·Architected and maintained Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform for 20+ microservices, automating deployment pipelines and reducing manual release effort by 80%
·Deployed and administered KVM, VMware vSphere, and OpenStack virtualized environments on Cisco UCS bare-metal servers
·Led network troubleshooting for on-premises infrastructure, resolving complex connectivity and routing issues using pyATS and custom automation tooling
·Designed automated Geo-High Availability network simulations to validate infrastructure resilience before customer deployments
·Built end-to-end observability and telemetry stack (Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Grafana, Loki) to instrument services and reduce MTTR
·Developed automated smoke-test pipeline catching integration defects early and cutting developer validation time by 50%
·Created on-demand server provisioning and optical network simulation tools, eliminating 80% of manual hardware configuration
·Enhanced CI/CD security posture by restructuring legacy pipelines and automating compliance checks
·Served as subject-matter expert for on-premises deployment troubleshooting, supporting customer escalations and partner deployments