I’m a results-driven DevOps Engineer with extensive experience across Unix/Linux, cloud platforms, and container orchestration. I enjoy bridging development and operations to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems. I thrive in collaborative teams and take ownership of complex infrastructure challenges. I’m comfortable leading audits and implementing compliance controls (SOC 2, PCI DSS), driving automation with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CI/CD pipelines. I work well with cross-functional teams to align tooling with business goals and evolving cloud-native technologies.

Jinu Zacharias

I’m a results-driven DevOps Engineer with extensive experience across Unix/Linux, cloud platforms, and container orchestration. I enjoy bridging development and operations to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems. I thrive in collaborative teams and take ownership of complex infrastructure challenges. I’m comfortable leading audits and implementing compliance controls (SOC 2, PCI DSS), driving automation with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CI/CD pipelines. I work well with cross-functional teams to align tooling with business goals and evolving cloud-native technologies.

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I’m a results-driven DevOps Engineer with extensive experience across Unix/Linux, cloud platforms, and container orchestration. I enjoy bridging development and operations to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems. I thrive in collaborative teams and take ownership of complex infrastructure challenges.

I’m comfortable leading audits and implementing compliance controls (SOC 2, PCI DSS), driving automation with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CI/CD pipelines. I work well with cross-functional teams to align tooling with business goals and evolving cloud-native technologies.

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Language

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Work Experience

DevOps Engineer at Fujitsu Ireland
July 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025
Deploying, automating, maintaining, and managing cloud-based systems to ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security of production systems. Design, implement, and maintain scalable Kubernetes environments with security, cost optimization, and reliability in mind. Align tooling with industry standards (SOC 2, PCI DSS) and lead internal audits and cross-functional risk assessments. Administer Linux servers (Red Hat/Ubuntu) in self-hosted environments; maintain patching; develop reusable Terraform modules; manage Kubernetes clusters with Helm, ArgoCD for GitOps; implement SRE practices with golden signals, alerting, and incident postmortems. Collaborate with development, QA, and security teams to deliver resilient platforms.
DevOps Engineer at MiFinity Payments Ltd
August 1, 2023 - March 1, 2024
Kubernetes/container management; automation via Rundeck and SaltStack; CI/CD management; shell scripting and Python; Jenkins pipelines; Docker deployments across Dev/Test/Staging/Demo/Prod; Consul, patching; PostgreSQL management; APM and log management; Terraform for infrastructure; network analysis; log shipping to Graylog & Grafana; security tooling (OWASP ZAP, Clair, Aqua); monitoring setup (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana); documentation in Confluence; Jira/Bitbucket workflows; Linux server administration.
DevOps Engineer at ID-Pal
January 1, 2023 - May 1, 2023
AWS ECS/ECR/IAM/CloudWatch; Docker; WAF; Fail2ban; AWS Certificate Manager & Secret Manager; EC2; Git & GitHub; Vagrant; Ansible; Terraform; testing containers in DevBox via WSL (Ubuntu); pre-prod to Prod deployments via Terraform; policy/runbook updates; CI/CD pipeline setup; security vulnerability remediation; AWS cost optimization.
Infrastructure Tech Lead at Version1
June 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022
Led OpenShift operational issues, engaged with Red Hat vendor, and created LLDs for Samba integration with OpenShift 4.10. Provided operational support for development & QA, acting as an infrastructure consultant for Red Hat Linux, OpenShift, Solaris, and SAN migrations; built, monitored, and administered Linux/Unix environments.
Technical Consultant – Unix / DevOps at Getronics Technologies
May 1, 2016 - March 1, 2022
Maintained Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments; CI/CD pipelines; vulnerability remediation; build and deploy across fleets; supported 2000+ Unix servers; public cloud migrations; Puppet deployments; HAProxy/Keepalived; patching and security hardening.
Technical Consultant UNIX – Data Center Support at Colt Technology Services
May 1, 2013 - March 1, 2016
Led a team of Unix admins; DR solution design/testing; VMware SRM deployments; RedHat/Solaris/SUSE patching; DRBD/Pacemaker/cluster management; onboarding new customers; AWS support for internal teams.
Senior Unix Administrator at Microland
August 1, 2008 - June 1, 2010
Offshore UNIX support for Serco (UK) with 500+ Solaris/Linux/IBM-AIX servers; performance monitoring; Sun cluster maintenance; patching; NFS and file system management; storage/backups; on-call support.
Solaris Administrator at Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
May 1, 2005 - August 1, 2008
Linux & Solaris administration; DR activities; Veritas cluster migrations; server provisioning and application deployment; NFS configuration; customer onboarding and AWS-related support for internal teams.
Consultant Unix – L3 at HP – Bangalore
June 1, 2010 - May 1, 2013
Linux & Solaris administration; DR activities; Solaris cluster migrations; DR planning; performance monitoring; patching; collaboration with internal teams for deployments.
Trainee in Network Administration at Ccs Technologies (P) Ltd
January 1, 2003 - October 1, 2004
Trainee in network administration; Citrix-Metaframe installation; Windows NT/2000; Oracle 9i; PowerBuilder; foundational network and systems administration.

Education

BSc Computer Science at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2003
MBA IT at Sikkim Manipal University
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2012

Qualifications

RHCE 8 Certification
January 11, 2030 - May 9, 2026
CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
January 11, 2030 - May 9, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics

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