Conducted an internal audit to assess the technical maturity, functional stability, and governance of the OpenShift GX platform on the Production Environment.
• Led a structured audit mission focused on CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform governance using CMMI and ITIL v4 frameworks.
• Evaluated technical maturity of OpenShift GX clusters, including Kafka integrations, monitoring, and deployment workflows.
• Defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and identified gaps in risk management, process efficiency, and tool interoperability.
• Collected and validated audit evidence delivered actionable recommendations for platform enhancement and stability.
Brought expertise to Software Factory to drive digital transformation through release management, cloud strategy, and DevOps, accelerating software delivery and enhancing quality.
Key Achievements:
• Led the DevOps roadmap as Infrastructure Product Owner, defining strategy for evolution, upgrades, and governance.
• Conducted audits and optimized development, testing, packaging, and deployment workflows using GitLab CI/CD.
• Deployment of IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Enforced test-driven release management and established standardized, secure end-to-end processes.
• Collaborated across product, infrastructure, and business teams to align delivery with enterprise goals.
• Implemented automation and system monitoring aligned with ITIL V3 to enhance performance and reliability.
• Executed a lift-and-shift rehosting migration strategy to Azure Cloud, redefining governance policies.
• Mentored teams on microservices best practices (REST, SOAP) and automated CI/CD pipelines for both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Installed and Managed Istio Service Mesh and Configured Envoy proxies.
• Authored functional release notes on Confluence, XRAY, Azure Boards, and JIRA.
• Assessed emerging technologies to maintain solution innovation and adaptability.
• Ensured CA validation chains (root and intermediate PKIs) and certificate health across platforms.
• Built and maintained CI/CD and IaC pipelines using Terraform, Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Participated in Level 2 Run operations on Rocky Linux 9 and IIS-based on-prem platforms (Apache, Tomcat, JBoss).
• Deployed and configured on-premises monitoring and backup tools: Restic, Promtail, Loki, Alertmanager, Grafana.
• Resources management: VM, storage, monitoring, hybrid on-prem/cloud orchestration.
• Proactive monitoring and observability through Prometheus/Grafana, automation of DRPs/BCPs.
• Support systems Linux (Rocky𠋹) & middleware Apache/Tomcat.
• Conducted workshops and coaching sessions for cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of new integration standards and tools.