BHEESETTI LAVANYA KUMAR

About

Linux Tower Lead and Reporting Manager with 6+ years of experience spanning hands-on enterprise Linux administration and people/service delivery management. Currently lead a 14-member technical tower (10 direct reports) delivering 24x7 production support for enterprise client Equifax, consistently achieving 100% SLA compliance and zero-downtime operations. Combines deep technical ownership of RHEL 7/8/9, SUSE, and CentOS environments — including Red Hat Satellite administration, kernel/patch management, LVM/SAN storage, Ansible automation, and CIS security hardening — with team leadership, SLA/KPI governance, major incident management, and client/stakeholder relationship management. Currently upskilling in Docker, Kubernetes, and CKA certification to extend team and personal capability into cloud-native infrastructure.

What I'm looking for

Seeking a senior remote role as a Senior Linux Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Tower Lead, or SRE. Bringing 6+ years of enterprise Linux administration (RHEL/SUSE), Red Hat Satellite, LVM/SAN storage, and Ansible automation alongside experience managing 24x7 production towers. Eager to contribute to organizations migrating traditional Linux workloads to cloud-native architectures, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/CKA in progress), and automated CI/CD pipelines.

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