M N Karthik
Senior Devops engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience in automating cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across Azure and AWS. Expert in Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts), GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (AKS) for building scalable, production-grade platforms. Proven in implementing end-to-end CI/CD workflows, GitOps practices, and automated deployments for microservices architectures. Strong in observability, cloud security, and SRE practices to enhance system reliability, performance, and availability.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Walmart Global Tech
Bangalore
03.2022 - Current
- Worked on PaaS services on Azure cloud (AI Content Safety,Cognitive Services,Event Hub)
- Implemented fully automated, hands-free deployments using Concord (CI/CD) pipelines integrated with Terraform, eliminating manual intervention.
- Explore new technologies (GitOps) and tools to support deployment process Optimize deployment process to support large number of parallel deployments.
- Built and automated a Python-based CLI to dynamically generate Terraform/ARM/CLI infrastructure templates using Concord workflows and Gemini APIs for Azure and GCP services.
- Monitor deployment performance and provide solutions to improve performance.
- Migrated cognitive service infrastructure from Terraform Enterprise to Open Source, handling state preservation and automation pipeline redesign.
- Implemented a centralized database approach for all MSOs by creating a shared schema and updating backend logic to store cloud service data centrally, eliminating the need for separate tables per MSO. Mapped GCP and Azure services to unique MSO identifiers within the backend.
- Integrated Gemini and Azure AI to build a secure, automated Jira ticket triage system, enhancing first-response and resolution SLAs across support teams.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Publicis Sapient
Bangalore, Karnataka
09.2025 - 03.2026
- Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for microservices-based applications built on .NET, Java, and Python.
- Automated application deployments to Azure App Services and Kubernetes (AKS), enabling scalable, and highly available cloud-native architectures.
- Developed Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to provision Azure resources, including App Services, VNets, databases, and storage accounts.
- Implemented database automation for Azure SQL and PostgreSQL, including schema deployment, backups, and environment configuration through CI/CD pipelines.
- Built and deployed containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes with Helm charts, supporting rolling deployments, and zero-downtime releases.
- Integrated observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor) to enable real-time monitoring, alerting, and SRE-driven reliability improvements.
- Applied DevSecOps practices, including secret management, IAM policies, and secure pipeline configurations, across multi-cloud environments.
- Collaborated with development teams to standardize build, release, and deployment strategies, improving deployment speed, and reducing failures.
Cloud Engineer
Harman Connected Services
Bangalore
09.2019 - 03.2022
- Working knowledge of AWS Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and evolving trends in the Cloud space.
- Provide daily monitoring, management, troubleshooting and issue resolution to systems and services hosted on cloud resources.
- Deploy code across multiple servers effortlessly.
- Help define best practices for source control, continuous integration, automated testing and release management.
- Develop cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding the process from development to operations.
- Automation and CI/CD - Using Jenkins
- Responsible for the operation, production, and management of all information systems for the technology area including Up gradations, Patching, Cloud Services, CI/CD Tools.
- Create and deliver knowledge sharing presentations and documentation to developers and operations teams (Document system diagrams, run books, and procedures, etc.).
- Attend and contribute in technical discussions and working groups with various stakeholders.
- Knowledge on ITIL, Scrum, Agile.
- Open to working shifts, including overnight shifts.
- Linux engineering / VM support (build, deploy, configure, and administer).
- Docker image creation/launching.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Acharya Institute of Technology
Bangalore 06.2014 - 06.2018
Skills
Terraform
Kubernetes
Python
Azure cloud
Azure DevOpS
AWS
GitHub Actions
Docker
Prometheus
Grafana
Linux
Azure Kubernetes Services
Helm
Bash/Shell Scripting
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Publicis Sapient
09.2025 - 03.2026
DevOps Engineer
Walmart Global Tech
03.2022 - Current
Cloud Engineer
Harman Connected Services
09.2019 - 03.2022
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Acharya Institute of Technology
06.2014 - 06.2018
Work Availability
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Accomplishments
- Received Bravo Award for configuring IaC pipelines and governance for Azure AI services (Custom Vision & Sentiment Analysis) within one week, leveraging Terraform automation and DX integration.
- Developed an AI-driven automation framework during a cloud engineering hackathon to generate Terraform, ARM, and CLI modules for Azure and GCP, reducing IaC delivery time from 3–5 days to under half a day and enabling self-service provisioning.
Quote
If the doors of perception were cleaned, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.
William Blake