Headline

Principal SRE | Site Reliability Engineering Manager & Platform Leader | Managing 7 Engineers | 99.99% Availability | SLOs, Incident Management, Kubernetes, Terraform & Multi-Cloud

About

I build reliable cloud and AI platforms—and the teams that operate them. Over 15+ years across Site Reliability Engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and technical leadership, I have combined hands-on engineering depth with people management and measurable business outcomes. At Oracle, I lead reliability engineering for business-critical cloud and AI platform services while managing seven engineers. My leadership responsibilities include goal setting, coaching, performance management, career development, delivery accountability, production readiness, and cross-functional reliability strategy. Selected outcomes: • Improved availability of critical services to 99.99% • Reduced MTTR by 40% through automation, observability, and incident-management improvements • Delivered an infrastructure modernization initiative ahead of schedule, saving $800K • Reduced manual effort by 70% and created capacity equivalent to three FTEs through automation • Built and led an eight-member delivery team during a €15M infrastructure transition My focus areas include SLOs and error budgets, incident command, blameless postmortems, operational excellence, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, platform automation, and multi-cloud architecture across OCI, AWS, Azure, and GCP. I’m interested in SRE Manager, Platform Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Engineering Manager, and reliability leadership opportunities where I can scale teams, platforms, and business impact.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

ChatGPT

Work experience

Principal Site Reliability Engineer, AI Platform at Oracle, Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos, Lead reliability engineering for cloud and AI platform services at Oracle, partnering with engineering teams to improve availability, scalability, operational readiness, and production performance. • Manage 7 direct reports, including goal setting, coaching, performance management, career development, and delivery accountability • Drive SRE practices across service health, incident response, root-cause analysis, automation, and continuous improvement • Guide reliability strategy using SLOs, production-readiness reviews, observability, and measurable service outcomes • Lead and mentor engineers while strengthening ownership, operational discipline, and cross-functional execution • Improved availability to 99.99% across critical services • Reduced MTTR by 40% through automation, monitoring, and incident-management improvements • Reduce operational toil and improve deployment safety using Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and platform automation • Support multi-cloud and multi-region environments across OCI, AWS, Azure, and GCP

Technical Lead at Lowe's India, Apr 2017 - Mar 2020 · 3 yrs, India, • Led infrastructure roadmap and strategic modernization across multi-cloud environments (OCI, AWS, Azure), partnering cross-functionally to improve platform consistency, automation, resilience, and operational efficiency. • Delivered EMC VMAX-to-Infinidat migration ahead of schedule, saving $800K; led Jenkins/Ansible automation that saved 3 FTEs and reduced manual effort by 70% (Excellence Award).

Senior Analyst at Atos, Apr 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos, Led training and transition for global infrastructure support; standardized operating processes and aligned disaster-recovery strategy with enterprise architecture and service-readiness requirements.

Senior Engineer at Mindtree, Oct 2013 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Tamil Nadu, India, Built and led an eight-member delivery team and operating model from the ground up for KPN (Netherlands) during a EUR 15M infrastructure transition; established RACI governance, knowledge transfer, service-readiness controls, and day-to-day operational ownership. Established and ran a dedicated Storage & Backup practice; standardized configurations to KPN standards and earned recognition from Mindtree and KPN senior leadership.

Education

Executive Master of Business Administration, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Anna University Chennai