K. Sundara Manikandan

📧 kmani79@gmail.com 📱 +91 9840872480 📍 Chennai, India

Professional Summary

DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 3+ years of specialised experience in AWS cloud platforms, backed by 20+ years of comprehensive IT experience. Proven ability to architect, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructures, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for business-critical applications.

Expertise in CI/CD pipeline automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, and deployment optimisation, enabling faster release cycles, improved consistency, and reduced operational overhead. Hands-on experience with AWS services and DevOps tools, including Jenkins and Docker, along with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Nagios, and New Relic, to proactively maintain system reliability and performance.

A proactive and adaptable professional with strong problem-solving skills, committed to continuous learning and quickly adopting emerging technologies to drive innovation and support organisational growth.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms:AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS), Azure
Containerization:Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
Infrastructure as Code:Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD Engines:Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
Monitoring/Logging:Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
Scripting:Python, Bash, Go

Professional Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jan 2024 — Present | San Francisco, CA
CloudSync Innovations
  • Designed and deployed multi-region AWS environments using Terraform IaC, eliminating manual environment drift.
  • Architected GitOps-driven deployment workflows utilizing GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, which reduced production delivery cycles by 40%.
  • Migrated a microservices application suite to Amazon EKS, increasing horizontal scaling accuracy and reducing resource overhead costs by 22%.
  • Established dynamic monitoring dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana, lowering average incident resolution time (MTTR) by 35%.

DevOps Engineer

Mar 2022 — Dec 2023 | Austin, TX
CoreTech Solutions
  • Maintained and optimized legacy Jenkins CI/CD infrastructure, servicing over 40 distinct developers across parallel code environments.
  • Authored Python and Bash utility scripts to replace repetitive cron executions, automating core daily configuration checks.
  • Containerized 15 monolithic applications into optimized Docker images, establishing uniform staging environments.

Key Projects

Automated Infrastructure Blueprint (Open-Source)

Project Link

Created a public-facing Terraform module repository configured to spin up highly available, secure VPC layouts with attached EKS clusters natively embedded with standard monitoring stacks.

Education & Certifications

B.S. in Computer Science

Graduated May 2021
University of California, Berkeley

Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional | Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)