Rohit Saini
IT Professional – DevOps Engineering
Jaipur,RJ
Summary
Dynamic Site Reliability Engineer with a proven track record at U.S. Xpress, excelling in system monitoring and incident management. Expert in configuring Grafana and optimizing Istio service mesh, achieving a 30% reduction in latency. Strong problem-solving abilities complemented by extensive experience in Kubernetes and Terraform for efficient infrastructure automation.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Site Reliability Engineer
U.S. Xpress
04.2024 - Current
- Configured and managed Grafana with Azure AD authentication via OAuth 2.0 for secure access.
- Set up data sources, including Prometheus (Mimir), Loki, Tempo, Opentelemetry, ClickHouse ensuring efficient metric collection and visualization.
- Provisioned high-performance alerting and monitoring by integrating Grafana with external services for notifications.
- Configured monitoring and visualization of system metrics, database performance, and API health using Prometheus for metrics collection, Thanos for scalable, long-term metrics storage in S3, and Grafana for visualization.
- Designed and optimized Istio service mesh for traffic routing, and load balancing, reducing latency by 30%.
- Developed Helm charts (both app & library) for standardized and automated Kubernetes deployments.
- Automated FluxCD-managed Kubernetes deployments using Helm, PowerShell, and Renovate, ensuring version consistency between live clusters and Git.
- Built end-to-end automation with Helmfile for chart deployment, SOPS-encrypted secrets, and Git synchronization with GPG-signed commits.
- Set up Cert-Manager to automate the management and renewal of SSL/TLS certificates within the Kubernetes cluster, ensuring secure communication with minimal manual intervention.
Junior DevOps Engineer
CYTTORAK PRIVATE LIMITED
10.2023 - 04.2024
- Utilized Terraform for infrastructure automation, enabling the provisioning and management of cloud resources across multiple platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Developed and maintained Terraform modules for reusable infrastructure components, reducing configuration drift and improving consistency across environments.
- Implemented an end-to-end Salesforce CI/CD pipeline using SF CLI, Git, Bitbucket pipeline supporting a multi-branch strategy (feature, develop, uat, main) for environment-specific deployments with automated tests and approvals. Built a diff-based deployment mechanism by comparing changes between the main branch and target environment branches.
- Designed and implemented a robust GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for automated Helm chart releases to Amazon ECR, supporting both manual and push-based triggers.
- Leveraged Git diffs and matrix strategy to parallelize chart builds, auto-tag versions with GitVersion, and push to OCI-compliant ECR repos.
- Designed and automated smoke test pipelines in Azure DevOps, provisioning self-hosted VM Scale Sets (VMSS) via Terraform for scalable test execution.
- Integrated Jira API to trigger test runs and Xray API to publish results, ensuring real-time traceability across Azure DevOps and Jira.
- Utilized Ansible for automating infrastructure management, enabling seamless configuration across a fleet of servers with a single playbook execution.
- Automated the setup of RHEL machines with default configurations
- Used Ansible Vault for secure management of sensitive data (passwords, keys) within playbooks, ensuring secure deployments across environments.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic Engineering
MBM UNIVERSITY
Jodhpur, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Incident management
System monitoring
Capacity planning
ITIL framework
Microservices architecture
Configuration management
Containerization technologies
Linux administration
Problem-solving abilities
Cost control
Timeline
Site Reliability Engineer
U.S. Xpress
04.2024 - Current
Junior DevOps Engineer
CYTTORAK PRIVATE LIMITED
10.2023 - 04.2024
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic Engineering
MBM UNIVERSITY
04.2001 -