Sumanth Ram

As a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer based in New York, I bring extensive expertise in architecting and optimizing secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). I specialize in designing multi-cloud environments that align with business objectives while ensuring operational excellence, security, and performance.

I have successfully automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation, reducing manual deployment efforts by over 50%. My work in microservices orchestration includes deploying containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters across EKS, AKS, GKE, and Oracle Kubernetes Engine, integrating service mesh capabilities via Istio, and managing secrets securely through Kubernetes Secrets and Vault.

My DevOps automation expertise includes developing reusable CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD, integrated with artifact and code quality tools such as Nexus, SonarQube, JFrog, and Docker Hub (ECR), ensuring secure build processes and high code standards. Additionally, I have optimized machine learning environments on AWS SageMaker with lifecycle hooks, Boto3 automation, IAM hardening, KMS encryption, and CloudWatch monitoring, achieving both cost reduction and security compliance. These environments were designed to serve scalable model endpoints via AWS API Gateway with authentication and observability integrations.

I actively apply SRE principles by implementing SLI/SLO tracking, robust observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Stack, CloudTrail, and Azure Application Insights, along with proactive infrastructure and application monitoring. I have designed and validated disaster recovery (DR) and backup solutions, including multi-region replication and snapshot management, to ensure system resilience.

Security and governance are central to my practice; I conduct regular threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and incident response simulations to improve security posture. I also enforce governance across AWS environments using AWS Control Tower and AWS Config, implementing compliance rules, guardrails, and centralized logging to ensure regulatory adherence across multiple accounts.

Throughout my career, I have partnered closely with development and product teams to enhance developer experience, streamline environment setup, and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, contributing to faster delivery cycles and improved system reliability.