Prasanta Kumar Behera

I'm an Infrastructure Engineer with a strong focus on DevOps practices, Kubernetes orchestration, and platform engineering. I specialize in building scalable, resilient, and automated infrastructure that supports modern application development and deployment.

Led end-to-end Kubernetes cluster deployments across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments.

Managed and automated bare-metal provisioning, ironic, metal3, redfish, PXE boot configurations, and network/storage setup.

Administered and supported large-scale data center environments, involving physical server deployment, rack-and-stack operations, and vendor coordination.

Oversaw infrastructure for 1900+ Kubernetes clusters, ensuring stability and performance at scale.

Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Drone, and Spinnaker, with image management (QCOW2, ISO, VMDK).

Developed infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and Ansible to automate deployments and configurations.

Deployed and maintained OpenStack private clouds, handling upgrades, expansions, and performance tuning.

Integrated monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty) to ensure proactive incident response.

Built and managed immutable infrastructure and in-house tooling to streamline Kubernetes and infrastructure provisioning.

Collaborated with global teams, mentored new engineers, and led critical platform and infrastructure initiatives.

Automated kubernetes cluster provision with eks-anywhere and RKE2.

Edge cluster deployment.

CI/CD for automating immutable image preparation.

Containerized existing monolithic application using helm and helmfile.

Centralized cluster monitoring.

Automation of application deployment with k8s cluster creation.

Having experience on Docker,  Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Python, Shell script, eks, eks-anywhere, RKE2, Rancher, Ubuntu, SusE linux.