Vajra Babu Balakrishnan

Site Reliability Engineer @Mastech Digital

Glendale, AZ, US
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WORK HISTORY

Feb 2025 — Present

Site Reliability Engineer @Mastech Digital

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Designed and implemented Observability for IT infrastructure and applications environment, including building and maintaining OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Thousaneyes, LiveNX and other monitoring and visualization tools building dashboards. Utilized these frameworks to ensure Observability and Proactive event management.· Implemented OpenTelemetry for Infrastructure and applications.· Developed dashboards based on the Operations and Technology team requirements, showcase critical metrics for service mesh OCP Tetrate, IT Infrastructure and application environments. Worked on solutions to reduce recovery time (RTO, RPO).· Built Resiliency dashboard by collecting the Critical Technology Infrastructure metrics based on resiliency dimensions from various tools like Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, which provides the Technology Infrastructure leaders to view the resiliency status.· Worked on Observability monitoring for service mesh environments.· Conducted thorough gap analyses to identify in monitoring and ensure Observability policies were robust and enforceable.· Designed and implemented enterprise-wide monitoring strategy leveraging Datadog for applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native services.· Defined monitoring standards, KPIs, and SLIs/SLOs, aligning observability with business service health.· Automated alerting strategies with Datadog Event Correlation & Monitors, reducing alert noise by 60%.· Partnered with DevOps, SRE, and Security teams to integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines and cloud frameworks.· Built executive-level dashboards and reports in Datadog for real-time visibility of service health, security events, and customer impact.

EDUCATION

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Bharathidasan University

Master's Degree, Computer Programming, Specific Applications

2003 — 2008

Bharathidasan University (BDU), Tiruchirappalli

MCA, Computer Programming, Specific Applications

1994 — 1997

Institute of Road and Transport Technology

Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

1997 — 2003

University of Madras

Bachelor of Computer Applications, Computer Programming, Specific Applications

ABOUT VAJRA BABU BALAKRISHNAN

25 Years of Experience in IT Infrastructure Delivery Management. Healthcare |…

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