Kartikeswara Nayak

About Kartikeswara Nayak

Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud DevOps Architect with 17+ years of experience designing and operating enterprise platforms across Azure and Google Cloud.I focus on reliability, automation and scalable platform engineering rather than manual infrastructure operations. My work involves building Kubernetes platforms, automating provisioning and enabling development teams to deploy safely and consistently.Key strengths:• Kubernetes platform operations (AKS, GKE)• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible• CI/CD automation and release reliability• Observability and incident reduction• Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture• Enterprise Linux platforms including SAP workloadsI enjoy solving production reliability challenges, improving system stability and creating self-service platforms for engineering teams.Open to Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering and Cloud Architecture roles.

Experience

1. Cloud Devops Architect Site Reliability Engineer

   HCLTech

   May 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Enterprise Consumer Goods Company (Unilever)Operating enterprise SRE platforms across Azure & Google Cloud environments.Kubernetes & Automation• Operated production Kubernetes (AKS, GKE) for enterprise microservices• Built IaC using Terraform & GitHub Actions reducing provisioning from days to hours• Implemented standardized CI/CD improving release reliabilityPlatform Automation• Automated provisioning & compliance using Ansible & Puppet• Built secure OS gold images via Packer pipelines• Enabled hybrid management using Azure Arc / Azure LocalReliability & Observability• Defined SRE runbooks & incident response processes• Implemented monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana & enterprise tools• Designed high availability using autoscaling & scheduling policiesCloud & Hybrid Architecture• Migrated DNS & Linux workloads to Azure & GCP• Designed hybrid Red Hat Satellite across AWS, Azure, GCP & on-prem with DR• Engineered RHEL9 platform for SAP on Azure (NVMe & non-NVMe storage)• Delivered bare-metal virtualization platform on Google CloudPlatform Engineering• Implemented AKS spot nodes reducing compute cost• Built self-service DNS & URL redirection using NGINX & global load balancingTechnologies: Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, Azure Arc, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, GitHub Actions, Linux, Docker, Helm, NGINX, Observability(ITM,Dynatrace,Nagios)

Education

• The Academic Council of TASMAC

  Master's Diploma in Business Administration, Marketing

• IBMR Business School

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing

• Odisha State Board Of Pharmacy(OSBP)

  Diploma Of Pharmacy, Pharmacy

• Utkal University

  Bachelor Of Science, Physics , Chemistry and Mathematics

  1999 — 2002

• APTECH

  Diploma in Computer Applications, Computer Software

  1998 — 1999

Skills

• High Availability
• Oracle Vm Server
• Suse
• Virtualization
• Storage
• Veritas Net Backup
• Cluster
• San
• Vmware
• Openstack
• Citrix Xenapp
• System Administration
• Oracle
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Servers
• Itil
• Citrix Xendesktop
• Vmware Esx
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Veritas Volume Manager
• Veritas Cluster Server
• Server Hardware
• Unix
• Hp-UX
• Suse Openstack
• Redhat Openstack
• Data Center
• Sun Cluster
• Netbackup
• Solaris Volume Manager
• Pre-Sales
• Vmware Workstation
• Linux