Neeraj N Surendranath
Senior DevOps Engineer
Kochi
Summary
Results-oriented DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and monitoring. Proven ability to design and manage scalable cloud solutions on AWS, with expertise in multi-account governance using AWS Control Tower and Identity Center. Skilled in Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability tools. Adept at driving automation, improving deployment efficiency, and ensuring high system availability.
Overview
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Certifications
14
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years of post-secondary education
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Uvj Technologies
08.2024 - Current
- Architected and governed a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, and IAM Identity Center, enforcing guardrails, SCPs, and least-privilege access across DEV, QA, and PROD accounts.
- Designed and implemented end-to-end GitHub Actions CI/CD for a multi-component monorepo (Spring Boot API, React frontend, Python FastAPI service, Playwright E2E, IaC), with path-based change detection, reusable workflows, required roll-up status checks, and merge-queue support.
- Built a secure software supply chain on JFrog Artifactory and Xray: pre-push and post-publish vulnerability scans, signed Release Bundles, and gated DEV to QA to PROD promotion with GitHub environment protection.
- Authored modular CloudFormation stacks (GitHub OIDC, S3, ECR, RDS PostgreSQL, ECS, ALB, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, SES, AWS Backup) with environment-prefixed naming, standard tagging, and cross-stack exports; validated with cfn-lint in CI.
- Eliminated static credentials by adopting OIDC federation from GitHub Actions to AWS, and centralized runtime secrets in AWS Secrets Manager.
- Streamlined frontend delivery by automating deterministic build artifacts, implementing SHA-256 integrity verification, S3 sync, and CloudFront cache invalidation.
- Delivered observability as code: Grafana dashboards and alert rules in Terraform, plus an OpenTelemetry Collector, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo stack for metrics, logs, and traces.
- Embedded DevSecOps controls in CI: scheduled OWASP Dependency-Check scans, license header enforcement, and static analysis (PMD, SpotBugs, ESLint).
- Partnered with cross-functional development teams to streamline releases, and made data-driven cost-versus-performance decisions to maximize business value.
DevOps Engineer
QBurst Technologies
05.2022 - 07.2024
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins DSL and JCASC configurations to enable rapid and reliable application deployment.
- Provisioned scalable AWS infrastructure via Terraform and CloudFormation to support application growth and resilience.
- Managed relational databases using RDS for PostgreSQL and MySQL to ensure high availability and performance.
- Implemented CodePipeline and CodeBuild for automated application delivery.
- Deployed containerized applications using Docker and ECS.
Operations Engineer
Mindcurv TSPL
05.2018 - 05.2022
- Monitored cloud and application infrastructure with Nagios, Grafana, and ELK to ensure system reliability.
- Managed incident response and RCA processes to improve operational stability.
- Supported GitLab CI/CD pipelines and microservices monitoring in production.
- Documented operational procedures and best practices in Atlassian Jira/Confluence to enhance team knowledge sharing.
- Collaborated with dev teams to troubleshoot deployment and service issues, facilitating quicker resolution of incidents.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication Engineering
University of Calicut
India 04.2001 - 01.2015
Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, VPC, SSM, IAM, S3, ECS, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, Identity Center, Control Tower)
Infrastructure Automation: Terraform & Cloudformation
CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Ansible
Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
Monitoring & Observability: EFK Stack, ELK Stack, Grafana, Nagios, New Relic, Data Dog
Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash
DevOps Tools & Workflow: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, 2023-11-27
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
LinkedIn - neeraj-surendranath
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Uvj Technologies
08.2024 - Current
DevOps Engineer
QBurst Technologies
05.2022 - 07.2024
Operations Engineer
Mindcurv TSPL
05.2018 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication Engineering
University of Calicut
04.2001 - 01.2015