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title: "Salama Kareem - Site Reliability Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Salama Kareem, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Splunk, Terraform | Incident Management & Production Automation based in Greater Bengaluru Area."
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# Salama Kareem on Tal

## 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

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