NAVEEN KUMAR
Senior CloudOps Engineer
Coimbatore
Summary
Senior Cloudops Engineer with 8+ years of experience in designing, automating, and managing scalable cloud and containerized infrastructure across GCP and AWS. Strong expertise in managing infrastructure using IAC, Ansible, version control, CI/CD pipeline development, Proven ability to improve deployment efficiency, enforce security best practices, and enable developer productivity through automation and standardized platforms.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Cloud Engineer
Rappit
Coimbatore, India
06.2024 - Current
- Designed and provisioned cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS using Terraform and Ansible, enabling scalable and repeatable deployments
- Built and managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters tailored to application and business requirements
- Developed and maintained secure base Docker images, ensuring compliance with organizational security standards and enabling standardized application deployments
- Architected and managed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and Google Cloud Build
- Automated build, test, and deployment workflows, improving release efficiency and reducing manual intervention
- Managed multi-repository workflows using GitHub, GitLab (self-managed), and GCP Cloud Source Repositories
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, improving consistency and reducing provisioning time
- Wrote Bash scripts to automate operational tasks and enhance system efficiency
- Enabled application teams to deploy containerized workloads on Kubernetes using standardized pipelines
- Managed IAM roles, access control, and secrets, ensuring secure infrastructure and pipeline operations
- Troubleshot CI/CD failures, infrastructure issues, and production incidents, performing root cause analysis (RCA)
- Continuously optimized pipelines to improve build time, deployment speed, and system reliability
Senior Linux Administrator
Wipro Technologies
Coimbatore
10.2021 - 06.2024
- Experienced as Linux Tech Transition SME for transitions projects in Wipro.
- Hands-on experience in leading end-to-end global IT infrastructure transition Unix/Linux Tower, Getting Transition from Customer, documented and build BAU team , hand over to Operations team.
- Providing Transition Support on New project end to end on the Unix and Linux domain.
- Responsible for Knowledge acquisition from Incumbent or Customer SME
- Giving Reverse Knowledge Transfer to BAU (Operations) Team
- Updating Technical Documents and Reviewing with Customer
- Ticket Analysis and Preparing SOPs for repeated issues and major activities.
- Identifying Technical Risks in Unix environment and reviewing with customer and getting sign off.
- Technical SLA understanding on basis of inputs from Service Level Manager & Statement of Work
- Validate Scope of Work and identify gap as part of Transition
- Responsible for end-to-end Ownership, till go-live state.
- Providing in-house training for Unix BAU Team members.
Linux System Engineer
Assistant Network
Coimbatore
06.2017 - 10.2021
- The primary responsibility is to carry out day-to-day tasks of System Administration and Monitoring and updating Tickets (issues) through helpdesks.
- Installing and configuring new servers based on requirements (Control panel based/Plain server).
- Building, maintaining, and enhancing the development, staging and production environments.
- Good knowledge in Cpanel, Plesk, Directadmin, CWP.
- Good knowledge in with troubleshooting and fixing issues with CMS (wordpress,joomla,magento,etc)
- Troubleshooting and optimizing Server on high resource usage environment and making required recommendations and adjustments on service (Apache,Mysql etc.)
- Maintains Linux system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting system hardware, software, networks and operating and system management systems; designing and running Linux system load/stress testing
- Troubleshooting and finding root causes and fixing the issues on down time of server or services.
- Configuring HW/SW raid, LVM.
- Mail server setup (Zimbra)
- Have experience with working in AWS services (EC2, s3, IAM, CDN, Custom AMI creation)
Education
B.E - Computer Science and Engineering
06-2016
GPA: CGPA 7.2%
HSC - undefined
04-2011
GPA: PROCURED 50%
Skills
Linux (Redhat,Centos,Ubuntu,Debian)
Cloud (GCP, AWS) and On-prem
Virtualization (VMware)
DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build
IAC & Configuration management: Terraform, Ansible
Scripting: Bash
Certification
RHCSA Red Hat Certified System Administrator. Certificate Number: 160-213-823.
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge.
(M.Naveen Kumar)
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Credential ID 4a8a2264fa0d4f8eb8214872c9b48fbc
01-2026
GCP Professional Cloud Architect Certification Credential ID 300f547c-4d33-4c59-8a35-bf030997959a
10-2025
Senior Cloud Engineer - Rappit
06.2024 - Current
Senior Linux Administrator - Wipro Technologies
10.2021 - 06.2024
Linux System Engineer - Assistant Network
06.2017 - 10.2021
RHCSA Red Hat Certified System Administrator. Certificate Number: 160-213-823.
10-2016
R.V.S Matriculation Hr. Secondary school - HSC,
VMKV Engineering College - B.E, Computer Science and Engineering