Sekher Jeram

St. Louis,MO

Summary

Highly accomplished Site Reliability, DevSecOps, Cloud, and Security Engineer with 13.5+ years of experience driving reliability, automation, observability, and secure cloud architectures. Expert in GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, VAPT, and large-scale production support. Proven ability to reduce downtime, optimize performance, automate complex workflows, and lead AI-driven engineering initiatives. Strong background in incident management, SLO/SLA design, cost optimization, and security hardening across enterprise environments.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

Site Reliability / GCP Cloud Engineer

Equifax Inc

Saint Louis, MO

02.2024 - Current

Ensured reliability for 15+ mission-critical applications, supporting 10–50M record batch workloads.
Cut batch processing time 50% (8 hrs → 4 hrs) by optimizing JVM and autoscaling policies.
Resolved 250+ critical incidents, improving MTTR and system stability.
Led GCP cost optimization, eliminating unused resources and delivering sprint-level financial reports.
Built event-driven ETL pipelines using GCS → Dataflow → BigQuery, with Airflow DAG orchestration.
Engineered AI agents to automate SonarQube config updates across 30+ repos.
Designed Datadog dashboards and Log Analytics workflows for proactive monitoring.
Maintained secure GCP infrastructure: IAM, Cloud Functions, GKE, VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud SQL.
Performed VAPT using Burp Suite, Qualys, OWASP ZAP; provided OWASP Top 10 remediation guidance.
Delivered Terraform automation for Cloud Functions, GKE, Datastore, Buckets, and service accounts.

Technical Lead (Google & Pearson)

HCL America

Austin, TX

05.2020 - 01.2024

SME for Jenkins, IAM, CI/CD, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
Built SRE frameworks for stability, auto-healing, and alert reduction.
Designed Looker dashboards for microservice health, security posture, and SLA tracking.
Implemented OTEL for distributed tracing across microservices.
Managed GCP infrastructure: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Load Balancers, Pub/Sub.
Improved cloud spend using GCP Cost Management and resource optimization.
Automated deployments, security scanning, and pipeline governance across multiple teams.

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro Pvt Ltd

Bangalore, India

08.2019 - 03.2020

Conducted VAPT, source code reviews, and remediation for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
Performed manual and automated security assessments using Burp, Black Duck, Contrast, OWASP tools.
Designed AWS HA architectures using EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, CloudFormation.
Automated CI/CD and containerized environments using Docker and Terraform.

DevOps / Security Engineer

AppQlabs & Screative Software Services

07.2013 - 08.2019

Designed and maintained Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform-based IaC.
Performed network assessments (Nmap, Wireshark), Linux administration, and automation using Bash/Ansible.
Conducted end-to-end application security assessments and SDLC security integration.

Education

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Skills

SRE & Reliability: SLO/SLA/SLI, Error Budgets, RCA, Incident & Change Mgmt, On-Call, Chaos Testing
Cloud: GCP (expert), Azure, AWS
DevSecOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Security & VAPT: Burp Suite, Fortify, Qualys, OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Black Duck, Snyk

Observability: Datadog, New Relic, GCP Logging/Monitoring, OTEL
Programming/Automation: Bash, Python, CI/CD pipelines, AI-driven automation
Data & Pipelines: Airflow, BigQuery, Dataflow, GCS, Pub/Sub