Himesh Kothari

About Himesh Kothari

I’m a Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure Leader with 6+ years of experience building automated, scalable, and resilient platforms. At SLB, I’ve architected end-to-end solutions on Azure, GCP, and AKS—accelerating deployments, enhancing system reliability, and mentoring DevOps/SRE teams. Cloud & Infra as Code: Provisioned and managed Azure & GCP environments using Terraform and Bash—cutting deployment time by 5x. CI/CD & Automation: Delivered YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitOps workflows—driving seamless deployments across dev, staging, and production. Observability & Resilience: Designed monitoring stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki & AlertManager—helping maintain 99.9% uptime and fast incident response.🤝 Leadership & Collaboration: Mentoring engineers, defining SLIs/SLOs, conducting reliability reviews, and aligning infra work with product goals.I’m passionate about operational excellence, cost optimization, and building high-performing teams. Seeking leadership roles in SRE, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOps where I can drive system reliability and scale.

Experience

1. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   SLB

   Apr 2024 — Present · Pune, IN

   Project: Omega – Seismic Data Processing Platform Infrastructure Automation: Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts using Terraform and Bash to automate and standardize Omega’s cloud resource provisioning across Azure and GCP. CI/CD Modernization: Built and maintained production-grade Azure DevOps YAML pipelines enabling rapid deployment, upgrade, and teardown of Omega across test and production environments. Efficiency Boost: Achieved 5× reduction in deployment/configuration time via IaC and bash-based VM bootstrap scripts, improving operational velocity.🧪 File System R&D: Conducted successful PoCs with GlusterFS, now used for Omega’s workflow and dataset storage—improving I/O performance and reliability. Observability Stack Deployment: Designed and deployed monitoring solutions using Helm-based charts for Istio, kube-prometheus-stack, Loki, Thanos, and Promtail on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Custom Exporters: Authored Python-based Prometheus exporters to surface system-level and Omega performance metrics to centralized observability platforms.Omega Client Deployments and Support🤝 CloudOps Collaboration: Acted as the technical liaison with CloudOps, managing deployment, upgrade, and support cycles of client-specific Omega environments on Azure.🧠 Client Reliability Engineering: Handled issue triaging, resource scaling, and patch deployment to maintain client SLAs and reliability targets.Internal Platforms: App Delivery & OS Management Linux Image Lifecycle: Managed Rocky Linux 8.10 environments—including automated deployments, rolling upgrades, and image builds every 90 days via Ansible playbooks and CI/CD pipelines.🪟 Windows Image Pipelines: Oversaw PTS Windows image builds every 30 days, automating packaging, validation, and deployment via internal push/pull pipelines.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Integrated Master of Science, Exploration Geophysics

  2014 — 2019

• Christu Jyoti Convent Senior Secondary School , Ujjain (M.P)

  10+2 qualified, Classes 1-12

  2001 — 2014

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Microsoft Office
• Geophysical Data Analysis
• Seismics
• Teamwork
• Petrophysics
• Project Management
• Geology
• Leadership
• Reservoir Modeling
• Tectonics
• Oil Exploration
• Well Logging
• C
• Seismology
• Geophysical Inversion
• Management
• Research
• English
• Matlab
• After Effects
• Public Speaking