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DevOps Engineer · Azure & Kubernetes

Athul Prasad

I build scalable, automated infrastructure — from CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes clusters — so software ships fast, safely, and without drama.

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role: Technical Analyst · PIT Solutions base: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, IN tz: IST · UTC+05:30

About

Athul Prasad, DevOps Engineer
roleDevOps Engineer
employerPIT Solutions
baseThiruvananthapuram, IN
tzIST · UTC+05:30
exp4y+ · since 2022
statusavailable

I'm a DevOps Engineer focused on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem — designing AKS clusters, automating releases through Azure DevOps, and provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and ARM/Bicep so environments stay reproducible, auditable, and disposable.

On the runtime side I care about what happens after deploy: Kubernetes workload reliability, and full-stack observability — metrics, logs, and traces wired together so incidents get caught before they page someone at 3 AM.

infra/stack.yaml
cloud:Azure (AKS, Azure Monitor, App Insights)
iac:Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible
orchestration:Kubernetes, Helm, Ingress-NGINX, HPA/VPA
cicd:Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
security:RBAC, Azure AD, Key Vault, Network Policies
observability:Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Jaeger
status:production-ready
0 Years Experience
0 Projects Delivered
0 Certifications
0 Technologies

Technical Skills

Tools and technologies I work with

Primary Cloud

Azure

$ az login && provisioning…

AKS Azure DevOps ARM / Bicep Azure Monitor App Insights Key Vault Container Registry Azure AD Virtual Network Load Balancer Azure Policy App Service

Cloud

$ connecting to region…

Azure AWS GCP DigitalOcean

Containers & Orchestration

$ kubectl apply -f cluster.yaml

Docker Kubernetes Helm Ingress-NGINX HPA / VPA RBAC

IaC

$ terraform plan…

Terraform Ansible

CI/CD

$ pipeline triggered…

Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps GitLab CI/CD

Monitoring & Observability

$ scraping metrics…

Prometheus Grafana ELK Nagios OpenTelemetry Loki Jaeger Alertmanager

Scripting

$ chmod +x deploy.sh…

Bash Python YAML

How I Work

Principles behind every pipeline and cluster I ship

01

Infrastructure as Code

Every environment is defined in version control — reviewable, repeatable, and disposable. No manual changes, no snowflake servers.

02

Automate Everything

If a task is done twice, it gets scripted. Pipelines handle builds, tests, and releases so people focus on what actually needs judgment.

03

Observability First

Metrics, logs, and traces are wired in before an incident, not after. If it can fail silently, it gets an alert instead.

04

Security by Default

Least-privilege RBAC, secrets in a vault, and network policies from day one — not bolted on before an audit.

Career

Work Experience

My professional journey

2025

Technical Analyst

PIT Solutions · April 2025 – Present (1 yr 4 mo)
  • Own CI/CD pipeline design and Build & Release Management on Azure DevOps for production releases
  • Drive containerization strategy, standardizing Docker-based deployment workflows across teams
  • Manage cloud service provisioning and configuration management for enterprise environments
  • Improve deployment reliability and operational excellence through process automation
2022

Associate System Administrator

PIT Solutions · June 2022 – April 2025 (2 yr 11 mo) · Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
  • Administered Azure DevOps Server/Services environments supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines
  • Performed system administration and configuration management across production infrastructure
  • Supported containerization initiatives, migrating workloads to Docker-based deployments
  • Streamlined release workflows, reducing manual intervention in build and deployment cycles
2016

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science & Engineering

NEFTU · 2016 – 2020

Credentials

Certifications

Verified expertise

Microsoft Certified

AZ-104

Azure Administrator Associate

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Microsoft Certified

AZ-400

DevOps Engineer Expert

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Projects

Featured Projects

Things I've built and automated

passed

Automated CI/CD Pipeline on Azure

End-to-end pipeline deploying containerized apps to AKS with zero-touch releases and rollback safety.

Azure DevOpsAKSDockerTerraformHelm
deploy.sh
passed

Kubernetes Monitoring Stack

Full observability stack for K8s clusters with metrics, logs, and alerting in one dashboard.

PrometheusGrafanaELKKubernetes
deploy.sh
passed

Infrastructure Automation Platform

Self-service platform provisioning cloud infra on-demand via reusable, version-controlled modules.

TerraformAnsibleAWSBash
deploy.sh
passed

GitOps Multi-Cluster Delivery

Declarative, Git-driven deployments across dev/staging/production AKS clusters with automatic drift correction.

ArgoCDGitOpsKustomizeHelmAKS
deploy.sh

Contact

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Let's build something reliable together

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