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MOKAN RAJAMANI

SRE Manager
Bangalore

Summary

Dynamic SRE Manager with a proven track record at NVIDIA, leading teams to enhance operational efficiency through strategic planning and innovative solutions. Expert in leveraging visualization tools like Prometheus and Grafana, while fostering collaboration and performance management to achieve organizational goals. Skilled in Perl scripting and team leadership, driving impactful results.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

SRE Manager

NVIDIA
10.2017 - Current
  • Managing a team of 5 FTEs and 18 contractor employees to achieve project goals, fostering collaboration, and innovation.
  • Experienced in managing and scaling core, enterprise-critical services like DNS, LDAP, NIS, and remote display technologies like VNC.
  • Leveraging artificial intelligence to streamline operations and enhance efficiency.
  • Experienced with the deployment of end-to-end monitoring and visualization tools using Prometheus, Grafana, and also with third-party tools like Nagios, Zenoss, and Datadog.
  • Experienced in capacity forecasting and in the management of infrastructure required for bringing up and maintaining the environment.
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
  • Achieved organizational goals by developing and executing strategic plans, and performance metrics.
  • Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.

Lead IT Engineer

Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd
05.2012 - 10.2017
  • Led a site shutdown activity to successful completion, which involved coordinating with different teams to complete tasks within the stipulated time interval.
  • Experienced with shell and Perl scripting to automate known patterned tasks, and in developing dashboards for management.
  • Experienced in architecting and setting up the infrastructure and processes to support restricted environments, like offshore development centers, in accordance with Qualcomm security standards.
  • Ensuring the team resolves tickets within the SLA, and analyzing ticket metrics to improve service.
  • Forecasting, vendor support, and capacity planning for the servers in the data center.
  • Experienced with complete end-to-end support from hardware procurement to landing, to production, and to EOL.
  • Performed root-cause analysis of recurring issues, developing targeted solutions to prevent future occurrences.

Systems Programmer

Intel
08.2007 - 05.2012


  • Led a team of six people in the capacity of a team lead or tech lead.
  • Developed web-based indicators, which act as decision-making tools, using Perl, MySQL, and CGI. Isharp, one of the indicators I worked on, bagged the Silver prize in InfoWorld’s Green 15 list.
  • Ensuring high availability of the infrastructure needed to maintain the environment through XEN, VMware solutions, and managing location constraints.
  • User, group account management for the Bangalore site through the NIS tool.

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

PSG College Of Technology
Coimbatore, India
04.2001 -

Skills

    Team leadership

    Operations management

    Strategic planning

    Performance management

    Project management

    Contract management

    Team collaboration

    Perl, Shell Scripting, Python

    MySQL

    Datadog, Nagios,Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana

    LSF, NC

Certification

Agile Project Management

Timeline

SRE Manager

NVIDIA
10.2017 - Current

Lead IT Engineer

Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd
05.2012 - 10.2017

Systems Programmer

Intel
08.2007 - 05.2012

Master of Science - Software Engineering

PSG College Of Technology
04.2001 -
MOKAN RAJAMANISRE Manager