Harikrishnan M

Lead DevOps Engineer at UST | DevSecOps | SRE | AWS | Azure | GCP | CI/CD

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About

With 6 years of overall IT experience, including 4.5+ years as a DevOps Engineer, I bring strong industry experience and a customer-focused approach to designing, automating, securing, and managing production-grade cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. My expertise lies in building secure, scalable, highly available, and automation-driven platforms that improve engineering velocity, operational reliability, deployment efficiency, and security posture across enterprise ecosystems. I specialize in: • Cloud Infrastructure • CI/CD Pipeline Design, Automation & Security • DevSecOps & Secure SDLC Integration • Kubernetes & Container Orchestration • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Monitoring, Logging & Observability • Cloud Security, Governance & Compliance • Vulnerability Management & Security Automation • Multi-Environment Deployment Architecture (Dev / QA / UAT / Prod) In enterprise environments, I have contributed to: • Automating secure infrastructure provisioning and deployments • Designing and optimizing enterprise-grade CI/CD workflows • Embedding security controls into DevOps pipelines • Strengthening uptime, reliability, monitoring, and incident response • Managing production deployments with minimal downtime • Improving cloud governance, operational visibility, and scalability • Implementing DevSecOps practices to enhance platform security and compliance I believe modern cloud engineering is not only about automation and scalability — it is about building reliable, secure, resilient, and future-ready platforms that deliver measurable business impact. Passionate about DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud-native technologies, platform reliability, automation, and continuous security improvement 📩 Contact: [email protected]

Experience

  • Lead - DevOps Engineer at UST
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Senior Cloud Engineer at Kripya Solutions Private Limited
    Dec 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Senior cloud engineer

  • Site Reliability Engineer at Bajaj Finserv
    Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Designed and managed cloud infrastructure across multi-environment setups ensuring high availability and fault tolerance • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code, reducing manual configuration efforts • Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines to streamline application deployments and reduce release cycle time • Strengthened production stability by implementing monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices • Improved deployment reliability through automation and scripting (Shell-based operational tooling) • Collaborated with development and security teams to embed DevSecOps practices within the deployment lifecycle • Managed production deployments ensuring minimal downtime and operational continuity

  • smsl (Full-time · 4 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Associate
      Aug 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Managed and configured AWS services to align with business requirements in a global infrastructure. Oversaw Linux/Windows/Ubuntu servers on Amazon EC2, utilizing SNS and Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring. Created, managed, and upgraded/downgraded AMIs, snapshots, volumes, and AWS resources (CPU, memory, EBS). Established and managed Amazon RDS databases. Containerized applications using Docker and maintained the Docker private registry. Administrated and implemented Jenkins for automated builds, incorporating unit tests and Code Quality Analysis with SonarQube. Conducted log analysis for failed Jenkins builds. Vulnerability Management at infra scope, coordinating with application team for app level closures

    • Support Associate
      Jan 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Install and configure computer hardware, networks, operating systems, and applications (desktops and servers). Troubleshoot system and network problems and diagnose and solve hardware/software faults. Replace hardware and parts as required, repair faults or set up systems Provide telephone, email, and remote support to all IT users, solving their problems and providing procedural documentation as required. Regularly update systems and servers with approved software updates

  • System Engineer at ITSM - Service Management / DELL REGISTERED PARTNER
    Mar 2017 - Jul 2017 · 5 mos

    System & Networking Engineer