Poornima Sharma

DevOps Engineer

India10 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

11+ years in cloud-native platform engineering.
Expert in Kubernetes and multi-cluster deployments.
Proven track record in cost optimization and disaster recovery.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Kubernetes and DevOps practices.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesAws

Other Skills

AKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Azure AKSAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)CI/CDDevOpsEKSGitGitlabGrafanaHelmHelm ChartsIngressIstioJenkins

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Senior DevOps & Kubernetes Engineer with 11+ years of experience in designing, deploying, and managing large-scale cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure. Specialized in Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, RHOS, Rancher), Helm, Terraform, Git, Ingress, Service Mesh (Istio), Multi-Cluster Deployments, Disaster Recovery, and CI/CD Pipeline Automation. At Ciena, led multi-AZ EKS deployments with custom admission controllers, improving scheduling efficiency by 23%. Implemented geo-redundancy, automated backups, cluster DR plans, and optimized microservices rollout strategies. Experience integrating Azure Application Gateway and NGINX Ingress for secure traffic management. Currently Actively Seeking Sr. DevOps / Kubernetes Platform Engineer / SRE roles (Remote/Hybrid preferred).

Experience

Ciena

Sr. DevOps Lead (P3)

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Delhi, India (IST) · Remote

Operated EKS/AKS/Rancher/RHOS clusters; created/maintained Helm charts for multi-cluster microservices.
Built a custom admission controller → ~23% faster pod scheduling.
Implemented AWS cost Optimisation → Optimised upto ~80% of cost usage
Implemented multi-AZ, DR/backup, geo-redundancy runbooks and upgrades.
Traffic management with NGINX Ingress and Service Mesh - Istio; Prometheus/Grafana observability.
Infra as code via Terraform; CI/CD with Jenkins/Git/TeamCity; release hardening.

KubernetesEKSAKSHelmTerraformGit+7