Rithishsamm

DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience managing cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and air-gapped infrastructure. Hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps. Experienced in production telecom and VoIP workloads, high-availability Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure automation, and end-to-end observability.

Delivered improvements in deployment frequency, security posture, and operational reliability. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, seeking DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure opportunities.

DevOps Engineer at Pulse Telesystems Private Limited – Enterprise Telecom, VoIP and ISP Solutions Provider (2026-04 – Present)

• Manage production telecom and VoIP workloads powered by FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, OpenSIPS, RTPengine and WebRTC across hybrid AWS and on-premises infrastructure, supporting service reliability, performance & operational continuity.
• Operate multi-cluster Amazon EKS and On-prem environments with GitOps-based deployment and operations, driving consistent, repeatable releases for cloud-native services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated SecOps practices, embedding security controls into the SDLC workflow.
• Implement full-stack observability (metrics, logs, traces and alerts) using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, Alertmanager for a granular visibility into all the real-time workloads & platforms.
• Support high availability and reliability of production telecom infrastructure through proactive monitoring, alerting, incident response and troubleshooting.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operations across multiple environments to reduce manual effort and improve operational consistency.
• Contribute to performance and capacity management and infrastructure security hardening for SIP / RTP / WebRTC workloads in production.

DevOps / IT Engineer at HEXR Factory Immersive Tech – Digital Twin, XR and Metaverse Company (2024-01 – 2026-03)

• Migrated Docker deployments to HA Kubernetes clusters (Kubeadm / K3s) running across bare-metal, on-prem VM, Cloud - AWS and air-gapped environments.
• Automated provisioning of compute, networking, storage, development environments, self-hosted tools and managed services, eliminating manual setup and reducing onboarding time.
• Replaced brittle workflows with GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines with integrated DevSecOps, moving from 1-2 releases per day to rapid, continuous releases with resilient rollouts and rollbacks.
• Implemented end-to-end observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerts) across applications, systems and network, reducing MTTR and supporting cost savings and performance optimization.
• Embedded Secops covering SAST, DAST and SCA with SBOM, linting, distroless images and policy-as-code in the SDLC, reducing CVE exposure by 90% and establishing an auditable security posture.
• Optimized infrastructure for resource-constrained HPC workloads (3D/XR, Digital Twin) and lightweight IoT / edge deployments across hybrid environments.
• Defined SLIs / SLOs, reduced toil and mentored engineers while leading cross-functional teams toward standardized DevOps practices.

AWS Technical Staff at Power Centre Private Limited – Software Vendor and Service Provider (2021-11 – 2023-09)

• Performed proactive AWS operations, including routine health checks, log analysis, issue remediation and reporting.
• Strengthened security and compliance posture, reducing security alarms and downtime.
• Optimized cloud architecture for varied use cases, achieving cloud cost savings without compromising performance.

B.Sc. in Computer Science – VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS), Chennai, India (2018 – 2021)