Nithya Shree Rajashekhar

DevOps Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom9 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building resilient cloud infrastructure.
Strong DevSecOps mindset with a focus on security.
Proven track record in optimizing CI/CD pipelines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer specializing in SaaS infrastructure and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Devops EngineeringCloud InfrastructureContinuous IntegrationSite Reliability EngineeringSystems Engineering

Other Skills

Cloud Cost efficiencyAPI stress testingLoad testing platform setupLoad testingLocustCI pipelinesRelease EngineeringDevelopment efficiencyData Center evaluationHybrid cloud environmentsCost optimizationMentoringVendor managementAWSTerraform

About

Passionate Site Reliability Engineer with a strong DevSecOps mindset, focused on building and managing resilient infrastructure while adhering to industry best practices. Enthusiastic about leveraging technology to address real-world challenges, aiming to create significant impacts on people, products, and processes through innovative solutions. I am committed to work with secure and sustainable engineering principles.

Experience

9 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Smarkets

4 roles

DevOps Engineer

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

End to end load testing platform setup. API stress testing with Locust
Cloud Cost efficiency: defining iterative processes to keep in check and implementation

Cloud Cost efficiencyAPI stress testingLoad testing platform setupDevOps EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

DevOps Engineering Lead

Dec 2023 – Jul 2024 · 7 mos

Building and optimizing CI pipelines using modern tech stack and methodologies
Release Engineering
Development efficiency/velocity improvements

CI pipelinesRelease EngineeringDevelopment efficiencyDevOps EngineeringContinuous Integration

Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsibilities along with Site Reliability Engineering -
1. Evaluating Data Center options for Colocation compliance requirements
2. POC with hybrid cloud environments to improve latency
3. Continuous cost optimisation efforts
4. Engage in rotations and skill share sessions to boost productivity of the development teams
5. Mentoring and coaching direct reports
6. Project documentation for HMRC R&D tax relief
7. Procurement and Vendor management
Other principles:
Automate everything
Security-first mindset
Cloud agnostic

Data Center evaluationHybrid cloud environmentsCost optimizationMentoringVendor managementSite Reliability Engineering+1

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Responsibilties:
1. Provisioning infrastructure on AWS and colocation with Terraform as IAC and Ansible
2. Bootstrap image management with Packer
3. Orchestrating micro services on EKS Kubernetes engine
4. Developing CICD processes with Gitlab VC, groovy based k8s templates in Jenkins for CI, Helm charts
5. Maintaining repositories like Docker Registry, Devpi, Verdaccio, Chat Museum
6. Networking across environments, VPN setup and Zero Trust adoption
7. Stateful application management including Postgres DB, Kafka
8. Logging stack setup with Elasticsearch, Kibana and inhouse log shipper
9. Observability stack management with Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Trickster, Grafana, Sentry
10. Automation/Jobs server with Jenkins
11. Driving load/stress testing programs to identify bottlenecks and plan for disaster recovery
12. On-Call Support, ChatOps integrations, User management

AWSTerraformAnsibleKubernetesGitLabJenkins+5

Constellation ai

DevOps Engineer

Jul 2019 – Jan 2020 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

I was the only DevOps Engineer reporting to the VP of Engineering. My responsibility was to manage micro-serviced infrastructure running on kubernetes provisioned using IAC on AWS, Version Control, VPN, CICD, logging & metric pipeline, DNS server, load testing & auto scaling systems and on-premise GPU servers. I enjoyed scripting mundane tasks.

MicroservicesKubernetesAWSCICDLoggingMetrics pipeline+1

Walmart labs

Systems Engineer III

Mar 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore, India

I was part of search backend team responsible for end to end infrastructure of walmart.com & samsclub including acquiring hardware capacity, orchestrating design plan on OneOps, stitching CICD pipelines including configuration management, containarising applications (for logging, metrics collection, monitoring), provide operational support as part of on-call rotations.

Infrastructure managementCICDConfiguration managementMonitoringSystems Engineering

Directi

2 roles

Devops Engineer

Jun 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore, India

I was part of DevOps team building resilient infrastructure from scratch for Flock messenger app leveraging AWS IAAS & SAAS. I was introduced advancing sysadmin culture which helped me learn the traditional methodologies in maintaining highly available applications and its newer alternative solutions with cutting edge technology.

InfrastructureAWSResilient applicationsDevOps Engineering

Summer Intern

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · Bangalore, India

Contributed to a Business Continuity Project (BCP) which ensures the production HBase cluster stays backed-up and in-sync with a hot stand-by cluster.

Avaya

Summer Intern

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Automating Ixia device (configuring ports on a testing device as traffic generator to test the features and characteristics of the new device developed) using TCL scripts for ospfv3 network using IxNetwork software as verifying console.