Harsha Potharaju, CISSP — DevOps Manager

Principal / Lead Security Platform Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, modernizing, and operating enterprise-scale security platforms across identity, privileged access, application security, cryptography, and cloud-native environments. I specialize in building highly automated, auditable, and resilient security platforms that reduce operational risk while enabling engineering teams to move faster. I’ve owned and evolved core enterprise security services spanning secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, PAM, identity platforms, and secure application delivery across on-prem and Azure environments. A major focus of my work is automation and lifecycle governance, integrating security platforms with ServiceNow, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native services to eliminate manual effort, prevent outages, and improve response times. Collectively, these initiatives have delivered $400K+ in cumulative cost savings through platform consolidation and automation. As part of CyberOps, I remain hands-on with incident triage and response, and I’ve implemented automated remediation workflows that reduce MTTR from minutes to seconds for identity-related threats. I work closely with application, infrastructure, and operations teams to design scalable security solutions that balance strong controls with developer usability. CISSP-certified, with a strong bias toward ownership, automation, and pragmatic security engineering. Core focus areas • Secure application delivery & network security (Palo Alto NGFW, Azure Front Door, F5, WAF) • Identity & PAM platforms (Azure Entra ID, Ping Identity, BeyondTrust) • Secrets & certificate lifecycle management (Azure Key Vault, AWS ACM, PKI, public & private CAs) • Security automation & incident response (ServiceNow, Python, Ansible) • Cloud & Kubernetes security enablement (AKS, Managed Identity)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert specializing in security automation and identity management.

Experience: 5 yrs 7 mos