chethan tk
@chethantk
Senior DevOps and SRE engineer specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and observability for high-uptime cloud platforms.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with 6.8+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
I lead Kubernetes platform operations for large-scale microservices—managing multi-cluster EKS & GKE environments hosting 200+ production services—while maintaining 99.99% availability and applying SRE best practices like SLI, SLO, SLA, and Error Budgets.
In my recent roles, I reduced deployment time by 40% through CI/CD automation, improved MTTR by 35% with observability and proactive monitoring, and cut infrastructure provisioning effort by 60% using Terraform and automation.
I bring strong observability and operational discipline using Splunk Observability, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and CloudWatch, and I’ve supported mission-critical telecom workloads including 5G Core infrastructure on AWS and GCP.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed and implemented Terraform modules for Splunk Observability Cloud deployments across multiple environments and automated provisioning/onboarding via GitLab CI/CD. Supported production upgrades for Kafka, Zookeeper, and Elasticsearch on Kubernetes, and handled critical incidents with root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
Architected and managed Kubernetes clusters supporting 200+ microservices with 99.99% uptime and led deployment of 5G Core workloads on GKE using GitOps with ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD. Reduced setup effort by 60%, deployment time by 40%, and improved MTTR by 35% using Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Cloud Monitoring, and SRE practices (SLI/SLO/SLA, error budgets).
DevOps Engineer
Kreatio Software Pvt Ltd
Jul 2019 - Mar 2023 (3 years 8 months)
Designed and managed AWS infrastructure for multiple enterprise publishing platforms and implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform for consistent deployments. Automated releases with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD (reducing release cycles by 40%), improved availability to 99.95% while cutting operational costs by 20%, and managed monitoring/logging with CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, and Nagios with
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Annamalai University
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA), Computer Applications
Earned a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) at Annamalai University in Bengaluru, India.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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