Harish Kumar Sharma
Senior Cloud Architect @ Z5 OTT | DevSecOps Consultant | CDN Expert | Kubernetes CKA Certified | AWS SA Professional Certified | GCP PCA | Terraform Certified Associate | FinOps | AI Enthusiast | Forever Learner
Bengaluru
12+ years of work experience
Apr 20266 mosPresent
Hosted FIFA on Z5 OTT channel in less than 10 days planning with 20x extra load as first official task.
Oct 20241 yr 8 mosMay 2026
Technology Leadership: Spearheaded DevOps and SRE initiatives, aligning technology strategies with business goals to enhance innovation and operational efficiency.
Operational Excellence: Transformed infrastructure and workflows by leading a cross-functional team, improving system reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
Process Optimization: Cultivated a culture of continuous improvement, integrating CI/CD, IaC, and automation, reducing incident resolution time by 30%.
Cost Efficiency: Optimized budgets and resource allocation, achieving a 15% cost reduction while maintaining top-tier service quality and performance.
Risk Management: Implemented proactive risk mitigation strategies, strengthening system security and resilience against potential vulnerabilities.
Strategic Alliances: Built strong relationships with vendors and technology partners, ensuring seamless access to advanced tools and industry-leading solutions.
Team Development: Empowered engineers through training and mentorship programs, fostering skill growth and a culture of continuous learning.
Incident Prevention: Deployed intelligent monitoring and alerting mechanisms, reducing production incidents by 50% and enhancing overall system stability.
Business Impact: Drove measurable improvements, increasing customer satisfaction by 25% and cutting operational expenses by 20% through strategic technology initiatives.
Executive Engagement: Worked closely with leadership to align technology investments with long-term business objectives, supporting growth and innovation.
Jul 20222 yrs 4 mosOct 2024
- Experience of handling large scale events for OTT platforms like new movie releases, T20 leagues in sports, handling overall concurrency of more than 3M users.
- Experience of Managing DevOps, SRE team and Automating Infra Creation in AWS/GCP using Terraform, Cloud-formation, Github Workflows.
- Deep understanding of DevOps framework, tools, and metrics for building and deployment automation, Configuration Management, scalable mode of infrastructure deployment.
- Provide leadership and technical expertise within Infra Automation along with well architected framework.
- Expertise in handling multiple and parallel project deliveries.
- Provide architectural and practical guidance to software development teams to improve resiliency, efficiency, performance, and costs.
- Build and support large Kubernetes clusters across multiple platforms (AWS, GCP).
- Contribute to various teams for having OpenAi and Vertex AI connectivity for AI usercases like subdub, content quality checker, etc.
- Help to enhance customer experience via our monitoring of the production environment using different tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk and Conviva to ensure a speedy resolution of issues.
- Capacity planning and management – create, use, maintain a capacity model for GCP and AWS hosting, using terraform IAC.
- Developing CI/CD roadmap and implementing to the project.
- Completed a large-scale migration of 136+ microservices from AWS ECS to AWS EKS to GCP GKE.
- Migrated 14 PB+ data from AWS s3 to GCP gcs over dedicated Interconnect, 50+ Databases of different flavours like MySQL, Postgress, etc to GCP Cloud SQL, Scylla DB, Mongo Atlas, Spanner, etc, 10 MSK to Confluent Kafka Cloud, 100+ Elastic cache to Redis Enterprise to the have the application working.
- Implemented a cut over strategy to migrate complete environment in less than 6 hrs having a complete outage restricted to less than 2 hrs in low peak time of a highly populated platform.
Nov 20201 yr 9 mosJul 2022
India
• Elevated security protocols to meet pharma standards, ensuring a secure environment for sensitive data and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborated with third parties to establish secure IPSEC VPN connectivity from SAP systems, enabling seamless and protected data exchange.
• Implemented Open VPN solutions, resolving dynamic IP address challenges faced by developers, enhancing accessibility and security.
• Orchestrated the hosting of Node.js repositories on S3 buckets with robust replication strategies, ensuring data availability and disaster recovery.
• Engineered a MongoDB multi-region cluster, enabling reliable backups without disrupting real-time operations, ensuring data integrity.
• Implemented stringent security measures for AWS EKS clusters, preventing external access in case of security breaches, securing data and infrastructure.
• Designed and established cloud architecture based on AWS Well-Architected Framework, optimizing performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
Mar 20191 yr 9 mosNov 2020
Bangalore
Designing and orchestrating infrastructure solutions for various clients based on their requirements on Public/Private Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. Acted as an Infrastructure Consultant for cloud technologies, with expertise in Technical/Solution Architecture to facilitate and enable growth, business agility, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:-
Strategic Leadership: Orchestrated and directed all DevOps and SRE initiatives, aligning technology strategies with business objectives to drive innovation and operational excellence.
Continuous Improvement: Established a culture of continuous improvement, implementing best practices in CI/CD, IaC, and automated testing, leading to a 30% reduction in mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents.
Budget Management: Managed the DevOps and SRE budgets effectively, achieving cost savings of 15% while maintaining the highest levels of service quality and performance.
Infrastructure Design: Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and operating highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services and hybrid cloud setups through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
CI/CD and Automation: Hands-on experience in designing and developing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitLab, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and automated testing.
Cloud Security and Monitoring: Comprehensive knowledge in Cloud Front Distributions and Cloud Security Services. Implemented monitoring stacks with real-time alerting, leading to a 50% reduction in production incidents.
Business Impact: Drove tangible business impact through technology initiatives, resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction and a 20% reduction in operational costs.
Executive Collaboration: Collaborated closely with executive leadership to align technology strategies with the company's long-term vision, ensuring technology investments supported growth and innovation.
Sep 20153 yrs 7 mosMar 2019
As an SME specializing in Cloud,Middleware, Build & Release at IBM, I have accumulated a wealth of experience and expertise across a comprehensive toolset. My proficiency spans a wide range of programming languages, including Java, HTML, Websphere, Tomcat, AWS, IBM Blouemix enabling me to develop versatile and robust software solutions. I possess strong database management skills in MySQL and Oracle.
In the realm of version control, I have effectively utilized SVN, Perforce, and TFS to streamline collaborative development efforts. My proficiency extends to Unix and Linux environments, alongside virtualization technologies such as VMware. I am adept at Shell Scripting, using it to automate tasks and enhance efficiency.
As a skilled Cloud Engineer, I have managed the entire architecting lifecycle, overseeing the deployment process through tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Cloudformation etc. My experience includes configuring and maintaining application servers like Tomcat and JBoss. In cloud space starting from various services like EC2, S3 , KMS, etc were part of my day to day activities after i design and plan for the resources.
I am well-versed in the principles of continuous integration, having successfully implemented Jenkins, Apache Ant, and Apache Maven to ensure seamless development workflows. With a strong foundation in programming and extensive expertise in build and release processes, I am poised to contribute effectively to complex software projects, delivering quality solutions and facilitating smooth, efficient releases.
SKills: Java, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JSP, PHP,MySql, Oracle, JavaScript, JavaScript,SVN, Perforce, TFS, Unix, Linux, Vmware, Shell Scripting, Tomcat, Jboss, Programming, Build Engineer, Release Engineer, continuous-integration, Jenkins, Apache Ant, Apache Maven
Nov 201411 mosSep 2015
Bangalore
Involved as Infrastructure specialist for java middleware technologies.
• Experience in administration of WAS 6.X, 7, 8 and 8.5.5 versions with cmd,silent as well as Console mode(Latest web based included in IM1.8 version).
• Experience in change, problem and incident management for applications deployed on JBOSS, WebLogic, WebSphere, OAS, Apache, Tomcat.
• Experience in L2 role for BI (Informatica, Qlickview, Cognos, and Tibco).
• Experience in Websphere MQ installation and basic of queues.
• Experience in client handling for transitions from end to end.
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Education
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering
Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology
20064 yrs2010
kendriya vidyalaya
199412 yrs2006
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