Sushant Patil
Pune
Summary
Senior DevOps and MLOps engineer with 9+ years of experience in automating cloud infrastructure and managing CI/CD pipelines. Expertise in AWS and GCP environments, utilizing tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Docker. Demonstrated success in enhancing deployment efficiency while maintaining high availability and security. Collaborative team player with a strong focus on cross-functional project execution.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant - DevOps
T-Systems
Pune
11.2021 - Current
- Developed an MLOps platform based on Kubeflow for data science teams to improve machine learning workflows and model deployment.
- Designed and built a sovereign on-prem data platform using Trino, MinIO, Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Vault, Ceph, and Grafana, enabling secure data ingestion, distributed querying, real-time processing, storage management, and AI/ML-driven analytics.
- Integrated and adjusted platform components for seamless operation across AWS, GCP, and Azure, ensuring cloud interoperability and scalability.
- Architected and provisioned cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD, enabling automated, repeatable, and auditable deployments.
- Designed and deployed a multi-cloud Kubeflow environment (EKS and GKE) for orchestrating ML pipelines, empowering data science teams to run scalable experiments, and model training.
- Led the deployment of models on Kubernetes clusters, integrating monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubecost) for performance.
- Designed and deployed a scalable AWS environment to host a website using multiple services like ECS, S3, EC2, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, IAM, Secrets, and CloudFront for secure, low-latency content delivery.
- Led the migration of the GitLab repository and Docker artifactory project.
- Set up and maintained pipelines for multiple projects using GitLab, Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes.
- Developed a custom Ansible-based Kubernetes operator to automate routine cluster maintenance tasks such as user creation, assigning permissions, configuration updates, resource cleanup, and health checks.
- Added security context to the application service based on Kubernetes, and worked on modifying the Dockerfile according to CIS security standards.
Development Engineer - DevOps
Signify
Pune
08.2020 - 11.2021
- Automate deployment, provisioning, and monitoring of the application platform in dev, QA, and production.
- Built CI/CD pipelines in Bamboo and Jenkins for automated deployment of microservices to AKS.
- Involved in Bamboo and Bitbucket migration activities across the teams.
- Automated and integrated key Azure services, including VM, AKS, networking, storage, storage accounts, and container registries.
- Collaborated closely with product development teams, and other stakeholders.
Senior DevOps Engineer
ZYMR Systems
Pune
05.2019 - 07.2020
- Transitioning containerized workloads from AWS ECS to Kubernetes environments across multi cloud across EKS GKE and AKS platforms.
- Orchestrated the provisioning, load balancing, monitoring, and spend optimization of cloud servers.
- Managed deployment and scaling of clusters. Used helms charts as statefulsets for db services.
- Automated CI/CD processes using Jenkins with Kubernetes deployments for guardhat microservices.
- Used tools like Rancher, Appmesh, Charmed Kubernetes for in-house PoC.
- Created Docker images using application dockerfiles with best security practices.
- Provision cloud resources like EKS, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM using Terraform.
- Maintained confluence pages for monitoring and common knowledge sharing platform.
- Project: GuardHat
DevOps Engineer
IZEL Technologies
Pune
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Diagnose AWS & Azure cloud infrastructure & recommend changes to give workloads taking application & network security in mind.
- Created a lambda function to stop the instance during off hours.
- Migrate VM's from Datacenter to AWS cloud using VM Import/Export.
- Written terraform scripts to Provision the resources on AWS cloud.
- Received Award for optimizing AWS & Azure resources which cuts down Infra cost.
DevOps Engineer
Blue Planet Infosolutions
Pune
06.2016 - 06.2018
- Implemented DevOps process in organization (CI/CD, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
- Implemented Agile methodology on running Projects (Jira, Confluence, Slack)
- Move infrastructure from on premise to AWS cloud & Automate AWS infra provisioning for development/Testing.
- Coordinate administrative related tasks & maintain established development, testing, prod environments.
- Created and configure Linux servers, Checking for s/w and h/w updates on Laptops and Desktops.
- Centralized Antivirus software management (Symantec antivirus office scan).
Education
Bachelor of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering -
Shivaji University
Kolhapur, India05.2015
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, and Azure
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bamboo, Fluxcd
- Containerisation & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, Sovereign Cloud GKE), Rancher, Helm, and Kustomise
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, OpenTofu
- Configuration Management: Ansible
- Scripting and Automation: Bash, Python, YAML
- Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Kubecost
- Secrets Management: AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Vault
- ML: Kubeflow, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Iceberg, and Minio
Certification
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Certification
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
linkedin.com/in/sushant-patil-devops/
Hobbies and interests
- Traveling and exploring new cultures
- 90's Music
- Exploring new technologies and open-source tools
Timeline
Senior Consultant - DevOps
T-Systems
11.2021 - Current
Development Engineer - DevOps
Signify
08.2020 - 11.2021
Senior DevOps Engineer
ZYMR Systems
05.2019 - 07.2020
DevOps Engineer
IZEL Technologies
06.2018 - 05.2019
DevOps Engineer
Blue Planet Infosolutions
06.2016 - 06.2018
Bachelor of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering -
Shivaji University