I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud-native infrastructure across financial, SaaS, and telecom sectors. I have deep expertise with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code, and I hold multiple CNCF certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCSA, and KCNA). I enjoy building scalable CI/CD pipelines, strengthening platform security, enabling developer self-service, and leading cross-functional DevOps initiatives as a Tech Lead and mentor. In recent roles at Bank of Ireland and Foxit Software, I led deployment strategies, security scanning integration, and observability implementations, collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors. I value continuous learning and enjoy guiding teams through cloud-native adoption and best practices.

Guruprasad Devidas Bhavsar

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud-native infrastructure across financial, SaaS, and telecom sectors. I have deep expertise with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code, and I hold multiple CNCF certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCSA, and KCNA). I enjoy building scalable CI/CD pipelines, strengthening platform security, enabling developer self-service, and leading cross-functional DevOps initiatives as a Tech Lead and mentor. In recent roles at Bank of Ireland and Foxit Software, I led deployment strategies, security scanning integration, and observability implementations, collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors. I value continuous learning and enjoy guiding teams through cloud-native adoption and best practices.

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I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud-native infrastructure across financial, SaaS, and telecom sectors. I have deep expertise with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code, and I hold multiple CNCF certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCSA, and KCNA). I enjoy building scalable CI/CD pipelines, strengthening platform security, enabling developer self-service, and leading cross-functional DevOps initiatives as a Tech Lead and mentor.

In recent roles at Bank of Ireland and Foxit Software, I led deployment strategies, security scanning integration, and observability implementations, collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors. I value continuous learning and enjoy guiding teams through cloud-native adoption and best practices.

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Senior DevOps Engineer at Bank of Ireland
October 1, 2024 - Present
On the DevOps Center of Excellence, I onboard teams to our internal platform, set up Jenkins jobs, and enable application deployments on private cloud with Ansible. I explore deployment strategies to Kubernetes and streamline CI/CD workflows. Led 'DevOps at Payments' initiative as sole DevOps resource for Instant Payment feature, managing CI/CD for 13 dependent projects; delivered deployment automation across 8 microservices in 5 environments, reducing manual intervention and deployment time by about 60%. Administer Bitbucket RBAC and ensure repository governance. As Security Master, I audit vulnerabilities via Fortify, JFrog Xray, and SonarQube, and embed security scanning into CI pipelines to catch issues early with 0 CVEs. For production and pre-production releases I design deployment runbooks with Infrastructure Architects, supported on-call for critical releases, and provide weekend coverage. Implemented Filebeat with ELK for centralized log aggregation across environments. Contri
Senior DevOps Engineer at Foxit Software
April 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024
Managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS; built Helm charts and Dockerfiles; implemented Longhorn to utilize EKS storage; introduced Karpenter for cluster autoscaling; developed CRDs with Crossplane. Led Infrastructure as Code efforts with Terraform and Terraform Cloud across AWS and Azure. Strengthened security with Trivy and Kubescape, and integrated Vault with External Secret Operator to manage secrets. Implemented ArgoCD for automated deployments to staging and production; built observability stack with Loki, Grafana, and Prometheus. Worked with AWS services including IAM, EKS, EC2, RDS, MSK, S3, CloudFront, Cloudflare, GuardDuty, EventBridge, SNS, Lambda; used Kyverno for policy enforcement. Leveraged Karpenter and Longhorn to optimize cost and performance. Collaborated with product teams to deliver reliable, scalable cloud-native solutions.
Senior Associate – DevOps at Zinkworks (Formally Neueda)
January 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023
Senior Associate for external client projects. Neo4j Backup Solution POC: developed and managed CI/CD pipeline for Java-based project deployed on GCP using CircleCI. Citi Bank: Sr DevOps, Team Leader for Exchange Simulator; managed CI/CD to deploy containerized solutions on Red Hat OpenShift using LightSpeed (in-house Jenkins-based CI); coordinated weekly with Citi stakeholders. Ericsson - ENM: OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure; migrated legacy Backup Firewall solution to Jenkins Pipeline; OpenStack migration with blue-green deployment; provided on-call support. Ericsson - EO-CM: Lift-and-Shift project migrating VM-based Cloud Manager to containers orchestrated on Kubernetes with Helm; added Logging and Observability; published artifacts to JFrog; used ELK stack and Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring. Ericsson - KAFKA Microservice: DevOps Tech Lead; translated requirements into solutions, supported product releases. Mentored apprentices and junior engineers; led cloud-native adoption acros
Senior DevOps Engineer (Sr) at Zinkworks (Formally Neueda)
March 1, 2019 - December 31, 2021
Led DevOps initiatives across Citi Bank Exchange Simulator, Ericsson ENM/EO-CM, and other client projects. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for containerized solutions on Openshift and Kubernetes; wrote Helm charts; integrated logging/observability; collaborated with product owners and project managers on design and release planning.
Senior Research Engineer at ESDS Software Solutions
January 1, 2018 - February 28, 2019
Led AWS integration efforts for eNlight 360°, enabling multi-cloud support and working with GCP and Azure. Managed deployment and integration of OpenStack Neutron for SDN in public/private clouds. Directed development for Kubernetes-as-a-Service in eNlight 360°. Established CI/CD pipelines and championed containerization and microservices across portfolio products; guided architecture and mentoring.
Cloud Developer at ESDS Software Solutions
June 1, 2016 - December 31, 2017
Led redesign/development of eNlight Public Cloud (IaaS) with Python, including auto-vertical scaling and horizontal scaling across Xen, Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM. Built Private Cloud Orchestration for cross-hypervisor management, including VM lifecycle automation, billing, monitoring, and graphing using ELK and MongoDB. Engaged with clients to demonstrate technologies and mentored junior staff.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Bank of Ireland, Ireland
October 1, 2024 - Present
DevOps @ Payments: Sole DevOps resource on Bank’s Instant Payment feature, managing CI/CD for 13 dependent projects with Jenkins and Ansible. Streamlined deployment workflows for 8 microservices across 5 environments, reducing manual intervention and deployment time by ~60%. Administered Bitbucket RBAC and repository governance; embedded security scanning (Fortify/JFrog Xray/SonarQube) into CI pipelines; provided on-call support; implemented centralized log aggregation with Filebeat and ELK across pre-prod and production environments.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Foxit Software, Ireland
April 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024
Kubernetes management on AWS for ActiveDraft services, including Helm chart and Dockerfile development; implemented Longhorn storage on EKS and introduced Karpenter for autoscaling. Built CRDs with Crossplane, and used Terraform/Terraform Cloud for IaC across AWS and Azure. Enhanced security with Trivy, Kubescape, and Vault (External Secret Operator) for secret management. Delivered automated CD with ArgoCD and improved observability with Loki, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Senior Associate – DevOps at Zinkworks (Formally Neueda), Athlone, Ireland
January 1, 2022 - April 1, 2023
Senior DevOps Engineer resource; led Neo4j backup solution POC with CICD (CircleCI) to deploy containerized solutions on GCP; supported Citi Bank Exchange Simulator; OpenShift; Jenkins LightSpeed; mentored apprentices; coordinated with stakeholders and project managers; contributed to onboarding and governance.
Senior DevOps Engineer (Sr) at Zinkworks / Neueda
March 1, 2019 - December 31, 2021
Sr DevOps Engineer delivering CI/CD pipelines for multiple client projects (Citi Bank, Ericsson). Migrated legacy OpenStack/OpenShift workflows, implemented containerization with Kubernetes/Helm, established logging/metrics with ELK/Grafana, and led product releases. Mentored junior team members and supported on-call rotations across distributed customer environments.
Senior Research Engineer at ESDS Software Solutions, India
January 1, 2018 - February 28, 2019
Led AWS integration efforts for eNlight 360°, enabling multi-cloud support and OpenStack Neutron SDN integration. Directed Kubernetes-as-a-Service initiatives, containerization for microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices; contributed to product development and internal tooling; mentored engineers on cloud-native architecture.
Cloud Developer at ESDS Software Solutions, India
June 1, 2016 - December 31, 2017
eNlight Public Cloud: Led redesign/development of IaaS in Python with auto-scaling; eNlight 360°: Private Cloud orchestration across XenServer, Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM; implemented VM lifecycle automation, billing, monitoring, and visualization using ELK Stack and MongoDB; conducted client demos and mentored engineers.

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Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering (IT)
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Prometheus Certified Associate
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
GitOps at Scale
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
GitOps Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Bachelor of Engineering (IT)
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
Prometheus Certified Associate
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
GitOps at Scale
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026
GitOps Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - April 15, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Professional Services