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Adhishankar Ramakrishnan

Bangalore

Summary

Site Reliability Engineer with 11+ years of experience in automation, cloud infrastructure, and service reliability. Specialized in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation, with a proven track record in cost optimization ($90K annually saved), platform migrations to AWS/EKS, and building resilient, highly available systems.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

Adobe Systems Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
11.2021 - 08.2025
  • Ensured reliability, availability, and scalability of multiple Adobe internal services hosted on AWS Cloud and Kubernetes (Ethos).
  • Automated workflows and transformed manual deployments into fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.
  • Led migration of Adobe’s Product Training Platform and security services from on-premises to AWS/EKS, provisioning infrastructure from scratch.
  • Built and managed Kubernetes clusters for security projects, configuring nodes via Ansible.
  • Onboarded new services into AWS and Ethos, implementing monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Splunk, and New Relic.
  • Achieved annual savings of $90K through cloud cost optimization.
  • Participated in on-call rotations, incident response, and chaos engineering to ensure SLA adherence.

Technical Lead - DevOps

HCL Technologies
Bangalore
02.2017 - 11.2021
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity, and Azure DevOps across multiple client projects (McAfee, Broadcom, PepsiCo).
  • Built and maintained cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Deployed and containerized applications (Python, Go, .NET) with Docker and Kubernetes, migrating 150+ apps to Kubernetes.
  • Configured monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, TIG, and ELK.
  • Created Helm charts and automated deployments on EKS clusters.
  • Provided DevOps training to developers and support teams, improving adoption of automation practices.

Technical Service Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2016 - 02.2017
  • Supported ICO and OpenStack infrastructure, performed patching, VM management, and incident handling via ServiceNow.

Linux Administrator

Marlabs Software Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 08.2016
  • Automated deployments with Ansible & shell scripts, managed AWS/Azure infra, monitored with TIG stack.

Linux Administrator

Endeavour Software Technologies
04.2014 - 07.2015
  • Managed Linux/Unix servers, automated VM deployments in Azure, configured OpenStack at POC level.

Unix Administrator

LOGUS Business Systems India Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 03.2014
  • Handled Linux/Unix admin, VMware/AWS EC2 provisioning, and DNS/FTP/NFS service configuration.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Muthayammal Engineering College
Rasipuram
01.2011

Skills

  • AWS
  • Azure DevOps
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • Ethos
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • ArgoCD
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • ELK
  • TIG stack
  • New Relic
  • Python
  • Shell scripting
  • PowerShell
  • GitHub
  • JFrog
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • VMware ESXi
  • OpenStack
  • Linux administration

Certification

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
  • Coursera Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

Adobe Systems Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - 08.2025

Technical Lead - DevOps

HCL Technologies
02.2017 - 11.2021

Technical Service Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2016 - 02.2017

Linux Administrator

Marlabs Software Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 08.2016

Linux Administrator

Endeavour Software Technologies
04.2014 - 07.2015

Unix Administrator

LOGUS Business Systems India Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 03.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Muthayammal Engineering College
Adhishankar Ramakrishnan