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SUJITH KUMAR N K

California

Summary

Accomplished Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering leader with 16 years of experience in designing and operating mission-critical platforms at enterprise scale. Drives reliability improvements and delivers resilient distributed systems across multi-cloud environments. Specializes in Kubernetes-based platform engineering and observability frameworks. Architects solutions, writes code, and mentors engineers to align infrastructure strategies with business outcomes.

Overview

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1
Certification
11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, SRE & Infrastructure Engineering

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)
04.2022 - Current
  • Led enterprise infrastructure reliability and DevOps platform engineering across multi-region AWS and Azure environments, achieving 99% uptime for critical systems through SRE practices and automation.
  • Led DevOps transformation improving deployment frequency by 70% through 4C/CI/CD pipelines, GitOps (ArgoCD), and IaC (Terraform) reducing provisioning time by 25%.
  • Architected AKS-based Kubernetes platforms enabling 3x scalability growth, designing resilient distributed architectures supporting rapidly growing enterprise workloads.
  • Established observability frameworks (Prometheus, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics) with real-time alerting, reducing mean time to detect (TTD) and mean time to resolve (TTR) and improving overall system reliability.
  • Implemented disaster recovery strategies reducing recovery time by 30%, ensuring business continuity and high availability across key workloads.
  • Rectified 6,000+ security vulnerabilities through SAST/DAST tooling and drove 20% infrastructure cost savings via rightsizing and FinOps governance.
  • Coached and mentored cross-functional engineering teams (DevOps, QA, Support) through 20+ training sessions on infrastructure and SRE best practices, enhancing team capability.
  • Defined enterprise cloud platform roadmap and technology strategy in collaboration with senior leadership, ensuring alignment on quarterly planning and execution.

DevOps Lead

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)
04.2019 - 03.2022
  • Instituted CI/CD pipelines, security checks, and cloud-native deployment patterns, reducing production incidents by 40%.
  • Spearheaded IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS infrastructure management for 15 technical initiatives, enhancing operational efficiency as IC and team lead.
  • Streamlined release processes with Agile (Kanban, Scrum), fostering iterative delivery and embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Migrated 250+ repositories to enterprise GitHub, standardizing release governance and improving cross-team alignment.

DevOps Lead

Infinx (Healthcare SaaS)
07.2018 - 04.2019
  • Architected secure SaaS cloud infrastructure on AWS supporting healthcare workloads with HIPAA/HITRUST compliance.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, enhancing deployment reliability and consistency.
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Senior DevOps Engineer

OneTrust
06.2017 - 07.2018
  • Designed automated cloud deployment frameworks enabling zero-downtime releases across distributed systems.
  • Resolved scalability and reliability bottlenecks in collaboration with development and operations teams to enhance system performance.
  • Led implementation of CI/CD pipelines, enhancing deployment efficiency and reducing lead times.
  • Architected and maintained scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services to support application performance.
  • Automated configuration management utilizing Ansible, streamlining system updates and consistency across environments.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Happiest Minds
11.2015 - 05.2017
  • Designed AWS infrastructure (EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53) to support scalable applications and led enterprise Ansible automation across multiple environments to enhance deployment consistency.
  • Led automation initiatives to streamline CI/CD pipelines, enhancing deployment efficiency across multiple teams.
  • Collaborated on infrastructure design using Terraform and AWS, improving scalability and reliability of cloud environments.
  • Mentored junior engineers in best practices for container orchestration with Kubernetes, fostering team skill development.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

VTU
Bengaluru

Skills

  • Microservices architecture
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure (multi-region)
  • Containers: Kubernetes (AKS, EKS), Docker, ECS
  • Monitoring tools
  • Security analysis

Certification

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • ITIL Certified

Timeline

Senior Manager, SRE & Infrastructure Engineering

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)
04.2022 - Current

DevOps Lead

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)
04.2019 - 03.2022

DevOps Lead

Infinx (Healthcare SaaS)
07.2018 - 04.2019

Senior DevOps Engineer

OneTrust
06.2017 - 07.2018

Senior DevOps Engineer

Happiest Minds
11.2015 - 05.2017

B.Tech - Computer Science

VTU

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