Pavan Kumar Sakhireddy

About Pavan Kumar Sakhireddy

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with around 8 years of experience building scalable, secure, and automated cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.My background includes Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/OpenShift), CI/CD engineering with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform-based IaC, GitOps with ArgoCD, and large-scale microservices deployments.I specialize in:• Designing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines• Automating infrastructure with Terraform (AWS & Azure)• Managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments• Implementing observability and SRE practices• Improving reliability, release velocity, and operational consistencyI enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, reducing operational toil through automation, and building resilient cloud-native platforms. Certified in AZ-400 and AZ-104, and passionate about delivering secure, scalable, and high-performing systems.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Onblick Inc

   Jul 2025 — Present · Irving, TX, US

   Architected and optimized enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins, integrating security gates,artifact management, and multi-environment release strategies.• Designed and managed highly available Kubernetes clusters (AKS/EKS) with RBAC, network policies, and security hardeningto ensure scalability and resilience.• Built and supported container orchestration platforms for microservices, enabling internal developer environments andstreamlined deployments.• Provisioned and automated cloud infrastructure using Terraform, including networking (VPC/VNet), IAM, storage, andcontainer registries (ACR/ECR).• Implemented GitOps using ArgoCD for declarative deployments, automated rollbacks, and environment drift detection.• Established observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and CloudWatch forproactive issue detection.• Troubleshot Kubernetes and infrastructure issues while enforcing security, patching, and compliance standards usingAnsible and container best practices.

Education

• Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Computers

  2011 — 2014

• Pace University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science