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Site Reliability Engineer | Kubernetes | Azure | Distributed Systems | Platform Engineering | Automation

About

I build infrastructure that's boring in the best possible way systems that heal themselves before anyone pages you at 2 AM. Over 6+ years across Microsoft, Nuance, Coredge and NTS, I've specialised in Kubernetes platform engineering and Site Reliability at scale. My current focus at Microsoft is designing multi-region AKS platforms that ship reliability as a feature — not an afterthought. A few things I'm proud of: → 80% reduction in certificate-related incidents via automated Key Vault renewal across AKS clusters → 35% cut in MTTR through structured run-books and incident workflows → MTTD slashed from 25 min → under 5 min with scoped Prometheus + Grafana → 100+ servers under zero-drift Ansible-managed configuration → 50% faster deployments and 5× release cadence gains I hold 5 Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, KCNA, KCSA, AZ-900) and write about SRE, platform engineering, and production war stories at @thesyscoder. If you're hiring Senior SRE, Platform Engineer, or Cloud Infrastructure roles where uptime is a competitive advantage — let's talk. DM me or reach me at pruthvirajs2007@outlook.com.

Location

Pune Division

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Work experience

Software Engineer II at Microsoft, Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Engineered a zero-downtime certificate auto-renewal platform across multi-region AKS clusters using Azure Key Vault and Managed Identity, eliminating manual certificate rotations and reducing certificate-related production incidents by 80%. • Led root cause analysis for recurring AKS deployment failures in Azure DevOps pipelines, identifying systemic issues and reducing repeat incident categories by 40%. • Reduced MTTR by 35% through development of structured troubleshooting runbooks, standardized incident response workflows, and integration of post-incident learnings into production operations. • Built end-to-end observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor, reducing MTTD from 25 minutes to under 5 minutes through workload-level alert scoping across AKS environments. • Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management for 100+ nodes using Ansible, eliminating environment drift and significantly reducing deployment failures.

Site Reliability Engineer at Nuance Communications, Jul 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Designed and maintained secure CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps for platform and application deployments, reducing failed deployments by 30% and improving release consistency across 4+ environments. • Automated configuration management across 100+ servers using Ansible, achieving zero configuration drift and eliminating environment-specific deployment failures. • Integrated pre-deployment security scanning into CI/CD workflows, shifting vulnerability detection left and improving release quality without increasing deployment latency. • Provisioned repeatable, production-ready infrastructure using ARM templates, reducing manual provisioning effort by approximately 60% and enabling fully auditable environment setups.

DevOps Engineer at Coredge.io, Dec 2021 - Jun 2022 · 7 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, • Deployed and managed on-premises Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm across multi-tenant environments, maintaining 99.9% uptime through proactive resource optimization and capacity planning. • Reduced MTTD from 25 minutes to under 5 minutes by implementing Prometheus and Grafana monitoring across all clusters with scoped, per-tenant dashboards for faster triage and ownership handoffs. • Implemented Velero-based disaster recovery workflows for backup, restore, and cluster migration, transforming DR into a tested and repeatable process with measurable RTO targets.

Site Reliability Engineer at Neutrino Tech Systems, Oct 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, • Built Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET microservices from the ground up, reducing deployment cycle time by 50% and lowering rollback frequency through automated smoke testing. • Containerized Flask microservices using Docker, enabling independent deployments and supporting a 5× increase in release cadence without proportional operational overhead. • Integrated AppDynamics MicroAgent into .NET Core applications through Azure DevOps pipelines, improving distributed transaction visibility and enabling performance-based alerting across services.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, computer science, Savitribai Phule Pune University