Jayaram Radhakrishnan

DevOps Engineer

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates13 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 13 years of experience in Linux and DevOps.
Certified Kubestronaut with advanced Kubernetes proficiency.
Expert in cloud-native technologies and infrastructure automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer specializing in DevOps and Kubernetes solutions.

Contact

jayaram161989@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

AwsKubernetesHpcEtlCi/cdInfrastructure As CodeContainerizationLinuxAnsible

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)Apache AirflowContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon Web Services (AWS)DockerHigh Performance Computing (HPC)TerraformData WarehousingApache KafkaJenkinsArgoFluxJiraprometheusGrafana

About

Versatile Linux/DevOps Engineer with over 13 years of experience specializing in Linux engineering, Kubernetes administration, and cloud-native technologies. Proven expertise in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-scale infrastructure across AWS (EKS) and Azure (AKS) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps practices. Recognized by CNCF as a Kubestronaut and certified with CKA, CKS, CKAD, RHCE, and RHCA, demonstrating advanced proficiency in Kubernetes security, cloud-native operations, and infrastructure automation. Skilled in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions, ensuring rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery for microservices-based applications. Experienced in managing petabyte-scale genomic data with cloud storage (Amazon S3, Azure Blob), automated workflows (Apache Airflow), and data-sharing platforms (iRODS, Globus). Designed and maintained bioinformatics analysis infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes, Docker, Singularity, and HPC technologies to ensure scalability, reproducibility, and high performance.

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

New york university

DevOps Engineer

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · On-site

🔹 Developed automated workflows using Apache Airflow to streamline HPC processes, reducing manual intervention and improving efficiency.
🔹 Designed and built ETL pipelines leveraging Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming, optimizing data ingestion and transformation.
🔹 Managed large-scale genomic data (terabytes/petabytes) with Amazon S3, integrating platforms like iRODS and Globus for efficient data discovery and sharing.
🔹 Spearheaded a massive AWS migration, transitioning servers, collaborator data, web services, and software stacks to a cloud-first architecture.
🔹 Built and deployed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, and Jenkins, ensuring smooth, automated deployments.
🔹 Designed and optimized infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform & CloudFormation, ensuring scalable, repeatable deployments.
🔹 Deployed and managed Docker & Kubernetes for high-performance data visualization applications, streamlining workflows and deployments.
🔹 Contributed to Anaconda & Bioconda, enhancing bioinformatics package availability and management.

Python (Programming Language)Apache AirflowContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon Web Services (AWS)DockerKubernetes+15

Halian middle east

Technical Analyst

Nov 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

> Linux Consultant for RHEL and Ubuntu
> Security Analyst
> Ansible Automation
> Solutioning AWS
> Kubernetes
> Docker
> VMware

Python (Programming Language)CLIAnsibleKubernetesContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Linux

Amplex emirates llc

Technical Project Engineer

Jan 2018 – Nov 2018 · 10 mos · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Working as a Linux consultant.
Performance tuning based on application requirement.
Automating tasks using Ansible

Nokia

Technical Lead

Nov 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

> Ceph Storage main area of focus.
> Ansible used for configuration management.
> Python/Bash used for automation
> Cassandra used as dbase
> Linux will be the platform

Red hat

2 roles

Technical Support Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2016 – Nov 2016 · 1 mo · Pune Area, India

Providing support on OS related issues, mainly focussing on filesystems.
Hands on experience in the below areas
> Openstack
> Openshift
> Glusterfs
> Ceph
> Redhat Cluster Suite
> Ansible
> Docker

Associate Technical Support Engineer

Nov 2014 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune Area, India

Good understanding of local and network filesystems
Providing Technical support to Enterprise customers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Storage
Collaborate with different in-house teams and provide resolution to customers
Worked on areas like Installation methods, networking, firewall, security, clustering, web servers, and databases
Advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills, for problem solving and investigation
Knowledge oo network file systems like CIFS and NFS
Experience with SMB protocol
Experience with DFS, with Kerberos and multiuser mode
Knowledge of autofs/automount
Experience with local Linux file systems like EXT or XFS and the tools used to maintain them, e.g. e2fsck and xfs_repair; metadata knowledge of e2image analysis

Sparksupport infotech pvt ltd

Linux Server Engineer

Nov 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs

1. Email deliverability expert.
Provide support for all mail servers{MTA} running on PowerMTA, postfix, making latest upgrades, keeping good IP reputation, bypassing spam filters and putting emails in inbox, close monitoring, backing up, blocking users and all other support related to generic servers, scripting.
2. Moodle and remote learning Infra Support
It consists of 10 – 20 physical servers with more than 4000 VMs in it. All VMs are KVM based and hosts Moodle for remote learning purposes. My responsibilities include provisioning of new Vms, de-commisioning of VMS, troubleshooting, monitoring load/hit etc,managing RHEV Manager etc.