Vinay Kumar M

DevOps / SRE Engineer with 4+ years of experience automating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and production operations across AWS and Microsoft Azure. Hands-on expertise in Linux, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Python, and Bash. Experienced in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), observability, infrastructure automation, and production troubleshooting.

Strong background in supporting reliable, scalable cloud environments and improving deployment consistency and operational efficiency.

SRE / DevOps Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (2023-04 – Present)

Client: Starbucks Coffee Company

• Administer Linux environments across RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu, including provisioning, patch coordination, service health checks, access management, and performance troubleshooting for business-critical workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision AWS VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, IAM roles and policies, EC2 instances, and Application Load Balancers.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and manage remote state and workspaces for consistent, isolated infrastructure deployments across environments.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and Azure DevOps to automate testing, quality validation, packaging, and controlled deployments.
• Develop and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and integrate SonarQube static code analysis and quality gates to improve release quality.
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes workloads using Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, rolling updates, and horizontal scaling; troubleshoot using logs, events, and resource diagnostics.
• Implement GitOps-based Kubernetes delivery with Argo CD for configuration synchronization, automated deployments, environment consistency, and rollback management.
• Manage and troubleshoot AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, KMS, security groups, and networking components.
• Develop Python and Bash automation for deployment verification, log validation, operational checks, and recurring activities, reducing repetitive manual effort.
• Monitor applications and infrastructure with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; perform alert triage, incident investigation, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Respond to production incidents through PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and Slack, restore services, participate in on-call rotations, and support MTTA and MTTR objectives using SRE practices.
• Create operational runbooks and Technical Support Guides (TSGs) for recurring incidents, troubleshooting, and production support procedures.

DevOps Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (2022-01 – 2023-02)

Project: Omni Store - Retail Strategic Initiatives

• Monitored Jenkins build infrastructure and resolved pipeline failures, agent connectivity issues, and plugin compatibility problems to maintain reliable CI/CD operations.
• Configured CI/CD pipelines for Java applications using Jenkins and Maven, supporting automated build, validation, and deployment workflows.
• Performed Linux administration including user and permission management, package installation, service management, filesystem operations, and application troubleshooting.
• Containerized applications with Docker and maintained Dockerfiles for consistent local development and staging environments.
• Supported AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch and assisted with cloud infrastructure and application troubleshooting.
• Deployed Java applications to Tomcat and Apache servers across development, QA, and UAT environments and supported deployment validation.
• Managed and resolved ServiceNow incidents within defined service-level expectations and coordinated with application and infrastructure teams to restore services.

Bachelor of Engineering – G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College, Kurnool (2017 – 2020)