Harvinder Singh Khalsa

About Harvinder Singh Khalsa

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience in Azure Cloud, AKS, Azure Key Vaults, Container Registries, MongoDB and Kafka. Skilled in designing and automating CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments and cloud infrastructure. Experienced in monitoring with Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana and in optimizing cloud resources for high availability and performance. Passionate about building secure, scalable and reliable cloud solutions while reducing operational costs.

Experience

1. Senior Cloud Devops Engineer

   Publicis Sapient

   Dec 2022 — Present · Noida, IN

   Orchestrated automated Azure cloud infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines, significantly improving deployment speed and reducing manual configuration errorsDeployed Datadog agents and created dashboards to monitor infrastructure, application performance and service-level metrics in real-time across environmentsProvisioned and scaled MongoDB Atlas clusters for multiple environments, implementing replication and failover strategies to maintain high availabilityMigrated legacy databases to MongoDB, optimizing indexing, query performance and throughput for large-scale high-demand applicationsManaged Kafka clusters, automating producer and consumer configurations to ensure uninterrupted data streaming and integration with downstream systemsAutomated Helm-based deployment pipelines for Kubernetes clusters, improving scaling, resource utilization and repeatable environment provisioningIntegrated Prometheus and Grafana with AKS clusters for container-level metrics, alerts and observability enhancementsRotated and secured secrets in Azure Key Vaults using PowerShell scripts and Azure Functions, reducing manual intervention and ensuring complianceContainerized ETL workloads and optimized AKS cluster utilization, reducing operational costs while maintaining high performance and reliabilityDefined granular user roles and access policies in MongoDB Atlas and Azure Key Vaults to strengthen security across applicationsImplemented webhook integrations in container registries to trigger automated CI/CD pipelines for faster release cyclesUpgraded AKS clusters seamlessly, maintaining zero downtime while ensuring compatibility with existing microservices and workloadsCentralized credentials management by migrating sensitive information to Azure Key Vaults, enhancing encryption and compliance standardsEnforced network policies, pod security policies and Azure AD integration in AKS clusters, improving multi-tenant security