CURRICULUM VITAE

Balaji Raju Mohan

Cloud · SRE · DevOps · Observability · Melbourne, Australia

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

FDM Group · Client: ANZ Bank

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.

  • 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.

VERIFIED CERTIFICATIONS

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Google Cloud
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
HashiCorp
New Relic Reliability Engineer Professional
New Relic
New Relic Full Stack Observability Practitioner
New Relic
New Relic One Programmability
New Relic
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Splunk
Splunk Power User
Splunk
Splunk Core Certified User
Splunk
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
PADI
PADI Open Water Diver
PADI

EDUCATION

Master of Information Technology
Cloud Computing
Swinburne University of Technology · Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
SNS College of Technology · Tamil Nadu, India