Siddhesh Ramkrishna Harmalkar
Mumbai
Summary
Certified Cloud and DevOps Architect with 11+ years of experience implementing cost-optimized and scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Proven expertise in platform engineering, Kubernetes, Terraform, FinOps strategies, and SRE practices and CI/CD automation. Skilled in driving cloud transformation initiatives, improving operational efficiency, reducing cloud expenditures and aligning technology with business goals in high-impact environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Architect
Fractal Analytics Limited
Mumbai
02.2025 - Current
- Led the platform engineering team responsible for deploying and managing multi-environment infrastructure for SaaS on AWS Cloud using IaC via Terraform.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions workflows.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and coordinated sprint release cycles.
- Contributed to in-house FinOps initiatives integrating tools like FOCUS and CUR2.0 data exports with AWS services such as Glue, S3, Athena, and AWS Managed Grafana to optimise cloud cost visibility and accountability.
- Incident Management: Developed and refined incident management processes by leveraging SLA and SLO dashboards for reducing mean time to recovery through effective root cause analysis and resolution strategies.
- Participated in Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) activities, contributing to strategy formulation and execution of critical infrastructure resilience tasks.
- Implemented automated patch management using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager, reducing manual effort, and improving system security posture.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Sanghvi Beauty and Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
06.2019 - 02.2025
- Working as a Lead DevOps Engineer, Led and mentored a 6-member DevOps team, designing cloud solutions that supported 30% higher application traffic with 99.9% uptime.
- Implemented transition of applications from monolith to microservices within ECS and EKS environments.
- Designed fault tolerant and zero downtime production deployments of applications with features like circuit breaker.
- Designed full-fledged multistage CI/CD pipelines with CI tools such as Bitbucket, Gitlab with the help SAST and DAST tools such as Sonarcloud, Sonarqube, CodeAntAI, Trivy on different environment.
- Optimized overall monthly AWS cloud spend by 28% through combination of spot and reserved instance planning, right-sizing, and automated cost anomaly detection using AWS Cost Explorer.
- Accelerated deployment cycles by 45% and decreased change failure rate by 18% using Bitbucket pipelines and Integration testing, RUM, Synthetics testing etc.
- Orchestrated deployment and maintenance of cutting-edge technologies including MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Redis and DMS.
- Experience with automating cloud deployment processes of complex architectures such as GKE, EKS, ECS deployments with tools such as Terraform.
- Established comprehensive monitoring and logging frameworks using solutions such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana, Signoz and KubeAPM (Opentelemetry based) for continuous event observation.
- Implemented security best practices with help of tools such as Bottlerocket AMI, AWS Config, Secret Manager etc.
Cloud Linux Executive
XcellHost Cloud Services Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
04.2018 - 06.2019
- Managed the deployment, administration, and workload migration of OpenStack-based Hybrid Cloud solution product ZeroStack INC to KVM-based private cloud solution product OnApp.
- Interacted with end-users and handled their queries under managed services policies, providing intermediate-level support to troubleshoot within a 6-hour response time SLA.
- Offered specialized Managed Service Provider (MSP) assistance for AWS infrastructure, including services such as VPC, EC2, S3, Load Balancer, Route 53, SNS, CloudWatch, Autoscaling, and Lambda functions etc.
System Engineer
T&M Services Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2016 - 03.2018
- Part of the team managing the CRIS project - AMC Passenger Reservation System, providing infrastructure support for HP BLc870 i2 and HP BLc860 i2 Blade Integrity Servers, SAN Storage, HP Data Protector 6.2 etc.
- Executed activities related to Linux OS installation, defragmentation of LUNs, kernel parameters tuning, kernel compilation, system patching, system backup on LTO drives, and NTP time synchronization etc.
Linux System Administrator
OS3 Infotech Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2015 - 07.2016
- Provided Level 1 support as a Linux System Administrator, ensuring system uptime with a single point of contact in a 24/7 running environment.
- Managed server administration for a shared hosting environment on Linux servers, utilizing LAMP/LEMP web servers, CPanel, CWP, Plesk Panel, WordPress, and other related technologies.
Education
B.E - Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Yadavrao Tasgaonkar Institute of Engineering and Technology
Mumbai, MH01-2015
Diploma - Industrial Electronics
Shreeram Polytechnic
Airoli, MH01-2012
Skills
- Cloud Platforms:AWS, GCP, and Azure
- DevOps & SRE:CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Suite
- Kubernetes:EKS, GKE, AKS, ArgoCD
- Containerisation:Docker, ECS
- Observability:Cloudwatch, Datadog, New Relic, Signoz, KubeAPM, and Opentelemetry
- Monitoring and Logging:Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
- Database and Messaging:MongoDB, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis
- Security and Compliance: Bottlerocket AMI, AWS Config, Secret Manager, ITIL
- FinOps and Cost Optimisation: CUR20, AWS Glue, Athena and Quicksight
- Disaster Recovery and BCP: planning, DR drills, backup, and restoration strategies
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
- Agile Tools: Atlassian JIRA and Atlassian
- Testing tools: JMeter, Selenium
- Security: Trivy, SonarQube, CodeAntAI
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
- AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- ITIL v2011 Foundation
Timeline
Architect
Fractal Analytics Limited
02.2025 - Current
Lead DevOps Engineer
Sanghvi Beauty and Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
06.2019 - 02.2025
Cloud Linux Executive
XcellHost Cloud Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2018 - 06.2019
System Engineer
T&M Services Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
08.2016 - 03.2018
Linux System Administrator
OS3 Infotech Pvt Ltd.
08.2015 - 07.2016
B.E - Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Yadavrao Tasgaonkar Institute of Engineering and Technology
Diploma - Industrial Electronics
Shreeram Polytechnic