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MANOJ LOKANATH

Bengaluru,India

Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 10 years of experience in Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure, driving 99.9% uptime for enterprise applications at Teksoft Systems. Expert in automation, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code, delivering scalable, secure, and compliant solutions. Strong collaborator with a track record of streamlining deployments, enhancing operational efficiency, and supporting cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

Teksoft Systems
Texas, USA
05.2023 - Current
  • Supporting JPMC EVEREST enterprise applications as a Senior DevOps/SRE engineer, ensuring 99.9% availability for production workloads.
  • Designed and implemented reusable Terraform modules to provision AWS infrastructure (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS), reducing manual provisioning effort by 60%.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Spinnaker, enabling automated Docker-based deployments to EKS and ECS.
  • Standardized Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts and manifests, minimizing configuration drift across environments.
  • Implemented RBAC and Sealed Secrets, strengthening Kubernetes security and compliance.
  • Automated integrations between S3 and AWS services using SSM, improving operational workflows.
  • Integrated monitoring and alerting with Grafana and CloudWatch, improving incident detection and reducing MTTR.

DEVOPS ENGINEER

NTT DATA
Bengaluru, India
02.2020 - 03.2023
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, enhancing deployment success rates and build consistency.
  • Established CI/CD practices for VM-based and PCF environments to optimize performance.
  • Integrated Jenkins with Nexus, SonarQube, and Chef, elevating code quality and artifact management.
  • Managed deployments across development, staging, and production environments efficiently.
  • Automated build processes using Apache Maven, streamlining dependency management and WAR packaging.
  • Deployed application artifacts to Apache Tomcat and JBoss utilizing Ansible automation.
  • Supported Agile delivery through JIRA for effective change, incident, and release management.

DEVOPS ENGINEER

Sutherland Global Services
Bengaluru, India
04.2019 - 02.2020
  • Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure including VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Lambda, and Elasticsearch.
  • Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform modules, improving scalability and repeatability.
  • Defined and managed AWS Security Groups to control traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
  • Built dashboards, alarms, and alerts using CloudWatch and Dynatrace to improve observability.
  • Collaborated with development and infrastructure teams to streamline DevOps processes across the SDLC.

SENIOR CLOUD ASSOCIATE

Tesco
Bengaluru, India
06.2017 - 12.2018
  • Designed and implemented scalable AWS infrastructure to improve application performance and availability.
  • Led DevSecOps initiatives, reducing deployment time and improving reliability using DORA metrics.
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, accelerating release cycles.
  • Implemented Auto Scaling, Load Balancing, Multi-AZ, and Disaster Recovery strategies.
  • Developed event-driven architectures using AWS EventBridge, improving system scalability and resilience.

LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Gatik Business Solutions
Bengaluru, India
06.2015 - 05.2017
  • Managed and supported Linux servers (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) in production environments.
  • Automated OS provisioning and configuration using Kickstart, PXE, and shell scripting.
  • Implemented backup, LVM, and disaster recovery procedures for critical systems.
  • Provided L3/L4 support and resolved high-severity production incidents.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunication Engineering

BNM Institute of Technology
India
01.2015

Skills

  • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Container orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • Infrastructure as code: Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Continuous integration: Jenkins, Spinnaker
  • Version control: GitHub/GitLab
  • Build tools: Maven, Gradle
  • Configuration management: Ansible
  • Monitoring tools: Grafana, Datadog, New Relic
  • Log management: Splunk
  • Incident response: OpsGenie
  • Operating systems: Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
  • Web servers: Apache, Nginx
  • Application servers: Tomcat, JBoss
  • Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Caching solutions: Redis

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Timeline

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

Teksoft Systems
05.2023 - Current

DEVOPS ENGINEER

NTT DATA
02.2020 - 03.2023

DEVOPS ENGINEER

Sutherland Global Services
04.2019 - 02.2020

SENIOR CLOUD ASSOCIATE

Tesco
06.2017 - 12.2018

LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Gatik Business Solutions
06.2015 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunication Engineering

BNM Institute of Technology
MANOJ LOKANATH