Karthik Kumar

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About Karthik Kumar

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with over 5 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability engineering. Starting from a core infrastructure background, I have transitioned into building cloud-native, scalable platforms with a deep focus on performance, reliability, and automation. I specialize in: Building resilient cloud solutions on AWS & Azure Automating with Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and Python Orchestrating containers using Docker & Kubernetes (EKS) Monitoring & observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Driving reliability through SLOs, SLIs, and incident response Currently working as a Senior Hybrid Cloud Engineer @ Elanco, delivering DevOps enablement, Kubernetes monitoring, and infrastructure automation. I’m passionate about solving platform engineering challenges, optimizing system performance, and enhancing developer velocity through well-designed CI/CD workflows. Let’s connect if you're building high-performing DevOps teams or looking for infrastructure expertise!