Headline

Sr. DevOps & Platform Engineer | Ex-Cisco | AI Infrastructure | Building Sovereign AI & Secure MLOps (OpenShift AI, GitOps) Platforms | Open to relocation

About

🚀 Sr. AI Platform & Infrastructure Engineer with 6.5+ YOE building, securing, and orchestrating massive-scale private cloud, air-gapped, and distributed container platforms. I specialize in constructing resilient, zero-trust AI/MLOps environments, multi-vendor GPU/compute orchestration layers, and private enterprise foundations. My track record includes managing automated bare-metal, vm and containerized infrastructure scaling to 45,000+ RHEL instances at Cisco and 5,000+ systems at IBM. Expert in Red Hat OpenShift AI, cloud-native platform engineering, and sovereign data isolation. I combine GitOps-driven application delivery (ArgoCD, Helm) with deep security and multi-tenancy frameworks. At IBM, I implemented a high-security identity modernization initiative, consolidating an entire Microsoft Active Directory footprint into a localized Keycloak & OpenLDAP engine—reducing infrastructure from 94 bare-metal servers to just 8 high-efficiency VMs while establishing rock-solid IAM boundaries. I’m passionate about Platform Engineering, building self-healing infrastructure pipelines via Python/Ansible/Terraform.. Open to relocation for the right opportunity. Areas of expertise: • DevOps, AI/MLOps and Platform Engineering • Forward Deployed Engineering • Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Infrastructure • Infrastructure Automation (Terraform, Ansible, Python) • Declarative Infrastructure & GitOps: ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, Ansible provisioning engines.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

codex

opencode

Work experience

Sr. DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer (IaaS) at IBM, Mar 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru · Hybrid, Led a strategic PoC and productionization of identity platform modernization, migrating from Microsoft Active Directory to OpenLDAP and Keycloak, reducing infrastructure from 94 servers to 8 VMs and significantly optimizing cost and scalability. Drove an automation-first approach using Terraform, Ansible, and Python, delivering a fully automated “single-click” deployment model. Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines to accelerate releases and improve reliability. Partnered with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless user experience and enterprise alignment, while implementing observability using Prometheus and Grafana for proactive monitoring and performance optimization.

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (IaaS) at IBM, Apr 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr, Bengaluru · Hybrid, • Manage and Operate Linux(RHEL) infra across global data centers, improving platform reliability through proactive monitoring, SLA enforcement, and performance tuning. • Designed and built an automated provisioning framework for XenServer VMs and bare-metal OS deployments, delivering 93% faster provisioning and eliminating manual errors using custom Ansible modules. • Automated switch port availability consolidation across 2,000+ network devices, reducing manual data collection from hours to minutes. • Led the global deployment of HashiCorp Boundary integrated with Vault, enhancing secure access, scalability, and compliance across multi-region data centers. • Provided 24×7 production support, resolving P0 incidents and stabilizing mission-critical systems.

DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco, Aug 2020 - Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed 45,000+ RHEL systems across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments, improving uptime and enforcing automated security compliance. • Built a device onboarding automation tool for Cisco NSO, enabling automated connectivity checks, hostname validation, device removal, and large-scale onboarding with minimal manual intervention. • Created a Terraform-based EC2 launch automation framework, enabling single-click provisioning and reducing AWS deployment cycles. • Developed a single-click OS & Kubernetes provisioning solution, enabling rapid cluster creation with horizontal scaling and consistent deployments across environments. • Delivered serverless, event-driven data pipelines using AWS Lambda, S3, EventBridge, improving data processing speed and reducing operational load. • Containerized Cisco NSO and automated orchestration workflows for telecom SDN environments, improving deployment efficiency and service reliability. • Maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Git, optimized test automation and reduced execution time by 40%. • Provided 24/7 operational support, resolving P0 incidents and stabilizing mission-critical production systems.

Software consulting engineer at Cisco, Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 · 6 mos, India, • Developed an Ansible-based automation tool for end-to-end deployment of Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE), significantly reducing manual setup effort and deployment time. • Containerized the deployment solution to enable offline, on-prem provisioning at customer sites by importing the container image from physical media (hard drive). • Improved deployment reliability and repeatability by standardizing configurations and eliminating manual errors during WAE provisioning. • Collaborated with engineering teams to align the solution with customer operational and security requirements.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science, National institute of technology Calicut