Mani Balan B

DevOps Engineer with expertise in Cloud Infrastructure, Automation, and Monitoring. Skilled in Kubernetes, Ceph storage, and AWS, with experience designing highly available (HA) clusters and optimizing performance. Proficient in PowerShell scripting, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to improve efficiency.

Associate System Engineer | R&D - Zybisys Consulting Service

(2023-08 - 2025-11)

• Deployed and managed a highly available (HA) Kubernetes cluster for production, integrated with the KubeSphere dashboard for monitoring, and configured external access via a load balancer.
• Integrated Ceph storage with the HA Kubernetes cluster, enabling customer data storage across OSDs and configuring a multi-site setup with active/standby clusters for disaster recovery.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, Jenkins, and ArgoCD, reducing manual deployment effort by 80% and achieving consistent release cycles
• Provisioned and handed over 150+ servers across VMware/KVM hypervisors and AWS Cloud environments to internal teams, ensuring production readiness and documentation.
• Monitored IIS servers by scripting CPU, memory, and request-level metrics, improving performance visibility and reducing manual monitoring efforts.
• Evaluated observability tools including Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Checkmk, and SolarWinds to enhance system monitoring and reduce incident response times by 40%.
• Implemented centralized logging using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fluent Bit, and OpenSearch, reducing troubleshooting time by 70% across 50+ servers.
• Managed Bacula to automate scheduled backups for internal teams and customer environments, improving data reliability and protection across critical systems.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Electronics & Communication Engineering - PSNA College of Engineering and Technology (2019 - 2023)

12th - Annamalaiyaar Matriculation School (2018 - 2019)

10th - Annamalaiyaar Matriculation School (2016 - 2017)