Sharad Mishra
Open to work16 years experienceSr. DevOps Engineer
Sr. DevOps Engineer | 16+ Years IT Leadership
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Work Experience
Sr. DevOps Engineer & Gen AI
Reliance Industries Limited
- Built the IaC foundation using Terraform with reusable modules and remote state management, enabling consistent, auditable Azure provisioning across multiple subscriptions with identity management & security.
- Architected enterprise CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, supporting 15+ development teams across the organization.
- Led containerization strategy — Dockerized microservices deployed on AKS with Helm — achieving a 99.95% uptime SLA through HPA/VPA autoscaling.
- Embedded shift-left security across every pipeline with SonarQube quality gates, Trivy container scanning, and SAST/DAST testing.
- Introduced GitOps with ArgoCD, enabling zero-downtime Kubernetes deployments, full rollback capability, and complete audit trails.
- Configured NGINX/AGIC ingress controllers for secure, scalable traffic routing into AKS.
- Governed Azure spend through tagging policies, budget alerts, and reserved instance planning, improving cost visibility across teams.
- Applied Generative AI and prompt engineering to accelerate IaC authoring, pipeline troubleshooting, and operational scripting.
Cloud Engineer (Azure)
Reliance Projects & Pro Mgmt. Ser Ltd
- Designed and managed large-scale Azure Networking environments — VNets, NSGs, ExpressRoute, and Azure AD for enterprise-wide applications.
- Migrated 80+ on-premise workloads to Azure using Azure Migrate and ASR, cutting infrastructure costs by 35% while maintaining 99.95% availability.
- Established a hub-spoke Landing Zone architecture with Azure Firewall, centralized RBAC, and Security Center compliance posture.
- Built Azure DevOps pipelines that reduced web and backend release cycles from weeks to days.
- Automated cloud operations using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python, incorporating early AI-assisted scripting.
Senior IT Network Admin Engineer
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
- Automated infrastructure monitoring workflows across geographically distributed on-prem data centers.
- Deployed and managed monitoring/diagnostics tooling (TEMS, XCAL, Actix) and engineered automated KPI dashboards, cutting reporting overhead by 8+ hours/week.
- Built shared runbooks and escalation playbooks that improved incident response time and reduced MTTR for production issues.
Network App Performance Engineer
Steelman Telecom Ltd.
- Directed NMS/ITSM platforms, network monitoring, alerting, and root-cause analysis on critical incidents via monolithic app.
IT Support Engineer, XCAL Tool Support
Solution Provider
- Tier-2 support for XCAL/Accuvar drive-test systems; maintained 95%+ ticket resolution SLA across telecom circles and Nepal.
IT Engineer, OSS & Citrix
Air Network Solution
- Administered OSS/Citrix platforms and supported LAN/WAN infrastructure, user provisioning, and IT asset management.
Projects
JCP Landing Zone
- enterprise Azure landing zone design and rollout.
Azure Cloud Landing Zone & Migration
- hub-spoke architecture and workload migration.
Mahakumbh Traffic Management
- Digital Transformation Initiative, winner of Best DevOps Innovator 2025.
JPW Mobile App Deployment
- CI/CD pipeline and release automation.
IoT-Based UPPCL/DVVNL Project
- infrastructure monitoring and automation.
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Achievements
Best DevOps Innovator
Best DevOps Innovator — Digital Transformation Initiative (Mahakumbh Project), Reliance Industries Ltd.
Star Performer Award
Star Performer Award — High Infra Uptime, Reliance Jio Infocomm
Best Performer Award
Best Performer Award — Infra Rollout & Deployment, Reliance Jio Infocomm
Best Support Engineer
Best Support Engineer — XCAL Tools, Solution Provider
About Details
Professional Bio
Azure DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 16+ years of IT experience, including 7 years focused on Azure cloud architecture, Azure Landing Zone, IaC Terraform, and Kubernetes-based platform engineering. Proven track record building production-grade AKS clusters and GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines.
B.Tech in Electronics & Communication
UP Technical University (2006 - 2010)