99.9%
availability maintained across 40 production websites
DevOps · SRE · Platform Engineering · Chennai, India
I build cloud infrastructure that stays up, stays secure, and costs less.
DevOps Engineer with 4+ years automating workflows, running scalable infrastructure on AWS and Azure, and streamlining CI/CD — from Terraform modules and Kubernetes to WAF hardening and AI-powered incident tooling.
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NAME sathishkumar-durai
ROLE DevOps Engineer
FOCUS sre, platform-engineering
CLOUDS aws, azure
EXPERIENCE 4y+
UPTIME 99.9% across 40 prod sites
STATUS ● Running
$ terraform plan -target=cloud_costs
~ aws_accounts.all (15 accounts)
monthly_spend: -16%
Plan: 0 to add, 15 to change, 0 to destroy.
$ 01 / impact
Numbers that matter in production
~16%
AWS cost reduction across 15 accounts via rightsizing, RIs & Savings Plans
50%
faster RCA with a custom AI-powered Incident Bot
0
downtime across production domain migrations and RDS certificate rotation
02 / experience
Where I've shipped
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DevOps Engineer @ Talentship
Own the AWS platform behind dozens of customer-facing production sites — security, cost, reliability, and the migrations in between.
Platform & migrations
- Migrated application infrastructure from AWS OpsWorks to Amazon ECS, improving scalability and containerized workload management.
- Moved domains from Cloudflare to Route 53 + CloudFront with AWS WAF controls for better security and global delivery.
- Migrated ownership of two production domains with zero downtime.
- Upgraded a large legacy Jenkins estate (v2.396 → v2.462), closing known security vulnerabilities.
- Upgraded RDS PostgreSQL (14.10 → 14.15, 16.1 → 16.6), Java 17 → 21 and Tomcat 9 → 10.1 ahead of end-of-support; rotated RDS certificates across production.
Infrastructure as Code & scale
- Designed highly available, secure AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Auto Scaling.
- Built reusable Terraform modules to standardize provisioning across apps and environments.
- Applied vertical and horizontal scaling strategies for peak-season traffic.
- Maintained 99.9% availability across 40 production websites.
Security & cost
- Rolled out AWS Shield Advanced + WAF against bots, SQL injection, scraping and DDoS.
- Integrated Trivy and Checkov into security workflows; remediated OS and container-image CVEs.
- Cut AWS spend by ~16% across 15 accounts through rightsizing, idle-resource cleanup, RIs and Savings Plans.
AI-assisted operations
- Built a custom AI Incident Bot that analyzes logs and ops data — 50% faster root-cause analysis.
- Automated ops workflows and docs with Claude Skills, GitHub Copilot, Python and Shell.
- Implemented AI guardrails for secure, compliant use of AI tools in engineering.
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DevOps Engineer @ Infinite Computer Solutions
Cloud migration of an enterprise on-premises application to Microsoft Azure for Nokia.
- Migrated and hosted Nokia's on-premises application on Azure, enabling a scalable cloud-based platform.
- Provisioned the Azure infrastructure with Terraform for consistent, repeatable environments.
- Automated application deployment with Shell scripting, reducing manual effort.
- Built start/stop schedules for non-production environments outside business hours to cut Azure costs.
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Associate DevOps Engineer @ Speechmatics
GitOps delivery on Kubernetes and observability for speech-recognition services.
- Developed Kubernetes and Kustomize manifests to standardize deployments across environments.
- Deployed containerized apps to AKS with Argo CD following GitOps practices.
- Ran container vulnerability scanning with Trivy and upgraded dependencies to remediate CVEs.
- Built Datadog dashboards, synthetic tests, monitors and alerts to catch issues proactively.
- Supported production releases and troubleshot deployment and infrastructure issues.
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The stack I work in
Cloud
Containers
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Security & Compliance
Monitoring & Incident
AI & Automation
Scripting
Databases
Web & OS
04 / credentials
Certifications, courses & education
Cloud certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services · Valid through Mar 2027
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft · Valid through Dec 2026
AI engineering courses
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Anthropic · Course completed
Claude Code in Action
Anthropic · Course completed
Education
B.E. Computer Science and Engineering
New Prince Shri Bhavani College of Engineering, Chennai · 2022 · CGPA 8.1
05 / contact
Let's talk infrastructure.
Want to talk DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or cloud? Email is the fastest way to reach me.
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