Kirti Ranjan Patra

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Building reliable, scalable, and resilient infrastructure

About Me

Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining highly available and resilient infrastructure. Passionate about automation, observability, and ensuring system reliability at scale. Proven track record of reducing downtime, optimizing performance, and implementing DevOps best practices across cloud-native environments.

Work Experience

2022 - Present

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company Name

  • Led SRE initiatives for mission-critical systems serving millions of users
  • Designed and implemented auto-scaling strategies reducing infrastructure costs by 30%
  • Built CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and GitHub Actions
  • Established SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for key services
  • Implemented chaos engineering practices to improve system resilience
2019 - 2022

Site Reliability Engineer

Company Name

  • Managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS and GCP GKE
  • Implemented monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
  • Reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 50% through improved incident response
  • Led on-call rotations and post-incident reviews
2016 - 2019

DevOps Engineer

Company Name

  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
  • Implemented Docker containerization for microservices architecture
  • Managed AWS infrastructure including EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudFront
  • Developed automation scripts in Python and Bash
  • Configured log management using ELK stack
2014 - 2016

Systems Engineer

Company Name

  • Administered Linux and Windows servers in production environments
  • Implemented backup and disaster recovery solutions
  • Managed network security and access controls
  • Provided L2/L3 technical support for infrastructure issues

Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP Azure

Container Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform CloudFormation Ansible

CI/CD

Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions ArgoCD

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK Stack

Programming

Python Go Bash YAML

Certifications

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AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Amazon Web Services

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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Amazon Web Services

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Education

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Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

University Name

2010 - 2014

Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, collaboration, or just chatting about technology.