Platform Engineer · SRE · MLOps Platform · London, UK

Sri Lingala

I build the cloud, Kubernetes and delivery foundations teams ship on.

I treat infrastructure like a product, with real users, a roadmap and outcomes you can measure. 10+ years across platform engineering, DevOps and SRE, most recently building GKE platforms for Citi and delivery platforms for Lloyds Banking Group.

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Recent work
Citi Lloyds Banking Group Publicis Sapient RealPage
100s Kubernetes clusters operated on Citi's centralised, multi-tenant GKE platform
0+ Teams self-serving Lloyds' GCP Internal Developer Platform, with environment provisioning 70% faster
0+ Engineering hours saved annually through automation, earning 2× Champion of the Year at RealPage
0+ Years across platform engineering & SRE on AWS, Azure and GCP
Sri Lingala, Senior Platform Engineer London, UK · Available
About

Infrastructure built like a product: with real users, a roadmap, and outcomes you can measure.

That shift from infrastructure admin to platform product thinking is what I bring to every team. I design reusable Terraform modules across AWS, GCP and Azure that teams self-serve without opening a ticket, build GitOps delivery with Argo CD and Harness that removes manual gates, and stand up observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) that give SRE teams signal, not alert noise.

I have spent the last few years in regulated financial-services environments, implementing Kubernetes security postures (Workload Identity, Pod Security Standards, OPA Gatekeeper) that pass bank-grade audits. I am now focused on platform, SRE and AI/MLOps platform work at product scale.

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What I do

Platforms teams can rely on.

Not pure application development, not pure ML research. The layer in between: the platform, automation and operational foundations that let application, analytics and ML teams deliver reliably.

01

Cloud platform enablement

Self-service Terraform modules, IAM patterns, networking baselines and deployment standards across AWS, GCP and Azure, so teams consume platforms without filing tickets.

02

GitOps delivery & reliability

Argo CD and Harness pipelines that replace manual kubectl, cut deployment incidents, and pair with Prometheus / Grafana / Loki observability for fast P1 resolution.

03

Secure platforms for data & ML

Kubernetes security at audit grade (Workload Identity, Pod Security Standards, OPA Gatekeeper) plus model-serving and automation foundations for AI / MLOps teams.

Tech stack

The platform toolkit I build and operate with.

Production experience across the cloud-native stack, from provisioning and delivery to observability and policy.

Cloud platforms

GCPAWSAzureCloud RunCloud Functions

Containers & orchestration

KubernetesGKEAKSEKSDockerHelmIstioKustomize

Infrastructure as code

TerraformAnsibleWorkload IdentityVPC networking

CI/CD & GitOps

Argo CDHarnessJenkinsGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsSpinnakerSonarQube

Observability & SRE

PrometheusGrafanaLokiAlertmanagerIncident response

Security, policy & languages

HashiCorp VaultOPA / GatekeeperVPC Service ControlsPythonGoBash
Experience

Recent roles.

A look at my recent work and the platforms involved.

Senior Platform Engineer / SRE

Publicis Sapient Jul 2022 – Present · London, UK
Clients: Citi & Lloyds Banking Group

// Citi · GKE Public Cloud Platform · Jan 2025 – Present

  • Operate Citi's centralised GKE platform as a multi-tenant shared service for hundreds of clusters bank-wide, with namespace isolation, platform controls and Tier-1 regulatory compliance.
  • Built reusable Terraform Enterprise modules for cluster provisioning with Sentinel policy enforcement that blocks security misconfiguration across the estate.
  • Manage fleet-wide configuration with Argo CD and Helm, with drift auto-remediated. Define cluster-tier SLOs and lead incident response and blameless postmortems.

// Lloyds Banking Group · GCP Platform & Data Analytics · Jul 2022 – Nov 2024

  • Operated Lloyds' GCP Internal Developer Platform, self-service infrastructure for 50+ teams, cutting environment provisioning time 70%.
  • Built the GCP data-analytics foundation (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Composer, Cloud SQL) and enabled Vertex AI & Looker onboarding with IAM and VPC Service Controls.
  • Led the Spinnaker → Harness migration standardising GitOps division-wide. Hardened the image supply chain with Aqua + Harbor, raising image-scan compliance 60% and cutting spend 20% through rightsizing.
GCPGKETerraform EnterpriseArgo CDHarnessVertex AIBigQueryPrometheus

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Hamilton Capital Holding Feb 2022 – Jul 2022 · London, UK
Crypto payments platform
  • Integrated SonarQube + Fortify into CI/CD, cutting vulnerability exposure 80% within one quarter.
  • Ran microservices on AKS, tuning scheduling, HPA and resource limits for reliability under volatile transaction load.
  • Authored reusable Azure Terraform modules that cut manual provisioning 60%. Migrated workloads Docker → Podman to remove the daemon attack surface for regulated crypto processing.
AzureAKSTerraformSonarQubeFortifyPodman

DevOps Tech Lead

RealPage, Inc. Dec 2015 – Jan 2022 · Hyderabad, India
2× Champion of the Year (2018 & 2020) · $70K + 3,000 eng-hours/yr saved
  • Grew from DevOps Engineer to Tech Lead over 6+ years, owning the DevOps practice for a US real-estate SaaS platform.
  • Led migration of 100+ repositories to AWS + GitHub with redesigned branching and protection, reaching 99.9% pipeline reliability post-cutover.
  • Designed self-healing Kubernetes with Prometheus / Grafana that reduced platform MTTR. Migrated build tooling Jenkins → TeamCity / Azure DevOps for 25% faster releases.
  • Hackathon Winner 2019: Ansible deployment framework that cut server provisioning 90%, adopted as standard tooling.
KubernetesJenkinsTeamCityAWSAzure DevOpsAnsiblePython

DevOps Engineer

Smartron Jun 2015 – Dec 2015 · Hyderabad, India
  • Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for Android and iOS apps and automated builds with shell scripting and Makefiles, improving quality control and reducing manual effort.
JenkinsShellMakefilesAndroidiOS
Selected work

Public repositories.

A selection of the platform blueprints and tooling I've built and shared.

Azure

AKS Platform Blueprint

Production-minded AKS platform using Terraform modules, Helm add-ons, Workload Identity, Key Vault integration and CI/CD automation.

TerraformAKSHelmGitHub Actions
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MLOps

MLOps Platform on Kubernetes

AKS-based platform for ML workloads covering GPU node pools, MLflow, Argo Workflows, KServe, GitOps, observability and policy controls.

AKSKServeArgo WorkflowsMLflow
View repo
Banking

IDP Banking Blueprint

Opinionated Internal Developer Platform for regulated banking on GKE with hardened clusters, Sentinel and OPA policy enforcement, Argo CD GitOps and Workload Identity.

GKEOPAArgo CDWorkload Identity
View repo
On-Prem

On-Prem Kubernetes Blueprint

On-premises Kubernetes platform using Terraform-driven cluster provisioning and hardened node configuration for environments that cannot run on public cloud.

TerraformKubernetesOn-PremHardening
View repo
AI / MCP

Platform MCP Server

Python MCP server exposing platform-engineering capabilities to AI assistants, so platform actions and context can be driven through agentic workflows.

PythonMCPAI assistantsPlatform
View repo
Recognition

Awards & education.

Awards & honors

2× Champion of the Year, RealPage (2018 & 2020)Twice recognised for automation that saved around $70,000 and 3,000 engineering hours annually.
Hackathon Winner, RealPage (2019)First place for an Ansible deployment framework that cut server provisioning time 90%.

Education

B.Tech, Information Technology
Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences · affiliated to JNTU
2010
Certifications & writing

Credentials.

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Linux Foundation / CNCF
HashiCorp Terraform AssociateInfrastructure as Code
Google Associate Cloud EngineerGoogle Cloud
Harness Certified CD & GitOps DeveloperDelivery automation and GitOps

On Medium

How I think about platform work, written up from projects I actually built and ran.

I built a banking-grade Internal Developer Platform on GKE Building an ML platform on Kubernetes: running GPU workloads Platform engineering vs DevOps: what the shift means day-to-day
Contact

Get in touch.

Open to Senior Platform Engineer, Platform Lead, Site Reliability / Production Engineer, Staff DevOps and AI / MLOps Platform roles across the UK and remote international.

Best-fit roles

Senior Platform Engineer, Platform Engineering Lead, Site Reliability / Production Engineer, Staff DevOps Engineer and MLOps Platform Engineer.

Email Sri Open CV

Reach out

Email · [email protected]

LinkedIn · linkedin.com/in/itsmesri

GitHub · github.com/SriLingala

Location · London, UK