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Sridharan

Cloud, DevOps, Platform, SRE and Data Engineer

Summary

Results-driven professional with over 9+ years of experience in Cloud, DevOps, Platform, SRE, and Data Engineering. Specialized in delivering scalable and secure solutions on GCP and AWS. Adept at building end-to-end data pipelines, enterprise Kafka platforms, DevOps automation, and cloud migrations. Experienced in designing internal platforms, implementing SRE practices, and enhancing infrastructure reliability and observability. Eager to take on a leadership role to spearhead impactful initiatives in the cloud, platform, DevOps, and data domains.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Infra Dev Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - Current
  • GCP Cloud Data Engineering - BigQuery, DataProc, GCS Bucket, Composer, Airflow, DAG, Analytical Hub, Pub/Sub, Auto scaling, Secret Manager, Compute Engine, Cloud Migration, SQL, Power-BI, Hadoop, HIVE, Spark, SQL Server management, Pyspark, Shell, Python, Cost optimization.
  • Architect and lead end-to-end migration of on-premises Hive workloads to GCP, defining required services and computing resources to ensure scalability with cost optimization.
  • Develop and implement Pyspark ETL code to process raw data from Hadoop HDFS, storing transformed data in Hive tables.
  • Develop Pyspark code to integrate refined data into BigQuery tables for optimized querying and analysis.
  • Design and implement Apache Airflow DAGs in GCP Composer to automate the provisioning of DataProc clusters and orchestrate Pyspark job execution.
  • Develop end-to-end automation to eliminate manual processes and enhance operational efficiency across day-to-day GCP workflows.
  • Build interactive Power BI dashboards to visualize data and support decision-making for stakeholders.


  • AWS Cloud Data Messaging - MSK, ECS, ECR, IAM, EC2, CloudWatch, Auto scaling, Route 53, EKS, Secret Manager, S3 Bucket, Kafka, Mirror maker, Git/GitHub, Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline, Kubernetes, Docker, BOA, Terraform, Datadog, Splunk, Bash, Python, PAAS, Kafka ACL, RBAC, Cluster Deployments.
  • Deployed, automated, monitored, maintained and managed Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka clusters in AWS platform, to ensure performance and data messaging reliability and system stability through SRE-aligned practices such as observability, alerting, and proactive incident management.
  • Built and enhanced the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to automate the MSK cluster and Kafka based operations.
  • Ticketing tool - JIRA for incident and service request management.

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
12.2021 - 12.2023
  • GCP Cloud - Pub/Sub, GCS Bucket, IAM, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Artifact registry, Logging, Compute Engine, SQL, Cloud DNS, VPC PSC, Gcloud Shell, Data flow, Looker, Scheduler, Redhat OpenShift Container-as-a-Service platform, Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Git/GitHub, Tekton CI/CD Pipeline, Docker, Podman, Logsink, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Postman, REST API, Elastic search, Log stash, Kibana, Bash, Python, SAAS, PAAS, Rotational On-call, Cluster certificate renewal, Operator Upgrade, Block reconciliation.
  • Deployed, automated, monitored, maintained, and managed GCP cloud-based Kafka production clusters using OpenShift Container-as-a-Service platform to ensure performance and scalability.
  • Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using OpenShift Tekton to automate operations and infrastructure deployments.
  • Implemented platform observability and reliability best practices through centralized logging, metrics collection, and alerting to support SRE objectives and operational excellence.
  • Ticketing tool - SMART IT for incident, change, and service request management.

Senior Engineer

CSS CORP PVT LTD
08.2018 - 12.2021
  • AWS Cloud Infrastructure - EC2, EBS, IAM, S3, VPC, NAT, Internet Gateway, SNS, SQS, RDS, Security (SG, NACL), Transit Gateway, Route 53, Load Balancers, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, Server Migration, Cloud Endure, Glacier and Life Cycle Management, Cross Region Replication, Auto Scaling, Kibana, Cloud formation, ECR, ECS, EKS, IAAS, PAAS, AWS Developer tools.
  • DevOps - GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Maven, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus.
  • Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production system, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
  • Other Technologies - VOIP, PBX, UCAAS, CPAAS, WEBRTC, SIP, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTPS, VMware server virtualization, Linux, Windows Sever, XMPP.
  • Ticketing tool - Salesforce, JIRA.

Analyst

HCL Technologies
09.2015 - 07.2018
  • Maintained high-availability Linux production servers across internal networks, global infrastructure, and AWS EC2 instances.
  • Set up disaster recovery (DR) environments by creating custom AMIs and provisioning applications on remote branch sites.
  • Created and managed Amazon S3 buckets for diverse project storage and data management needs.
  • Configured AWS security components, including Security Groups and Network ACLs (NACLs), to enforce fine-grained access control.
  • Managed GitHub repositories hosting multi-client application code for automated deployment across EC2 instances.
  • Monitored AWS cloud resources using CloudWatch, defining custom alarms for system health and performance tracking.
  • Created Jenkins jobs and CI/CD pipelines to automate application packaging and deployment to target environments.

Education

Bachelor’s degree - Information Technology

Jeppiaar Institute of Technology
04.2011 - 01.2015

HSC -

Sri Ramakrishna Vidhyalaya Gurukulam MHSS
01.2010 - 01.2011

Skills

    ☁ Cloud Platforms: GCP, AWS

    🧰 DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Tekton

    🛠 Programming Languages: Python, Bash, SQL, PySpark

    📊 Monitoring & Analytics: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New-Relic, Power BI, Looker

Certification

GCP Certified Professional Data Engineer

Timeline

Infra Dev Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - Current

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
12.2021 - 12.2023

Senior Engineer

CSS CORP PVT LTD
08.2018 - 12.2021

Analyst

HCL Technologies
09.2015 - 07.2018

Bachelor’s degree - Information Technology

Jeppiaar Institute of Technology
04.2011 - 01.2015

HSC -

Sri Ramakrishna Vidhyalaya Gurukulam MHSS
01.2010 - 01.2011

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