Sarath Chandra Karanam

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ABOUT SARATH CHANDRA KARANAM

Experienced Lead DevSecOps Engineer with deep expertise in architecting, implementing, and securing large-scale cloud-native platforms. Strong background across software development, IT operations, solution architecture, and secure software delivery. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert, and Azure Developer Associate.Specialized in designing enterprise-grade CI/CD architectures using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and FluxCD/ArgoCD GitOps patterns. Adept at building end-to-end automated delivery ecosystems that integrate security controls, compliance policies, and cloud-native best practices. Proven expertise implementing highly scalable and secure pipelines supporting multi-environment releases, containerized workloads, IaC deployments, and automated governance.Strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes platform engineering, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), workload identity, cluster hardening, container security, policy enforcement (OPA/Gatekeeper/Azure Policy), distributed observability, and GitOps-driven workload promotion. Skilled in architecting multi-cluster, multi-region deployments with automated failover and lifecycle management. Extensive automation experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Flux CD, Helm, and PowerShell scripting.Expert in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with ARM, Bicep, and Terraform, implementing secure baseline environments, RBAC-driven access patterns, network isolation, and automated provisioning of compute, storage, and networking resources. Experience modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native, container-based architectures while enabling zero-touch deployment frameworks.Strong focus on DevSecOps practices, including shift-left security, secure coding, dependency scanning, SCA, SAST, DAST, container image scanning, vulnerability management, secrets governance, and automated policy-as-code. Proven ability to integrate security controls deeply into pipelines while maintaining developer velocity.Recognized for driving architecture decisions, platform modernization, performance optimization, and cloud governance automation. Experienced in mentoring cross-functional engineering teams, establishing DevSecOps standards, conducting architectural reviews, and guiding developers and operations teams through best practices in CI/CD, cloud security, and Kubernetes operations.