SOBITHA SHEVER NATSAI
Platform Engineering
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced in designing and maintaining scalable and reliable platform infrastructures, leveraging automation tools and cloud technologies to streamline operations and enhance system performance. Proficient in scripting languages and containerization techniques, ensuring the delivery of robust and efficient platform solutions.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2012
2012
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Platform Engineer -4
NetApp
06.2024 - Current
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform.
- Design, deploy, and manage scalable Kubernetes clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Develop robust backend services and automation scripts using Python and Golang.
- Build, integrate, and optimize AI agents and Generative AI solutions that help us on daily tasks.
- Drive automation across systems and processes to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual interventions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable cloud and AI-based solutions.
- Monitor system health and performance, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
Lead Devops Engineer
ADP
09.2016 - 06.2024
- Automated and provisioned the whole infrastructure as IAC using Terraform, AWS, Ansible without manual intervention
- Created single-click Developer instance creation framework using Packer, Terraform, AWS that saves 50% of employees' time
- Created AMI rollout framework for EKS worker nodes with Zero downtime
- Leveraged Kubernetes via EKS to manage and other AWS SaaS tools to cut release times by 20%
- Organized AWS IAM as a Terraform module and leveraged it for authentication with the KIAM server on EKS Kubernetes
- Designing, Developing and Maintaining K8s package management (Helm) using CI CD Process
- Optimized and cut off our cloud resources costs by implementing various methodologies like Cluster Autoscaler, spot fleet instances, HPA in Kubernetes, weekend shutdown
- Automated AMI rollout for security vulnerability complaints and patching it periodically using AWS inspector and SSM
- Created ChatOps for automating our regular and frequent tasks using Errbot framework
- Proactively measured and testing our Production environment DR to simulate AZ failure by leveraging Chaos Toolkit
- Provisioned and administering shared service components such as Artifactory, Docker Trusted Registry, Jenkins, Atlassian Products(Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence)
- Configured and setup TLS for all internal applications using our private CA
- Mentor team members on best practices including automated build, deployment in CI/CD, Kubernetes and Security vulnerability
- Collaboratively working with Dev team to unblock them on infra related issues and ensure to follow the best practices on resource management for new services
Linux Administrator
Futurenet Technologies
03.2015 - 07.2016
- Setup and managed 100 Linux servers with 99.95% up-time
- Deploy Virtual Machines based on client requests
- Centralized the configuration management leveraging Ansible for 100+ servers
- Automated web server content deployments via Ansible playbooks
- Setup and Maintain Postfix an Zimbra Mail servers
- Patching Linux and Windows servers
System Administrator
Star Computers
11.2013 - 01.2015
- Disk Management: General partition, LVM partition and software RAID
- Windows/Linux OS Installation and configuration
- Troubleshooting hardware related issues
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
Anna University
Chennai, INSkills
- Kubernetes orchestration
- Containerization expertise
- Amazon Web Services
- Infrastructure as code
- Ansible configuration management
- Continuous integration
- Python programming
- Experience with Google Cloud services
- Golang programming
- AI system management
- GenAI Automation
- Kubernetes operator development
Certification
RHCE & RHCSA, RedHat, 03/01/15, 07/01/16, 140-093-188, Chennai, IN
Timeline
Platform Engineer -4
NetApp
06.2024 - Current
Lead Devops Engineer
ADP
09.2016 - 06.2024
Linux Administrator
Futurenet Technologies
03.2015 - 07.2016
System Administrator
Star Computers
11.2013 - 01.2015
B.Tech - Information Technology
Anna University
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