Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Hybrid

• Driving enterprise-scale infrastructure transformation and DevOps adoption across multiple industry verticals. Experience in architecting scalable cloud-native ecosystems, enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, establishing observability and SRE-driven reliability patterns to ensure operational excellence at scale.
• Core Architectural Expertise:
• ✦ Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture:
• Multi-cloud ecosystem design, Infrastructure-as-Code, and scalable system blueprints.
• ✦ CI/CD Pipeline Architecture:
• Enterprise deployment frameworks, automated testing integration, and release orchestration.
• ✦ Observability & Reliability Engineering:
• OpenTelemetry implementation, SRE practices, and comprehensive monitoring architectures.
• ✦ Organizational Transformation:
• DevOps strategy design, team mentoring, and automation-driven operational excellence.

Apr 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Hybrid

• ✦ Designed resilient cloud infrastructure achieving >40% cost optimization while maintaining 99.9% availability through Terraform & Atlantis.
• ✦ Led enterprise-scale migration of 100+ microservices to AWS EKS with zero production incidents and >50% deployment time reduction.
• ✦ Evaluated and implemented emerging technologies (Istio, Landing Zone, CDC, Scalable ES, API G/W automation) enhancing the system efficiency.
• ✦ Implemented DevSecOps pipeline incorporating distroless container architecture & testing frameworks minimizing security vulnerabilities via integrated CheckMarx, Snyk & Zap vulnerability assessment.
• ✦ Designed comprehensive observability framework using Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, & OTel Collector with span-derived metrics and SLO-based error budget monitoring, reducing incident response time by 50% and enabling predictive reliability management.
• ✦ Successfully led 10-person DevOps/Operations team across L1 and L2 support tiers, optimizing resource allocation and project delivery timelines.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hybrid

• ✦ Implemented multi-cloud framework using Terraform for AWS/Azure provisioning and Ansible for configuration management, standardizing application runtime across 100+ servers.
• ✦ Established Jenkins CI/CD with multi-branch automation, enabing parallel release development & reducing deployment time from hours to minutes.
• ✦ Migrated Standalone Redis to optimized 6-node M/S Cluster with strategic sharding.
• ✦ Implemented clustered ES-based ELK stack for centralized logging and Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager monitoring framework with PagerDuty integration for automated incident management.
• ✦ Real-time data capture via Kafka-powered CDC system, deployed on Kubernetes with Connect & Connectors for diverse data sources.
• ✦ Configured & managed production Kubernetes clusters with containerized application deployment, integrating features for scalability, zero-downtime releases, and effective resource utilization across distributed workloads

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hybrid

• ✦ Originated the migration from on-premise to AWS, architecting a secure and scalable infrastructure using VPC, EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, R53 and more.
• ✦ Aided CI/CD with Jenkins and Ansible, enabling zero-downtime deployments and rapid delivery of new features.
• ✦ Automated configuration management with Ansible, ensuring consistency across multiple environments.
• ✦ Implemented a comprehensive monitoring ecosystem with OMD for infrastructure, New Relic for application/database/user experience, and ELK for log analysis.
• ✦ Successfully completed a PoC for migrating to container based solution using Amazon ECS and onboarded on of the non-production environment completely.
• ✦ Centralized user authentication with OpenLDAP and secured environment access through OpenVPN.
• ✦ Organised regular AWS security audits and cost optimization initiatives.