Irfan Shaikh
Senior DevOps & SRE Consultant | Kubernetes | Cloud Platforms | Production Reliability
- Role
- Senior Engineer at NielsenIQ
- Location
- Pune, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Irfan Shaikh
I am a Senior DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering Consultant with 18+ years of IT experience, including 9+ years in cloud-native, Kubernetes, and production reliability engineering.I help startups and enterprises design, stabilize, and scale production infrastructure using AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps. My focus is on real-world production systems, not demos—covering high availability, CI/CD automation, incident response, and cost-efficient cloud platforms.
Experience
Senior Engineer
Feb 2025 — Present · Pune, IN
Design and implement GitHub Actions workflows for automated CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous deployment across multiple environmentsAdminister Azure cloud infrastructure and manage AKS clusters for production workloads, ensuring 99.9% uptimeArchitect and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for scalable, repeatable cloud deploymentsDevelop Python automation scripts integrated with CI/CD pipelines, reducing operational toil by 40%Implement DevSecOps practices including security scanning, vulnerability assessments, and compliance automationManage Argo CD for GitOps-based deployments, implementing progressive rollouts and canary releases
Education
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting
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