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
India01.2015
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