Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · On-site

• AzCertify Team:
• Working on building and supporting a new Resource Provider “Microsoft.Validate” in Azure.
• Delivered a streamlined OneBox development experience by integrating local dev environments with Azure-hosted stateful services, significantly improving debugging speed and end-to-end workflow efficiency.
• Architected and owned EV2 Managed SDP deployment pipelines, enabling automated, consistent provisioning of complete VMS and RP infrastructure across Dev, Canary, Stage, and Production environments.
• Successfully executed infrastructure deployments in Dev, Stage, and Canary regions, ensuring high availability, scalability, and production-grade reliability.
• Designed pipelines for hosting the service code directly within the infrastructure.
• Deployed multiple azure policies to prevent the services for getting flagged under SFI KPIs.
• AzLinux:
• Led the end-to-end segregation of a shared service tree hosting RHUI and RhelImageBuilder, establishing clear service ownership and complete resource isolation.
• Successfully migrated the mission-critical RHUI service, supporting millions of Azure customers to the Redmond Engineering Team with zero downtime and zero customer impact.
• Executed the clean decoupling of all shared infrastructure resources, improving operational clarity, scalability, and long-term service reliability.
• E2E ownership of RHEL Image Building and Publishing on Azure Marketplace. This requires the additional collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• Actively participated in the code and design reviews of peers.

Mar 2024 – Feb 2025 · 11 mos · On-site

• AzLinux Devs India Team.
• S360/SFI KPIs:
• Revamped the Azure DevOps Pipelines from using certificates/passwords to use workload federation, managed identity based authentication.
• Ownership of multiple security KPIs such as Vulnerability Management, Missing AzSecPack, Always JIT, BCDR, SDL Assessment, Privacy Review of both services.
• Migrated all the existing classic release azure devops pipelines to onebranch EV2 based pipelines.
• RHEL Images Building and Publishing on Azure Marketplace(3.6M+ VM Cores):
• E2E ownership of building/publishing the latest RHEL7/8/9 images with various flavors supporting new Azure Compute features.
• Independently identified and implemented bug fixes to ensure quality images are built.
• Updated configurations of compute features to ensure compatibility of RHEL Images with Azure.
• Created a workflow to ensure that Images should have only latest packages to ensure security compliance is achieved.
• Performed testing of Latest Cedar Crest SKUs on RHEL 8/9 ARM64 Images to confirm global availability(GA).
• Designed BVTs for testing/debugging of issues associated with Image Builder pipeline.
• Red Hat Update Infrastructure(RHUI):
• Designed and enabled the monitoring of 6000+ RedHat repositories present in RHUI4 servers using Geneva Synthetics.
• Designed an EV2 based release pipeline for deploying jobs to Geneva Synthetics to increase reliability.
• Built a dashboard to track and analyze the health of repositories across all the RHUI4 servers.
• Integrated a cleanup service with test subscriptions to remove stale resources automatically.
• RHEL-AHB:
• Designed a systemd service to restart Broker Service when it is in stopped state.
• Enabled Audit logging using OpenTelemetry in AFEC Service.
• Monitoring/On-Calls:
• Handled livesites/on-calls for both RHUI and RHEL-AHB services.
• Addressed multiple repair items.
• Mentored new team members for AzLinux charter.
• Got STAR Award for the outstanding performance in the semester.

Sep 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · On-site

• AzLinux Dev India Team.
• RHEL Images on Azure Marketplace:
• Successfully built and published RHEL7/8/9 images with various flavors, supporting new Azure Compute features.
• RHEL Image Builder Pipeline:
• Enhanced the security of RHEL image build pipeline by migrating from FTP to SFTP, adding authentication measures to the NuGet feed, Pip package installer for the secure package downloads.
• Introduced bash scripts to improve the workflow of the pipeline.
• Added ansible playbooks and shell scripts for testing of various Compute Features present in RHEL Images.
• Red Hat Update Infrastructure:
• Designed and implemented a release pipeline to publish IPAM packages on RHUI3 and RHUI4 servers, streamlining the deployment process.
• Updated packages and corresponding functions in the RHUICDSE2EValidation Project for RHUI3, ensuring functionality is not hampered. Successfully deployed the updated project in Geneva Synthetics.
• Enabled the functionality to autorotate certificate of MDM service in AKV Certificate Rotation Service.
• RHEL Azure Hybrid Benefit Service(AHB):
• Enabled PR Code Coverage Automation in Broker Service and AFEC Service by leveraging Azure DevOps Pipeline, Cloudtest, Bash Scripting, Dotnet and Python Technologies.
• Security and Compliance:
• Performed critical security updates at OS level using Safe Deployment Practises and completed security related assessments to ensure both RHUI and AHB services meet security compliance standards.
• On-Call Support:
• Served as DRI On-Call (Primary DRI), handling 500 incidents across 18 rotations.
• Implemented monitors and updated troubleshooting guides for quicker issue resolution.
• Resolved repair/bug items for both the services to ensure the smooth functioning and reliability of the services.
• Knowledge Sharing:
• Conducted a KT session on Azure DevOps Pipelines to onboard new team members effectively.