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Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer @ SAP Labs | AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform | Driving Reliability, Automation, Observability & Cost Optimization on the Cloud

About

I’m a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and operating scalable, reliable cloud platforms across AWS. My focus is on automation, observability, reliability and cloud cost optimization, helping teams deliver faster, more reliable services while reducing operational overhead. Key achievements include: Maintaining 99.96% SLA for production systems consisting of 1000+ Linux instances spanning across 40+ environments. Driving a 20% reduction in cloud costs by automating environment hibernation and governance. Building and leading Chaos Engineering initiatives, improving system resilience and reducing MTTR by 25%. Leading GitOps adoption and shift-left security scanning to improve deployment reliability and compliance. Mentoring teams and establishing standards for CI/CD, IaC, and SRE practices. Key Skills: AWS (Primary), Azure, GCP • Kubernetes (CKA Certified), Docker • Terraform • Python, Shell, Golang • Grafana, New Relic, ELK Stack • Jenkins, GitHub Actions • Git, GitHub • Linux(Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS) Focus Platform Engineering • DevSecOps • Observability • Automation • Reliability Engineering I’m passionate about Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, and building self-healing, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.Always open to collaborating with forward-thinking teams to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and operational efficiency.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

github copilot

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer at SAP, Oct 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key Contributions: Architected and operated multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) across 40+ production environments, consistently maintaining 99.96% SLA. Built automation frameworks using Python and Terraform, reducing manual toil by 40% and increasing operational efficiency for developers and support teams. Led adoption of GitOps workflows and shift-left security scanning, improving deployment reliability and compliance. Implemented a hibernation model for non-prod environments, cutting cloud costs by 20% through resource governance and optimization. Developed an in-house Chaos Engineering platform, reducing MTTR by 25% and strengthening system resilience. Mentored junior engineers and set technical standards for CI/CD, IaC, and reliability practices. Migrated a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster to an EKS cluster, cutting operational complexity by 40% Awards: Multiple “People’s Choice” and “Guiding Star” awards for leadership and innovation.

Senior Software Engineer - Devops at LeadSquared, Jul 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key Contributions: Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, increasing deployment frequency 4x while improving release success rates. Built autoscaling mechanisms for high-throughput queuing systems, reducing latency by 60% and improving performance under peak load. Migrated legacy monitoring solution to serverless architecture, reducing infrastructure costs by 50%. Upgraded production systems to the latest AWS EC2 generation, improving performance and efficiency.

Engineer-Configuration Management at Aptean, Apr 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key Contributions: Implemented continuous integration and deployment workflows, reducing issue detection time from 15 days to 15 minutes. Integrated Ansible and Docker to improve deployment consistency and reduce environment drift. Optimized build processes, reducing build times by 60% and merge time from 2 hours to 10 minutes. Automated AWS deployments for SaaS products using Git, TFS, and CodeDeploy, cutting release cycles in half.

Associate engineer-configuration management at Aptean, Jul 2015 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Key Contributions: Implemented continuous integration and deployment workflows, reducing issue detection time from 15 days to 15 minutes. Integrated Ansible and Docker to improve deployment consistency and reduce environment drift. Optimized build processes, reducing build times by 60% and merge time from 2 hours to 10 minutes. Automated AWS deployments for SaaS products using Git, TFS, and CodeDeploy, cutting release cycles in half.

Associate System Engineer Trainee at Tata Consultancy Services, Sep 2014 - Jul 2015 · 11 mos, Chennai Area, India, Write test cases and do manual testing of Customer Requests per release. Product was related to Travel and Hospitality domain in airlines sector. Perform automated regression testing using SoapUI

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science and engineering, CMR Institute Of Technology

pre university, electronics, vijaya pre university college junior

Public links

github: https://github.com/sankalp-ops