Santhoshkumar Sarvesan — DevOps Engineer

Enthusiastic and seasoned DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of driving transformative initiatives. Over the course of my career, I have passionately orchestrated and implemented comprehensive DevOps strategies, achieving significant milestones in optimizing deployment times, system stability, and overall infrastructure efficiency. 💻 Key Skills: DevOps Mastery: Expert in automating installations and configurations, utilizing Ansible, Puppet, and other cutting-edge tools to streamline processes. Infrastructure Management: Adept at providing round-the-clock support for Linux/VMWare infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations. Server Administration: Proficient in administering Apache/Nginx servers, monitoring logs, and configuring load balancers on AWS for optimal performance. Automation Champion: Developed and implemented automation tasks using Python and Bash scripts, enhancing day-to-day productivity. Disaster Recovery Expertise: Played a pivotal role in planning and executing Disaster Recovery procedures, ensuring business continuity. Database Management: Managed MySQL master-slave replication, conducted query optimization, and handled backups for Linux Mail Servers. 📧 Mail & Proxy Services Specialist: As a Mail and Proxy Server Administrator, I've specialized in configuring user mail accounts, managing LDAP, and ensuring the seamless operation of critical services. Proficient in spam prevention, backup management, and conducting data restore dry runs to guarantee robust data recovery capabilities. 🏆 Achievements: Implemented container-based infrastructures, reducing costs by up to 40%. Led a team of DevOps Engineers, fostering continuous learning. Successfully orchestrated Microservices builds using Jenkins pipelines. Championed the integration of DevSecOps principles for enhanced security. Established KPIs, created dashboards, and introduced automated monitoring systems. Let's connect and explore opportunities in DevOps, Infrastructure Management, and beyond!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert specializing in SaaS infrastructure management and automation.

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Experience: 11 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Devsecops
Containerization
Devops
Infrastructure

Career Highlights

Reduced deployment times by 50% through innovative DevOps strategies.
Implemented container-based infrastructures, cutting costs by 40%.
Championed DevSecOps principles for enhanced security in CI/CD.

Work Experience

Applied Data Finance

Manager – DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (1 yr 2 mos)

Senior Team Lead - DevOps (1 yr 1 mo)

DevOps Team Lead (11 mos)

Senior DevOps Engineer (1 yr 2 mos)

Lead Systems Engineer (9 mos)

Senior System Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)

System Engineer (2 yrs 4 mos)

Matrimony.com Limited

System Engineer (7 mos)

Nebula Computers Pvt Ltd ( Wipro Infotech Contract)

Linux Engineer (1 yr)

Education

Bachelor's Degree at Maharaja Prithvi Engineering College

Santhoshkumar Sarvesan

DevOps Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India11 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced deployment times by 50% through innovative DevOps strategies.
Implemented container-based infrastructures, cutting costs by 40%.
Championed DevSecOps principles for enhanced security in CI/CD.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert specializing in SaaS infrastructure management and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevsecopsContainerizationDevopsInfrastructure

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApacheAutomated monitoring systemsCC++Cloud InfrastructureClusterContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DNS ServerDatabasesDeployment ManagementDocker ProductsElasticsearchFirewalls

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Experience

11 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Applied data finance

7 roles

Manager – DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Team Lead - DevOps

Apr 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

DevOps Team Lead

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 · 11 mos

Drove transformative DevOps initiatives, reducing deployment times by 50% and enhancing system stability by 40%.
Applied DevSecOps principles, seamlessly integrating automated testing, code quality checks, and security scans into CI/CD pipelines.
Leveraged KPI analysis to identify and enhance deployment processes, significantly increasing success rates.
Implemented a container-based infrastructure, reducing costs by up to 40%.
Collaborated cross-functionally to establish deployment success KPIs, creating dashboards for regular tracking and reporting.
Introduced automated monitoring systems, swiftly resolving deployment issues.
Addressed key business requirements, ensuring high availability and reliability for critical applications.
Championed continuous improvement through best practices and iterative feedback loops.
Mentored a team of 5 DevOps Engineers, fostering continuous learning.
Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and integrated automated testing, code quality checks, and security scans.
Proficient in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and adept at AWS services (EC2, RDS, EBS, Lambda) through Terraform.
Integrated Data Dog for metrics and log management, utilized Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Excelled in Agile methodologies with tools like JIRA and Confluence.
Deployed Ansible and Jenkins for AWS resource provisioning, implemented secret management on AWS EKS.
Crafted Terraform modules for automated resource creation.
Applied Bash and Python (Boto3) for supplementary automation, unifying code deployment across diverse environments using AWS, Docker, Jenkins, and open-source tech.
Specialized in managing application lifecycles with Docker images, containers, and Kubernetes.
Implemented Single Sign-on for all environments using FreeIPA.
Proficient in AWS Services, Git, Linux, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Maven, Apache Tomcat, Ant, Nginx, Python.

DevSecOpsLeadershipDocker ProductsDeployment ManagementPeople ManagementContainerization

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

DevSecOpsElasticsearchYAMLRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)FirewallsAnsible+18

Lead Systems Engineer

May 2021 – Feb 2022 · 9 mos

ElasticsearchYAMLRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)FirewallsAnsibleRelease Engineering+16

Senior System Engineer

Promoted

May 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

An integral part of a loan lending application “Personifyfinancial.com” which has 200+ servers and related microservices. Part of Production support and handles Containers deployments using orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Dockers. Push infra level changes/Patches with Ansible/Terraform. Monitors the health of the containers/services with Prometheus/Zabbix tool and takes in charge for the timely resolution and fix. Monitor logs and pushes them to central log servers Graylog/ELK. Responsible for MySQL level performance tuning and Administration

YAMLRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)AnsibleRelease EngineeringDocker ProductsDevOps+12

System Engineer

Dec 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Docker ProductsRedisSQLSystem ConfigurationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)+1

Matrimony.com limited

System Engineer

May 2015 – Dec 2015 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

Applied expertise in automating Linux system installations, and AWS resource configurations, and utilized Ansible and Puppet for efficient configuration management, enhancing overall operational processes.
Provided 24/7 support for Linux/VMWare infrastructure and adeptly managed QMail Server Administration, ensuring seamless operations.
Administered Apache/Nginx servers across multiple domains, monitored logs, and centralized them for efficient management.
Configured AWS Load Balancers for Production and Pre-Production environments, optimizing overall system performance.
Developed and executed day-to-day automation tasks using Python and Bash scripts, significantly boosting productivity.
Played a crucial role in planning and executing Disaster Recovery procedures for the production environment, ensuring seamless business continuity.
Expertly managed MySQL master-slave replication, executed index creation, and implemented query optimization techniques to enhance database performance.
Conducted QMail server maintenance for Mail server Administration, guaranteeing reliable and efficient email services.
Implemented virtual domains using Vpopmail, streamlining email management across multiple domains.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Nebula computers pvt ltd ( wipro infotech contract)

Linux Engineer

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr · Ranipet, Tamil Nadu, India

Spearheaded the role of Mail and Proxy Server Administrator, ensuring the efficient management and maintenance of email and proxy services to facilitate seamless communication.
Configured user mail accounts and played a pivotal role in managing user details within LDAP using the LDAP Admin Tool.
Monitored the operational status of services running on Mail and Webmail servers, guaranteeing continuous uptime and smooth functioning.
Developed and implemented rules using the SpamAssassin tool to prevent spam mail, enhancing the security of the Mail server against unwanted emails.
Managed backups for Linux Mail Servers using Data Protector 6.11 in the Backup server, ensuring data safety and availability.
Configured and maintained the LDAP Server for efficient directory services, contributing to streamlined data management.
Conducted regular data restore dry runs of emails from the backup server and mail archive server, ensuring robust data recovery capabilities.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)