N Bharani Srivatsa

An accomplished People Leader and SRE Manager with 17.8 years of experience with a strong technical program ownership and managing high-performance teams across diverse domains including DevOps, Cloud Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Scrum Management. Highly skilled in driving reliability, observability, and efficiency through strategic team leadership, process optimization, and proactive incident management. Adept at creating high-functioning teams, resolving conflicts, motivating team members, and managing key stakeholders.

• People Leadership: Experienced in managing cross-functional teams, including cloud engineers, release engineers, and observability specialists. Focused on mentorship, performance management, and team development. Delivered training and career development programs, fostering a culture of continuous learning. Manage team capacity, on-call schedules, and load balancing across projects.
• Stakeholder Management & Conflict Resolution: Managed senior stakeholders in high-stakes environments. Resolved conflicts between development and operations teams to align priorities, ensuring efficient project execution.
• SRE Manager: Expert in managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring service uptime, and optimizing cloud costs.
• Partner with Dev teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, rollbacks, feature flagging, etc.
• Standardize and improve observability practices (monitoring, logging, tracing)
• Own and optimize the on-call experience (e.g., alert fatigue, response playbooks)
• Ensure robust incident response, postmortems, and blameless RCA processes are in place.
• Real-Time Incident Management: Managed several high-priority incidents, ensuring swift resolution and implementing long-term fixes that increased system stability.
• Managing Scrum Events: Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and coached teams to improve Agile practices. Ensured timely and efficient project deliveries while maintaining high collaboration and team engagement.
• Define, coordinate, and execute Kubernetes and EKS version upgrades across environments with minimal downtime.
• Manage and review Terraform modules used for provisioning infrastructure.
• Plan and execute Splunk version upgrades, integration updates, and agent rollouts across systems.
• Automate updates and rollback of GITHUB runner versions; ensure isolation and performance tuning.
• Experienced in managing and supporting mission-critical applications in high-availability production environments.

• DevOps & Cloud Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Co-Pilot.
• SRE & Observability: Incident Management, SLOs/SLIs, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, Cloud Watch.
• Incident Management : JIRA, AutoNow,ServiceNow,Spark Callout.
• Agile & Scrum: Agile Project Management, Scrum, JIRA, Confluence.
• AI Tools: ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, GitHub Co-Pilot, Prompt Engineering.