Manish Pant

• Successfully led security and compliance audits with no major findings, demonstrating adherence to stringent governance standards.
• Lead the implementation for a developer portal on OpenShift & on premise infrastruture, ensuring high availability, scalability, and seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Established and maintained system and network security policies, ensuring compliance with organizational and industry standards.
• Implemented change management processes, ensuring that all system modifications were documented, reviewed, and approved.
• Developed backup, testing and disaster recovery strategies, minimizing downtime and data loss.
• Configured and maintained network infrastructure, including routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Led regular security and compliance audits, identifying and mitigating risks to maintain high standards of governance.
• Implemented automated compliance checks within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring all deployments meet governance and security standards.
• Facilitated governance meetings with cross-functional teams to review policies, procedures, and compliance issues, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Implemented monitoring and logging solutions (Splunk/DX APM) to ensure the portal's high availability and performance.
• Automated deployment on openshift using helm deployment, ensuring consistent environments across development, staging, and production.
• Streamlined governance processes, reducing policy enforcement time by 10% through automation and improved documentation.
• Mentored and guided a team of engineers, fostering skill development and ensuring successful project delivery.
• Created and maintained comprehensive project documentation on Confluence, improving team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Define and Design DevSecOps Maturity Model across different products.
• Drive DevOps initiatives, including CI/CD pipeline implementation, automated testing, and infrastructure as code (IaC) practices.
• Designing strategies and produce metrics for Data insights.
• Proficient with working in agile software development methodology
• Data metrics across different products using python
• Defining and Implement CI/CD with across different products
• Maintain project authority at all stages including scope, planning,build, delivery,status, task assignments including end to end development and deployments.
• Implement and oversee agile processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to ensure timely delivery of projects.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and prioritize project requirements and deliverables.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by mentoring team members and encouraging skill development.
• Reduced deployment times by 50% through the implementation of efficient CI/CD pipelines.

• Infrastructure Provisioning of more than 100 servers using single click Azure pipeline
• Defining and Implement CI/CD with Azure DevOps pipelines
• On-premises and Cloud environments management
  
• Defining and Implement Cost optimization practices across all environments
• Managing Azure Active Directories
• Health Check Automation with regression testing team
• Engagement with different stakeholders for on boarding infrastructures in Azure
  
• Working in Agile methodology
  
• Have given internal trainings to different teams
• Stakeholder management
• Migration from TFS to GIT

• Defining Cloud/DevSecOps strategies
• Defining and Implement CI/CD/CT with Azure DevOps pipelines across different products
• Building security best practices in each of the application life cycle phases: plan, develop, deliver, and operate
• Successfully completed SOC2 attestation for the multiple products of Genpact from Deloitte
  
• Onboard Secure SDLC for the products
• Implement SAST & DAST tools (Checkmarx/Fortify/Dependency Checker) for the products
• JIRA integration with Checkmarx and Fortify
• Engagement with different stakeholders for DevSecOps onboarding
• Defining DevSecOps matrix and Engineering matrix for the Products
  
• Working in Agile methodology
  

• Part of discovery phase of GCP migration with the on premise environments
• IaaS using GCP
• IaaC using Terraform
• Develop CI/CD framework using the best practices.
  
• Define roadmaps for delivering ongoing improvements to the DevOps capability.
• Completed the proof of concept on Gitlab ,Docker, Kubernetes ,Deploying Compute Instances using Terraform.
• Engagement with different stakeholders for DevOps Onboarding.
• Worked with the development team to create appropriate cloud solutions for client needs
• Automation of tasks – housekeeping and periodic activities though cron jobs and shell scripts
• Define and drive processes to build sustainable environment solutions to support DevOps processes and CI/CD
• Implemented ELK monitoring
• Defining Change/Release/Deployment management
• Providing solutions to developers for Build/Deployment/Environment related periodicals
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release/environment activities
• Streamlined applications delivery to get applications out to customers faster
• Monitor and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Maintain and Improve Process effectiveness, efficiency, performance and vulnerability
• Played role of DevOps COE for GGN location
• Helps Sales team with the engagement in creating proposals and hiring
• Have given training and Webinars on Devops tools

Responsibilities

• Work with Project teams and plan the releases for Projects and Large Changes.

• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations

• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality

• Communicate release plans, schedule, and scope changes

• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different stakeholder functions

• Coordinate Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews

• Coordinate delivery of Deployment & rollback plans/Implementation Plans

• Release Status Reporting and communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required

• Periodically conduct Post Implementation Review (PIR) on closed changes to gauge quality

• Facilitate regular Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and prepare all meeting materials; Publish meeting minutes and track action items

• Capture and publish metrics, KPIs on Change & Release management

• Raise and track Change Management related issues and conflicts, removes barriers, resolves issues and escalate appropriately where required

• Provide knowledge, expertise and training on the use of the Change Management Process

• DevOps for Linux and Windows-based system.

• Define the processes, systems and functions to package, build, test and deploy a release into environments.

• Day to day Build/Release activities.

• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans

• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations

• Designing release and release packages.

• Part of Change Management team to ensure that changes are recorded and then evaluated, authorized, prioritized, planned, tested, implemented, documented and reviewed in a controlled manner.

• Build/Release Automation using Jenkins and Teamcity.

• Identify opportunities for improving the day-to-day operations.

• Owned the Releases of project over various environments like QA, Test and UAT.

• Managing the day to day environmental issues.

• Updating about any refresh activity going to happen and addressing all queries coming from different projects that are related to his application.

• Commissioning/Decommissioning of project assets.

• Establishing a planning policy for the implementation of new versions.

• Providing solutions to developers for Environment related issues.

• Handling Change Management (GEL)

• Build/Release and Deployment Management.
• Help the team for environment setup between the Onsite and Offshore environments.
• WebspehereV6.1
• Developing the user interface using AWT and Swing API
• Unit testing the code and Production Support
• Writing Ant Scripts for compiling, packaging and deployment of project