Devendra Sharma

About Devendra Sharma

Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating highly available, secure, and scalable cloud-native platforms for large-scale banking, payments, and fintech systems.I specialize in architecting enterprise-grade DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, streaming, and data platforms. My experience includes designing Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms at scale, building secure and resilient CI/CD architectures, and implementing governance, RBAC, secrets management, and compliance-aligned DevSecOps practices.I have led the architecture and modernization of Kafka-based streaming platforms, including distributed cluster design, high availability, scaling, KRaft migrations, and MirrorMaker 2.0 replication. I have also designed event-driven architectures integrated with Spark, PySpark, and Databricks ETL workloads to enable real-time data ingestion and processing.My work focuses on platform reliability engineering, zero-downtime migrations, observability and monitoring, disaster recovery design, and performance optimization. I bring extensive hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Ansible, Helm, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Nexus, HAProxy, Minio, Rancher, and Keycloak.Currently working at NeoSOFT, contributing to the architecture and operation of mission-critical banking and fintech platforms built on OpenShift, Kafka, Spark, and Databricks. Navi Mumbai, India Open to Senior DevOps Engineer, SRE, DevSecOps, and DevOps Architect roles

Experience

1. Sr Devops Engineer

   Neosoft

   Sep 2024 — Present

   Senior DevOps Engineer – NeoSOFTSep 2024 – Present | Navi Mumbai, IndiaClient: ePay – SBI Bank- Leading end-to-end DevOps and platform engineering for banking and payment systems- Designing and automating secure CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD- Mentoring and leading DevOps engineers across the full project lifecycle- Deploying and managing applications on OpenShift using Helm Charts- Architecting and operating highly available Kafka clusters- Migrating Kafka from ZooKeeper to KRaft mode- Migrating replication pipelines from MirrorMaker to MirrorMaker 2.0- Executing zero-downtime Kafka migration strategies- Designing real-time event-driven Kafka architectures- Creating Kafka troubleshooting and optimization playbooks- Integrating SAST and code-quality tools into CI/CD pipelines- Implementing DevSecOps practices and security best practices- Implementing Istio service mesh with Kiali, Jaeger, and Tempo- Optimizing Redis and GemFire for caching and sessions- Automating provisioning and deployments using Ansible- Writing Python scripts for automation, backups, and monitoring- Implementing monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack- Deploying Spark ETL and Spark Streaming workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift- Integrating Spark streaming jobs with Kafka and CI/CD workflows- Implementing DR and backup strategies for Kafka, Spark, and OpenShift- Designing RBAC and secrets management for Kubernetes/OpenShift

Education

• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University ( A Central University )

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology