DevOps engineer · India

I turn complex infrastructure into calm, repeatable systems.

I build reliable cloud platforms, automate delivery, and make the path from commit to production safer for everyone using it.

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
01 / OPERATOR
Balamurugan R
CURRENT FOCUS Platforms that ship with confidence.
platform-check.sh

$ deploy --environment production

✓ infrastructure validated

✓ security checks passed

● healthy all systems operational

01 / ABOUT

Engineering the invisible foundations behind great products.

My work lives where cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer experience meet. I care about systems that are observable, recoverable, and understandable—not just systems that happen to run.

Today, my focus is DevOps: removing repetitive work, tightening feedback loops, and helping teams deliver changes without turning every release into an event.

01

Automate deliberately

Reduce toil with workflows people can inspect, trust, and improve.

02

Design for recovery

Failures happen. Fast diagnosis and safe rollback should be part of the design.

03

Share the context

Good documentation turns infrastructure from tribal knowledge into a team asset.

02 / EXPERTISE

What I work with

A practical toolkit for building, delivering, and operating modern systems.

CORE / 01

Cloud & infrastructure

Designing reproducible environments with infrastructure as code and sensible defaults.

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Linux
  • Networking
CORE / 02

Containers & orchestration

Packaging workloads consistently and keeping them healthy at scale.

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
CORE / 03

Delivery automation

Building pipelines that shorten feedback loops without compromising safety.

  • Jenkins
  • GitHub
  • Git
CORE / 04

Configuration & scripting

Turning manual runbooks into repeatable, version-controlled operations.

  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Shell
CORE / 05

Reliability mindset

Using clear signals and practical guardrails to keep production predictable.

  • Observability
  • Incident response
  • SRE
03 / CAREER

Experience & impact

From production support to cloud migration leadership, with reliability as the constant.

JAN 2026 — PRESENT

CURRENT

GOFLUENT INDIA PVT LTD

Senior DevOps Engineer

The current chapter—building on four years of cloud, platform, and reliability engineering experience.

DEC 2024 — JAN 2026

CHENNAI, INDIA

LEARNSHIP GMBH

Site Reliability Engineer

Led high-stakes cloud migration and production reliability work across infrastructure, networking, data, observability, and application delivery.

01 / CLOUD MIGRATION

Led the enterprise-wide Azure-to-AWS migration and delivered a production-ready EKS architecture with zero downtime.

02 / KUBERNETES

Designed ingress, service discovery, secrets, autoscaling, and disaster recovery patterns for scalable Kubernetes platforms.

03 / DATA & EDGE

Migrated MySQL and SQL Server workloads with AWS DMS and cutover workflows, while moving global traffic from Akamai to CloudFront.

04 / OBSERVABILITY

Established Datadog APM, logs, RUM, DBM, Kubernetes metrics, and infrastructure alerting across the platform.

05 / RELIABILITY

Owned high-severity incident resolution, RCA, and permanent safeguards across AWS, Kubernetes, networking, databases, and storage.

06 / ENABLEMENT

Built reusable Terraform modules and shell automations, mentored engineers, optimized AWS cost, and documented operational knowledge.

NOTABLE RECOVERIES

Restored EC2 access through root-volume recovery, resolved Kubernetes routing conflicts, and stabilized RabbitMQ message flow during production incidents.

NOV 2021 — DEC 2024

CHENNAI, INDIA

CAPGEMINI

DevOps Engineer

Supported enterprise production environments around the clock, combining incident response, release engineering, Linux administration, and observability.

  • Managed end-to-end ServiceNow incidents and 24×7 production support with a focus on rapid, low-disruption recovery.
  • Supported CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, CloudBees CD, Nexus, and UrbanCode Deploy.
  • Integrated SonarQube and Fortify security scanning into delivery workflows.
  • Administered Linux environments, monitored applications with New Relic, and created operational runbooks in Confluence.

EDUCATION

Sengunthar College of Engineering

B.E. Medical Electronics

2017 — 2021

04 / FIELD NOTES

Writing from the workbench

Practical notes on infrastructure, delivery, reliability, and the lessons between them.

What belongs in a production-ready delivery pipeline?

A field guide to the checks, guardrails, and feedback that make releases boring—in the best way.

Read when published

Debugging Kubernetes without guessing

A calm, layer-by-layer approach to understanding why a workload is unhealthy.

Infrastructure as code is a team interface

Why readable modules and useful defaults matter as much as a successful apply.

05 / CONTACT

Have a system to improve or an idea to ship?

I’m always happy to talk about DevOps, cloud platforms, automation, or a difficult production puzzle.

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