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Salama Kareem

Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Splunk, Terraform | Incident Management & Production Automation

Greater Bengaluru Area

5+ years of work experience

CME Group
Oct 20241 yr 11 mosPresent

- Managed 500+ daily UC4 Automic production workflows across 150+ applications powering financial settlement systems. - Cut Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) 30% through structured root cause analysis spanning Linux diagnostics, SQL queries, application logs, and Splunk investigation, documenting 3 RCAs per month in Confluence. - Automated 20% of repetitive operational workload in Python, removing recurring manual production support tasks from the team backlog. - Resolved Kubernetes (GKE) workload failures across 50+ clusters, including pod crashes and resource constraints, sustaining 99.9% application availability. - Administered Google Cloud Platform infrastructure across 4 projects spanning Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Monitoring.. - Coordinated Sev1 incident response across Infrastructure, Database, Development, and Application teams, restoring financial settlement services within SLA targets.
Simplilearn
Jun 202311 mosApr 2024

- Migrated a Learning Management System serving 200+ users, achieving 100% data integrity and zero post-production defects. - Streamlined verification of weekly production releases by scripting automated validation in Shell, replacing manual deployment checks. - Diagnosed recurring production failures through application log analysis and drove permanent fixes with developers, reducing repeat incidents.
Apr 20202 yrs 2 mosMay 2022

- Safeguarded SLA-based data delivery across 500+ daily production batch jobs, catching failures before they reached downstream systems. - Remediated approximately 10 payment batching issues per week, preventing revenue-impacting disruption to business operations. - Executed Disaster Recovery readiness activities including failover validation, protecting production uptime targets.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bs abdur rahman university

20164 yrs2020

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Headline

Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Splunk, Terraform | Incident Management & Production Automation

About

Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer with 4 years 10 months of experience operating mission-critical financial production systems in 24x7 environments. Specialised in incident management, Kubernetes (GKE), Google Cloud Platform, Python and Shell automation, Linux administration, and Splunk observability. Key Results: - Cut Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) 30% through structured root cause analysis - Removed 20% of operational toil through Python automation - Sustained 99.9% availability across 150+ applications - Managed 500+ daily production workflows powering financial settlement systems - Engineered Splunk dashboards and proactive alerts, lifting anomaly detection 15% Core Skills: Kubernetes, GCP, GKE, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Argo CD, Python, Bash, Splunk, Prometheus, Linux (RHEL), Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, Incident Management, SLA/SLO Monitoring, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

Work experience

Site Reliability Engineer at CME Group, Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos, - Managed 500+ daily UC4 Automic production workflows across 150+ applications powering financial settlement systems. - Cut Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) 30% through structured root cause analysis spanning Linux diagnostics, SQL queries, application logs, and Splunk investigation, documenting 3 RCAs per month in Confluence. - Automated 20% of repetitive operational workload in Python, removing recurring manual production support tasks from the team backlog. - Resolved Kubernetes (GKE) workload failures across 50+ clusters, including pod crashes and resource constraints, sustaining 99.9% application availability. - Administered Google Cloud Platform infrastructure across 4 projects spanning Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Monitoring.. - Coordinated Sev1 incident response across Infrastructure, Database, Development, and Application teams, restoring financial settlement services within SLA targets.

Specialist at Simplilearn, Jun 2023 - Apr 2024 · 11 mos, - Migrated a Learning Management System serving 200+ users, achieving 100% data integrity and zero post-production defects. - Streamlined verification of weekly production releases by scripting automated validation in Shell, replacing manual deployment checks. - Diagnosed recurring production failures through application log analysis and drove permanent fixes with developers, reducing repeat incidents.

Production Support Engineer at Datadelve Technologies, Apr 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, - Safeguarded SLA-based data delivery across 500+ daily production batch jobs, catching failures before they reached downstream systems. - Remediated approximately 10 payment batching issues per week, preventing revenue-impacting disruption to business operations. - Executed Disaster Recovery readiness activities including failover validation, protecting production uptime targets.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bs abdur rahman university