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Varun Naik

@varunnaik1

Site Reliability Engineer at Accruent, automating 80% of patching and deployments and reducing infrastructure downtime by 20%.

India

Message

At Accruent, I support end-to-end operations for in-house and SaaS applications, including TMS and MaintenanceConnection, across global customer environments. I automated 80% of patching and deployment workflows and reduced infrastructure downtime by 20% through monitoring, alerting, and incident management.

Across my cloud and systems administration work, I’ve managed Azure and AWS environments, virtualization, Linux and Windows infrastructure, and disaster recovery. At Excelsoft Technologies, I migrated QA, staging, and production VMs to Azure and helped reduce monthly cloud spend by 20%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Current

Accruent

Nov 2020 - Present (5 years 11 months)

Served as Subject Matter Expert for multiple in-house and SaaS applications, managing end-to-end operations, deployments, and customer environments across global regions. Automated 80% of patching and deployment workflows using Ansible, Octopus Deploy, and Semaphore, and reduced infrastructure downtime by 20% through proactive monitoring and incident management.

Ansible Octopus Deploy Bitbucket LogicMonitor azure monitor Application Insights PagerDuty VMWare SQL Jira Confluence ISMS SOC 1 SOC II SSL TLS IIS

Lead – System Admin

Excelsoft Technologies

Nov 2019 - Sep 2020 (10 months)

Migrated QA, Staging, and Production VMs from on-premises infrastructure to Azure cloud, architected secure Azure environments, and managed 240+ Azure Virtual Machines supporting global SaaS applications with 99.9% uptime. Optimized Azure resource utilization, reducing monthly cloud spend by 20%.

Azure AWS Storage Explorer Azure Blob Storage VNet Subnets Load Balancing AutoScaling IAM MFA Zabbix Active Directory Linux

Senior Engineer

L&T Technology Services

Jun 2016 - Nov 2019 (3 years 5 months)

Streamlined server operations including OS/security patching through WSUS, antivirus management, and Linux patch management using configuration management tools such as Chef and Ansible. Managed Linux server migrations and version upgrades across enterprise environments.

WSUS Chef Ansible Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS Ubuntu Debian Hyper V NetBackup Sophos yum rpm

Systems Engineer

L&T Technology Services

Jun 2011 - Nov 2016 (5 years 5 months)

Led deployment, administration, and maintenance of Linux systems and enterprise applications across clustered environments hosted on IBM Servers and Dell PowerEdge infrastructure. Implemented centralized version control systems and evaluated monitoring solutions including Zenoss, Zabbix, and Nagios.

Linux IBM Systems Dell PowerEdge Hyper V Jira Bugzilla Version Control Zenoss Zabbix Nagios NAS SAN WordPress

Senior System Administrator

Carmatec IT Solutions

Apr 2011 - Jun 2011 (2 months)

Managed more than 300+ VMs hosted on virtual private servers and web applications hosted on cPanel, Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal.

Virtual Servers CPanel Joomla WordPress Drupal

System Administrator

Informedia Technologies

Oct 2006 - Mar 2011 (4 years 5 months)

Managed and maintained 200+ on-premises Linux servers across geographically distributed environments, ensuring system availability, stability, and operational performance. Led the migration of the Mysore University email system from in-house Postfix/Courier/LDAP infrastructure to Google Apps for Education.