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Suresh kumar

SRE / DevOps | AWS | Python | Observability | Kubernetes | Ex-Amazon, VMware

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Nexthink
Dec 20223 yrs 10 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led the Platform Team in architecting and delivering full-scale infrastructure automation. Directed capacity planning and system design for Kubernetes-based microservices, managing stakeholder expectations across Security, Compliance, and QA to ensure a secure, scalable production environment. Requirement Gathering, System Design, Capacity Planning, CICD Pipelines for the application deployments. Manage the Kubernetes cluster and microservices deployments in it. Setup environments using Terraform and Ansible for automating other mundane tasks. Cross platform responsibilities like Security, Compliance Team, Development, QA, etc. Spearheaded a cross-functional engineering team in managing critical enterprise applications for Change/Incident Management and SSO. Mentored junior engineers and aligned technical roadmaps with organizational goals, ensuring seamless integration of end-to-end observability via OpenTelemetry to optimize global application performance. Implemented OpenTelemetry for end-to-end observability, enabling tracking of latency, requests, and other performance metrics across applications, significantly improving the ability to optimize application performance.
VMware
Aug 20225 mosDec 2022

VMware
Nov 20193 yrs 2 mosDec 2022

Served as a Lead SRE and project manager, overseeing the availability and performance of a Tier-1 SaaS product. Managed incident response oversight and regular on-call rotations, driving a culture of operational excellence that reduced recovery times by ~30% through automated self-healing mechanisms and strategic PIR mitigation plans. Participate on incidents and regular on-call rotations, acting as first POC during oncall from SRE Team, Diagnose, troubleshoot & identify Root cause to resolve issues related to the incident / outage. Collaborate with different teams and participate in Post Incident Review and Mitigation plans.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jul 20194 mosOct 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jul 20194 mosOct 2019

A Cloud Support Engineer who works on real customer issues and front facing for the customer. Connect with customers on a daily basis and work towards a solution for the issues, as a representative of AWS.
Jul 20194 mosOct 2019

A Cloud Support Engineer who works on real customer issues and front facing for the customer. Connect with customers on a daily basis and work towards a solution for the issues, as a representative of AWS.
Nutanix
Dec 20153 yrs 8 mosJul 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for the entire infrastructure of the clients hosted in different cloud environments like AWS, Azure Automation and DevOps wherever possible using standard tools like Jenkins, ansible, cloudformation, kubernetes, etc Resource/Cost optimization and recommendations to customer Worked on AWS Environment and Linux Administration and also automation tools like Ansible and jenkins and dockerization Providing entire infra support and consulting to various clients like HP, Shaadi, TataMotors etc..

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Education

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Anna University Chennai

20104 yrs2014
Anna University Chennai

Engineer's Degree, Electronics and Communications

Anna University Chennai

20104 yrs2014

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Headline

SRE / DevOps | AWS | Python | Observability | Kubernetes | Ex-Amazon, VMware

About

At RingCentral, my role as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer centers on ensuring stellar cloud infrastructure performance. With a deep understanding of cloud services, I am instrumental in maintaining high availability and robust systems. Our team excels in cloud operations, consistently achieving operational goals and driving efficiency across the board. Previously, as a Senior Platform Engineer at Nexthink, I honed my skills in automation and resource optimization, leveraging industry-standard tools to enhance service delivery. My certifications in Azure and AWS underscore my commitment to mastering the nuances of cloud environments, enabling me to make informed recommendations and optimizations that align with our strategic vision.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Platform Engineer at Nexthink, Dec 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the Platform Team in architecting and delivering full-scale infrastructure automation. Directed capacity planning and system design for Kubernetes-based microservices, managing stakeholder expectations across Security, Compliance, and QA to ensure a secure, scalable production environment. Requirement Gathering, System Design, Capacity Planning, CICD Pipelines for the application deployments. Manage the Kubernetes cluster and microservices deployments in it. Setup environments using Terraform and Ansible for automating other mundane tasks. Cross platform responsibilities like Security, Compliance Team, Development, QA, etc. Spearheaded a cross-functional engineering team in managing critical enterprise applications for Change/Incident Management and SSO. Mentored junior engineers and aligned technical roadmaps with organizational goals, ensuring seamless integration of end-to-end observability via OpenTelemetry to optimize global application performance. Implemented OpenTelemetry for end-to-end observability, enabling tracking of latency, requests, and other performance metrics across applications, significantly improving the ability to optimize application performance.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at VMware, Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 · 5 mos

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at VMware, Nov 2019 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Served as a Lead SRE and project manager, overseeing the availability and performance of a Tier-1 SaaS product. Managed incident response oversight and regular on-call rotations, driving a culture of operational excellence that reduced recovery times by ~30% through automated self-healing mechanisms and strategic PIR mitigation plans. Participate on incidents and regular on-call rotations, acting as first POC during oncall from SRE Team, Diagnose, troubleshoot & identify Root cause to resolve issues related to the incident / outage. Collaborate with different teams and participate in Post Incident Review and Mitigation plans.

Senior Cloud Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jul 2019 - Oct 2019 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Deployment Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jul 2019 - Oct 2019 · 4 mos, A Cloud Support Engineer who works on real customer issues and front facing for the customer. Connect with customers on a daily basis and work towards a solution for the issues, as a representative of AWS.

Deployment Engineer at Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd, Jul 2019 - Oct 2019 · 4 mos, A Cloud Support Engineer who works on real customer issues and front facing for the customer. Connect with customers on a daily basis and work towards a solution for the issues, as a representative of AWS.

DevOps Engineer at Nutanix, Dec 2015 - Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Responsible for the entire infrastructure of the clients hosted in different cloud environments like AWS, Azure Automation and DevOps wherever possible using standard tools like Jenkins, ansible, cloudformation, kubernetes, etc Resource/Cost optimization and recommendations to customer Worked on AWS Environment and Linux Administration and also automation tools like Ansible and jenkins and dockerization Providing entire infra support and consulting to various clients like HP, Shaadi, TataMotors etc..

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Anna University Chennai

Engineer's Degree, Electronics and Communications, Anna University Chennai