Shivdev Kumar

Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Kubernetes

Salary / Daily rate

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Remote only

Skills

Site reliability engineeringPythonDevOpsMachine LearningTerraformClean ArchitectureHTMLFlaskPostgreSQLJenkinsRESTful APIsGrafanaSplunkBackend DevelopmentMicroservicesLLMs / Large language modelsTailwind CSSJavascriptAzureCSSDjangoGoogle Cloud PlatformMySQLTableauDatabricksPostmanSwagger/OpenAPIDatadogAnsibleKubernetesGitHubPrometheusSQL databasesAIAWS

Languages

EnglishHindiTamil

About me

Intro

Senior SRE with 10+ years architecting scalable infrastructure at Cisco and Copart, managing 800+ microservices on Kubernetes. Led teams building critical systems handling millions of authentication requests globally, reducing deployment time by 40% through automation. Specialized in distributed systems, observability, and cloud infrastructure with proven track record of 99.99% uptime.

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Work experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cisco

Nov 2024 - Present

2 years

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Currently supporting Duo Security’s production infrastructure as an SRE, ensuring high availability and performance for systems handling millions of authentication requests per second globally. • Architected and managed highly available micro-services on Kubernetes using Helm Charts and AWS- based infrastructure. • Developed scalable backend services focused on telemetry, health-checks, and fault tolerance for real- time communications. • Created reusable modules with Terraform for IAC, improving provisioning efficiency by 40%. • Owned full lifecycle of services including CI/CD, production support, on-call rotation, postmortems, and SLA compliance. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams on architecture reviews and service performance optimisations. • Designed and operated Kafka-based distributed systems for real-time data processing, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and observability.

Copart

Oct 2017 - Dec 2024

7 years 3 months

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Mar 2022 - Dec 2024

2 years 10 months

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Spearhead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly available and scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes and Docker containers. • Lead a team of engineers in developing and maintaining SRE Watchdog, a multi-purpose internal application for incident and on-call management, maintenance calendar, process automation, and analytics dashboard. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring minimal downtime. • Implement monitoring and alerting solutions with New Relic, Grafana, and Prometheus to proactively identify and address system performance issues.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Jul 2021 - Mar 2022

9 months

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Develop and maintain a scalable, fault-tolerant container orchestration platform using Kubernetes to manage Docker containers for over 800 microservices. • Build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Spinnaker to streamline the process of delivering applications from non-prod to prod environment. • Developed Ansible playbooks to automate manual processes which reduce resource time by 80% • Administration and maintenance of Jenkins and Kubernetes clusters to ensure 99.99% uptime. • Worked as subject matter expert for configuring, troubleshooting and monitoring services and applications. • Identify opportunities and implement automation to resolve and reduce live-site incidents. • Managed and optimized infrastructure on AWS/GCP Cloud along with Kubernetes, Docker, and VMware. • Automated deployment and configuration processes with Jenkins, Ansible, and Puppet, reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency.

Site Reliability Engineer

Jun 2018 - Jul 2021

3 years 2 months

Fort Worth, TX, USA

• Expertise on creating and maintaining web/application servers such as Apache Tomcat, httpd & Nginx servers. • Leveraged APM tools such as Instana, New Relic, Grafana and Scalyr to conduct root cause analysis and provide metrics to dev team. • Administered and configured Nginx servers to properly proxy various applications and endpoints. • Experience in containerization of microservices applications using Docker. • Leveraged Spinnaker as a CD platform for containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. • Implemented comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions with New Relic and Prometheus on both on-premises and cloud environments, enabling real-time visibility into system health. • Use of python, bash and Ansible playbooks to automate the repetitive tasks reducing resource hours by 50%

System Engineer

Oct 2017 - May 2018

8 months

Fort Worth, TX, USA

• Deployed Openstack using TripleO and integrated with existing traditional environment. • Worked on VMware ESXi on managing configuring Host and Platform Service Controller. • Experience in Ceph OSD, Pools, Placement Groups, CRUSH Map, Cephfs, RBD. • Building automation BOT scripts using python for day-to-day tasks like server creation, DNS configuration, LDAP configuration, Building new Linux Servers. • Basic System Administrator tasks like LDAP, DNS, Puppet, • Monitored Servers using Nagios and Patching Servers using Spacewalk. • Worked on SSO project for Configuring SSO for both Linux and Windows Servers. • Experience in Tegile Storage on tasks like creating new LUNs for VMware Datastore. • Record Key Performance Report every week on Memory, CPU, Server count, Storage.

Technical Support Engineer

Cisco

Jan 2014 - Jul 2016

2 years 7 months

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Install, configure and manage Cisco SNTP Application in Cloud and On-Prem Tools. • Participate in or support the configuration, implementation and maintenance of servers, system software, system upgrades. • Inventory Management using MySQL Database and Linux applications. • Hands-on Experience with Shell scripting and Python. RHCE/RHCSA certified. • Awarded Best Performer Award (CAP Award) from Cisco. • Knowledge in network protocols like TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, SSH, DHCP, SNMP, HTTPS.

Technical Consultant

Sutherland Global Services

Jun 2012 - Dec 2013

1 year 7 months

Chennai Area, India

• Providing On-Call Customer Support for McAfee Security Software • Troubleshooting technical related issues on remote for McAfee customers.


Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

Master of Science (MS)

2016 - 2018

2 years 1 month

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor's degree

2008 - 2012

4 years 1 month

Portfolio

Secure AWS Infrastructure and EKS Platform Transformation

Refactoring GCP Infrastructure Using Terraform

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