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I'm Surendar S V

DevOps Engineer & Cloud Architect

I build resilient cloud infrastructure, automate CI/CD pipelines, and ensure high system reliability, transforming complex challenges into streamlined, scalable operations. I also mentor early-career engineers, sharing practical DevOps insights to help them grow with confidence.

Surendar S V

What I'm Doing

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DevOps & Automation

Designing CI/CD pipelines and automating workflows to accelerate deployment and improve efficiency using tools like Jenkins,Azure CI/CD and GitHub Actions.

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Cloud Infrastructure

Architecting scalable and secure cloud environments on AWS, Azure and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

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Site Reliability Engineering

Ensuring high availability and performance through advanced monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies with Datadog and Splunk.

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Container Orchestration

Managing microservices architectures with Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring seamless scaling and orchestration of containerized applications.

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Consultant

Helping rookie, Engineers and individuals to build cloud ready career and provide them with the best possible guidance and support.

Tech Stack

AWS AWS
Azure Azure
Docker Docker
Kubernetes Kubernetes
Terraform Terraform
Ansible Ansible
Jenkins Jenkins
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
Octopus Deploy Octopus Deploy
Grafana Grafana
Splunk Splunk
Datadog Datadog
Python Python
Bash Bash
Linux Linux
Git Git

Experience

DevOps Engineer

2024 - Present

Movate technologies

  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure CI/CD and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 40%.
  • Managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Monitored and supported production workloads across backend, frontend, and database layers, maintaining 100% uptime and quick service recovery.
  • Modernised configuration rollouts and updates via Pipelines and Octopus runbooks, minimizing manual effort by 40% and strengthening change dependability.
  • Engineered scalable containerization workflows for 50+ Docker containers using Kubernetes, optimized compute resources by 20%.
  • Built and executed CI/CD pipelines, increasing release frequency by 50% and shortening launch cycles by 45 minutes.
  • Owned P1–P3 issue management, led post-incident analyses, and implemented preventive actions that eliminated recurring production errors by 50%.
  • Designed cost-efficiency and performance dashboards in Datadog to monitor instances and other services utilization, detect underused resources, and lower expenditure by 15%.
  • Collaborated alongside developers and infrastructure teams to refine workflow processes and optimize resource utilization, accelerating delivery while reducing costs.

Consultant

2024 - Present

Freelancing

  • Assisted with AWS environment setup, including IAM fundamentals, compute services, networking basics, and secure access configuration.
  • Designed and demonstrated CI/CD workflows using Git-based pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
  • Reviewed Docker-based application setups and Kubernetes manifests to improve deployment consistency, scalability, and reliability.
  • Analyzed cloud and deployment configurations to identify misconfigurations, inefficiencies, and operational risks.
  • Supported interview preparation by reviewing DevOps projects, explaining system design decisions, and mapping hands-on experience to common cloud and DevOps interview topics.

Portfolio

DevSecOps Pipeline

DevSecOps Pipeline – Netflix Clone on Kubernetes

Designed and implemented an end-to-end DevSecOps pipeline to deploy a containerized Netflix-style application on Kubernetes. The pipeline automated build, test, security scanning, and deployment using Jenkins, Docker, Trivy, and SonarQube, with monitoring and observability enabled through Prometheus and Grafana to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable application delivery.

↗ GitHub
AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Associate Level Certification.

↗ Certificate
AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda - KodeKloud

AWS Lambda Certification.

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Blog

Oct 24, 2023

Difference between Serverless (AWS-Lambda) and Containers

The key differences between serverless (AWS Lambda) and container-based architectures, focusing on deployment models, scalability, cost considerations, and operational responsibility. It helps engineers choose the right approach based on real-world workloads rather than hype.

Aug 02, 2023

GitOps — A Begineer Guide

A beginner-friendly introduction to GitOps, explaining its principles, workflow, and why teams use it to manage infrastructure and deployments.

Contact

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📍 Chennai, India

📧 surendarsv.024@gmail.com

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