Available for senior roles · Hyderabad / Bengaluru

Anil Kumar S

// DevOps & DevSecOps Architect · Senior Platform Engineer

12+ years building, securing, and scaling cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Currently architecting Kore.ai's AI infrastructure — delivered ~$2M/year in FinOps savings. Integrates security into every layer of the platform: IaC policy enforcement, pipeline compliance gates, container hardening, and cloud governance. Previously led DevOps & DevSecOps for Fortune 500 engagements at Deloitte.

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// about

Platform Architect at the intersection of AI, Cloud & Security

I design, secure, and operate the cloud infrastructure that makes AI products possible. From architecting LLM Ops platforms to embedding security into CI/CD pipelines and driving FinOps programs worth millions, I work where reliability, scalability, compliance, and cost-efficiency meet.

Currently

Architecting Kore.ai's SmartAssist AI Voice Agent Platform — real-time SIP/RTP voice workloads, EKS lifecycle strategy, and observability practices for production AI at scale.

What I Do Best

Multi-cloud IaC, EKS/GKE platform engineering, CI/CD at scale, DevSecOps (policy-as-code, compliance gates, container hardening), FinOps optimisation, and translating messy infrastructure into clean, observable, cost-efficient systems.

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Numbers that matter

Selected outcomes from 12+ years of platform and DevOps engineering.

~$2M

Annual cloud cost reduction at Kore.ai via EKS FinOps (2025)

100+

Engineers served by CI/CD platform built for Spirit AeroSystems in AWS GovCloud

12+

Years building and scaling cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP

Fortune 500 clients at Deloitte — Toyota, TransUnion, Novelis, Spirit, Caterpillar

Downtime during TransUnion's critical container infrastructure migration from Verisk

Major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with certified expertise on all three

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Technical Arsenal

Tools, platforms, and practices I use to build and ship production systems.

Cloud Platforms

AWS EKSAWS ECSLambda API GatewayRDSAWS GovCloud AWS OutpostAzure AKSAzure Functions DatabricksGCP GKE

IaC & Config

TerraformTerragruntHelm AnsibleCloudFormationSAM

Containers & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesIstio EKSGKEAKS OCP (OpenShift)

CI/CD & GitOps

JenkinsGitLab CIAzure DevOps ArgoCDConcourseGitOps

DevSecOps & Compliance

Policy-as-CodeSonarQube AWS ConfigContainer Hardening Pipeline Security GatesIaC Compliance SAST / DASTSecrets Management IAM / RBACShift-Left Security

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaELK / EFK AppDynamicsSonarQubeAWS Config

FinOps

EKS Right-sizingSpot Instances Savings PlansCost Allocation FinOps for AI (LF)

Languages

PythonBash / Shell JavaJavaScriptNode.js

Methodologies

Agile / ScrumSRE DORA MetricsDisaster RecoveryHA

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Career Journey

12+ years of cloud, platform, and DevOps engineering across enterprise AI, banking, consulting, and product companies.

Kore.ai Sep 2025 – Present

Architect, DevOps

Hyderabad · Enterprise AI / Conversational & Voice AI Platform

Architecting the SmartAssist AI Voice Agent Platform — real-time SIP/RTP-based voice workloads at production scale.
Led FinOps program delivering ~$2M/year in cloud cost savings via EKS node-group right-sizing, Spot/Savings Plan strategy, and version-lifecycle planning.
Defining and executing EKS upgrade strategy ensuring zero-downtime voice services across cluster transitions.
Owning platform reliability: deep production troubleshooting, crash analysis, and JVM/container memory & CPU optimisation.
Standardizing runbooks, debugging playbooks, and observability practices to reduce operational risk.

Lloyds Technology Centre Apr 2024 – Aug 2025

Senior Technology Manager

Hyderabad · Regulated UK Banking · On-prem to OCP & GCP Migration

Led on-premise-to-OCP and GCP migration of business-critical banking applications from IBM infrastructure; secured Design Working Group approval ahead of cutover.
Containerized legacy Java workloads onto GKE and built GitOps-based CI/CD, reducing deployment lead time and removing manual release steps.
Partnered with InfoSec, Risk, and platform teams to meet banking-grade controls and regulatory requirements for Lloyds Banking Group production.
Coached engineering squads on cloud-native patterns, container hygiene, and pipeline standards.

Deloitte Dec 2020 – Mar 2024

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad · Cloud Engineering Consulting across Fortune 500 enterprises

Led DevOps engagements across five Fortune 500 clients spanning automotive, financial services, manufacturing, aerospace, and heavy industry.

Toyota Motors North America

Designed hybrid-cloud microservices architecture spanning AWS Outpost and AWS public cloud.
Set up end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with automated testing; drove Terraform/Terragrunt/Helm IaC adoption.
Developed disaster recovery strategy with load balancing and automated failover.

TransUnion

Migrated container registry from Verisk Corp to VFS/TU environment with zero production downtime.
Activated IaC CI/CD pipelines integrated with Argus GitLab; stood up SonarQube (SAST) and AWS Config compliance rules — embedding DevSecOps gates directly into the delivery pipeline.

Novelis Inc.

Designed branching and deployment strategy spanning Azure container services, serverless, and AI/ML Databricks.

Spirit AeroSystems

Built CI/CD platform serving 100+ engineers in AWS GovCloud; designed serverless IoT solution (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, SAM).

Caterpillar Inc.

Built Concourse declarative CI/CD pipeline; developed JIRA dashboards adopted by leadership for delivery tracking.

Unify Technologies May 2020 – Oct 2020

DevOps Consultant · End client: Roche Holding AG

Hyderabad

Built CI/CD with Jenkins; deployed containerised workloads on Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio service mesh.
Provisioned infra with Ansible and Terraform; monitoring via ELK/EFK, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Appdest Technologies Jul 2019 – Apr 2020

Technical Architect

Hyderabad

Translated client requirements into scalable cloud architecture on Azure; selected tech stack and led build-out.
Containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes; built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.

Banyan / Accpre Software Technologies Sep 2013 – Jun 2019

Cloud & DevOps Engineer → Tech Lead

Hyderabad · Cloud-based POS & product engineering

Led product engineering for Banyan cloud POS suite — zero to shipped product, including team building and feature roadmap.
Shipped cloud-native products (Banyan, SPINOV, GRIP, DigiDine) on AWS with Jenkins, Docker, Elastic Beanstalk, Nginx, and ELK.
Strategic liaison between product, engineering, and cross-functional teams; improved on-time/on-budget delivery.

// contact

Let's Build Something

Open to senior platform & architect roles

Targeting senior platform engineering, DevOps architect, and cloud infrastructure roles at product companies in Hyderabad or Bengaluru. Available for remote and hybrid discussions.

anil.saripiralla@gmail.com

+91 95157 11117

linkedin.com/in/anilsaripiralla

github.com/anilsakr