Manohar Pinnamshetty
Lead DevOps Engineer
Bangalore, India · 8 years experience
About
DevOps Engineer with 8 years of IT experience, including 6+ years in Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, Linux, virtualization, automation, and cloud-native platforms. Passionate about building scalable production environments, intelligent observability, and eliminating toil through automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins.
Core Skills
Containers & Orchestration
KubernetesOpenShiftEKS
GKEOKEkubeadm
KubesprayHelmKustomize
Cloud Platforms
AWSGCPOpenStack
Automation & IaC
AnsibleTerraform
Bash / Shell ScriptPython
CI / CD
JenkinsGitHub Actions
GitLab CI/CDArgoCD
Monitoring & Observability
PrometheusGrafanaAlertmanager
ELK StackNagios SnykJFrog X-Ray
Storage & Databases
CephMinIONFS VeleroMongoDBPostgreSQL
KafkaCassandraCockroachDB
HadoopHiveSpark
Infrastructure & HA
PacemakerHAProxyKeepalived KVMVMware vSphereoVirt ProxmoxHPE ServersDell Servers
OpenStack Services
KeystoneNovaNeutron GlanceCinderSwift
HeatMagnumMasakari
Operating Systems
RHELRocky LinuxCentOS Stream
UbuntuWindows Server
Experience
Vodafone Intelligent Services
May 2025 – Present
Manager IM – Lead DevOps Engineer
Spearheaded migration, design, deployment, and operations of
OpenStack private cloud and multi-node OpenShift/Kubernetes
clusters, driving production stability and observability through
custom dashboards and intelligent alerting.
- Orchestrated migration from OpenStack to OpenShift, transforming legacy VM workloads into scalable cloud-native microservices.
- Managed end-to-end RHEV-to-KVM VM transitions.
- Performed HPE and Dell server firmware upgrades including iLO and SSP updates.
- Built enterprise-grade OCP clusters supporting critical production workloads.
- Deployed and managed KVM clusters including VM provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Configured Pacemaker (PCS) for high-availability and failover across cluster services.
- Designed intelligent Prometheus alerts and Grafana dashboards turning raw metrics into actionable insights.
- Created reusable Helm charts and automated CI/CD workflows accelerating developer delivery.
- Automated all infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual ops to near zero.
- Architected IaaS on bare metal for Vodafone's VCollab high-performance private cloud platforms.
Akamai Technologies
Apr 2025 – May 2025
Cloud Operations Architect
Designed Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for monitoring
cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and application
performance.
- Deployed and managed LKE Kubernetes clusters, performing timely patching and upgrades.
- Created customized alerts and dashboards for cluster and application performance tracking.
Enterprise Minds (Flipkart)
Apr 2023 – Apr 2025
DevOps Engineer
Managed 20+ Kubernetes clusters with 18,000+ nodes using
kubeadm, CAPI & GKE, automating infrastructure and deployments
while handling cluster migrations, monitoring, and on-call
production support.
- Managed 18+ Kubernetes clusters with 18,000+ nodes using kubeadm and CAPI — handling troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
- Automated infrastructure and deployments using Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, and shell scripting.
- Provided SLA-driven production and on-call support with dashboards and proactive alerting.
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Mar 2023
Infrastructure Specialist
- Managed OpenShift cluster deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, and upgrades to ensure platform stability and performance.
Frontier Business Systems
Oct 2021 – Feb 2023
DevOps Engineer
Served as SPOC for major projects including Bangalore Airport
and BITS Pilani, delivering OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes,
VMware, oVirt, and Proxmox solutions with full implementation
and production support.
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters using kubeadm, Kubespray, and EKS.
- Built IaC using Ansible and Terraform for automated provisioning and configuration management.
- Developed Dockerfiles, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Implemented Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK for monitoring and observability.
- Designed and managed OpenStack private cloud: Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, Swift, Heat, Magnum, Masakari.
- Deployed highly available Ceph storage clusters and managed Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Cassandra, CockroachDB.
- Managed VMware vSphere, oVirt, and Proxmox environments with full lifecycle operations.
Infinx Services Pvt Ltd
Mar 2020 – Feb 2021
Trainer
Served as SPOC for learning portal operations, managing VMware
vSphere and oVirt environments, VM lifecycle, team training, and
resource allocation.
- Managed VMware vSphere learning portals, VM lifecycle, templates, and snapshots.
- Delivered Linux and oVirt private cloud training with hands-on guidance.
- Allocated cloud resources based on project requirements and shared operational reports.
Conneqt Business Solutions
Nov 2018 – Mar 2020
Training Team Lead
Delivered Linux and oVirt private cloud training, managed VMware
vSphere environments, VM operations, infrastructure monitoring,
and technical support.
- Delivered Red Hat Linux and private cloud training; created learning modules and performance reports.
- Managed VMware vSphere environments including ESXi installation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Administered core infrastructure services: DC, ADC, DNS, DHCP; managed packages with RPM and YUM.
- Provided onsite technical support, server health checks, log validation, and backup monitoring.
Projects
OpenStack → OpenShift Migration
Transformed legacy VM workloads from OpenStack/VMware/RHEV into
cloud-native OpenShift microservices at Vodafone.
18,000-node Kubernetes Platform
Large-scale cluster operations and lifecycle management across 20+
clusters at Flipkart using kubeadm, CAPI & GKE.
Enterprise Observability Platform
Grafana dashboards, Prometheus alerting, and ELK-based monitoring
at scale across Vodafone and Akamai.
Infrastructure as Code Platform
Terraform and Ansible pipelines eliminating manual ops — covering
bare metal provisioning to cluster bootstrapping.
Bare Metal IaaS – VCollab
Architected high-performance private cloud on bare metal for
Vodafone's VCollab platform with full HA support.
Bangalore Airport & BITS Pilani
SPOC for major enterprise deployments covering OpenStack,
OpenShift, VMware, oVirt, and Proxmox environments.
Blogs
I write about DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and automation on Medium. Check out my articles below.
Medium — @tradingcontentdrive
Technical articles on DevOps, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud &
Automation
GitHub — Manohar-1305
Open source projects, automation scripts, Kubernetes and DevOps
tools
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Exam Contributor – Cloud Native Platform
Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Azure AZ-900 Certified
Aviatrix Certified Engineer – Multi-Cloud
GitOps Certified
Education
B.Tech – Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE)
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH)
Courses Created by Me
I am the instructor and creator of
all the courses below, published on Udemy.
Kubernetes
New CKA 2026: 17 Real Exam Questions with Solutions
View on Udemy
Kubernetes
Advanced Kubernetes Course: Real Production Scenarios
View on Udemy
DevOps
Real-World DevOps & CI/CD Project: Migrate a Quiz App to K8s
View on Udemy
OpenShift
OpenShift 4.19 Bare Metal Deployment: Build Your Cluster
View on Udemy
AWS
AWS Cloud Skills (Prod): 18 Exercises, 15 Labs, 3 Projects
View on Udemy
AWS
Build a Secure Private EKS Cluster on AWS Using a Bastion
View on Udemy
IaC
Kubernetes Cluster Setup with Terraform, Ansible & Bash
View on Udemy
Observability
Custom Alerts with Prometheus & Alertmanager on Kubernetes
View on Udemy