System Engineer / DevOps Engineer
I manage high-availability systems across Linux, AWS, Nutanix, databases, application servers, monitoring, and release automation with a focus on uptime, speed, and disaster readiness.
Uptime SLA
Deployment Time Reduced
Years Experience
Monitoring Mindset
About
Sonali Rai is a results-driven System Engineer and DevOps professional with 3.5+ years of hands-on experience managing enterprise Linux infrastructure, AWS cloud environments, and Nutanix hyperconverged platforms.
Her work spans CI/CD pipeline automation, zero-downtime deployments, MySQL administration, infrastructure monitoring, disaster recovery, and security hardening. She focuses on practical DevOps implementation that improves system reliability, scalability, and delivery speed in production environments.
She has worked with production services that require disciplined release handling, reliable backups, clear monitoring, and fast troubleshooting across web, application, and database layers. Her portfolio highlights the type of engineering work that keeps business-critical systems stable while teams continue to ship.
Core Expertise
Maintains Linux production infrastructure with uptime-focused operations, access controls, patching, hardening, incident response, and service health checks.
Builds and manages AWS infrastructure for secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant application environments across compute, network, storage, and database layers.
Improves delivery speed through Jenkins and Ansible pipelines, scripted deployments, rolling release methods, and reduced manual intervention during production releases.
Technical Skills
CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL, Windows Server, patching, user access, troubleshooting, service health, log rotation, and hardening.
EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, ELB, VPC, CloudWatch, EBS, AMI, Route 53, Multi-AZ failover, lifecycle policies, and secure account access.
Jenkins, Ansible, Git, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, release orchestration, deployment validation, and repeatable automation.
JBoss EAP, WildFly, Apache Tomcat, Nutanix AHV, VMware familiarity, Docker familiarity, and Kubernetes exposure for modern platform readiness.
MySQL master-master replication, RDS administration, scheduled backups, query optimization, MongoDB, and ClickHouse for high-throughput workloads.
ELK Stack, Datadog, Site24x7, CloudWatch alarms, Citrix Load Balancer dashboards, backup optimization, and RTO/RPO-focused DR support.
Experience
ValueFirst, A Twilio Company - Gurugram, Haryana
Responsible for production infrastructure operations across Linux servers, AWS cloud services, application servers, databases, monitoring platforms, and release pipelines supporting ValueFirst voice and messaging services.
Administered CentOS and Ubuntu production workloads, maintained 99.9%+ uptime SLAs, and handled hardening, patching, access control, and troubleshooting.
Designed Jenkins and Ansible CI/CD pipelines, automated weekly releases, and reduced manual deployment steps with rolling deployment practices.
Built and managed EC2, EBS, VPC, IAM, ELB, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, AMI, NAT gateways, route tables, and secure multi-tier architecture.
Maintained AWS DR infrastructure, monitored systems with Datadog, ELK, Site24x7, and supported ValueFirst VOICE and Infinito platforms.
Impact Work
Automated weekly production releases using Jenkins and Ansible, eliminating manual release steps and reducing deployment time by approximately 60%.
Led migration from Apache Tomcat to WildFly with rolling deployment strategy, improving production stability and maintainability.
Designed secure web, application, and database layers with VPC networking, load balancing, IAM controls, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure.
Implemented dashboards, alarms, backups, AMI snapshots, EBS lifecycle automation, and DR systems aligned with production RTO/RPO needs.
Education
APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University
Children Senior Secondary School, Azamgarh
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