Kubernetes clusters operated on Citi's centralised, multi-tenant GKE platform.
Sri Lingala
Senior Platform Engineer · SRE · MLOps Platform · London, UK
I build the cloud, Kubernetes and delivery foundations teams rely 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.
Recent work
Citi
Lloyds Banking Group
Publicis Sapient
RealPage
01 / impact
Platform outcomes you can scan in seconds.
Teams self-serving Lloyds' GCP Internal Developer Platform, with environment provisioning 70% faster.
Engineering hours saved annually through automation, earning 2× Champion of the Year at RealPage.
Years across platform engineering & SRE on AWS, Azure and GCP.
02 / thesis
Infrastructure built like a product.
With real users, a roadmap, paved paths 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.
Languages spoken
EnglishFull professional
HindiNative
TeluguNative
SwedishLimited working
03 / platform lanes
The layer between product teams and raw infrastructure.
Not pure application development, not pure ML research. The platform, automation and operational foundations that let application, analytics and ML teams deliver reliably.
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.
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.
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.
04 / experience
Recent roles and regulated platform work.
Senior Platform Engineer / SRE
Publicis Sapient
Jul 2022 – Present · London, UKClients: 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, UKCrypto 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, India2× 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
05 / stack
Production tools grouped by the problems they solve.
Production experience across the cloud-native stack, from provisioning and delivery to observability and policy.
Cloud platforms
GCP · AWS · Azure · Cloud Run · Cloud Functions
Containers & orchestration
Kubernetes · GKE · AKS · EKS · Docker · Helm · Istio · Kustomize
Infrastructure as code
Terraform · Ansible · Workload Identity · VPC networking
CI/CD & GitOps
Argo CD · Harness · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · Azure DevOps · Spinnaker · SonarQube
Observability & SRE
Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · Alertmanager · Incident response
Security, policy & languages
HashiCorp Vault · OPA / Gatekeeper · VPC Service Controls · Python · Go · Bash
06 / public work
Public work: repositories and articles.
A selection of platform blueprints, tooling and writing I've built and shared.
AKS Platform Blueprint
Production-minded AKS platform using Terraform modules, Helm add-ons, Workload Identity, Key Vault integration and CI/CD automation.
TerraformAKSHelmGitHub Actions
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
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
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
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
07 / signal
Recognition, credentials and writing.
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 TechnologyAnnamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences · affiliated to JNTU
2010Certifications
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.
AI Agents Need a Platform Contract 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
08 / contact
Email
[email protected]
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/itsmesri
GitHub
github.com/SriLingala
Location
Looking for senior platform engineering, SRE or MLOps platform work?
Open to Senior Platform Engineer, Platform Lead, Site Reliability / Production Engineer, Staff DevOps and AI / MLOps Platform roles across the UK and remote international.
London, UK