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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Leadership And Soft Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
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Prasanna Narmeta

Monroe Township,NJ

Summary

Senior Reliability Engineering and Service Operations leader with 15+ years of experience across application development, production support, and enterprise operations. Proven expertise across the full application lifecycle, translating reliability, scalability, and operational goals into executable delivery plans.
Strong vendor and project management professional with deep production support experience, excellent collaboration and documentation skills, and a hands‑on, problem‑solving mindset. Recognized for leading high‑severity incidents, driving continuous improvement, and partnering with product, engineering, security, and QA teams to balance feature velocity, operational excellence, and compliance across highly regulated enterprise and cloud environments. Have experience supporting healthcare, financial services, identity management, and other highly regulated enterprise environments, delivering resilient, secure, and high‑quality production services across cloud and complex enterprise platforms.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification

Work History

Reliability Engineering Manager / Product Operations Lead

Johnson & Johnson
03.2024 - Current

• Own end‑to‑end reliability, availability, and service quality for 600+ enterprise applications supporting global business units across MedTech, Pharmaceuticals, Orthopedics, R&D, and Consumer Health.
• Define and operationalize Service Level Objectives (SLOs), KPIs, and reliability metrics, aligning platform resilience with business risk tolerance and enterprise performance expectations.
• Architect and implement GenAI‑driven operational automation, including intelligent inbox triage and AI‑assisted decision workflows, delivering $350K+ in annual cost savings while reducing manual intervention and improving response consistency.
• Act as single‑threaded owner for global P1/P2 incidents, leading incident command, coordinating cross‑functional recovery efforts, driving executive communications, and facilitating structured post‑incident reviews to reduce recurrence and systemic risk.
• Design and govern enterprise observability strategy across AWS and Azure, integrating APM, logging, distributed tracing, and AI‑assisted signal correlation to proactively detect and mitigate production issues.
• Translate reliability and scalability objectives into prioritized engineering roadmaps, embedding automation, resilience testing, and self‑healing capabilities into the SDLC.
• Govern CI/CD reliability and production readiness for cloud‑native and SaaS platforms, ensuring secure, repeatable, and auditable deployments aligned with enterprise compliance standards.
• Provide architectural and operational guidance across AWS and Azure, including environment design, access governance, and deployment risk management.
• Lead reliability operations for Identity & Access Management (IAM) platforms using Okta, supporting workforce, application, and API access enterprise‑wide while strengthening authentication resilience and integration stability.
• Drive AIOps‑informed continuous improvement, reducing MTTR and operational toil through intelligent runbooks, automation, and data‑driven incident trend analysis.
• Apply Johnson & Johnson enterprise principles around quality‑by‑design, patient safety, regulatory rigor, and operational resilience to production operations and delivery governance.
• Mentor and coach reliability engineers, fostering automation‑first thinking, accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Senior Reliability Engineering/ Technology Operations Lead

JPMorgan Chase
04.2023 - 12.2023

• Led 24x7 reliability and service operations for blockchain and real‑time payment platforms supporting high‑value, time‑critical financial transactions.
• Owned service reliability outcomes including availability, incident reduction, MTTD/MTTR performance, and operational risk management.
• Served as incident commander for major production events, coordinating global response teams, restoring services under strict SLAs, and delivering clear executive communications.
• Partnered with product owners and engineering leadership to balance feature delivery with platform stability, resilience, and regulatory risk mitigation.
• Governed release readiness, change management, and operational risk assessments for platform upgrades, infrastructure changes, and new product launches.
• Established reliability scorecards, KPIs, and operational review cadences to identify systemic risks and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensured post‑incident remediation actions were prioritized, tracked, and validated, reducing repeat incidents and improving operational maturity.
• Strengthened observability and monitoring practices to improve early detection, faster diagnosis, and recovery of production issues.

Senior Reliability Engineering Lead

Optum Financial Services (UnitedHealth Group)
09.2020 - 04.2023

• Owned reliability outcomes for healthcare payment platforms operating in high‑volume, highly regulated environments.
• Acted as the operational bridge between product, engineering, QA, and infrastructure teams, aligning delivery plans with service stability and compliance expectations.
• Governed change management, release readiness, and production risk assessments, ensuring controlled, predictable deployments.
• Led capacity planning, operational reviews, and defect‑reduction initiatives, reducing post‑release incidents and improving platform stability.
• Drove adoption of automation, standardized runbooks, and proactive monitoring, reducing operational toil and improving mean time to recovery.
• Ensured platforms consistently met HIPAA, SOX, security, and audit requirements while maintaining delivery velocity.
• Facilitated blameless post‑incident reviews and embedded corrective actions into engineering backlogs and delivery plans.

Senior DevOps Engineer (Delivery & Operations Focus)

Optum Financial Services (UnitedHealth Group)
09.2019 - 09.2020
  • Led project and platform delivery operations for multiple enterprise applications, overseeing planning, sequencing, and execution of releases.
  • Worked within Agile / Scrum delivery models, partnering with product owners and engineering leads to support sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release readiness.
  • Designed, enhanced, and governed CI/CD pipelines across cloud and on-prem platforms, enabling consistent build, test, deploy, and rollback workflows.
  • Supported cloud-based delivery across AWS and Azure, including environment strategy, access controls, and deployment automation.
  • Coordinated cross-team dependencies, deployment schedules, and change windows to ensure predictable and low-risk releases.
  • Partnered with SRE, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to embed quality, security, and compliance checks into delivery pipelines.
  • Supported incident analysis and operational improvements, driving corrective actions to improve release reliability and delivery confidence.

Senior Web Technical Support / Service Operations Engineer

01.2017 - 09.2019
  • Provided production support and change management for API-driven healthcare and enterprise platforms.
  • Served as first-line owner for incidents and escalations, ensuring rapid recovery and minimal customer impact.
  • Coordinated fixes, releases, and operational improvements with development, QA, and infrastructure teams.
  • Improved service stability through stronger documentation, operational handoffs, and repeatable support processes.

J2EE Support Consultant

PennDOT
12.2012 - 05.2016
  • Supported statewide transportation and licensing systems used by millions of citizens.
  • Delivered application support, troubleshooting, and enhancements to ensure system availability and performance.
  • Coordinated production deployments, fixes, and maintenance activities.

J2EE Support Consultant

Federal Reserve Bank
02.2010 - 12.2011
  • Supported payment and settlement systems in a highly regulated financial environment.
  • Ensured secure, accurate, and reliable transaction processing.
  • Performed incident triage, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.

J2EE / Portal / WebMethods Consultant

Department of Labor & Industry – Pennsylvania
09.2007 - 01.2010
  • Supported workforce and labor systems handling sensitive citizen and employment data.
  • Delivered application support, middleware integration troubleshooting, and system enhancements.
  • Improved operational reliability through proactive monitoring and structured issue resolution.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - undefined

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India
06-2007

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
  • Production Support: Java and NET Applications
  • Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker
  • Infrastructure as Code & Deployment: Terraform, Helm, Ansible (continuous deployment & configuration management)
  • CI/CD & Delivery Governance: Jenkins, Blue/Green Deployments, Pipeline Governance, Agile Delivery
  • Observability & Monitoring: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana
  • Logging : Splunk, OpenSearch
  • Incident & Service Management: ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira
  • Automation & Scripting: Python, Shell Scripting, AWS Lambda
  • Reliability Automation: Intelligent Runbooks, Self-Healing Automation
  • Security & Identity: Okta, Sonar, Fortify
  • Data & Integration: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Aurora, MQ Messaging, MDM, MuleSoft
  • Governance & Compliance: Compliance-Aligned Delivery, Audit Readiness

Leadership And Soft Skills

  • Strategic Thinking
  • Executive Communication
  • Mentoring & Coaching
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Decision-Making Under Ambiguity

Accomplishments

  • Delivered $350K+ annual cost savings by implementing GenAI-driven inbox automation, reducing manual operational effort and dependency on support resources while improving response consistency and turnaround time.
  • Improved product and release quality by 20-25% through structured SDLC and quality governance, early risk identification, and tighter production readiness controls.
  • Reduced MTTR by 30% by implementing intelligent runbooks, AIOps correlation, and self-healing automation, improving incident detection, diagnosis, and recovery.
  • Drove failover strategy and DarkSite decommissioning, resulting in $2M+ in operational cost savings while improving platform resilience and disaster recovery posture.
  • Led APM and observability tool rationalization, replacing overlapping tools with right-fit platforms and delivering $2M+ in licensing and operational savings; provided guidance, training, and adoption support to engineering teams.
  • Successfully led cross-functional teams across multiple geographies and time zones, ensuring consistent delivery and operational excellence.

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS DevOps Engineer – Associate
  • AWS AI Practitioner Certification

Timeline

Reliability Engineering Manager / Product Operations Lead

Johnson & Johnson
03.2024 - Current

Senior Reliability Engineering/ Technology Operations Lead

JPMorgan Chase
04.2023 - 12.2023

Senior Reliability Engineering Lead

Optum Financial Services (UnitedHealth Group)
09.2020 - 04.2023

Senior DevOps Engineer (Delivery & Operations Focus)

Optum Financial Services (UnitedHealth Group)
09.2019 - 09.2020

Senior Web Technical Support / Service Operations Engineer

01.2017 - 09.2019

J2EE Support Consultant

PennDOT
12.2012 - 05.2016

J2EE Support Consultant

Federal Reserve Bank
02.2010 - 12.2011

J2EE / Portal / WebMethods Consultant

Department of Labor & Industry – Pennsylvania
09.2007 - 01.2010

Bachelor of Arts - undefined

Osmania University
Prasanna Narmeta