Pankaj J.

• Responsible for leading Cloud Engineering team on new projects. • Guide and oversee the review and approval process of deployment plans and code reviews, ensuring technical feasibility and adherence to best practices • Lead initiatives of implementing best practices in infrastructure provisioning through terraform and create technical debt work items for the team. • Responsible for creating pipelines to deploy applications on Kubernetes cluster on Azure. • Collaborate with teams to address blockers impacting product deployment and provide timely solutions. • Manage and execute Cutover and Hypercare planning, and oversee the review of environment, infrastructure, and data plans • Led greenfield projects, preparing infrastructure for production using Terraform. • Created Helm charts for deploying applications on Kubernetes. • Implemented observability solutions like Loki, Grafana, Promtail, Datadog, and Azure insights for various projects deployed on Kubernetes clusters and Linux servers. • Coordinated with development teams to provide infrastructure solutions. • Automated deployment of application on Linux servers in Azure • Utilized Microsoft Azure and AWS to support existing microservices-based solutions. • Provided on-call support for high-priority issues. • Implemented CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments in different environments. • Set up alerts in Datadog using infrastructure as code. • Created artifacts for CI/CD deployment. • Provisioned infrastructure using Terraform. • Troubleshot infrastructure issues in production and development environments. • Implemented Terratest for testing code changes before publishing modules in Terraform Cloud. • Worked on end-to-end process of identifying automation opportunities and development of complete orchestration of daily manual task. • Worked on Amelia, IPsoft, Blue Prism for building bots. • Deployed bots in production so far which help in monitoring alerts, preform validations and take actions on the basis of alert received from BMC(Impact Manager). • Worked on projects to use automation testing platform like Selenium and APICA for UI orchestration purpose. • Developed script in JavaScript, PowerShell and python.