Souvagya Ranjan Nayak
DevOps Technical Lead
Bangalore
Summary
DevOps technical lead with over 11 years of experience in designing, automating, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Expertise in CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, and containerization, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to modernize delivery pipelines. Focused on driving cloud and DevOps transformation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency. Aiming for a senior-level position to architect scalable platforms and mentor engineering teams while promoting business growth through automation and security.
Over 11 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, and site reliability engineering, with a strong focus on automation and performance optimization. Expertise in Linux administration, shell scripting, and SCM tools including Git, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. Proficient in designing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps, alongside extensive experience with AWS and Azure services. Proven ability to implement observability solutions and lead cloud migration projects while fostering a DevOps culture within teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Technical Lead
Happiest Minds Technologies Ltd.
01.2022 - Current
- Lead design & implementation of highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across AWS & Azure.
- Architected CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps & AWS Code Pipeline.
- Delivered DevOps solutions for multiple domains: Retail, Healthcare, Embedded Systems.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform & CloudFormation.
- Implemented DevSecOps with SonarQube, Coverity, Blackduck.
- Established end-to-end monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK.
- Led root-cause analysis, incident resolution, and SRE-driven reliability improvements.
- Mentored DevOps engineers and guided development teams in DevOps best practices.
- Collaborated with architects & leadership to define cloud strategy, cost optimization & scaling plans.
- Managed DR, backup strategy, documentation, and onboarding workflows.
Sr DevOps Engineer
Keysight Technologies
02.2021 - 01.2022
- Part of Cloud DevOps R&D team delivering automation for multiple stakeholders.
- Created and maintained Jenkins Shared Libraries to optimize pipeline reusability.
- Managed multi-cluster deployments using Rancher, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE).
- Designed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and AWS CI/CD stack.
- Automated configuration using Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
- Implemented DevSecOps pipelines for VMT, container scanning, Blackduck, and policy enforcement.
- Migrated infrastructure from on-prem to GCP for performance and scalability improvements.
- Led DevOps metrics initiatives—MTTR, deployment frequency, failure rates, dashboards.
- Managed Terraform resources and mentored junior team members.
DevOps Consultant
Xebia IT Architects India Private Limited.
10.2020 - 02.2021
- Sole DevOps & AWS Architect responsible for end-to-end cloud & DevOps solutioning.
- Automated entire SDLC pipeline across Dev, UAT & Production using Jenkins.
- Designed complete AWS infrastructure using EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, ELB, VPC, CloudFormation.
- Containerized applications using Docker & pushed artifacts to ECR.
- Managed Kubernetes workloads on EKS, including K8s Dashboard setup.
- Collaborated with client teams for architectural discussions & solution delivery.
- Managed multi-environment DB setups and infra provisioning.
- Working Area: Client site
- Client: Mckinsey (South Africa)
DevOps Engineer (Technical Specialist)
HCL Technologies Ltd.
03.2020 - 08.2020
- Led CI/CD initiatives using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus.
- Created Jenkins pipelines with Groovy, integrated LDAP & managed Jenkins agents.
- Designed Ansible playbooks for automated deployments.
- Maintained Dev/Test AWS environments & configured security groups, IAM, EC2, RDS.
- Worked with Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Service Mesh components.
- Led release management, environment provisioning, and operational automation.
- Working Area: Onsite
- Client: RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland)
DevOps Engineer
Exide Life Insurance Company Ltd.
12.2018 - 10.2019
- Managed deployments across Dev, SIT, UAT environments.
- Automated CI using Jenkins, reduced manual deployment effort significantly.
- Maintained build artifacts, deployment runbooks & release coordination.
- Worked with Docker, microservices, VPC networking & environment provisioning on AWS.
Analyst
EXL Service.com India Pvt Ltd, GGN, IN
07.2017 - 10.2018
- Installed and configured Git, Jenkins, Maven, SVN.
- Created branching strategy, automated build processes, and managed deployments.
- Developed utilities to reduce manual effort.
Linux System Administrator
Interglobe Technologies
12.2015 - 06.2017
- Managed Linux servers, patching, LVM, Cron jobs, performance monitoring.
- Provisioned AWS EC2, EBS expansions, IAM management, ELB setup.
- Handled on-call 24×7 production support.
System Administrator
iYogi Technical Services Pvt Ltd.
03.2014 - 10.2015
- Installed & upgraded RPM/YUM packages, managed users & permissions.
- Performed VM provisioning, migration, snapshots, cloning.
- Configured SSH, FTP, Telnet, LVM, performance tuning.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - undefined
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Odisha01.2013
12th - undefined
CHSE Board
Odisha01.2009
10th - undefined
BSE Board
Odisha01.2007
Skills
Operating System: MSDOS, UNIX, RHEL, Ubuntu, Centos, Windows
Version Control Tools: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SVN
CICD Tool: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps
Build Tool: Maven, Ant, NPM, IAR (Embedded)
Security/Scanning Tools: SonarQube, Coverity, BlackDuck, VMT, Nexus IQ, Burp Suite
Artifact Repository: Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, AWS ECR, Azure ACR
Cloud Platforms: AWS (core services), Azure (DevOps, App Services, AKS, Networking)
Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, AKS
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, Jaeger, Nagios
Project Management: Jira, Confluence
Databases: AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server
PERSONAL SUMMARY:
Name: Souvagya Ranjan Nayak Father name: Pramod Kumar Nayak Date of Birth: 12 May 1991 Marital Status: Married Nationality: Indian Date: Place: Bangalore (Souvagya Ranjan Nayak)
Timeline
DevOps Technical Lead
Happiest Minds Technologies Ltd.
01.2022 - Current
Sr DevOps Engineer
Keysight Technologies
02.2021 - 01.2022
DevOps Consultant
Xebia IT Architects India Private Limited.
10.2020 - 02.2021
DevOps Engineer (Technical Specialist)
HCL Technologies Ltd.
03.2020 - 08.2020
DevOps Engineer
Exide Life Insurance Company Ltd.
12.2018 - 10.2019
Analyst
EXL Service.com India Pvt Ltd, GGN, IN
07.2017 - 10.2018
Linux System Administrator
Interglobe Technologies
12.2015 - 06.2017
System Administrator
iYogi Technical Services Pvt Ltd.
03.2014 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Technology - undefined
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
12th - undefined
CHSE Board
10th - undefined
BSE Board