About

Pradeep Pandey is a highly experienced DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the field. He has a strong background in PAAS and has worked with GCP for over 5 years, with expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins Groovy, Virtualization, OpenStack, Linux operations, design, deployment, maintenance, and debugging. Pradeep is a certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), and Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS). He is also Google Cloud Certified as a Cloud DevOps Engineer and Professional Cloud Architect, as well as a Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) and Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) and Engineer (RHCE). Currently working as a Site Reliability Engineer - Technical Leader at Cisco, Pradeep has extensive experience in planning, implementation, and upgrade of OpenShift, Kubernetes, Quay K8s registry, and other opensource tools over OpenStack and other public clouds. He is also proficient in optimization and automation of SRE routine tasks, troubleshooting large-scale production issues, and root cause analysis. In his previous role as a DevOps Engineer - Cloud Migration at Kloud9, Pradeep was responsible for implementing Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters on GCP and on-premise servers, automating cluster provisioning, patching, and deployment processes through Jenkins code, terraform, and Ansible, and conducting POC for new features. Pradeep holds a Full-time PG-Diploma in IT infrastructure, system and Security from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, and an Engineer's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University. With a strong tech stack that includes SRE, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, DevOps, GCP, Python, Puppet, CI/CD, Integration, and more, Pradeep has relevant experience of 8.20 years.