SaravanaKumar Pandiarajan
AbuDhabi,UAE
Summary
Experienced DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 12+ years in automation, infrastructure optimisation, and system reliability. Passionate about solving complex challenges and driving operational excellence.
Overview
4
4
years of post-secondary education
11
11
years of professional experience
Work history
Senior DevOps Engineer
Avrioc Technologies LLC
Abu Dhabi, UAE
2025.10 - Current
- Managed multi-environment infrastructure (dev, staging, integration, production) for global cycling platform, ensuring high availability and performance across all environments.
- Managed AWS infrastructure: EC2, EBS, EFS, IAM, CloudFront, RDS, ElastiCache Redis, CodeDeploy, and SSM Session Manager.
- Operated and scaled a 5-node production Kafka cluster: replication factor upgrades, partition rebalancing, broker recovery, SSL/SASL configuration, and Ubuntu 24.04 migration.
- Managed Kafka Connect pipelines for ClickHouse data ingestion, addressing silent S3 backup failures in disaster recovery setup to ensure data integrity.
- Managed a 6-node ClickHouse cluster (3 shards × 2 replicas + Keeper nodes); implemented DR restore using clickhouse-backup with S3.
- Built and maintained ELK log ingestion pipelines across all environments, mitigating Logstash deadlocks, Filebeat registry corruption, and index mapping conflicts to enhance log reliability.
- Developed Jenkins + Ansible CI/CD pipelines for multiple language stacks; resolved Node/pnpm compatibility and PM2 process management issues.
- Integrated Checkmarx SAST scanning in Jenkins pipelines and configured GitLab webhooks for automated build triggers.
- Built New Relic observability dashboards for EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, Kafka, and Jenkins using CloudWatch Metric Streams and OpenTelemetry.
- Diagnosed and resolved a critical Kafka production incident caused by security agent disk I/O saturation; applied systemd I/O bandwidth limits.
- Managed Perforce Helix environment including code review, SAML/SSO via Helix Auth Service, and large depot cleanup (~3.29 TB).
Tech Lead
Olyv ( SmartCoin Financials Private Limited )
Bengaluru
2023.03 - 2025.08
- Redesigned the CI/CD pipeline by transitioning from manual deployments to instance template-based deployments using Rundeck, integrating automation through Scripts and Ansible.
- Established a structured release branch system with branch restrictions in Bitbucket, automating ‘master’ branch merging in Jenkins based on PR approvals to enhance code quality and deployment efficiency.
- Led the migration of all non-prod and production servers from CentOS 7 to Ubuntu 22.04, ensuring minimal downtime and improved system stability.
- Collaborated closely with the development team to proactively manage the database migration of MySQL from 5.7 to 8, Neptune DB from 11.0 to 14.3, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition.
- Managed and coached a team of four, improving collaboration and ensuring timely project delivery through streamlined workflows.
- Enhanced data resilience and availability by increasing the replication factor on a 5-node Kafka cluster in production, executing efficient rebalancing jobs.
- Refined alerting by segregating static alerts in Consul and implementing history-based alerts in Grafana, leading to enhanced clarity and faster incident response.
- Collaborated with the team to develop ‘Pulse,’ a self-service non-prod environment designed for isolated development and testing, optimized for a pay-per-usage model.
- Managed periodic SSL certificate renewals and updates on load balancers and server JKS to ensure secure and uninterrupted operations.
- Managed an IT team and worked closely with the SOC team on setting up tools like SIEM, Nessus.
- Achievements/Tasks
DevOps Engineer
Hevo Data Technologies
Bengaluru
2021.07 - 2023.02
- Automated AWS service launches using Terraform and streamlined build flows with Ansible, enhancing deployment speed.
- Evaluated systems, implementing monitoring and alerts in AWS CloudWatch to improve operational visibility.
- Integrated SonarQube with CircleCI projects to ensure code quality and maintainability.
- Added DNSSEC as a layer of security for Route53 domains.
- Achievements/Tasks
DevOps Engineer
Azuga Telematics Private Limited
Bengaluru
2015.03 - 2021.07
- Containerized a portion of the code and developed Kubernetes manifests to streamline deployment and scalability.
- Architected the migration of Azuga’s classic servers to a VPC, including production, and automated the environment across multiple environments using Rundeck for improved scalability and efficiency.
- Managed database and application servers, ensuring 99.999% uptime across multiple environments through proactive monitoring and optimization.
- Implemented full-stack observability using ELK and New Relic, creating dashboards and alerts for real-time monitoring and issue resolution.
- Developed and deployed 300+ Nagios monitoring checks using Shell Script and Python, integrating PagerDuty for real-time alerts, significantly enhancing application performance monitoring and response times.
- Implemented application-level IDS/IPS using WAZUH integrated with the ELK stack, strengthening security monitoring and improving threat detection capabilities.
- Deployed Ganglia as time series database and Grafana to enable continuous monitoring of application and system performance, providing real-time insights and trend analysis.
- Integrated TrailDash and Security Monkey with Amazon CloudWatch for detailed monitoring of AWS component performance, bolstering security measures and enhancing operational efficiency.
- Installed and configured Atlassian suite tools, including JIRA and Confluence, to streamline project management and team collaboration.
- Achievements/Tasks
Education
B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Kumaraguru College of Technology
Coimbatore, India 2010.06 - 2014.04
Skills
- CI/CD - Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Bash/Python
- Nagios
- ELK
- Ganglia/Graphite/Grafana
- OTEL
- Jaeger
- Newrelic
- SecurityMonkey
- Consul
- MySQL/Mongo/Clickhouse (Basics)
- Apache Tomcat
- GIT
INTERESTS
Pencil Sketching, Gardening
HIGHLIGHTS
Top Performance Q1 (01/2020 - 04/2020) Azuga Telematics, Top Performance Q1 (01/2018 - 04/2018) Azuga Telematics, Employee of the Quarter - Q2 Engineering (05/2017 - 08/2017) Azuga Telematics
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Avrioc Technologies LLC
2025.10 - Current
Tech Lead
Olyv ( SmartCoin Financials Private Limited )
2023.03 - 2025.08
DevOps Engineer
Hevo Data Technologies
2021.07 - 2023.02
DevOps Engineer
Azuga Telematics Private Limited
2015.03 - 2021.07
B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Kumaraguru College of Technology
2010.06 - 2014.04