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Nitin Pawar

Senior DevSecOps Engineer/Consultant
London

Summary

Passionate about building secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud infrastructure that empowers organisations to innovate with confidence. With a strong focus on DevOps automation, cloud security, and SOC 2 compliance, I help companies streamline operations while ensuring top-tier security and compliance.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer & Cloud Security Specialist, I have strong experience in designing and implementing secure, scalable, and automated cloud solutions. I specialise in:
✔ Cloud Security & Compliance: Ensuring SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other security standards.
✔ DevOps & CI/CD Automation: Building efficient, resilient, and high-velocity software delivery pipelines.
✔ Infrastructure as Code (IaaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes for scalable deployments.
✔ Monitoring & Incident Response: Implementing security observability, SIEM tools, and proactive threat mitigation.
✔ Collaboration & Leadership: Partnering with engineering, security, and compliance teams to drive best practices.


🔹 Led the end-to-end SOC 2 Type II compliance program at Flexciton, ensuring the company met industry security and compliance standards while enhancing security posture and operational efficiency.
🔹 Driving security at Flexciton, ensuring vulnerability Management & Remediation, enforce security compliance across employee devices, Set up and implemented Sumo Logic SIEM
🔹 Led Cloud Migration project at c. hoare & co. Bank as Senior DevOps, automating and setup CI/CD in AWS, setting up Jfrag SaaS, static code analysis, automation testing and deployment
🔹 Led Journey to Cloud project at EBRD bank, migrate onprem infrastructure and applications to Azure by setting up CI/CD, continuous monitoring, testing, code scanning

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Senior DevSecOps

Flexciton
London, England
10.2021 - Current

Company Overview: Flexciton applies cutting-edge technology to optimize the planning and scheduling decisions for the world's most complex manufacturing process - semiconductor wafer fabrication

  • Led the end-to-end SOC 2 Type II compliance program, ensuring the company met industry security and compliance standards while enhancing security posture and operational efficiency.
  • Driving security at Flexciton, ensuring vulnerability Management & Remediation, enforce security compliance across employee devices, Set up and implemented Sumo Logic SIEM
  • Drive a project to cut down the our overall Cloud cost by 70%
  • Deployed gitlab runners in AKS cluster
  • Using Azure, everything is set on Azure cloud using all native services (AKS, ACR, Firewall, External Controller, Public/Private Domain etc., KeyVault, Service Bus etc.)
  • Build Gitlab pipelines for applications as well as for Infrastructure using terraform and terragrunt
  • Set up ELK stack, azure alerts using terraform and forwarding them to Opsgenie

Senior DevOps Engineer

C. Hoare & Co. (CHC)
03.2020 - 10.2021
  • As a Senior DevOps at customer site, I was part of Cloud Migration program at bank to build a Design and implement in migrating all Online and Mobile application on AWS using mostly AWS native services.
  • Leading a team of 4 DevOps engineer 1 being onsite and 3 at offshore. Making sure of quality and regular delivery.
  • Writing buildspec yamls, Dockerfiles, helm chart, config map templates etc to deploy Mule, nodes js and backbase application
  • Generated all CI pipelines using terraform with cookie cutter approach, pipelines getting secrets from SSM
  • Implemented secrets controller to provide secrets to PODs from AWS SSM
  • Writing shell scripts and yaml files for automation
  • Used Jfrog SaaS to setup artifactory to store application artifacts as well as helm charts versions, also integrated with Azure AD for SSO and RBAC
  • Introduce sidecar container to application PODs to get application logs and pass it Logz.io platform

Senior DevOps Engineer

EBRD
03.2018 - 03.2020
  • Company Overview: European investment banking organization is London. We were running a program J2C (Journey to Cloud) to move all on-premises applications as well infrastructure to Azure cloud.
  • Being Tech Customer Lead for DevOps, I was responsible to handle customer account from DevOps implementation point of view. Leading a team of 6 DevOps engineers at onsite and offshore.
  • Micro-service applications build using Java, Springboot and Node js
  • Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for frequent build and deployment.
  • Using Kubernetes for container management, high availability/scalability (Orchestration) with ingress to access services outside
  • Setting up a Jenkins job to deploy docker images on Container registry and using helm charts to deploy services into AKS cluster.
  • Using Terraform for infrastructure automation with ansible for configuration management.
  • Installation and setup of AKS cluster, KeyVault, certificates, Azure SQL PaaS etc using platform automation scripts
  • European investment banking organization is London. We were running a program J2C (Journey to Cloud) to move all on-premises applications as well infrastructure to Azure cloud.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Discovery
04.2017 - 02.2018
  • Company Overview: Discovery's Vitality is the world's leading science-based behavioral change programmed that encourages healthy activity among members and rewards them for it.
  • Lead the Operations team responsible for multi-country Environment creation and support, as Vitality gets rolled out to each country
  • Design and implement DevOps at customer site and also manage a team for 8 people including resources from Operation team
  • Using Openshift and Kubernetes for container management, high availability/scalability (Orchestration)
  • Setting up a Jenkins job to deploy docker images on AWS ECR and using CF-Engine for Configuration Management which will help to deploy services configuration.
  • Creating Operations runbooks for recurring issues, monitoring services health using Dynatrace, sending alert using sprint boot.
  • Discovery's Vitality is the world's leading science-based behavioral change programmed that encourages healthy activity among members and rewards them for it.

Technical Lead

Capita India, Pvt, Led
10.2015 - 10.2016
  • Company Overview: Social Care is a common platform for all the social worker working across a Local Authority to streamline the day to day to work and manage the life of needful child and adult in an effective way
  • Set end to end Continuous Delivery pipeline for the product. Set monitoring for servers
  • Production server monitoring
  • Process and queue management of micro services
  • From technology view, its spring boot java micro-service base application using following toolset, Node js/Mongo db/Elastic search/Neo4j/Rabbit MQ/PM2, Docker/DockerHub, Rancher, Azure/sysDig/Logentries/Icinga/Grafana, Travis, Github
  • Social Care is a common platform for all the social worker working across a Local Authority to streamline the day to day to work and manage the life of needful child and adult in an effective way

DevOps Specialist

IBM India, Pvt, Ltd
04.2010 - 04.2015
  • As a part of DevOps assessment, set up meetings with various stakeholders involved into account
  • Interview every team member and understand their existing process involved in various part of SDLC, Once Interviews are done, submit findings and recommendations, DevOps Discovery Presentation
  • Once all finalised and client is ready to go ahead with DevOps approach, start pilot implementation for one of the projects into that account.

Senior Software Engineer

HSBC GLT India, Pvt, Ltd
Pune, India
01.2005 - 04.2010
  • Design and write applications into Lotus Notes native languages using Lotus Script, Commands and Formula languages
  • Migrate all Lotus Notes thick client applications into thin client using web technologies like, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX, jQuery, Prototype
  • Writing SQL queries to push data into one an application
  • Developed scalable applications using agile methodologies for timely project delivery.

Education

MBA - IT

UNIVERSITY OF PUNE

Bachelor - Computer Science

AMRAVATI UNIVERSITY

Skills

Docker & Containerisation

  • Kubernetes (EKS, AKS)

  • Helm chart management

  • GitOps implementation using FluxCD

  • CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt)

  • Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

  • Security & Compliance (CIS Benchmarks, IAM, Secrets Management)

  • Monitoring & Logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)

  • Cloud Compliance & SOC 2 Enabler

  • Well verse with migration to Cloud

Certification

Certified IBM DevOps Consultant

Personal Information

Visa Status: TIER-2 GENERAL, SKILLED WORKER (NEED SPONSORSHIP)

Awards

  • Customer Centricity Leader
  • Annual Excellence Award
  • Technical & Innovative Solutions - from Client
  • Yearly Award - from Client

Timeline

Senior DevSecOps

Flexciton
10.2021 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

C. Hoare & Co. (CHC)
03.2020 - 10.2021

Senior DevOps Engineer

EBRD
03.2018 - 03.2020

Senior DevOps Engineer

Discovery
04.2017 - 02.2018

Technical Lead

Capita India, Pvt, Led
10.2015 - 10.2016

DevOps Specialist

IBM India, Pvt, Ltd
04.2010 - 04.2015

Senior Software Engineer

HSBC GLT India, Pvt, Ltd
01.2005 - 04.2010

Bachelor - Computer Science

AMRAVATI UNIVERSITY

MBA - IT

UNIVERSITY OF PUNE
Nitin PawarSenior DevSecOps Engineer/Consultant