SRIPRIYA SEKAR
DevOps Engineer
Chennai
Summary
Experienced DevOps Engineer with 9.5 years in IT industry, possessing strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud platforms, CI/CD automation, monitoring, and infrastructure reliability. Demonstrated success in problem resolution, operational optimization, and improving service stability, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
Certificates
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
AWS Cloud Engineer
Tech Mahindra
08.2024 - Current
- Designed, deployed, and managed scalable and secure AWS cloud infrastructure using services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, ALB/ELB, and Auto Scaling Groups.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, ensuring consistency across environments.
- Implemented high availability and fault-tolerant architectures, including multi-AZ deployments, health checks, and automated recovery mechanisms.
- Monitored system performance and availability using Amazon CloudWatch, setting up metrics, dashboards, and alerts to proactively address issues.
- Enforced AWS security best practices, including IAM roles and policies, least-privilege access, encryption, and network security controls.
- Provided production support, collaborating with development teams to troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve system reliability.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
DevOps Engineer
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2018 - 08.2024
- Designed and managed highly available cloud infrastructure primarily on Microsoft Azure, supporting production and non-production environments.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Azure ARM templates reduces manual effort and configuration drift.
- Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, reducing deployment time by approximately ~70% through automated build and release workflows.
- Containerized applications using Docker and deployed workloads on Kubernetes (AKS), with support for scaling and rolling updates.
- Improved system uptime to approximately ~99.8% by implementing auto-scaling, load balancing, and failover strategies.
- Implemented centralized logging and monitoring using the ELK Stack, configuring Filebeat and Metricbeat, and building custom Kibana dashboards.
- Monitored infrastructure and application health using ELK and Azure Monitor, proactively identifying performance and reliability issues.
- Achieved approximately ~35–40% infrastructure cost reduction through resource right-sizing, auto-scaling policies, and continuous monitoring.
- Provided production support, performing troubleshooting, and root cause analysis (RCA) for infrastructure and deployment incidents.
- Mitigated security risks by conducting regular vulnerability assessments and applying necessary patches.
- Implemented security best practices, including Azure RBAC, NSGs, encryption, and access controls.
- Worked with AWS services such as EC2, S3, and IAM roles for select workloads.
Middleware Administrator
TATA Consultancy Services
07.2016 - 04.2018
- Key player in administrating the WebSphere servers and configuring Admin Console security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console.
- Monitoring the JVM performance by WebSphere heap size, garbage collection, and connection pools.
- Monitoring MQ object health, such as damaged objects and queue pile-up with an automation script.
- Configuring JDBC Providers, Data Sources, JMS, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, and LDAP.
- Analyzing activity log files and diagnosing application server problems.
- Troubleshooting the MQ cluster, authentication, connection, and performance issues in various environments.
- Coordinating with the vendor (IBM) towards a permanent resolution of frequent issues with PMR.
- Troubleshooting the major problems reported with web server/app server configuration issues, and performance issues.
- Dedicated 24/7 support player, managing on-call support during off-business hours.
- Responsible for analyzing the client’s request and resolving the issues by setting up bridge calls for production issues and investigating all aspects of the event until it is resolved or escalated if necessary.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Chennai, India 08.2012 - 05.2016
Skills
Microsoft Azure
Certification
Azure Fundamentals - AZ 900
Timeline
AWS Solution Architect - SAA C03
12-2025
AI White Belt - Google Cloud Platform
11-2025
AWS Cloud Engineer
Tech Mahindra
08.2024 - Current
Azure DevOps Engineer - AZ 400
12-2023
Azure Administrator - AZ 104
06-2021
Azure Fundamentals - AZ 900
10-2020
DevOps Engineer
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2018 - 08.2024
Middleware Administrator
TATA Consultancy Services
07.2016 - 04.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Rajalakshmi Engineering College
08.2012 - 05.2016