Pawankumar S Pandey

About Pawankumar S Pandey

I architect and operate mission-critical Kubernetes platforms for BFSI environments —…

Experience

1. Assistant Manager Cloud and Security

   Tata Communications

   Apr 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Integrated Azure Key Vault with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) clusters to securely manage and store sensitive data (e.g, secrets, certificates, and keys). • Designed and deployed highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant Kubernetes clusters using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and RKE2, both in the cloud and on-premises.• Designed and implemented infrastructure on a hybrid cloud environment using Terraform, enabling scalable, automated, and secure deployments across multiple cloud platforms.• Utilized Ansible for automating the configuration management, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reliability of infrastructure and applications across different environments • Leveraged GitOps principles, where infrastructure and application configurations are stored in Git repositories, and changes are automatically synchronized to Kubernetes clusters using ArgoCD. • Plan Disaster Recovery/Site Recovery in Azure.• Selecting a Proper Support Plan and Following up with Azure Support for Billing and Technical Issues Implement Azure VPN Gateway (Site-to-Site VPN) & Azure Express Route• Configuring Load Balancers and attaching a Virtual Machine under them for Load Balancing.• Configuration of Traffic Manager for Different Scenarios like DR, Latency, or Weighted. • Configuring Azure NAT Gateway, Azure Storage Account, File Share & Content Delivery Network (CDN). • Creating and Managing DNS records in Global DNS, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets and Setting up Automated Scaling Policies for Azure VMs. • Designed and implemented User Defined Routes (UDR) in Azure route tables to optimize traffic routing across VNets.• Configured Azure Bastion for secure and seamless access to Virtual Machines (VMs) without exposing them to public IPs.

Education

• Rabindranath Tagore University

  BCA

  2019 — 2021

• University of Mumbai

  Diploma

  2011 — 2013