Director of Applications, DevSecOps & SRE

Suresh Mallina

Enterprise Cloud Architect DevSecOps Leader SRE Strategist Infra Modernization Expert 949-***-**** ********@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Seasoned Cloud and Infrastructure Architect with 20+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale IT transformations across AWS, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Proven ability to architect resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud platforms using IaC, Kubernetes, and FinOps practices. Demonstrated success in building high-performing SRE and DevSecOps teams, leading global operations, and enabling scalable infrastructure for compliance-heavy, mission-critical workloads. Known for driving operational excellence, implementing Cloud Governance frameworks, and delivering measurable improvements in uptime, performance, and cost. CORE COMPETENCIES

Cloud Architecture (AWS) Hybrid Infrastructure IaC (Terraform) Kubernetes (EKS/OCP) Cloud Governance & Security SRE & DevSecOps Resilience & DR FinOps & Cost Optimization

CI/CD (Jenkins, ArgoRollOut) Observability (Dynatrace, Splunk) Multi-site Disaster Recovery Agile/OBT Teams Infrastructure Leadership Global Team Management ITIL Frameworks 24x7 Mission-Critical Operations Strategic Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director of Applications, DevSecOps & SRE ADP Pasadena, CA Nov 2010 – March 2025

• Cloud Platform Ownership: Architected and led migration of 30% of financial and compliance workloads to AWS, reducing infrastructure costs by $2.5M/year using FinOps and automation.

• Database Engineering Leadership: Directed global database teams managing Oracle, MongoDB, Aurora, DocumentDB; implemented database CI/CD and automated provisioning, reducing DB deployment time by 40%.

• Performance Engineering: Established performance testing frameworks, optimized system throughput, and reduced latency across mission-critical services resulting in 30%+ app performance gains.

• Kubernetes Implementation: Launched Kubernetes on OCP and AWS (EKS); developed Helm charts and GitOps workflows to support secure, scalable container adoption across 5000+ servers.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Spearheaded Terraform adoption to automate environment provisioning; achieved 100% consistency in deployments with zero drift tolerance.

• Disaster Recovery & Resilience: Designed and implemented multi-site DR framework, achieving <4hr RTO and <1hr RPO across business-critical services.

• Observability Excellence: Integrated Dynatrace and Splunk for real-time monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40% through AIOps-based alerting and automated root cause analysis.

• DevSecOps Enablement: Drove CI/CD adoption across 30 scrum teams using Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory; improved deployment velocity by 50% while reducing vulnerabilities.

• Cloud Governance & Security: Instituted IAM policies, encryption standards, compliance controls for SOX/HIPAA/PCI. Established cloud VPCs, routing, and secure hybrid connectivity.

• Global Team Leadership: Built high-performance, cross-functional teams across DevSecOps, Release Engineering, Database Engineering and Infrastructure Ops; led performance reviews, mentoring, and capability uplift.

• Financial Oversight: Managed $36M hardware/software budget; partnered with finance to forecast and optimize cloud spend.

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TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

• Cloud & IaC: AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM), Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation

• Containerization: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Docker

• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, SonarQube

• Infrastructure & Automation: Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, GitOps, CloudBees Jenkins, Helm, ArgoRollOut

• Monitoring & Observability: Dynatrace, Splunk, ELK

• Data & Messaging: Oracle, Postgres, Aurora, Kafka, Redis, IBMMQ

• Languages: Python, Java, Shell Scripting, NodeJS

• OS/Platforms: RHEL, AIX, Windows, Solaris, OCP

Sr. Principal Architect. DIRECTV El Segundo, CA. Feb 2008 – July 2010

• Architected SOA-based enterprise e-commerce platform (Comergent C3) supporting multi-channel selling and order management

• Led domain analysis and executable architecture creation with comprehensive design artifacts and use-case modeling

• Managed cross-functional teams (16 enterprise scrum teams across 4 sales channels) delivering enterprise-scale business solutions

• Implemented web services architecture for offer management and configuration validation systems

Senior Architectural Specialist CSC Consulting Inc El Segundo, CA. Nov 2000 – Jan 2008 Led complex enterprise architecture and integration projects across healthcare, finance, and insurance verticals.

• Led Business Integration competency team implementing enterprise integration solutions across multiple industry verticals

• Architected HIPAA-compliant healthcare claims processing system for State of California ADP managing $200-300M annual transactions

• Designed Hardware Inventory Tracking System (HITS) for DIRECTV integrating with order management and logistics systems

• Led Siebel Financial Services implementation for Farmers Insurance including integration architecture and requirements analysis

Notable Projects:

• State of CA Healthcare Claims Processing: Led 8-member team managing 100+ trading partners, 1.5-2M case records annually

• DIRECTV Hardware Inventory: Integrated OMS, FedEx network, and SAP systems using enterprise integration platforms.

• Modernized hardware tracking platform integrating with OMS and logistics partners using Seebeyond & SAP.

• Multiple enterprise clients: AMN Healthcare, Intuit, Providian Financial, Children's Hospital LA, Pfizer Animal Health, Herbalife

EDUCATION: Bangalore University, Bangalore, India Bachelor of Engineering CERTIFICATION & TRAINING:

● Advanced Architecting on AWS, Systems operations on AWS.

● Big Data Hadoop

● SAP Business Objects

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KEY METRICS & ACHIEVEMENTS:

• $39M+ total infrastructure budget management (hardware/software)

• $2.5M cloud cost optimization through strategic FinOps implementation

• 60+ global resources led across US and India operations

• 30% improvement in infrastructure efficiency and developer productivity

• 20% increase in automation efficiency through DevSecOps practices

• 30% of critical financial applications successfully migrated to AWS Cloud

• 100+ trading partners managed in enterprise integration projects

• Improved resilience posture across critical systems, embedding chaos testing and automated failover mechanisms

• $200-300M annual transaction volume supported in healthcare claims processing

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