Rahul Sharma ( Immediate Joiner )
Bangalore
Summary
Strategic Senior DevOps/SRE with 10 years of experience in architecting and migrating high-scale infrastructure. Expertise includes Cloud-Native ecosystems, Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform automation, and hybrid-cloud networking. Skilled in troubleshooting, CI/CD pipeline automation, and incident leadership. Focused on enhancing collaboration between development and operations teams for efficient project execution.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Sr. Production Engineer (DevOps/SRE)
Yahoo Inc.
05.2022 - 04.2026
- CI/CD Automation: Engineered and automated end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Screwdriver and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment lead time by 60%.
- Led end-to-end migration of "Metroplex" suite from legacy on-premise data centers to AWS EKS, achieving 30% reduction in overhead.
- Resolved high-severity Terraform state corruptions through manual state surgery and mitigated EKS pod crashes by correcting misconfigured ResourceLimits and OOMKills.
- Participated in 24/7 rotational shift for TnV engine. Led "Bridge Calls" for Sev-1 outages and authored detailed post-mortems (RCAs) to analyze incidents.
Cloud Support Engineer 2 (DevOps/K8s Specialist)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
08.2021 - 04.2022
- Premium Customer Support: Resolved critical production-down issues for AWS enterprise customers via phone, chat, and email, enhancing system uptime for EKS and ECS.
- EKS SME Troubleshooting: Provided expert troubleshooting for complex VPC CNI conflicts, IAM-to-K8s (RBAC) failures, and Persistent Volume (EBS/EFS) mounting issues, improving incident resolution speed.
- Deployment Automation: Guided enterprise clients in automating CI/CD workflows and container image promotion strategies using AWS native tools and Jenkins, streamlining deployment processes.
DevOps Engineer
American Express
11.2019 - 07.2021
- CI/CD Pipeline Setup: Designed and automated CI/CD pipelines for OpenShift PaaS using Jenkins and GitLab CI, integrating automated security scanning and compliance gates to enhance deployment reliability.
- Container & Pipeline Troubleshooting: Resolved Jenkins pipeline failures and debugged OpenShift pod startup issues (ImagePullBackOff), maintaining 99.9% application availability.
- Implemented automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Docker.
- Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS to ensure high availability.
- Collaborated with development teams to streamline CI/CD processes.
DevOps Engineer
DXC Technology
04.2019 - 10.2019
- Spearheaded containerization of legacy monoliths with Docker, orchestrating deployment on K8s (EKS/AKS) clusters to enhance scalability and reliability.
- Authored complex Helm Charts and manifests to standardize deployment processes across multi-cloud environments, facilitating consistent application management.
- Implemented automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Git.
- Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure platforms.
- Collaborated with development teams to improve application performance.
Site Reliability Engineer (Contract)
Adobe Systems
10.2018 - 02.2019
- Managed server patching (Ansible) and Nagios-based monitoring for high-availability nodes, ensuring system reliability through effective AMOTT ticket resolution.
- Handled real-time infrastructure alerts, maintaining service up-time for Adobe's internal engineering platforms during critical incidents.
- Maintained high availability of systems through proactive monitoring and incident response.
- Designed automation scripts to streamline deployment processes and reduce downtime.
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure smooth application releases and updates.
DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Enclouden
05.2018 - 11.2018
- Configured and managed OpenStack clustered environments to ensure reliable orchestration using Nova, Cinder, and Heat.
- Implemented and optimized Docker Swarm for orchestrating internal services and managing containerized workloads effectively.
- Automated deployment processes using CI/CD tools for efficient software delivery.
- Managed cloud infrastructure to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Collaborated with development teams to improve application deployment strategies.
Linux / DevOps Engineer
Censhare AG
New Delhi
01.2016 - 07.2016
- Managed Red Hat/Ubuntu administration, resolved DNS issues (BIND), and optimized web servers (Apache/Nginx) for high-availability environments.
- Automated routine system maintenance and log rotation tasks through Bash script development.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
- Managed cloud infrastructure using AWS and Docker for scalable applications.
- Automated deployment processes through scripting and configuration management tools.
Linux Administrator
Sysinfocom Private Limited
Chandigarh
11.2014 - 01.2016
- Managed core Linux infrastructure, user permissions, and server hardening to enhance system security and reliability.
- Deployed and scaled web applications on AWS (EC2, VPC, RDS) while managing LAMP stack environments to support high availability and performance.
- Administered Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and uptime.
- Configured network protocols and services for secure data transmission.
- Monitored system logs for identifying and resolving potential issues.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
Kurukshetra University
08-2014
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS EKS
- AWS ECS
- OpenShift
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Ansible
- Python
- Shell Scripting
- Bash
- AWS WAF
- Route 53
- Chronosphere
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- PagerDuty
- CloudWatch
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Git
- GitHub
- Linux
- Ubuntu
- CentOS
Personal Information
Marital Status: Married
Technical Core
Kubernetes (CKA), Docker Swarm, Docker, AWS EKS/ECS, OpenShift, Helm, Terraform (Advanced), CloudFormation (CFN), Ansible, Python (Automation/Logic), Shell Scripting (Bash), VPC Peering, PrivateLink (VPC Endpoints), AWS WAF, Route53, Chronosphere, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, CloudWatch, Screwdriver, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git/GitHub, Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS)
Certification
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Timeline
Sr. Production Engineer (DevOps/SRE)
Yahoo Inc.
05.2022 - 04.2026
Cloud Support Engineer 2 (DevOps/K8s Specialist)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
08.2021 - 04.2022
DevOps Engineer
American Express
11.2019 - 07.2021
DevOps Engineer
DXC Technology
04.2019 - 10.2019
Site Reliability Engineer (Contract)
Adobe Systems
10.2018 - 02.2019
DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Enclouden
05.2018 - 11.2018
Linux / DevOps Engineer
Censhare AG
01.2016 - 07.2016
Linux Administrator
Sysinfocom Private Limited
11.2014 - 01.2016
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
Kurukshetra University