SIDDHANT PANDEY
DevOps Engineer Cloud Engineer Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
+91-962******* ***************@*****.*** New Delhi, India LinkedIn PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Results-driven DevOps / Cloud Engineer with 3+ years of experience managing 30+ production services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Digital Ocean. Delivered 80%+ reduction in deployment times through automated CI/CD pipelines, achieved 20-40% cloud cost savings, and maintained 99% system uptime across multi-cloud environments. Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and DevSecOps tooling (Snyk, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP). Production experience deploying open-source LLMs on on-premises GPU infrastructure using vLLM.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
LLM / AI Infra: vLLM, GPU-accelerated inference, on-premises LLM deployment (2–3 production models) Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, SNS), Azure, GCP, Digital Ocean Container & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, MicroK8s, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Digital Ocean K8s
CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Apache Airflow, Bash Scripting Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm Charts
Security (DevSecOps): Snyk, OWASP ZAP, SonarQube, Defect Dojo, Keycloak (IAM), KrakenD API Gateway Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Fluent Bit, Alertmanager Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS RDS Networking: Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare, RabbitMQ, Weaviate, Proxmox Languages: Python, JavaScript (Node.js), Bash
WORK EXPERIENCE
DevOps Engineer Meritech Software Private Limited, Mohali Mar 2026 – Present Infrastructure Standardisation • Ansible Automation • CI/CD • Observability
Architected an Ansible-driven infrastructure automation framework from scratch, standardising server provisioning and patching across all environments and reducing manual configuration effort by ~50%.
Designed and deployed Jenkins and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for 10+ application services, introducing automated test gates and Docker-based build stages that eliminated environment drift between staging and production.
Established infrastructure-as-code (IaC) standards across the engineering org, enabling repeatable, peer-reviewed environment changes and reducing onboarding time for new service deployments.
Set up Prometheus + Grafana + Alertmanager monitoring stack with service-level dashboards and on-call alerting policies, enabling the team to resolve incidents proactively before user impact.
Driving cross-team alignment between development and operations to embed DevOps culture standardising branching strategies, release workflows, and deployment approvals. Jr. DevOps Engineer Digitem Technologies Private Limited, Gurugram May 2023 – Feb 2026 Multi-cloud • Kubernetes • LLM Deployment • DevSecOps • Cost Optimisation
Managed 30+ production services across AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, and on-premises bare-metal, maintaining 99% uptime and supporting 10+ engineering teams over nearly 3 years.
Built and owned end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing release cycle time by 80%+ and enabling 5–15 reliable deployments per week across staging and production without service disruption.
Orchestrated multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Digital Ocean K8s, on-premises MicroK8s) using Helm, scaling containerised microservices reliably across all environments.
Optimised cloud infrastructure costs through right-sizing, reserved instance planning, and automated resource lifecycle policies achieving 20–40% cost reduction across all cloud providers.
Deployed 2–3 open-source LLMs on on-premises GPU servers using vLLM, enabling GPU-accelerated inference for internal AI applications and eliminating dependency on paid third prefectparty API providers.
Embedded DevSecOps across CI pipelines by integrating SonarQube, Snyk, and OWASP ZAP as mandatory quality gates reducing security vulnerabilities reaching production by ~50%.
Deployed KrakenD API Gateway and Keycloak IAM for centralised authentication, authorisation, and rate limiting across 30+ internal application endpoints.
Replaced batch scheduling with a airflow orchestration system in Kubernetes, automating 1000+ recurring data pipeline workflows and eliminating manual intervention.
Built full observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Fluent Bit, Alertmanager) across all environments, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) incidents by ~60%.
Led disaster recovery planning and runbook creation, conducting quarterly DR drills with zero data loss outcomes across all critical services.
Frontend Developer Intern Digitem Technologies Private Limited, Gurugram Feb 2023 – Apr 2023 Next.js • Strapi CMS • Payment Integration
Developed a production e-commerce web application using Next.js with SSR, integrated Strapi headless CMS for content management, and implemented a secure payment gateway enabling end-to-end online transactions.
CERTIFICATIONS
Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things & Enterprise Resource Planning Feb 2023 EDUCATION
Diploma in Information Technology 75% Aug 2020 – Jul 2023 Integrated Institute of Technology, Dwarka Sector-9, New Delhi Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) 65% Aug 2018 – Jul 2021 University of Delhi, New Delhi