Akhil R.

Walmart Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer May 2023 - Current ● Engineered robust Azure DevOps Pipelines for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments utilizing Azure Repos and Pipelines, integrating automated testing and validation to guarantee reliable, error-free infrastructure changes. ● Spearheaded the orchestration and optimization of scalable Azure infrastructure with Kubernetes (AKS), accelerating CI/CD pipelines by 30%, and significantly enhancing overall system reliability. ● Managed Azure infrastructure, including setting up Azure VMs, Azure Blob Storage, and configuring Azure Active Directory for secure access to cloud resources, improving access efficiency by 30% and reducing unauthorized access by 20%. ● Strengthened incident response protocols using Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health, achieving a 40% reduction in downtime and substantially improving system availability. ● Architected and implemented advanced CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, embedding DevSecOps practices with SonarQube, Trivy, and OWASP for rigorous static code analysis, increasing deployment efficiency by 50%. ● Automated infrastructure provisioning through Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates, leveraging Ansible for seamless configuration management, which resulted in 30% faster and more consistent deployments. ● Developed and deployed comprehensive monitoring and logging frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor on Azure VMs, vastly improving system visibility and enabling proactive issue resolution. ● Led cost optimization initiatives through Azure Cost Management, securing a 25% reduction in operational expenses while maintaining high performance and service quality. Standard Chartered DevOps Engineer July 2018 – July 2022 ● Architected and deployed a fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure tailored for the banking sector, ensuring 99.99% system uptime, thereby elevating user satisfaction and operational reliability. ● Streamlined and integrated advanced continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, AWS CodePipeline), resulting in a 50% reduction in build and deployment cycles, crucial for adhering to stringent financial compliance standards. ● Provisioned Lambda functions to create a Log stash for centralized logging - to store logs, Metrics into S3 buckets. ● Optimized deployment processes through AWS Elastic Beanstalk, reducing deployment times from hours to minutes, and achieving a 70% boost in operational efficiency, directly contributing to faster time-to-market for financial products. ● Designed and implemented robust cloud solutions using a comprehensive array of AWS services (S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, EBS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cloud Formation), ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructures for banking applications. ● Deployed, scaled, and managed 100+ Docker containers in Kubernetes using Helm charts, achieving 40% improved resource utilization and maintaining multiple namespace versions for effective load balancing. ● Led the migration from monolithic to microservices architecture within financial systems, utilizing Docker and Kubernetes to establish automated CI/CD pipelines, resulting in a 60% decrease in deployment times and enhancing scalability. ● Implemented monitoring solutions using Nagios, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail to ensure high availability, performance, and security of on-premises and cloud resources. ● Executed in-depth post-mortem analyses on system inefficiencies and incidents, driving the implementation of strategic improvements that ensured continuous operational excellence and compliance in the finance sector.