Hemanth Kumar B R

Hemanth Kumar B R

DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

DevOps Engineer / SRE with 5+ years of experience in AWS, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes and CI/CD automation. Skilled in deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting production systems with a strong focus on reliability, incident management, and automation. AWS Certified and passionate about simplifying workflows and improving operational efficiency.

Skills

CloudAWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM)
ContainersDocker, Kubernetes
IACTerraform, CloudFormation
ScriptingPython, Bash
CI/CDJenkins, Webhooks
MonitoringCloudWatch, BigPanda, Rootly
NetworkingTCP/IP, DNS, VPC, Load Balancers
OSLinux (Ubuntu, RHEL)

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer — Yahoo Inc

Sept 2024 — Present | Bengaluru
  • Managed and supported large-scale distributed infrastructure across on-prem and AWS, ensuring reliable execution of production batch workflows.
  • Monitored and troubleshot Oozie-based ETL pipelines on large-scale Hadoop clusters, improving stability and on-time execution.
  • Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation, standardizing environments and reducing deployment time.
  • Built Python/Bash automations to handle ~90% of infrastructure alerts, saving 200+ engineering hours and improving operational efficiency.
  • Resolved 50+ P1/P2 incidents using Rootly and PagerDuty, improving MTTR by 35% through automated diagnostics and reusable runbooks.

DevOps Engineer — Cambium Networks Pvt. Ltd

Oct 2021 — Aug 2024 | Bengaluru
  • Automated PR approvals and unit test execution using Jenkins webhooks, removing manual intervention and accelerating CI pipeline throughput.
  • Led the migration of Jenkins build infrastructure from on-prem to ephemeral AWS instances, managing 20+ independent Jenkins slaves, improving scalability and reducing infrastructure costs.
  • Owned and maintained AWS infrastructure for 3+ microservices, ensuring high availability, observability, and performance through SRE best practices.
  • Deployed and managed infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and automated configuration management with SaltStack for consistent multi-environment setups.

DevOps Engineer — L&T Technology Services

July 2019 — Oct 2021 | Bengaluru
  • Designed and maintained Jenkins pipelines to automate CI workflows, improving build and test efficiency by 40%.
  • Automated hardware testing workflows using Python, reducing manual effort and improving test reliability.
  • Provisioned and managed Linux-based environments for development and QA, building strong hands-on systems expertise.
  • Collaborated with developers and QA teams to streamline deployments and integrate automation across stages.

Projects

CI Pipeline Automation using Jenkins

Tech: Python, Jenkins, Webhooks, Git, Shell

Automated pull request approvals and unit test execution, eliminating manual steps and reducing build latency by 50%.

Microservice CI/CD Pipeline Setup

Tech: AWS (Lambda, ECS Fargate, CloudFormation), Jenkins, Docker, Python

Designed and implemented a complete CI/CD pipeline for a regional microservice, deploying Lambda and ECS Fargate services with infrastructure as code.

AWS Cost Optimization with Parameter Store & Lambda

Tech: AWS Lambda, Parameter Store, Python

Replaced hardcoded AWS credentials with automated key rotation using Parameter Store and Lambda, improving security and reducing human error.

Education

New Horizon College of Engineering — B.E Electronics and Communications (2015 - 2019)

Contact

Email: hemanthhh4680@gmail.com

Phone: +91 9738328027

Location: Bengaluru, India

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