kisan · Lead Azure DevOps Engineer · 9+ yrs
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About kisan
Kishan P is a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines. He has a strong background in cloud migration and containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.
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Why hire kisan?
Developed the ASAP-Azure simple automated platform, a common framework with reusable templates for organization-wide use.
Automated a cost dashboard to capture and analyze resource costs for Non-Prod & PROD environments.
Ensured zero-downtime for applications running on Kubernetes and managed real-time data streams using Kafka.
Managed multiple production releases adhering to SLAs.
Built ASAP-Azure simple automated platform — common framework with reusable templates for Agriculture & Construction client as Sr Azure DevOps Consultant
Built Azure DevOps for American multinational investment bank — migrating apps from on-prem to cloud + Dockerfiles + CI/CD as Cloud DevOps Engineer
Built Azure DevOps for German multinational investment bank — Terraform (IAC) + YAML pipelines as Cloud DevOps Engineer
Built Azure DevOps for Humana — 13M+ health insurance members + releases + CI/CD + SCM + Agent architecture + Docker/Kubernetes agents as Cloud DevOps Consultant
Built AHS DevOps for Moody's — TFS migration to Azure DevOps + pipelines as DevOps Engineer
Project highlights(6)
ASAP-Azure Simple Automated Platform – Senior Cloud DevOps Consultant
Overview: Developed ASAP-Azure simple automated platform, a common framework with reusable templates for an organization in the Agriculture & Construction domain. Responsibilities: Worked as a Senior Azure DevOps Consultant, focusing on Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and release management. Migrated applications to AKS, ensuring smooth CI/CD and release processes, and integrated SonarCloud and Jfrog for security.
Key outcomes:
Developed a common framework (ASAP-Azure simple automated platform) with different templates for organization-wide use.
Banking DevOps – Cloud DevOps Engineer
Overview: Supported a major American multinational investment bank with Azure DevOps development and migration efforts for applications to the cloud. Responsibilities: Worked as an Azure DevOps developer, migrating applications from on-prem to cloud and creating Dockerfiles for applications. Provisioned Kubernetes clusters from scratch, managed K8s node resources, and automated K8s deployments via CI/CD.
Key outcomes:
Migrated applications from on-prem to cloud.
Provisioned Kubernetes clusters from scratch.
DevOps (5-Jan-2021 to 2-Sep-2021) – Cloud DevOps Engineer
DevOps for German multinational investment bank — Terraform IAC + YAML pipelines.
Key outcomes:
Provisioned resources using Terraform (IAC).
Wrote YAML-based pipelines.
Set up container-based SonarQube.
Managed multiple production releases.
DevOps (15-May-2019 to 28-Dec-2020) – Cloud DevOps Engineer
DevOps (American multinational investment bank) — Azure DevOps + cloud migration.
Key outcomes:
Migrated applications from on-prem to cloud.
Ensured real-time data availability via Kafka.
Set up container-based SonarQube.
Azure DevOps (Humana) – Cloud DevOps Consultant
- Managed release, CI/CD, and SCM for a large American health insurance company with over 13 million members.
- Managed releases, CI/CD, and SCM, responsible for Agent architecture and ensuring Docker/Kubernetes agents were updated.
- Ensured zero-downtime for applications running on Kubernetes, managing pods and nodes.
- Set up K8s-based clusters and migrated applications from on-prem, wrote Ansible and Puppet playbooks for server management.
- Deployed container-based SonarQube, created/modified Docker images, and managed environments with Ansible.
- Provisioned resources on Azure (subscriptions, resource groups), configured Jenkins & TeamCity for CI/CD, and deployed resources like SQL MI, MySQL using Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Created ARM templates for resource reusability and participated in walkthrough meetings to discuss release roadblocks.
Key outcomes:
Managed releases, CI/CD, SCM.
Ensured zero-downtime for Kubernetes applications.
Wrote Ansible and Puppet playbooks.
Created ARM templates for resource reusability.
Industry experience
FinTech
3 projects- •Banking DevOps— Cloud DevOps EngineerAzure DevOps · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD +3
- •DevOps (5-Jan-2021 to 2-Sep-2021)— Cloud DevOps EngineerAzure DevOps · Terraform · YAML · Kubernetes +7
- •DevOps (15-May-2019 to 28-Dec-2020)— Cloud DevOps EngineerAzure DevOps · Docker · Kafka · Kubernetes +7
Banking
3 projects- •Banking DevOps— Cloud DevOps EngineerAzure DevOps · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD +3
- •DevOps (5-Jan-2021 to 2-Sep-2021)— Cloud DevOps EngineerAzure DevOps · Terraform · YAML · Kubernetes +7
- •DevOps (15-May-2019 to 28-Dec-2020)— Cloud DevOps EngineerAzure DevOps · Docker · Kafka · Kubernetes +7
Insurance
1 project- •Azure DevOps (Humana)— Cloud DevOps ConsultantAzure DevOps · CI/CD · Docker · Kubernetes +10
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Azure DevOps Engineer