Sathish Kumar Palani
@sathishkumarpalani
Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer driving reliable cloud-native platforms.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 15+ years building and operating enterprise-scale cloud-native, Kubernetes, and data platforms across industries. I specialize in AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and security automation, with a strong record of reducing MTTR, improving release reliability, and enabling data and ML workloads at scale.
At Walmart Global Technology Services I architected hybrid on-prem and GCP platforms, defined IaC standards, and led an 8-member engineering team while delivering Airflow-as-a-Service and Dataproc-as-a-Service. I drive operational excellence through resilient CI/CD, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms, enterprise observability, disaster recovery strategies, and cloud cost optimization.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Staff System & Infra Engineer
Walmart Global Technology Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Jun 2020 - Present (5 years 8 months)
Architected hybrid on-prem and GCP platforms delivering Airflow-as-a-Service and Dataproc-as-a-Service, defined IaC standards with Terraform, and implemented multi-tenant GKE and observability stacks to improve reliability and reduce MTTR.
Lead – System Engineer
Epsilon India Pvt. Ltd.
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020 (1 year 5 months)
Built large-scale automation frameworks with Python and Ansible, led release management and Docker-based CI with Jenkins, and operated workflow orchestration managing 400+ jobs across 200+ nodes to improve reliability and reduce incidents.
Architected and managed large-scale CDH Hadoop clusters across Prod/Dev/DR, led upgrades, HA and Kerberos security implementations, and designed backup and DR solutions for on-prem and AWS Hadoop platforms.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Madras
Master of Computer Applications, Computer Applications
Completed a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) program focusing on advanced computing topics and software development practices.
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