Bharat Sabharwal
London,United Kingdom
Summary
Accomplished Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 9 years of experience in Kubernetes administration, CI/CD pipeline automation, and Infrastructure as Code. Expert in DevSecOps, microservices architecture, and SRE practices, delivering highly available, secure, and scalable systems. Proficient in Python and PowerShell automation, driving faster delivery cycles and enhanced operational efficiency. Collaborative leader across cross-functional teams, championing security automation, governance improvements, and cost-optimised cloud solutions. Experienced in implementing DevOps strategies and solutions for financial services and healthcare enterprises, ensuring compliance, reliability, and business impact.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Nagarro Software Pvt Ltd
Gurugram, India
02.2021 - Current
- Led cloud modernization and DevOps transformation for an enterprise-level Kubernetes platform, improving deployment efficiency and system reliability.
- Architected resilient AKS platform hosting 35+ microservices, ensuring high security, scalability, and compliance with enterprise governance standards.
- Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines integrating SAST, DAST, Twistcli, and automated Java/Maven builds, reducing release cycle times by 30–40%.
- Implemented Kong Ingress Controller with API gateway routing, authentication, and secure traffic governance, enhancing system security and traffic management.
- Integrated F5 Load Balancer for SSL termination and high-availability traffic distribution, achieving near-zero downtime and optimized load performance.
- Designed Velero-based backup automation for clusters, namespaces, and persistent volumes, improving disaster recovery readiness and operational reliability.
- Deployed AppDynamics for full-stack observability, enabling proactive detection and resolution of JVM performance issues.
- Modernized Kubernetes deployments using Helm and GitOps, optimizing node pools and deployment efficiency across environments.
- Designed secure, scalable cloud architectures incorporating Zero-Trust, microservices, and enterprise governance models to enhance system robustness.
- Mentored 5–7 engineers, defining DevOps standards, reusable templates, and best practices, fostering cross-team knowledge sharing and productivity improvements.
Senior DevOps engineer
Accenture Software Pvt Ltd
Gurugram, India
05.2019 - 02.2021
- Achieved near-zero downtime during releases by implementing Helm-based AKS deployment pipelines, improving deployment reliability by 30%+.
- Automated 100% of Azure infrastructure provisioning using Bicep and ARM templates, reducing manual setup time by 40–60% and eliminating configuration drift.
- Centralised Postman and Selenium CI/CD pipelines, accelerating QA cycles by 35% and increasing automated test coverage by 25%.
- Integrated Grafana dashboards and ELK logging stack, enhancing system observability and reducing mean time to identify issues (MTTI) by 45%.
DevOps & Automation Engineer
Wipro
Gurugram, India
06.2016 - 05.2019
- Adopted Azure Classic and early ARM, standardising infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Automated server provisioning and configuration using PowerShell DSC for IIS and Azure workloads.
- Integrated CI/CD pipelines, enhancing DevSecOps with SonarQube and OWASP ZAP for security.
- Improved environment stability by 25% by configuring Azure Monitor and custom dashboards.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering
Chandigarh Group of Colleges
Chandigarh 07.2012 - 06.2016
Skills
- Cloud engineering and Kubernetes management
- CI/CD pipeline automation
- Infrastructure as code and governance
- DevSecOps and security automation
- Microservices architecture and API management
- SRE practices and high-availability design
- Performance engineering and cost optimisation
- Automation with Python and PowerShell
- Cross-team collaboration and agile delivery
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES
- Azure, AKS, AWS
- Docker, Kubernetes, Istio
- Kong Ingress Controller, F5 Load Balancer
- Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, Helm, ArgoCD (GitOps)
- GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Java/Maven, Nexus
- Twistcli, Trivy, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, SBOM
- Zero-Trust, mTLS, Vault, Azure Key Vault
- Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/Fluentd, Kibana
- Azure Monitor, Application Insights, AppDynamics
- Velero (Backup & DR)
- Python Automation, PowerShell Scripting
- Azure Blob Static Website Hosting, Azure CDN
- CI/CD, SRE Practices, Cost Optimisation
- API Gateway, DR Automation
Timeline
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Nagarro Software Pvt Ltd
02.2021 - Current
Senior DevOps engineer
Accenture Software Pvt Ltd
05.2019 - 02.2021
DevOps & Automation Engineer
Wipro
06.2016 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering
Chandigarh Group of Colleges
07.2012 - 06.2016