MEGHAL PARIKH
Plano,USA
Summary
Dynamic SRE Manager with a proven track record at JP Morgan Chase, leading teams to enhance system resilience and reduce downtime by 60%. Expert in cloud cost optimization and infrastructure automation, fostering collaboration and driving significant savings. Proficient in Kubernetes and observability tools, with strong leadership skills to achieve strategic goals.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
SRE Manager / DevOps Manager
JP Morgan Chase, N.A.
Plano, TX
02.2021 - Current
- Led a team of 15+ DevOps & SRE engineers, overseeing site reliability, cloud operations, and infrastructure automation.
- Developed and executed SRE strategies to enhance system resilience, reducing downtime by 60%.
- Designed and maintained high-availability Kubernetes clusters, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
- Implemented self-healing infrastructure and automated incident response, reducing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) by 40%.
- Spearheaded observability improvements using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana, enabling real-time monitoring.
- Collaborated with security teams to enforce DevSecOps best practices, strengthening compliance and risk management.
- Drove cloud cost optimizations, achieving annual savings of $3 million+ through efficient resource management.
- Standardized IaC (Infrastructure as Code) practices with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, improving consistency.
- Established SLOs/SLIs to measure service reliability and track key performance indicators.
VP - DevOps/SRE Engineer
JP Morgan chase
Plano, Texas
01.2018 - 02.2021
- Led a team of 6** DevOps engineers** in transitioning infrastructure from Linux/Windows to AWS/Kubernetes, optimizing cloud operations and cutting infrastructure costs.
- Spearheaded CI/CD automation across multiple applications, reducing deployment time by 50% and improving release frequency.
- Designed microservices architecture and API integrations, enabling seamless interactions between distributed applications.
- Improved observability and monitoring using Grafana, Dynatrace, and Splunk, reducing incident response time by 40%.
- Developed disaster recovery strategies and incident response plans to ensure business continuity.
- Led strategic cost optimization initiatives, saving millions in cloud expenditures.
- Fostered cross-functional collaboration between engineering, security, and product teams to enhance DevOps adoption.
Delivery Lead
JP Morgan chase
Wilmington, Delaware
02.2014 - 01.2018
- Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility; ensured consistent application of Scrum methodologies across the enterprise
- Managed end-to-end $20 million project delivery, production support, and maintenance with 30 resources in the USA and India
- Led the application deployment/release management activities across environments along with versioning to ease parallel development, meeting complex business requirements
- Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Enforced Kanban principles as a Scrum Master, resulting in a 20% reduction in cycle time and increased team throughput in less than 8 weeks
- Provided extensive knowledge and support in the preparation of technical design documents and requirements documents based on user stories
- Involved in data modeling for all custom tables and cloning of the Out-of-the-Box Pega tables
- Managed cross-functional teams to deliver software projects on time and within budget
- Led strategic planning sessions to align project goals with overall business objectives
- Fostered collaboration and communication across teams to ensure the successful delivery of projects
Senior System Architect
JP Morgan chase
12.2011 - 02.2014
PEGA developer
JP Morgan chase
Wilmington, Delaware
08.2010 - 12.2011
Education
Master -
Computer Science
05.2010
Skills
- Grafana
- Dynatrace
- Kibana
- Cypress
- Selenium
- BlazeMeter
- JMeter
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Pivotal
- Splunk
- Jenkins
- Spinnaker
- GIT
- Angular
- Site reliability
- Infrastructure automation
- Cloud cost optimization
- Disaster recovery
- DevSecOps practices
- Observability tools
- Team leadership
Timeline
SRE Manager / DevOps Manager
JP Morgan Chase, N.A.
02.2021 - Current
VP - DevOps/SRE Engineer
JP Morgan chase
01.2018 - 02.2021
Delivery Lead
JP Morgan chase
02.2014 - 01.2018
Senior System Architect
JP Morgan chase
12.2011 - 02.2014
PEGA developer
JP Morgan chase
08.2010 - 12.2011
Master -
Computer Science
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