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Rakesh Haridas

Site Reliability Engineer
Brighton

Summary

Critical thinking Site Reliability Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Knowledgeable SRE Engineer with solid background in maintaining and enhancing system reliability. Demonstrated success in implementing automated solutions to streamline processes and improve system performance. Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and optimize infrastructure through proactive monitoring and collaboration.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2019 - Current
  • Company Overview: Part of American Express Mobile Native app Devops team (Contract)
  • Responsibilities include:
  • 1. Ensuring key performance metrics such as SLOs and SLAs are achieved.
  • 2. Ensuring bi-weekly code install goes on without any last minute hiccup. Take part in CI/CD process including Jenkins build, XLRelease and deployment using Redhat Openshift Container platform. Active monitoring of applications using Splunk dashboard, alerting and infrastructure monitoring through Grafana.
  • 3. Undertake new application feature engagement process and complete them on time. This includes multiple discussions with product owners and application developers, preparing dashboards and alerting and working on ramp-up process.
  • 4. Undertake Jmeter performance testing as part of new feature engagement.
  • 5. Work on TLS and message signing certificate install and renewing service account IDs.
  • 6. Resolve customer tickets usually involving card member concerns.
  • 7. Work on traffic routing of applications across data-centres at GTM/LTM level using Akamai and in-house tools.
  • 8. Resolve platform related issue including K8s and Docker container.
  • 9. Manage cloud and on-prem production environments.AWS cloud products used include EKS,Cloudwatch etc.

Application Support

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2010 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: Part of American Express MYCA(Manage Your Card account) suite of applications support team
  • Responsible for maintaining high availability and website reliability, detecting and closing high severity issues on Incident bridges, handling application changes(RFCs), generating incident reports and automating daily activities through bash scripts, creating alerts.
  • Was promoted to lead 5-member Problem management team whose responsibilities included resolution of lower severity customer tickets, root cause analysis(RCA) of repetitive issues, engaging development and Quality assurance(QA) teams for permanent fix of long standing issues/corner-case scenarios in applications.

Education

Master of Technology - VLSI Design

Amrita School Of Engineering
05.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

College Of Engineering
Vadakara, Calicut
05.2006

Skills

    Jenkins

    Release Management

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Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2019 - Current

Application Support

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2010 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

College Of Engineering

Master of Technology - VLSI Design

Amrita School Of Engineering
Rakesh HaridasSite Reliability Engineer