Lead SRE and DevOps Automation Engineer

SACHIN PARULKAR

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Summary

Senior DevOps / Cloud Automation Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and automating large-scale cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP. Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Python, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, cloud operations and production reliability. Proven track record building scalable automation solutions, improving deployment velocity, and operating highly available enterprise platforms.

Leadership & Platform Ownership Skills

● Led and mentored platform, SRE, and DevOps teams of up to 13 engineers.

● Conducted technical mentoring, knowledge sharing, code reviews, and engineering guidance.

● Defined infrastructure standards, CI/CD best practices, and operational excellence processes.

● Collaborated with product, development, security, and infrastructure teams to align platform strategy with business goals.

● Led incident response, postmortems, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvement initiatives.

● Established operational excellence practices and reliability KPIs

● Contributed to hiring, onboarding, and technical assessment of engineers.

● Managed distributed teams across multiple time zones

● Led incident command and postmortem culture initiatives Technical Skills Set

● Key Technologies: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Python.

● Comprehensive understanding of SRE and DevOps methodologies and tools

● AI-Assisted Engineering: GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex,Claude Code,AI-assisted infrastructure automation,AI-driven troubleshooting,AI-assisted code generation

● Platform Engineering: Self-Service Infrastructure, Reusable Terraform Modules, Standardized Cloud Landing Zones, GitOps, Kubernetes Platform Operations, Golden Path Deployments,Platform Standards & Cloud Governance

● CICD tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitOps, Multi-Branch Pipelines, Automated Release Management, Deployment Automation.

● Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Terragrunt, Terraform Modules, Reusable Infrastructure Stacks, Helm Charts, GitOps

● configuration management: Ansible

● Automation tools and scripts: Shell Scripting, Python

● Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, self managed Kubernetes cluster, Fully managed Kubernetes cluster like EKS, AKS and GKE with Cluster Upgrades,Autoscaling,Resource Management,Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning

● Subversion and Source Control: Git, GitHub

● Experience with on-premises infrastructure as well as cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP And Multi-Cloud Architecture .

● Linux Administration

● Observability and log management tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog and opentelemetry.

● Database: MySQL, SQL server, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle DB2, DynamoDB

● Workflow tools: Control-M, Airflow, Skybot

● ITIL processes and policies: Designed and implemented incident management processes with runbooks, postmortems, and error budgets to improve MTTR and reliability culture. Change management, Service Now, Jira

● CRM: Supported Vtiger CRM/Amazon Connect implementation and integration activities including environment provisioning, deployment automation. Work Experience

A) Site Reliability Engineer

Antal (Client is HSBC )

Oct 2025 to present

Supporting highly regulated financial services environments with strong focus on reliability, security, governance, and operational resilience.

Managing reliability and operational excellence for critical Counterparty Credit Risk platforms within enterprise banking infrastructure.

Supporting workflow orchestration and automation initiatives involving enterprise scheduling and operational tooling.

Collaborating with development, infrastructure, platform engineering, and security teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency.

Contributing to incident management, root cause analysis, operational governance, and reusable DevOps practices across teams.

Supporting production-critical banking applications with focus on platform reliability and operational excellence.

Improving deployment automation and CI/CD processes across cloud-native platforms.

Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve troubleshooting, automation workflows, scripting productivity, and operational documentation.

Supporting highly available cloud-native platforms serving global banking workloads

• Driving reliability improvements through automation, observability and operational excellence.

• Partnering with security, platform engineering and application teams to improve deployment velocity and platform stability

• Contributing to governance, auditability and resilience initiatives within regulated environments

B) Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Maxima Consulting

Jan 2025 to July 2025

At Maxima Consulting, we offer managed IT services for cloud solutions. My team specializes in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Cloud services. Currently, we are working with a client in the financial sector. In my role, I lead teams to ensure uninterrupted service delivery, minimize downtime, and enhance system health. This position entails 75% technical responsibilities and 25% leadership and managerial duties.

• Led a team of SRE and Platform Engineers supporting financial-sector cloud platforms.

• Owned platform reliability, cloud operations, infrastructure automation, and incident management.

• Defined technical direction for cloud infrastructure and deployment standards.

• Conducted mentoring, technical reviews, and team coordination activities.

• Managed AWS and GCP Kubernetes platforms (EKS/GKE) using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps practices.

• Improved observability through Prometheus-based monitoring and alerting.

• Participated in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement initiatives.

• Collaborated with security and engineering teams on cloud governance and operational excellence.

• Defined technical direction for cloud infrastructure and deployment standards.

• Conducted mentoring, technical reviews, and team coordination activities.

• Implemented GitOps deployment workflows using ArgoCD and Helm to standardize Kubernetes application delivery and reduce deployment risk. C) Senior DevOps Engineer

Hyland Software

Dec 2022 to August 2024

Hyland Software is a content management provider company that works fully on AWS

Managed production Kubernetes environments running business-critical workloads.

• Designed and maintained Terraform-based infrastructure following Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.

• Implemented secure CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

• Supported cloud security initiatives including IAM, Secrets Manager, and access governance.

• Created reusable infrastructure components to standardize cloud deployments.

• Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to improve platform reliability and scalability.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Onboard new customers, and offer technical solutions to customers. D) Senior Technical Lead

HCL Technologies

Duration: Sep 2021 to Nov 2022

Created Multibranch Pipeline jobs based on the repository branches and using Webhook triggers for Continuous Delivery using Jenkins.

Setting up monitoring tools like Prometheus & Grafana Dashboards for resources and jobs.

Created Many Dashboards by checking Splunk logs.

Customizing instances and implementing security groups to a server.

Configured applications into container orchestration with Kubernetes.

Patching & upgrading of servers to ensure the applications are stable & running after the infra work.

deployment & validation. on UAT/PROD

E) Production Support Engineer and DevOps Engineer Worldpay

Duration: July 2018 to Sep 2021

Monitored the production environment and acting proactively to prevent performance issues or application crashes.

Monitored night batches and ensuring reports are generated well and transferred clients by adhering to the SLA defined.

Managed Jobs through automation scripts and job scheduling tools.

Monitored recurrent incidents, performed problem management and escalated to the next level of support or development team when required

Patching & upgrading servers to ensure the applications are stable & running after infrastructure changes.

F) Linux System Administrator and Deployment manager CapitalVia Global Research

Duration: July 2016 to May 2018

G) Linux System Administrator

Livia India Ltd (Now known as TerraCIS Technologies Ltd.) Duration: Nov 2014 to July 2016

F) Cyscape Global Solution (IL&FS Group)

Duration: Oct 2013 to Nov 2014

G) 13 months as an” Information Security and Ethical hacking Trainer” Organization: Appin Security Group

Certification and Academic Background

Bachelor in Engineering in Computer Science from Central India Institute of Technology, Indore (M.P.) India.

Certified Information Security Professional (CISP) by Appin Security Lab New Delhi India.

RHCSA(Redhat Certified System Administrator) with Certification No 130-216-872

RHCE (Redhat Certified Engineer) with Certification No 130-216-872. Personal Details

Name Sachin Parulkar

Languages Known Hindi, English, Marathi

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