed and managed AWS serverless architecture, leveraging CloudFront for global content delivery, Lambda for event-driven compute, and API Gateway for scalable microservices, ensuring high performance and cost efficiency.
• Oversaw platform services infrastructure with Keycloak for identity and access management, deployed on AWS EKS for secure and scalable operations.
• Built, launched, and maintained AWS EKS clusters using AWS CDK, automating deployments, and improving reliability.
• Adopted a trunk-based development methodology for CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Harness, accelerating release cycles.
• Reduced complexity by implementing reusable GitHub workflows, streamlining service deployments.
• Automated creation of self-hosted GitHub runners enhances pipeline scalability and reduces manual overhead.
• Integrated CI/CD processes to automatically update AWS AppConfig, eliminating manual configuration steps, and reducing deployment errors by 20%.
• Developed reusable API testing infrastructure integrated with CD pipelines, enabling automated pass/fail validation to drive deployment decisions.
• Established a centralized logging solution using AWS CloudWatch, Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, and S3, improving observability and troubleshooting.
• Implemented monitoring and alerting via AWS Service Catalog and AWS Application Insights, ensuring proactive issue detection.
• Managed AWS cloud resources with a focus on cost optimization and efficient resource utilization, reducing operational expenses, achieving 10–15% savings through efficient resource utilization.

• Designed and deployed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using YAML/JSON, AWS CloudFormation Stacks, and Terraform.
• Automated AWS operations with Python and Boto3, including: Lambda functions for notifications, EC2 scheduling, scripts for tagging EC2 volumes, managing security group rules, and generating JSON parameters for CloudFormation stacks.
• Configured CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and Jenkins.
• Architected and implemented three-tier cloud environments using AWS services such as EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, VPC, ELB, Security Groups, and Subnets.

• Automated VMware infrastructure using vRealize Orchestrator.
• Configuring and Managing VMware Integrated Containers
• Writing Ansible playbooks with YAML for VM creation, deletion, and managing snapshots, etc.
• Configuring Distributed Firewall, NAT, Load Balancers for Virtual Private Cloud, Dedicated, and on-demand Cloud.
• Worked on migration projects, such as on-prem to VMware Cloud, and VMware Infrastructure to AWS, using SMS (Server Migration Service) and CloudEndure.

• Traveled onsite to Jakarta, Indonesia, for 1.5 months to plan and build a new VMware virtual platform and LAN replacement for the Jakarta office.
• P2V and V2V of 100+ servers.
• Automated health check of virtual infrastructure via PowerShell.
• Implementing and continuously upgrading large enterprise setups with the VMware infrastructure suite, including ESXi, vCenter, SRM, etc.
• Managing virtual IT infrastructure for the client of 1,000+ servers, spread across 30+ locations.