LALIT KUMAR Sharma
Mexico City
Summary
Dynamic and results-oriented DevSecOps leader with over 13 years of experience in spearheading large-scale enterprise DevOps transformations, cloud modernization, and platform engineering initiatives. Expertise in driving CI/CD adoption within hybrid environments while fostering innovation and efficiency. Skilled in building and managing high-performing offshore and nearshore teams, optimizing cost structures, and implementing secure DevSecOps practices to enhance operational integrity. Proven ability to engage effectively with executive leadership, enterprise architects, and global delivery teams to align technology strategies with business objectives.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Manager DevOps
CITIBANAMEX
Mexico City, Mexico
07.2021 - Current
- Automation engineering team is responsible for driving CI-CD adoption and implementation to all Mexico Development teams for different technologies.
- Leading Automation Engineering Operation team to support development teams for adopting CI-CD solutions using Unify 2.0 and LightSpeed Pipeline.
- Collaboration with multiple engineering teams, Application development teams, other DevOps teams to understand the solution and drive the adoption strategy.
- Proactively identify and drive automation of tasks associated with end-to-end deployment delivery.
- Lead initiative in discovering existing and new challenging pertaining to the build and deployment for application development teams, seeking to improve, resolve, and streamline tools and process to meet delivery challenges.
- Drive automation technologies solutions and future roadmaps along with implementation and execution plans.
- Drive automation and adoption of technologies automation and CI/CD, Go4Gold, Any time deployment with respect to Global Consumer Banking.
- Deliver increased adoption of modern ways of working, enhanced ability to increase release frequency and CI/CD adoption.
- Partner with Application development, Engineering, and other DevOps teams to understand the solution and drive the adoption strategy.
- Drive innovative activities within the group, and come up with new technologies, capabilities and solutions that can take the product to a higher adoption and user satisfaction levels.
- Ability to layout roadmaps, implementation and rollout plans to adopt automation capabilities like CI/CD pipeline.
- Leading Mexico teams to adopt LightSpeed Enterprise Pipeline right from interview and attestation process, checking their eligibility to adopt LSE and helping them to successfully deploy to OpenShift.
- Driving development teams in Mexico to adopt Unify 2.0 pipeline for different workflow and techstacks such as springBoot, java, weblogic, msbuild, filecopy, tibco, solace, mssql, npm, Abinito, APIM etc.
- Involved in DevOps automation & tools adoption activities including Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Git, RLM, Harness, and Helm for MEXICO applications to achieve CI/CD automation & continuous improvement.
- Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts and new team members.
- Implement DevSecOps practice using SonarQube, CheckMarx, and BlackDuck. The solution includes defining Quality gate using DevSecOps quality metrics across pipeline lifecycle.
- Drive development teams on Microservice deployment on OpenShift cloud using Unify 2.0 pipeline which used CloudBees Jenkins as CI tool and Release Lifecycle Management (RLM) as CDtool, this includes strategic image deployment, ConfigMaps deployment and other serviceMesh objects like virtual-service, gateway, and destination-rule etc.
- Drive teams in Mexico to Microservice deployment to OpenShift using LightSpeed pipeline which used Tekton as CI tool and Harness as CD tool, Tekton pipeline is hosted on Openshift cluster as well and helm chart is used to package the kubernetes/openshift resources.
- Drive teams for post-deploy automation testing with tools like Cucumber, UFT, SOAPUI etc. test results are published on CI-CD dashboard Watchpost UI.
- Expertise on automated build and deployment of springBoot Microservices into PCF cloud administration of deployed services.
- Technical documentation for helping teams to adopt the solutions and coach the team members.
- Hands-on experience Design and implement Cloud Hosted CI/CD Pipeline for Docker on AWS CodePipeline.
- Hands-on, design and implementation skills with Kubernetes Cluster, Pods, Replicas, Controllers and Services.
- Hands-on experience with Helm and helm charts to deploy the applications in OpenShift or troubleshoot with local deployments.
- Design and implement AWS CodePipeline using BitBucket , S3, EC2.
- Hands-on experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services for compute, storage, Networking, security, containers, and developer tools etc.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform provisioning AWS Services - S3, SQS, ec2, VPC, API Gateway, ELB etc.
- Hands-on experience with Chef and Ansible for configuration, automation and deployment.
- Experience working with sonarQube and sonarLint as a code quality control tool.
- In-depth understanding of agile, scrum and stand-up meetings and Experience in leading and mentoring a team and providing technical directions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
- - Led DevOps and release engineering strategy for 280+ enterprise applications across 45+ technology stacks.
- Defined and implemented enterprise CI/CD standards, controls, and reusable automation patterns across multiple pipeline tools.
- Directed migration, modernization, and governance of delivery pipelines using Bitbucket, Git, EB Jenkins, Tekton, Harness, and BMC RLM.
- Embedded DevSecOps controls with SonarQube, Snyk, and Black Duck to strengthen software quality and vulnerability management.
- Drove cloud-native delivery patterns and AWS-based pipeline enablement for scalable and secure application deployments.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and configuration automation through Ansible to improve consistency and speed.
- Managed and mentored a cross-functional team of 10 DevOps Engineers and 8 Application Developers.
- Sponsored and delivered an Automated Production Management Portal with 16 operational dashboards, improving release visibility and governance.
- Reduced manual production management effort by approximately 4,000 hours annually through automation and workflow optimization.
- Established Agile execution cadence and SDLC/release governance practices to improve predictability, quality, and time-to-market.
DevOps Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
Mexico City, Mexico
08.2016 - 06.2021
- Leading the DevOps team and provide automated solution to Digital Engineering team.
- Working on PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) administration which includes deployment of micro services manually from CLI and automated deployment using Release Lifecycle Management tool (RLM) tool.
- Assisted in establishing automated build and deployment processes for microservices on PCF using Unify 2.0. Supported the implementation of automated build and deployment processes for microservices on OpenShift utilizing Harness RLM and Lightspeed automation initiative.
- API/Swagger automated build and deployments to API Gateway using Unify 2.0 pipeline.
- Expertise in branching, tagging and maintaining the versions across the environments using SCM tools like GitHub, Bit Bucket.
- Automated configuration management for Microservices using CI-CD pipelines and completed setup for multiple micro services from single Bitbucket repository.
- Automation of secure configuration such as certificates using the Credhub service in PCF.
- Code review and Static code analysis using tool sonarQube, Checkmarx and Blackduck, also integrating in the Unify2.0 pipeline.
- RLM templates creation and monitoring for different techstacks (springBoot JAVA, config-push, Solace, APIM, npm etc.)
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services cloud services.
Compute services- EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk
Storage- S3,S3 Glacier, EFS, Storage Gateway, EBS
Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and DynamoDB
Networking & Content delivery- VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, Global Accelerator
Developer tools- CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline
Management and Governance- CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail
Security- IAM , WAF, AWS KMS, CloudHSM
Containers- ECS, EKS - Explored new automation approach LightSpeed to build and deploy microservice on ECS clusters
- Led the PCF 2.X migration for Mexico region.
Led the SVN to Bit bucket migration drive for Mexico. - Working experience with JIRA, Confluence & Service NOW for issue tracking, user story and documentation.
- Providing different deployment strategies such as all at once, rolling, blue/green and Canary deployments on different environments.
- Creating Bitbucket repositories, management of users and groups permissions on repository and branches using AD groups.
- Creating different AD groups for Bitbucket access management.
- Creation of automation script to create multiple pipeline and assembly files based on a template that reduced the time by 90%.
- Creation of pipeline solution for configuration management of profiles, certificates, psg, policies for microservices.
- Supporting development to Production releases and monitoring the performance.
TIBCO Admin and DevOps Engineer
Shared Technology Services
New Delhi
04.2013 - 08.2016
- Delivered robust TIBCO environments by implementing TIBCO suite products including TIBCO TRA, TIBCO Hawk, TIBCO Administrator, TIBCO EMS, and TIBCO BW. Achieved successful creation of TIBCO Administrator domain and facilitated seamless delivery of environments to application teams.
- Automated Build and deployments to TIBCO environments by using CI-CD pipeline. RTC was used for code repository, Cloudbees Jenkins for building the ear and BMC BAA or RLM (Release Life Cycle Management) for deploying the ear to the environments.
- Involved in Deployment of the TIBCO Business Works and TIBCO Adapters components using TIBCO Administrator, AppManage Utility and various automation tools.
- Worked on preparing Cloud and non cloud servers for environment from scratch, creation of file system and slicing and make them ready for hosting the services.
- Set up the Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance for the BW Engines.
- Worked on setup of NDM installation/creation of NDM nodes/configure NDM nodes on Global Connect Directory Inventor for file transfer on Linux server.
- Involved in generating the TIBCO Hawk Rule Bases for monitoring the BW engines, TIBCO Adapters and Log files.
- Involved in configuration of Site scope monitoring on Servers for maintaining File systems, CPU and memory under threshold.
- Involved in planned activities like Server patching, Cert renewal for MSPKI and Entrust both, EMS upgrade and BW version upgrade.
- Other tasks which include EMS i.e. creation/deletion of queues, topics, bridges & durables. Also involved in logging, monitoring, and statistics facilities to effectively view system activities and track system performance using TIBCO EMS.
- Administer whole TIBCO environment using TIBCO HAWK 4.8, which provides different method to monitor & manage the applications/servers. I’m involved in creation of new rule bases also provide different modification to existing rule bases for the betterment of the monitoring setup. It includes creation of Tibco Hawk rule bases for monitoring the BW engines, Tibco Adapters & log files.
- Setting up the load balancing and fault tolerance for the BW engines at runtime.
- The migration of TIBCO projects across different lifecycle environments using TIBCO Administrator GUI and script deployment.
- Involved in incident Management, reduce the impact of the incident and resolve the incident by finding the RCA of the incident using the tool ServiceNow.
- Supporting Major/Minor Releases for new and older projects and implement Hotfix for new software releases without impacting the environment.
- Documentation of deployment Process & Risk Analysis and Troubleshoot-Logging Domain Side defects and analyzes the causes.
- Interaction with other teams (Development, Build Engineers, Unix Teams, infrastructure, CATE Team and Testing) and conduct trainings for fellow team members.
Trainee
Initial Learning Program (ILP)
01.2013 - 04.2013
- Lead for team of 7 members and created a Online Banking management System project using C++, UNIX and SQL which had basic operation of a Banking system( login, register, open account, check transfer, withdraw and update etc.)
Education
Computer Science
JECRC College
Jaipur, Rajasthan, INDIA05-2012
Skills
- DevSecOps Strategy and Operating Model
- CI/CD Platform Engineering and Governance
- Enterprise Release and Environment Management
- DevSecOps, SAST, SCA, and Vulnerability Controls
- Cloud and Hybrid Delivery (AWS)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Configuration Management and Infrastructure provisioning
- SDLC, Agile Delivery, and Program Governance
- Engineering Leadership and Team Development
- - KPI, Dashboarding, and Operational Excellence
Certification
- HashiCorp certified - Terraform Associate
- AWS Solution Architect-Associate
- AWS Developer Associate
Timeline
Engineering Manager DevOps
CITIBANAMEX
07.2021 - Current
DevOps Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
08.2016 - 06.2021
TIBCO Admin and DevOps Engineer
Shared Technology Services
04.2013 - 08.2016
Trainee
Initial Learning Program (ILP)
01.2013 - 04.2013
Computer Science
JECRC College
Technical Skills
CICD Pipeline - Cloudbees Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub & GitHub Actions, BMC RLM, Tekton, Harness, AWS CodePipeline
Containers & Cloud Platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS EKS, ECS
DevSecOps and CodeQuality - SonarQube, Snyk, Blackduck. ZAP
Monitoring - Splunk, AppDynamics, AWS Cloudwatch, Grafana, Tibco Hawk
IAC & configuration Management- Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
Secrets - CyberArk & Hashicorp Vault
Tracking- JIRA, ServiceNow, Confluence