Narendra Kumar
Austin,TX
Summary
Results-driven Site Reliability Engineer with over 13 years of experience in DevOps and Build and Release engineering. Expertise in maintaining uptime, optimizing system performance, and quickly diagnosing issues under high-pressure conditions. Recognized for managing tasks efficiently in fast-paced environments, leveraging skills in continuous integration, infrastructure as code, and cloud services management to deliver successful project outcomes. Aiming to further enhance operational efficiency through innovative solutions and collaborative teamwork.
Overview
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Certification
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Consultant
Apple
Austin, Texas
05.2025 - Current
- Develop Jenkins pipelines with parameters for deploying to specific environments and regions.
- Streamlined monitoring systems using Prometheus and Grafana for real-time insights.
- Create and update Terraform code for infrastructure as code (IaC) management.
- Upgrade and manage EKS clusters, ensuring they are running the latest versions.
- Facilitated engineer collaboration in scheduled change management tasks.
- Debug and resolve Chef configuration issues for managing EKS worker instances on AWS.
- Implemented continuous integration processes using Jenkins CI and CD pipelines.
- Provided guidance on DevOps processes such as incident response planning, disaster recovery planning.
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure smooth transition from development phase into production phase.
DevOps Specialist
Silicon Valley Bank
Santa Clara, CA
07.2022 - 03.2025
- Built CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI to streamline development workflows.
- Designed and implemented efficient deployment workflows using GitLab CI, OpenShift, and ArgoCD.
- Deploy, configure, manage applications on OpenShift, monitor the health and performance of GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Identify and resolve issues in the pipelines to ensure smooth deployments.
- Integrate Flyway for database version control and migrations.
- Build and maintain custom Docker images for use in GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrate Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools into the CI/CD pipelines.
- Create and maintain the GitLab Container Registry for container images.
- Integrated DevSecOps tools with practices for optimized process efficiency.
- Implemented systems automation using scripting languages like Python and Bash.
- Implemented continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines for various applications.
Site Reliability Engineer
Adobe
San Francisco, CA
10.2018 - 03.2023
- Developed tools and automation to streamline service optimization processes.
- Contributed to moving applications from data center to cloud environment.
- Created automated scripts for software deployments and configuration management tasks.
- Efficiently handle multiple issues, projects at the same time, facilitated coordination of changes, ensuring minimal disturbance to users.
- Ensured high availability and scalability of applications across multiple environments.
- Facilitated communication between project stakeholders to keep everyone informed of progress and changes.
- Performed capacity planning activities based on current usage trends and future projections.
- Monitored systems performance using various metrics such as latency, throughput, availability.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Tampa, FL
08.2017 - 10.2018
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure application deployments were successful.
- Performed troubleshooting on a variety of issues impacting system health or performance; also, identified opportunities for process improvements to decrease support calls.
- Collaborated in designing patches to address operational challenges in deployed software.
- Developed automation scripts and tools to streamline the deployment process.
- Implemented continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines for various applications.
- Deployed containerization solutions such as Docker to improve application portability.
DevOps Engineer
Thomson Reuters Corporation
Tampa, FL
04.2016 - 08.2017
- Enhanced application build and deployment automation for streamlined processes.
- Streamlined processing of structured information through integration with Elasticsearch.
- Set up Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana platform for log data structuring.
- Coordinated scheduling and planning for software installations and upgrades.
- Created CI and CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker to automate the build process of applications.
- Reviewed project requirements to identify customer expectations and resources needed to meet goals.
- Monitored system health using Nagios and Splunk for early detection of issues.
- Implemented systems automation using scripting languages like Python and Bash.
Member of Technical Staff
NetApp
Bangalore, Karnataka
09.2013 - 02.2016
- Troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process
- Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & maven as build framework tools
- Troubleshot malfunctions with systems and programs to pinpoint root cause of issues and restore
- Coordinated installation of updated computer programs and systems
- Updated and maintained technical specifications, notifying project manager of changes
- Member of SCM representing changes for Release and environment configuration
Education
Master of Engineering - Computer Networking
Bangalore University
Bangalore09-2013
Skills
- Cloud - AWS
- AWS Services - VPC, S3, EC2, NLB/ALB, Route53, RDS, ASG, Elasticsearch, Cloudwatch, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS etc
- SCM - GitLab, GitHub, Git, SVN
- Scripting - Ruby, Python, Perl, Shell, Groovy
- Configuration Management - Chef, Ansible
- Message Queueing - SQS, Beanstalkd, Kafka
- CDN - Fastly, Cloudfront
- Hashicorp Tools - Terraform, Nomad, Vault, Consul
- Monitoring - Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, Nagios, Grafana
- CI/CD - Jenkins
- Build Tools - Ant, Maven, Rake, npm, Kaniko
- Containers - Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS
- Code Quality - SonarQube, Snyk
- Atlassian Tools - Jira, Confluence, Crucible
Certification
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
- Certified Chef Basic Fluency
- Certified ITIL Foundation
Languages
Timeline
DevOps Consultant
Apple
05.2025 - Current
DevOps Specialist
Silicon Valley Bank
07.2022 - 03.2025
Site Reliability Engineer
Adobe
10.2018 - 03.2023
Senior DevOps Engineer
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
08.2017 - 10.2018
DevOps Engineer
Thomson Reuters Corporation
04.2016 - 08.2017
Member of Technical Staff
NetApp
09.2013 - 02.2016
Master of Engineering - Computer Networking
Bangalore University