Professional Experience

10+ years of expertise in cloud infrastructure and DevOps

10+ Years Experience
4 Companies
4 Cloud Platforms

Career Journey

Deltek

Sr. Principal Cloud Delivery Engineer

October 2024 - Present

Chennai, India (WFH)

Current

Key Responsibilities:

  • Modernization and end-to-end automation initiatives leveraging cutting-edge DevOps and cloud-native technologies
  • Successfully executed large-scale cloud migration from AWS to OCI, ensuring minimal downtime and high availability
  • Acted as Containerization SME and Lead, building OKE clusters from scratch
  • Integrating with Kubernetes and ArgoCD for GitOps-based continuous delivery
  • Designed and implemented advanced Terraform automation using modular and submodule structures
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
  • Implemented robust monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog
  • Led efforts in environment provisioning and administration on both AWS and OCI platforms

Genesys Telecom Labs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

June 2021 - October 2024 · 3 years 4 months

Chennai, India (WFH)

Key Responsibilities:

  • Implementing and operating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Handling containerized applications using Kubernetes
  • AWS Support and Azure AKS Cluster maintenance, cluster upgrades, control plan upgrades, monitoring
  • Continuous process modifications, process improvements, approvals based on review with centralized repository
  • Build and deployment with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
  • Azure, AWS administration and maintenance

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Senior Infrastructure Developer

May 2019 - May 2021 · 2 years

Chennai, India

Key Responsibilities:

  • Daily task automation and log monitoring to reduce manual efforts
  • Single offshore POC for Kubernetes and K8s related tasks/CR/INC's
  • IaaS cloud automation using Terraform
  • Log monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Azure Monitor, Zabbix
  • Docker images management, installation, configuration, container orchestration
  • Leveraged GCP Auto Scaling Features for K8s applications based on CPU metrics

Virtusa Software Solutions

Associate Engineer

January 2016 - May 2019 · 3 years 4 months

Chennai, India

Key Responsibilities:

  • Handling L1/L2 critical incidents related to K8s, Kafka, Dynatrace, Linux, Azure
  • Create Ansible Playbooks for High Available Kafka, Zookeeper, Dynatrace, MariaDB Cluster
  • Used Ansible for application installation, configuration, code & DB deployment

Skills Evolution Over Time

2015-2016

Foundation Years

Linux Administration SaltStack System Monitoring Shell Scripting

2016-2019

DevOps Transition

Kubernetes Docker Ansible Kafka MariaDB

2019-2021

Cloud Expertise

Azure GCP Terraform Prometheus Grafana

2021-2024

Cloud Engineering

AWS Azure AKS GitHub Actions IaC CI/CD

2024-Present

Principal Cloud Delivery

OCI Migration ArgoCD OKE GitOps Datadog