Situn Panda
Solution Architecture
Hyderabad
Summary
DevOps/SRE/Cloud & Security Architect with 13+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing scalable cloud infrastructure and automation pipelines. Expertise in end-to-end CI/CD, observability, incident/problem management, and cross-functional leadership. Skilled in integrating security-first DevOps practices, fostering innovation, optimizing costs, and delivering resilient cloud-native solutions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Site Reliability Engineering Principal Engineer / Observability Architect
Providence HealthCare System
01.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented an end-to-end Observability Framework as a unified aggregation layer using Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Kafka, Dagster, Databricks, and Telemetry microservices on Kubernetes, AI driven solution like anomalies detection, Smart chatbot with Agentic AI framework.
- Enabled cross-team visibility for Engineering, Leadership, and Mission Control teams to rapidly identify issues, escalate to the right owners, and drive RCA with actionable follow-ups.
- Actively engaged in production outage calls, diagnosing critical issues in collaboration with production teams. Documented recovery steps, assessed automation opportunities, and contributed to building a reusable incident resolution and RCA framework using standardized templates.
- Drove infrastructure cost optimization through manual and automated strategies, identifying resource waste and fine-tuning deployments. Spearheaded multiple projects as SRE Lead, while contributing to architecture planning and innovation discussions.
- Developed planning roadmaps and delivered technical brown-bag sessions, promoting knowledge sharing and clear communication across teams.
- Led a cross-functional team of 7 (Developers, SREs, DevOps Engineers) to build fully automated, high-availability CI/CD pipelines supporting Blue/Green deployment strategies and ensuring robust production backup systems across all product environments.
- Product Roadmap: Defining the project planning and driving Scrum call to drive the Agile Adoption.
SENIOR DEVOPS/SRE ENGINEER
Hitachi Vantara
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Led shift-left DevOps strategy integrating early security checks into pipelines.
- Designed and deployed CI/CD for both SaaS and on-prem products using OpenTelemetry-based observability.
- Implemented security-compliant code adhering to Hitachi standards, minimizing high-risk vulnerabilities.
- Managed cost-optimization initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
- Coordinated production deployments, chaos simulations, patching, and RCA documentation using industry-standard templates.
- Enforced CIS benchmarks, TLS/mTLS, and other best practices across infra components.
SENIOR DEVOPS/SRE ENGINEER
GAP TECH
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Automated certificate renewals and infrastructure provisioning with Ansible.
- Developed backend dashboards using Python, integrated AWS Lambda for resource tagging automation.
- Built CI pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions in collaboration with development teams.
- Conducted POCs on open-source monitoring/logging tools and proposed product-level rollouts.
SRE ENGINEER - DEVELOPMENT
JP MORGAN CHASE AND CO
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Part of an Agile team delivering high-availability systems to over 50 global clients.
- Developed alerting scripts and led Go-Live and DR testing across multiple applications.
Cloud Engineer
CONCENTRIX
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Architected products and wrote automation scripts in Bash/Python.
- Delivered cloud solutions for 7+ global clients and resolved high-priority technical issues.
Software Engineer
TCS
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Developed deployment automation using Python and Unix scripting.
- Maintained Linux systems and handled client support across multiple environments.
Education
Bachelors - EEE
GIET
Odisha 08.2007 - 08.2011
Skills
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Terraform
- ARM templates
- Helm files
- Cross plane
- Open Telemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Tempo
- CloudWatch
- New Relic
- Azure monitor
- Git
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Tekton
- ArgoCD
- YAML
- REST API
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Shell
- PowerShell
- Python
- Kafka
- KNative
- SNS
- SQS
- Qualys
- Black Duck
- Pen Testing
- ECR Image Scanning
- CIS Benchmarks
- Istio
- NGINX Ingress
- API Gateway
- AWS Lambda
- Azure Functions
- S3
- JFrog
- ECR
- ACR
- Conjur
- Azure Key Vault
- Robusta with ChatGPT
- Azure Open AI
- Cognitive service
- Model online endpoint
- Model registry
- Postgress
- Pg_vector
- Time series database
- AZURE data explorer
- Graph DB
- Ansible
- Jira
- Confluence
- ADO
Certification
RHCSA
Awards And Appreciations
- Appreciated and awarded for taking ownership of critical projects and delivering within the timeline with a lot of customization and advancement.
- Appreciated identifying the vulnerability in system and applied fixes permanently without compromise of system security and stability.
Timeline
Site Reliability Engineering Principal Engineer / Observability Architect
Providence HealthCare System
01.2023 - Current
SENIOR DEVOPS/SRE ENGINEER
Hitachi Vantara
01.2021 - 01.2023
SENIOR DEVOPS/SRE ENGINEER
GAP TECH
01.2019 - 01.2021
SRE ENGINEER - DEVELOPMENT
JP MORGAN CHASE AND CO
01.2016 - 01.2019
Cloud Engineer
CONCENTRIX
01.2015 - 01.2016
Software Engineer
TCS
01.2011 - 01.2015
Bachelors - EEE
GIET
08.2007 - 08.2011
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