SARATH MANMADHAN NAIR
CUMMING,GA
Summary
With over 18 years of experience in the information technology and services industry, I am a Senior Cloud Devops Engineer skilled in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Linux, Bash scripting, Github, Jenkins, Helm, ITIL release management and devops. My core competencies include infrastructure build and automation and CI/CD configuration. I am passionate about learning new technologies and best practices and collaborating with diverse teams to achieve excellence and innovation.
Platform engineering professional with deep understanding of system architecture and cloud environments. Possesses history of driving infrastructure improvements and automating processes to enhance operational efficiency. Focused on collaborative team efforts and adaptable to dynamic project requirements, ensuring dependable and flexible performance. Skilled in infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud services, valued for reliability and problem-solving abilities.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Platform Engineer
OMP
Atlanta, GA
10.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented scalable platform solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
- Developed automation scripts to streamline deployment processes, reducing manual intervention.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and updates.
- Mentored junior engineers on best practices for system architecture and design principles.
- Managed cloud infrastructure services, ensuring compliance with security protocols and standards.
- Led troubleshooting efforts for complex platform issues, facilitating rapid resolution and minimization of downtime.
- Enhanced platform performance by optimizing infrastructure and implementing automation tools.
- Evaluated new technologies for potential adoption into the platform ecosystem, ensuring a cutting-edge tech stack.
- Collaborated on cross-functional teams to drive platform improvements and deliver business value.
- Increased system reliability with proactive monitoring and timely issue resolution.
- Provided technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers, and fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing within the team.
- Implemented security best practices, safeguarding sensitive data and minimizing vulnerabilities.
- Ensured a smooth transition during major platform upgrades by meticulously planning rollouts, testing thoroughly, and providing post-deployment support when needed.
- Configured and managed Azure infrastructure with a focus on deploying AKS for efficient application deployment and resource utilization.
Supervising Associate
EY
Atlanta, US
03.2019 - 10.2023
- Onsite lead with EY CT DevOps team.
- Work closely on project requirements with clients and identify correct infrastructure resources.
- Provisioning various Azure infrastructure resources for multiple offerings using Ansible tower, ARM templates.
- Manages Build and deployment pipelines in Azure Devops and configure complete CI/CD process.
- Automate AKS configurations using Azure Devops.
- Automation/configuration management of day-to-day task using bash scripts.
- Experience in building and deploying docker images using Dockerfile.
- Manages the Installation and configuration of Grafana monitoring tool.
- Leads release management.
- Monitoring production environment health and drive improvements to enhance reliability, availability, and performance.
Associate Infrastructure Specialist
UST
Atlanta, US
06.2010 - 03.2019
- Managed Build and Architecture design for Web and Application servers
- Onsite Team lead for multiple client projects.
- Managed AWS services such as EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon ELB etc.
- Managed automation for installation and configuration of various middleware technologies in Linux servers using Chef.
- Developed Chef Cookbooks for various application requirements in AWS and VMware servers.
- Experience in code deployment using Jenkins, quicksilver and custom scripts
- Building new infrastructure in AWS using chef and scalar
- Co-ordinate with network team on F5 changes and troubleshooting.
- Configure and monitor application health using SiteScope, New Relic and Nagios.
- Configure and troubleshoot NFS and FTP servers.
- Change and incident management.
Systems Engineer
Armia Systems
Kochi, India
11.2007 - 06.2010
- Managed RedHat, CentOS, Fedora. Solaris and windows servers.
- Worked in VPS management, backup and migration on OpenVZ servers.
- Managed Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of web servers.
- Managed security issues and preventing local and remote compromises or exploits, system monitoring, security policies and rules.
- Lead server load monitoring and routine server management tasks.
- Shell Scripting (bash) to automate daily tasks.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication
SCMS School of Engineering and Technology
Ernakulam07-2006
Skills
- Linux Administration
- Azure
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Bash Scripting
- Helm
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- Git
- Chef
- DNS Management
- Apache
- Nginx
- Grafana
- ArangoDB
Websites
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certification ID: LF-zxgbhnum5v
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Certification ID: FC6521F6FD9EEF4F
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Certification ID: 75BBAE02999C85E1
- ITIL Foundation Examination Certification ID: 1302#311761862
LANGUAGES
English
VISA STATUS
H1B, I-140
Timeline
Senior Platform Engineer
OMP
10.2023 - Current
Supervising Associate
EY
03.2019 - 10.2023
Associate Infrastructure Specialist
UST
06.2010 - 03.2019
Systems Engineer
Armia Systems
11.2007 - 06.2010
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication
SCMS School of Engineering and Technology