Balaji Raju Mohan — Cloud · SRE · DevOps · Observability

Engineering reliability into every system.

I build reliable, observable and automated cloud systems — turning complex infrastructure into systems engineers can trust.

PRODUCTION TELEMETRY TOPOLOGY
LIVE INTERACTIVE GRAPH
LIVE TELEMETRY STREAM
Selected Node:Payments API (28ms)
Observability as Code · Terraform Managed
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Chapter 01 · Identity & Philosophy

The architecture of peace of mind.

Complexdistributedcloudsystemswillinevitablyfail.ThedisciplineofSiteReliabilityEngineeringisnotabouthopingsystemsneverbreak—itisaboutarchitectingobservability,automation,andself-healingtelemetrysothatsystemssurvivefailurecompletelyunnoticedbycustomers.
Production Context

Operating at the core of enterprise banking.

Melbourne, Australia ANZ (via FDM)

As an SRE and Observability Engineer within ANZ Bank's Payments Observability team, I design and automate high-availability monitoring pipelines for mission-critical banking workloads handling substantial transaction volumes daily.

My technical domain spans multi-cloud telemetry (AWS & GCP), automated alerting in Terraform, and deep instrumentation with New Relic, Splunk, and Dynatrace. But what sustains high performance in high-stakes environments is the perspective gained outside of work.

Academic Foundations

Formal training in distributed cloud computing and computer science fundamentals.

Graduate DegreeMelbourne, Australia

Master of Information Technology

Cloud Computing · Swinburne University of Technology

  • •Specialized in Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems Architecture, and Virtualization.
  • •Comprehensive research and practical labs in enterprise network virtualization and container orchestration.
  • •Applied cloud security principles, automated provisioning, and data pipeline design.
Undergraduate DegreeTamil Nadu, India

Bachelor of Engineering

Computer Science & Engineering · SNS College of Technology

  • •Core foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, and Database Management.
  • •Software engineering fundamentals, object-oriented design, and systems programming.
Chapter 02 · Engineering Capabilities

Precision at every layer of the stack.

Amoderninfrastructureengineercannotsimplyunderstandonetool.Reliabilitydemandstheorchestrationofresilientsystemsarchitecture,declarativeinfrastructureautomation,anddeeptelemetryvisibility.
Pillar 01 Focus

Site Reliability Engineering

99.99%
SLO Compliance Maintained

Engineering systemic resilience into critical payments workloads through proactive SLO/SLI definitions, error budget governance, synthetic monitoring, and automated incident triage.

Core Engineering Capabilities

Google SRE Golden Signals (Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation)
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) & Error Budget Burn Rates
Automated Production Incident Response & MTTR Reduction
End-to-End Synthetic Transaction Probes

Stack & Tooling

SRESLOs / SLIsIncident ResponseChaos TestingSynthetic Probing
Chapter 03 · Career Journey & Track Record

Proven reliability under enterprise scale.

Operatingattheintersectionofbankingpaymentsandcloudinfrastructurerequiresunwaveringprecision.Everytelemetrypipelineandalertconditionprotectsmillionsofdollarsinreal-timetransactions.
Payments Observability & Monitoring

Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

FDM Group (Client: ANZ Bank)Melbourne, Australia
2022 — Present

Engineering enterprise observability, telemetry automation, and system reliability for critical transaction-processing and payment systems at ANZ Bank. Championing Observability-as-Code (OaC) using Terraform to manage 400+ alert conditions and 100+ production dashboards.

Core Reliability Architecture & Deliverables

Architected and standardized Observability-as-Code workflows using Terraform and New Relic, eliminating manual configuration drift across production payment pipelines.
Designed and implemented full-stack golden signal dashboards (Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation) providing deep visibility into high-volume transactional microservices.
Engineered automated infrastructure agent rollout and telemetry ingestion pipelines across hybrid cloud and on-premise Linux, Unix, and Windows environments.
Consolidated multi-tool monitoring silos (New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk) into unified alert policies, reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) and alert fatigue by over 35%.
Collaborated with platform security and infrastructure teams to integrate HashiCorp Vault secrets management into automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.
Developed high-precision NRQL and Splunk queries for proactive anomaly detection, synthetic monitoring, and service level objective (SLO) tracking.
TECHNOLOGY STACK:New RelicTerraformDynatraceSplunkAWSGoogle CloudHashiCorp VaultOpenTelemetryNRQLLinux / UnixDockerGitHub Actions
Chapter 04 · Flagship Architecture

Engineered for extreme reliability.

Explore all systems
EveryproductionsystemIarchitectistreatedwithzero-compromiseengineeringstandards:declarativestate,automatedvalidation,zeroconfigurationdrift,anddeeptelemetryvisibility.
ObservabilityLead SRE / Observability Engineer

Observability as Code (OaC)

Enterprise-scale Terraform-driven automation for managing 400+ alert conditions and 100+ production dashboards with zero drift.

400+
Alert Conditions
100+
Dashboards Provisioned
0%
Configuration Drift
Minutes
Deployment Velocity
TerraformNew RelicNRQLGitHub ActionsHashiCorp Vault
observability-as-code.tf
TERRAFORM PIPELINE

// Declarative SRE Alert Policy

resource "newrelic_alert_policy" "payments_golden_signals" {

name = "Production Critical - High MTTR Alert"

incident_preference = "PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET"

}

// Automated NRQL Threshold

resource "newrelic_nrql_alert_condition" "p99_latency" {

policy_id = newrelic_alert_policy.payments_golden_signals.id

critical { threshold = 500 /* ms */ }

}

Terraform Validate: Passing
GitOps Sync: 100%
ObservabilitySite Reliability Engineer

Payments Reliability & Golden Signals Telemetry

End-to-end distributed tracing, golden signal telemetry, and proactive anomaly detection for mission-critical payment processing pipelines.

100%
Payment Workload Visibility
35%
MTTR Reduction
40%
False Positive Reduction
4 / 4 Tracked
Golden Signals
New RelicDynatraceSplunkOpenTelemetryAWS
payments-observability.tf
TERRAFORM PIPELINE

// Declarative SRE Alert Policy

resource "newrelic_alert_policy" "payments_golden_signals" {

name = "Production Critical - High MTTR Alert"

incident_preference = "PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET"

}

// Automated NRQL Threshold

resource "newrelic_nrql_alert_condition" "p99_latency" {

policy_id = newrelic_alert_policy.payments_golden_signals.id

critical { threshold = 500 /* ms */ }

}

Terraform Validate: Passing
GitOps Sync: 100%
Cloud & SREDevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Enterprise Hybrid Infrastructure Monitoring & Telemetry Fleet

Automated infrastructure telemetry and agent lifecycle deployment across enterprise Linux, Unix, and Windows server environments.

1000+ Hosts
Host Fleet Coverage
Linux · Unix · Windows
Supported OS Platforms
100% Scripted
Onboarding Automation
99.99%
Heartbeat Accuracy
New Relic InfrastructureDynatrace OneAgentLinux / RHELUnix / AIXWindows Server
infrastructure-monitoring.tf
TERRAFORM PIPELINE

// Declarative SRE Alert Policy

resource "newrelic_alert_policy" "payments_golden_signals" {

name = "Production Critical - High MTTR Alert"

incident_preference = "PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET"

}

// Automated NRQL Threshold

resource "newrelic_nrql_alert_condition" "p99_latency" {

policy_id = newrelic_alert_policy.payments_golden_signals.id

critical { threshold = 500 /* ms */ }

}

Terraform Validate: Passing
GitOps Sync: 100%
Chapter 05 · Industry Accreditations

Formally verified milestones.

RigorousexternalverificationacrossGoogleCloudDevOps,HashiCorpInfrastructure,NewRelicSRE,andSplunkAnalyticsensuresarchitecturaldecisionsalignwithglobalindustrybenchmarks.
Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Digital Badge
Google Cloud

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

VERIFIED

BigQuery & Data Warehousing·Dataflow (Apache Beam) Pipelines·Cloud Pub/Sub & Real-Time Streaming·Cloud Storage & Bigtable·Data Architecture & Optimization

Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Digital Badge
Google Cloud

Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

VERIFIED

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)·Continuous Delivery & Pipelines·GCP Cloud Architecture·Cloud Monitoring & Logging·Incident Management

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Digital Badge
HashiCorp

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

VERIFIED

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)·Terraform Modules & State Management·HCL Syntax & Providers·Automated Provisioning

HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate Digital Badge
HashiCorp

HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate

VERIFIED

Secrets Management·Dynamic Secrets & Encryption as a Service·Access Control & Policies·Token Management

New Relic Reliability Engineer Professional Digital Badge
New Relic

New Relic Reliability Engineer Professional

VERIFIED

Service Level Objectives (SLOs)·Golden Signals Monitoring·High-Precision Alerting·NRQL Query Tuning

New Relic Full Stack Observability Practitioner Digital Badge
New Relic

New Relic Full Stack Observability Practitioner

VERIFIED

APM Instrumentation·Infrastructure Monitoring·Distributed Tracing·Synthetic Probes

Chapter 06 · Direct Connection

Let's engineer something extraordinary.

Whetheryouaremodernizingenterpriseobservability,codifyingmulti-cloudinfrastructurewithTerraform,orseekinghigh-impactSREexpertiseforyourplatform,let'sstarttheconversation.
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