SRINIKETAN KURMA
Bangalore,India
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional with extensive experience in optimizing development workflows, fostering a culture of reliability, and driving operational excellence at scale. Proven track record in leading initiatives to build and enhance scalable automation pipelines, significantly improving system reliability and end-to-end monitoring capabilities. Effectively collaborates across engineering, product, and business teams to ensure alignment of innovative technical solutions with overarching business objectives. Expertise includes Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, CI/CD pipeline architecture, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and advanced automation scripting, all aimed at delivering rapid, secure, and efficient software deployment in diverse environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Cloud SRE Engineer
Mastercard Inc
05.2022 - 06.2025
- Designing and deploying automated solutions to streamline deployments and rapidly resolve incidents across cloud and container platforms. lead technical investigations and apply strong skills in Observability and Dev-Ops practices to drive the transition to resilient, cloud-native architectures. The core mission is to minimize downtime and maximize system stability through continuous improvement and automation.
- Architect and manage scalable Azure and Hybrid infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring high availability for distributed .NET and Java applications across AZ, AWS, GCP platforms.
- Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, automating the full lifecycle from source code compilation (Maven/Gradle) to artifact creation and multi-environment deployment (QA, Staging, UAT, and Production).
- Developed and maintained Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with reusable Terraform modules, ensuring scalable, compliant, and consistent cloud provisioning.
- Lead the orchestration of containerized workloads by designing and implementing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and managing the onboarding of mission-critical business applications.
- Standardize configuration management by utilizing Ansible and environment variables to maintain consistent, environment-specific deployments and streamlined application packaging.
- Develop and maintain advanced observability suites using Dynatrace, Azure AppInsights, Prometheus, and Grafana to proactively monitor application health and performance.
- Serve as an Embedded SRE within Scrum teams, collaborating with developers to bridge the gap between code and production through performance tuning and GitOps-driven deployment strategies.
- Leverage AI-driven insights for anomaly detection and self-healing workflows, utilizing machine learning toolkits to automate routine operational tasks and reduce MTTR.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, managing infrastructure capabilities and networking to maintain 99.9% availability for customer-facing services
Sr DevOps Engineer
DMI Inc
05.2021 - 04.2022
- Collaborated with engineering teams to build and deploy Net applications using MS/TFS Build, Jenkins, and Octopus. Deploy new releases, updates, and patches for asp.net applications. Troubleshoot application deployment and configuration issues.
- Designed, built, and maintained robust Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for end-to-end automation of build and deployment processes across non-production and production systems, directly supporting the responsibility of implementing Azure DevOps solutions for clients.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams using JIRA and Kanban to track defects and utilized SonarQube for continuous code analysis and vulnerability identification, ensuring the delivery of high-quality code.
- Ensured and implemented technical solutions to maintain Always on High Availability for core middleware services, contributing to the overall stability and reliability of deployed systems.
- Developed and maintained comprehensive technical system documentation for audit, compliance, and customer briefing purposes, fulfilling the responsibility to develop and maintain technical documentation.
- Trained teams on Azure DevOps, demonstrating a commitment to up-to-date processes and implemented strategies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, demonstrating a commitment to stay up to date with industry trends and best practices.
- Coordinated closely with application and infrastructure teams during production go-live and cutover windows to ensure zero-downtime deployments.
- Created Azure services using ARM templates (JSON) and ensured no changes in the present infrastructure while doing incremental deployment.
- Led migration efforts from on-premises TFS to Azure DevOps Services, improving pipeline efficiency and cloud readiness.
Xfinity DevOps Project
Comcast Inc
08.2019 - 04.2021
- Collaborated with project stakeholders to define requirements and worked closely with development teams within agile methodologies and cross-functional activities. Designed, built, and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines, automating manual development and deployment processes to accelerate software delivery
- Knowledge of the RDK (Reference Design Kit) framework to develop and integrate new features, as well as to debug and optimize existing code
- Diagnose and resolve issues with GitHub workflows and integrations, ensuring a smooth and efficient development process.
- Utilized and manage the Yocto build system to create custom Linux distributions and software images for various devices
- Provided developers with secure continuous delivery system to promote developer adoption to production and supporting them with Kubernetes deployments.
- Experienced in troubleshooting infrastructure issues with Linux, network latencies between systems and any other Dev-Ops teams to drive issues towards closure.
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Pipeline (Declarative and Scripted) to extend Jenkins functionality and automate tasks using Git, Artifactory, Ansible
- Integrate Jenkins with notification and collaboration tools (e.g., Slack, Microsoft Teams, Ops genie, icinga).
- Create and maintain Docker files for various applications and services, ensuring efficiency, security, and reproducibility; implement multi-stage builds to reduce final image size and improve security.
- Emphasis on integrating Docker into CI/CD pipelines and managing containerized deployments.
- Monitor the health and resource utilization of Docker containers. Configure and manage security plugins and settings in Jenkins.
System Software Engineer
Apple Inc
08.2018 - 07.2019
- Designed Build and Deployment Automation, Release Management and implementing Service reliability best practices (Production Maintenance/Monitoring, alerting, L1/L2/L3 Troubleshooting). Execution of scripts to maintain health of systems. Maintain liaisons with other stakeholders and facilitate to provide necessary support and expertise, as necessary.
- Worked on tasks like configuring, implementing application monitoring, setup dashboards, alerts, and logging strategies.
- Successfully operationalized solutions in production environments, ensuring high availability across both production and non-production systems.
- Develop and maintain Splunk search queries, dashboards, reports, and alerts based on user requirements.
- Create and manage Splunk knowledge objects (e.g., lookups, field extractions, event types, tags).
- Develop and maintain documentation for Splunk content and configurations.
- Monitor security events and alerts in Splunk to identify potential security incidents.
- Provided post-production warranty support following major releases, closely monitoring system health and resolving stabilization issues within defined support windows.
- Contribute to incident response efforts by providing Splunk data and analysis.
- Working with application and operation teams for resolving runtime failures, troubleshoot Build and deployment issues, with minimal downtime.
Education
Master of Science (MS) - Electrical and Comp Science Dept
Texas A&M University
US08-2018
Bachelors (B-Tech) - Electronics and Communication Engineering
SRM University
08-2016
Skills
- Version Control: Git Bitbucket GitHub-Actions
- Alerting Tools: Ops Genie X matters Slack
- Cloud Services: AWS Azure PCF GCP
- Databases: Oracle SQL My SQL Postgres Redshift
- Configuration Management: Ansible Docker
- Operating Systems: Linux Windows MacOS
- Data Processing: Apache Kafka Offset Explorer
- Package Management: Nexus Artifactory NuGet
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker Kubernetes
- Infrastructure Provisioning: Cloud formation Templates (CFT) Terraform
- Programming & Scripting Languages: Shell Python groovy bash Yaml
- Tools: Jira Intelli-J Eclipse Visual Studio Remedy Rally
- Monitoring: Splunk Dynatrace Grafana Thousand eyes ELK CloudWatch Datadog
- CI/CD: Jenkins XLR TFS Build Maven SonarQube Control M Coverity Black duck
- SRE Practices: SLS, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, RCA, Fault Analysis, Automation
Certification
• AWS certified solutions architect – Professional:Issued in June 2025
• AWS Developer Associate:Issued in July 2018
Timeline
Lead Cloud SRE Engineer
Mastercard Inc
05.2022 - 06.2025
Sr DevOps Engineer
DMI Inc
05.2021 - 04.2022
Xfinity DevOps Project
Comcast Inc
08.2019 - 04.2021
System Software Engineer
Apple Inc
08.2018 - 07.2019
Bachelors (B-Tech) - Electronics and Communication Engineering
SRM University
Master of Science (MS) - Electrical and Comp Science Dept
Texas A&M University