Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
Generic

Siva Krishna

Summary

Results-driven Sr. OpenShift/Kubernetes and DevOps Engineer with over 11 years of IT experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and infrastructure management. Proven expertise in designing, deploying, and managing OpenShift (on-prem and cloud), Kubernetes clusters, and containerized applications for enterprise-scale environments. Skilled in automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins, and proficient in monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Splunk. Adept at optimizing performance, leading platform upgrades, and ensuring high availability, security, and scalability. Recognized for collaborating across teams to deliver reliable, production-ready platforms in fast-paced, mission-critical settings.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr OpenShift Residency Engineer

Pure Storage Inc
01.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Provides services using OpenShift on OpenStack and VMware vSphere for enterprise application teams.
  • Worked on the container platform ecosystem (installation, upgrade, patching, monitoring).
  • Worked on Migrating the Solid fare arrays to Pure Storage Arrays for all OpenStack DC's and OpenShift clusters in NON-PROD and PROD using terraform jobs.
  • Worked on Etcd backup and recovery of the ocp clusters.
  • Strong experience in dealing with vendor support calls like redhat, IBM and Portworx calls.
  • Worked on Sizing the clusters in both NON-PROD and PROD envs.
  • Upgrades OpenShift clusters to 4.16.40 that are hosted on OpenStack and VMware Infrastructure.
  • Performed Portworx Operator/OCI monitor and stork image on OpenShift clusters.
  • Provided On-call support and driven triage calls for OpenShift platform related incidents.
  • Worked on PX incident calls and mitigated issues in PROD and NON-PROD.
  • Developed a terraform script to deploy the new clusters as per the request from application teams.
  • Upgraded Gremlin Operator and argo-cd upgrades.
  • Worked on migrating the SDN CNI Plugin to OVN Kubernetes. First step updated MTU value on the clusters.
  • Performed OpenStack hosts OS version upgrades, firmware upgrades and container upgrades inside the hosts.
  • Performed Production upgrades after the business hours and weekends schedules as part of the change management schedules.
  • Attended Agile Scrum calls, Spring planning, Spring review and retrospective meetings.
  • Ran the terraform Jobs to deploy the operators and validated them on the clusters.
  • Provides services using OpenShift on OpenStack and VMware vSphere for enterprise application teams.
  • Environment: Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift 4.13 to 4.16.X, Jenkins, Git, Linux, Openstack, Argo CD, portworx and terraform for IaC.

Sr OpenShift Engineer/K8's Engineer/DevOps

Ford Motor Company
Detroit
01.2020 - 12.2023
  • Company Overview: Provides service to customers based on the containers which will be hosted on different clusters to Ford customers globally.
  • Worked on the container platform ecosystem (installation, upgrade, patching, monitoring).
  • Worked with PD teams to install IBM cloud pack per data, IBM MQ and other IBM Products on the OpenShift clusters.
  • Worked in the infrastructure team and with managing 70 Openshift clusters includes On-Prem and cloud across the board in PROD and NON-PROD.
  • Hands-On experience on the different kubernetes services like AKS, EKS and GKE.
  • Worked on loki Grafana for observability to monitor the OCP platform and applications.
  • Worked on setting up user workload monitoring and notification sent out to slack, teams, etc.
  • Involved in migrating OCP 3.11 to 4.3 On-prem with 33 worker nodes.
  • Support Weekly Oncall rotation business and non-business hours.
  • Worked on design and implementation of OpenShift clusters based on the customers requirement. And platform Architect.
  • Worked with application team to support their deployments on the OpenShift.
  • Performed majority of the work through change management schedules by submitting Change ticket and IT advisories for Platform related work.
  • Worked on Upgrading OpenShift clusters from 4.10.X to 4.11.X to 4.12.X
  • Worked on Upgrading Portworx Software, Portworx Operator, Stork Image on the OpenShift clusters through ArgoCD.
  • Worked on creating terraform scripts to create a cluster through automation processes.
  • Used CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins to deploy the operators on the clusters. Strong experience with troubleshooting Jenkins Jobs if there is an issue.
  • Worked with PD teams to install IBM cloud pack per data, IBM MQ and other IBM Products on the OpenShift clusters.
  • Engaged vendor support calls with management to mitigate the PROD issue on the OpenShift clusters.
  • Provides service to customers based on the containers which will be hosted on different clusters to Ford customers globally.

DevOps Engineer

Silicon Valley Bank
Santa Clara
11.2019 - 01.2020
  • I wrote a Jenkins file to check out the SCM repository at regular intervals, build, stage, deploy, and send build status notifications to the team.
  • Worked on enabling HTTPS for the Apache web server, and worked on the perf environment setup.
  • Worked on converting shell scripts to use Ansible playbooks and run Tower jobs.
  • Developed a CI/CD system with Jenkins in a Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the CI/CD system to build, test, and deploy.
  • Created inventory, job templates, and scheduling jobs using Ansible Tower.

DevOps Engineer / Build and Release Engineer

Comcast Cable Communications
Philadelphia
02.2016 - 10.2019
  • Conducted RCA calls with technical management and change management team.
  • Worked on setting up RHACM and ACS on OpenShift clusters which are responsible for managing all the clusters from single controllers and checking vulnerabilities on run time.
  • Automated container lifecycle management, including container creation, starting, stopping, and removal using Podman commands and scripts.
  • Worked on Setting up Grafana and Prometheus dashboards for CPU and memory utilization on running workloads in the cluster.
  • Worked on customer requirements applying egress policies and increasing resource quotas on their namespaces.
  • Handled P1 P2, P3 and P4 Platform related incident tickets and communicated through bluckmail updates to application teams.
  • Worked with Team Lead on the MFA implementation on all On-prem and GCP OpenShift clusters.
  • Configured Kubernetes Replication controllers to allow multiple pods such as Jenkins master server in multiple minions. Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm, managed Kubernetes manifest files and created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes application.
  • Developed CI/CD system with Jenkins on Kubernetes container environment, utilizing Kubernetes and Docker for the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy.
  • Worked on scheduling OpenShift upgrades in both Pre-Prod through change advisories and CRQ tickets to communicate with application team.
  • Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, templatize Kubernetes manifests, provide a set of configuration parameters to customize the deployment and Managed releases of Helm packages.
  • Worked with MAVEN for building the application, and written maven scripts and shell scripts to automate the build process. Daily maintenance of GIT source repositories and builds.
  • Provides L3 engineering support, on call support on biweekly rotation.
  • Working with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing.
  • Responsible for building and maintenance of Kubernetes cluster & deployment of application in QA environment.
  • Worked on configuring and managing Tekton pipelines on Kubernetes and created pipelines to deploy K8s platforms using Tekton.
  • Responsible for building and maintenance of Kubernetes cluster & deployment of application in QA environment.
  • Worked on creating Persistent Volumes and Volume claims.
  • Worked on creating labels and defining node-selector to run workloads on dedicated worker nodes.
  • Worked on the apps ingress certificate creation and API certificates on the OpenShift clusters.
  • Worked on Etcd encryption enabled on the OpenShift clusters through Customization Templates.
  • Used Kubernetes to manage containerized applications using its nodes, Config-Maps, selector, Services, and deployed application containers as Pods.
  • Worked on enabling AAD login screen on the GCP clusters. Disabling self-provisioning role in OpenShift.
  • Environment: Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift 3.11,4.3 Jenkins, Git, Maven, Splunk, Nagios, Linux.

Build and Release Engineer

Ing Vysya Bank Ltd.
Hyd
05.2012 - 05.2014
  • Setup Continuous Delivery pipeline using Ansible playbooks. This primarily consists of a Jenkins to run packages and various supporting software components.
  • Perform analysis, design and implementation of batch processing workflows using Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler.
  • Oversee all operational activities for enterprise system applications in scope, meeting required deadlines.
  • Creating and branching and merging strategy with multiple branches and used Git as source code management repository to keep track of version changes.
  • Involved in Data center migrations Broad data center to Ashburn VA.
  • Involved in QA Regression Testing with STB's, Mobile Devices (iOS, Android) and Second Screen Devices.
  • Created repositories, branches, tags in Git and assist the developers to fix merging issues and to implement the parallel development process. Developing and maintaining the build environment, the source code control system and managing build packages using GIT and GIT Hub.
  • Included Vulnerability Detection as part of the CI/CD workflow using Jenkins Pipelines, SonarQube Quality Gates. Installed Jenkins/Plugins for GIT Repository, Setup SCM Polling for Immediate Build with Maven and Maven Repository.
  • Configured JIRA workflows according to the needs to the CM team and integrated the project management features of with the build and release process.
  • Automated the release pipeline to achieve zero touch deployments using Jenkins, SVS, Nexus.
  • Created deployment workflows in which includes pre-release, release, and Post release steps.
  • Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations.

Education

Computer Information Systems -

Masters
Nebraska, USA
08.2015

Skills

  • Cloud AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Configuration management tools, Chef
  • PUPPET
  • Ansible
  • Build tools, ANT
  • MAVEN
  • Gradle
  • Container tools, Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • GKE
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • Podman
  • Buildah
  • Version control tools, Git
  • CVS
  • SVN
  • Bit Bucket
  • Monitoring Tools Nagios
  • Splunk
  • ELK
  • Cloud watch
  • Scripting Bash/Shell
  • YAML
  • Groovy
  • Web Servers Apache HTTP
  • Nginx
  • Apache TOMCAT
  • IDE Tools ECLIPSE IDE
  • NETBEANS
  • CI/CD Tools Jenkins
  • Hudson
  • Bamboo

Certification

CKA Certified, 04/01/26

Timeline

Sr OpenShift Residency Engineer

Pure Storage Inc
01.2024 - Current

Sr OpenShift Engineer/K8's Engineer/DevOps

Ford Motor Company
01.2020 - 12.2023

DevOps Engineer

Silicon Valley Bank
11.2019 - 01.2020

DevOps Engineer / Build and Release Engineer

Comcast Cable Communications
02.2016 - 10.2019

Build and Release Engineer

Ing Vysya Bank Ltd.
05.2012 - 05.2014

Computer Information Systems -

Masters

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Siva Krishna