SIVA PRASAD N
North Perumal Puram
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience supporting automation, CI/CD, platform operations, and cloudnative infrastructure. Strong hands-on experience in Linux, scripting, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes monitoring tools. Proven ability to support data platforms, ETL automation, and large-scale network/platform operations in enterprise environments. Experienced in incident triage, system reliability, and infrastructure maintenance across both cloud and on-prem platforms, including AWS and Comcast VCMTS/DAA ecosystems.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Operation Engineer
Comcast
01.2025 - Current
- Operations Engineer with experience in VCMTS / DAA Platform Operations supporting large-scale cable infrastructure.
- Strong background in Platform Ops alert triage, Kubernetes, Linux, network troubleshooting, and incident management.
- Experienced in handling major and critical alerts, performing planned maintenance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability of DOCSIS and Video services.
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant
01.2022 - 01.2025
- Hands-on experience in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
- Proficient in version control with Git, and managing repositories in GitHub.
- Automated ETL job deployments and migrations across servers using Ansible playbooks, reducing manual intervention and downtime.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate job execution, validation, and deployment workflows.
- Managed Linux servers, including process monitoring, disk usage checks, backup validation, and log analysis.
- Developed Shell and Bash scripts for job scheduling, monitoring failures, and sending alerts.
- Integrated GitHub for version control of ETL jobs, scripts, and configuration files.
- Supported data migration pipelines by coordinating deployments and validating post-deployment stability.
- Performed SQL optimization and validation as part of release readiness and production support.
- Troubleshot production issues related to job failures, server performance, and configuration mismatches.
- Worked closely with data engineering and operations teams to ensure smooth releases and platform reliability.
- Expertise in Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration for scalable deployments.
- Deployed and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EKS, ECS).
- Configured monitoring and logging solutions using Prometheus, Grafana.
- Actively involved in Agile development environments, supporting development teams in faster and reliable delivery.
Education
BE - Mechanical Engineering
Anna University
01.2022
Skills
- Python and SQL
- Unix scripting and shell
- MySQL and MongoDB
- Version control with Git
- Continuous integration with Jenkins
- Build automation with Maven
- Containerization with Docker
- Orchestration with Kubernetes
- Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
- Linux administration
- AWS services management
- EC2 and VPC configuration
- S3 storage solutions
- IAM and CloudWatch management
- SNS and SQS messaging
- Route 53 DNS management
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- Network load balancing strategies
- VPN setup and management
- TCP/IP networking
- Content delivery network (CDN)
- Network troubleshooting techniques
- Project management with JIRA
Projects
This project focused on automating and supporting data platform operations for Comcast's BSD Orion systems. The scope included ETL job automation, CI/CD enablement, server-side scripting, configuration management, and monitoring to ensure reliable data migration and processing workflows across environments. DevOps practices were applied to improve deployment consistency, reduce manual effort, and enhance system stability.
The VCMTS (Virtual CMTS) project supports Comcast's Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) platform, ensuring high availability of DOCSIS and Video services. The role involves 24x7 platform monitoring, alert triage, incident management, and infrastructure operations across Kubernetes, network switches, DAAS, RPDs, and timing systems. Responsibilities include proactive issue detection, SMOP-based triage, planned maintenance activities, and coordination with cross-functional teams to minimize service impact.
Achievements Awards
- Recognized by the project lead for automating the infrastructure provisioning process, reducing environment setup time by 60%.
- Completed multiple KodeKloud certifications within a short time to upskill and apply advanced DevOps practices in real-time projects.
Timeline
Operation Engineer
Comcast
01.2025 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Cognizant
01.2022 - 01.2025
BE - Mechanical Engineering
Anna University