About

Suman Bera is an accomplished Assistant Vice President with over 12 years of experience in DevOps and Cloud Platform Engineering. Currently, he is working with State Street, where he is responsible for creating, maintaining, and automating the infrastructure for middle office applications for the CRD Alpha project of the Bank hosted on Azure. He is managing Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure by using multiple Azure services along with Azure Kubernetes clusters. Suman is also responsible for implementing Infrastructure as Code by using Terraform for creating and managing all the infrastructure components like AKS clusters, ACR, AKV, Vnet, Subnet, DNS, etc. He has hands-on experience in deploying and managing Confluent Kafka operator by using helm charts on Kubernetes clusters. Suman has a proven track record of implementing multi-zone and multi-region replication for Kafka clusters on Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. He has worked with CI/CD automation by using Azure DevOps and Bash scripts. He has hands-on experience in deploying logging stack using EFK (Elasticsearch, fluentd, Kibana) and telemetry stack using Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes. Suman is responsible for creating DR infrastructure on Azure for platform applications. He is also responsible for the implementation of Chaos engineering with Kubernetes infrastructure and applications by using Litmus chaos engineering tool. In his previous roles, Suman worked with Walmart as a Senior Systems Engineer - DevOps, where he was responsible for creating, maintaining, and automating the complete infrastructure for all the InfoSec applications in Walmart. He has worked closely with the Development and Application Security team and helped them in designing and implementing the complete application pipeline. Suman has created and managed infrastructure and CI/CD process on Azure and local data centers by using Terraform, Jenkins, and in-house CD tool called Oneops and automating it by using Ansible, Bash, and in-house automation tool called Concord. He has also created and maintained container-based infrastructure for required applications by using Docker and Kubernetes. Suman has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from rkdf institute of science & technology, Bhopal. He also holds a High School Diploma in Mathematics from Christ Jyoti Hr.Sec.School, Satna (M.P). Suman has a diverse TechStack, including DevOps, infra, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Kafka, Docker, Ansible, SRE, Elastic Search, Puppet, Jenkins, Search, GCP