• Worked with PaaS and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions, specializing in end-to-end automation and configuration of cloud-native platforms. • Proficient in deploying & managing a variety of PaaS tools, including Argo CD, Rancher Fleet, SUSE, RKE2, RKE1, K3s, RHEL, VMware, & OpenShift. • Implemented comprehensive observability frameworks using the ELK Stack and enforced security with scanning tools such as Trivy, Aqua Security, as well as compliance with tools like Gatekeeper, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, and Sealed Secrets.• Managed the orchestration, implementation, & maintenance of public cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes on AWS EKS and Azure AKS. • Automated workflows and established CI/CD pipelines—including Jenkins CI, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions—to streamline the orchestration, provisioning, and deployment of Terraform modules. • Created and maintained container images in AWS ECR and Azure ACR & implemented automatic scanning with Amazon Inspector in AWS ECR. • Customized Helm-packaged applications and prepared manifests for cloud-native environments. • Automated the building and deployment of Docker images to ECR & their deployment to a Kubernetes cluster within a CI/CD pipeline. Implemented image scanning in the CI/CD pipeline using Trivy.• Provisioned production-grade AKS and EKS clusters using Terraform, enforcing security and compliance in Azure AKS with Azure Policy to implement security & networking controls. • Built and monitored security policies in EKS using OPA Gatekeeper and continuously validated compliance against industry standards, such as NIST, CIS Kubernetes/Docker Benchmarks and EKS security baseline. • Secured pod traffic in EKS through network policies, while enabling real-time threat detection with GuardDuty to identify anomalies via analysis of Kubernetes audit logs and runtime events. • Integrated Apache NiFi for advanced data processing. Consistently led efforts to upgrade clusters and optimize performance.