SUJITH KUMAR N K
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)
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.
2
Certification
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, SRE & Infrastructure Engineering
4 Years 4 Months- 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
2 Years 11 Months- 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
9 Months- 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
1 Year 1 Month- 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
1 Year 6 Months- 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
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
VTU
B.Tech from Computer Science