Srinivas Ashok
Highly Motivated Associate Site Reliability Engineer III Off ering Hands-on 14+ Years Of Experience In Cloud (AWS And Azure With Certifications).
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic Senior Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in building, automating, and managing highly available cloud platforms on AWS and Azure. Expertise in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible, and developing automation scripts in Python to enhance reliability and accelerate deployment velocity. Proven track record in managing Kubernetes and Linux-based production environments with a strong emphasis on scalability, security, and operational excellence. Proficient in deploying enterprise-grade observability solutions using AppDynamics and Splunk to facilitate proactive incident management, performance optimization, and SLO-driven operations while collaborating effectively with development, platform, and data engineering teams to create resilient and cost-effective automated systems.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
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Work History
Associate SRE III Architect
JP Morgan Chase & Co
10.2022 - Current
- Highly motivated Associate Site Reliability Engineer III offering hands-on 14+ years of experience in Cloud (AWS and Azure with Certifications).
- Architecting product code base deployment to Dev, UAT and PROD Infrastructure using SDLC strategies.
- Optimizing the code deployment strategies using Terraform templates, CICD (Jenkins), Sonar, SSAP scanning on both On Prem and Cloud (AWS).
- Implemented application monitor using AppDynamics and Splunk for our application health monitor.
- Implemented the End-to-End OpenSearch Infrastructure in AWS using AWS cloud services like, kinesis, lambda (Python), R53, S3 bucket and also Kafka and Grafana for On Prem.
- Architected and implemented AWS Lake Formation–based data lake governance to manage Apache Iceberg managed tables, enabling secure, scalable, and ACID-compliant analytics.
- Provisioned and managed the complete Lake Formation, Glue, S3, IAM, and Iceberg infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring fully reproducible and version-controlled environments.
- Built Terraform modules for Iceberg catalogs, Glue databases, Lake Formation permissions, and S3 data zones (raw, curated, consumption), improving deployment consistency across environments.
- Automated table-level, column-level, and row-level access control for Iceberg tables via Lake Formation, reducing manual IAM and improving compliance posture.
- Built and maintained EMR provisioned clusters (Spark, Hive, Trino) optimized for Iceberg workloads with custom AMIs, autoscaling, and high-availability configurations.
- Automated Iceberg catalog integration with Athena, Glue, and EMR (Serverless + provisioned) while enforcing Lake Formation–based access control.
- Integrated Iceberg tables with Athena, Glue ETL, and EMR Spark while enforcing centralized governance via Lake Formation.
- Managing the Elasticsearch Infrastructure for Event and Log persister and aggregation data.
- Implemented the Kubernetes service deployment infrastructure using Jenkins and Bitbucket for SCM.
- Developed multiple automation using python for the Dev team to manage and deploy the code base in our Infrastructure.
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Oracle
10.2021 - 10.2022
- Create and maintain fully automated CICD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins File, Groovy scripts, Custom Ansible modules and Python.
- Proficient with container systems like Docker and container orchestration like EC2 Container Service, Kubernetes, worked with Terraform.
- Managed Docker orchestration and Docker containerization using Kubernetes.
- Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of Docker Containers.
- Championed in cloud provisioning tools such as Terraform.
- Strong Knowledge on Azure DevOps, Azure Functions.
- Creation and Management of ARM templates and modules.
Sr. DevOps Engineer
NTT Ltd
06.2016 - 10.2021
- Open Source:
- Contributor for Apache-Libcloud Python SDK for Dimension Data and NTT-CIS Cloud Provider
- Self-service Cloud migration tool:
- A self-service migration tool for customers and engineers for migrating NTT Inc Cloud resources from one datacenter to another. The tool is built on Django web framework with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, jQuery, ajax front end.
- Image patching and QA automation:
- Used for performing automated Operating System in place patching and testing of all OS images on 50+ locations across the globe from end user perspective.
- The workflow involves spinning up OS images by interacting with NTT Cloud API, performing unit tests on OS images followed by destroying the images. Technologies involved: Jenkins, Python, VMware backend, PyVmomi, Ruby, Rspec / Serverspec, Ansible, NTT Cloud API.
- Azure:
- Implementation, Administration of Azure Cloud Infrastructure.
- Configure VMs, AKS, ACI, Traffic Manager, Azure Monitor, VNET, RBAC, Manage subscriptions, Azure policies, Implement and manage storage, blob storage, Azure files.
DevOps Engineer
Walmart eCommerce
05.2016 - 06.2016
- Handling Automation for Our Web Application, Enterprise applications through Ansible
- Creating and deploying a terraform template for major cloud providers.
- Implementing and managing Kubernetes and Docker infrastructure
- Installation and management for Build Pipeline with Jenkins for Build And release(with pipeline as code)
- Auto-scaling of EC2 Instances.
- Evaluate the performance of EC2 instances, their CPU, Memory Usage, IOPS, Network Usages, and suggest appropriate instance type for the same.
- Setup/Configure the Virtualization Hosts [Hypervisor] on all kinds of OS platforms (VMware VMs, Logical Domain Controller, VIO servers).
- Infrastructure Management using Chef configuration utility.
- Writing chef cookbooks, data bags and configuring Chef environments.
Sr. System Administrator
Oracle
11.2009 - 04.2015
- Implement and Manage CR (Change Request) on production environment.
- Experience in LVM Configuration in HP-UX (Command line and SAM) & Linux.
- Hands on knowledge in analyzing crash and core dump in Linux.
- Experience in SVM configuration In Solaris.
- Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, NFS (HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and AIX)
- Hands on knowledge in LVM, ZFS and VXFS Volume Managers.
- Installation/Upgradation of Solaris & RHEL flavor.
- AIX TL Upgradation and APAR fix.
- Configuring VIOs, HMC and LPARs in IBM HW.
- Installation and configuration of HP-UX, Red Hat Linux and Solaris operating systems.
System Administrator
SmartShift Technologies
09.2007 - 04.2009
- Implement and Manage CR (Change Request) on production environment.
- Experience in LVM Configuration in HP-UX (Command line and SAM) & Linux.
- Hands on knowledge in analyzing crash and core dump in Linux.
- Experience in SVM configuration In Solaris.
- Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, NFS (HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and AIX)
- Hands on knowledge in LVM, ZFS and VXFS Volume Managers.
- Installation and configuration of HP-UX, Red Hat Linux and Solaris operating systems.
Education
Bachelor of system administration - Information Technology
01.2007
Davangere University, Davangere
Skills
Python
Timeline
Associate SRE III Architect - JP Morgan Chase & Co
10.2022 - Current
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle
10.2021 - 10.2022
Sr. DevOps Engineer - NTT Ltd
06.2016 - 10.2021
DevOps Engineer - Walmart eCommerce
05.2016 - 06.2016
Sr. System Administrator - Oracle
11.2009 - 04.2015
System Administrator - SmartShift Technologies
09.2007 - 04.2009
Dr. C.V. Raman College Of Administration and Network Sciences(CANS) - Bachelor of system administration, Information Technology