Senior DevOps Engineer & SRE Leader

Chandra Shekar Kaviti

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA +1-213-***-**** *************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandrashekar-kaviti-shekar/ SUMARRY

Results-driven Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, automating, and scaling secure cloud infrastructure on AWS. Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation), CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes (EKS) operations. Proven success in driving system reliability, cost optimization, and developer productivity through modern DevSecOps and SRE practices. Skilled in Python, Bash, AWS Cloud services, observability tooling, and security automation. Strong collaborator with a focus on high availability, performance tuning, and continuous improvement across multi-account, production-grade environments. EXPERIENCE

Sr. DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer Jun 2024 - Present Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sunnyvale, CA

• Led the design and automation of a multi-account AWS Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation, enabling teams to self-provision secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure.

• Built and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and GitHub Actions, integrating automated testing, vulnerability scanning (Trivy), and policy compliance checks using Open Policy Agent

(OPA).

• Deployed and optimized Kubernetes (EKS) clusters with Helm and Kustomize, implementing autoscaling, bluegreen deployments, and service mesh (Istio) for high availability and zero-downtime releases.

• Established observability and incident response frameworks with Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry, improving fault detection and reducing MTTR by 40%.

• Implemented resilience testing and chaos engineering through AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) and GameDay exercises to validate recovery plans and strengthen system reliability.

• Automated configuration management and environment provisioning using Ansible, AWS Systems Manager (SSM), and Python/Bash scripting, eliminating manual setup and drift issues.

• Secured workloads through IAM, AWS KMS, GuardDuty, AWS Config, and Secrets Manager, ensuring compliance with organizational security and encryption standards.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams following SRE and DevSecOps principles, defining SLIs/SLOs, enforcing error budgets, and integrating reliability metrics into CI/CD workflows.

• Optimized cloud performance and cost efficiency through FinOps practices, leveraging AWS Cost Explorer and CloudWatch metrics to right-size infrastructure and reduce monthly spend by 25%.

• Enhanced developer productivity by integrating Amazon Q Developer with CI/CD systems to automate documentation, dependency management, and infrastructure code recommendations. DevOps Engineer Aug 2017 – Apr 2023

Adobe India

• Designed and implemented highly available CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and AWS CodePipeline, automating end-to-end build, test, and deployment workflows for microservice-based SaaS products.

• Migrated legacy on-prem applications to AWS Cloud (EC2, ECS, Lambda, and S3), enabling elastic scalability and improving deployment frequency by 40%.

• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation, reducing environment setup time from days to minutes.

• Deployed and managed containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), implementing Helm-based releases, autoscaling, and zero-downtime rollouts.

• Integrated monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), and AWS CloudWatch to improve incident visibility and reduce MTTR by 35%.

• Strengthened infrastructure security and compliance using AWS IAM, KMS, Config, and GuardDuty, alongside automated policy enforcement through Open Policy Agent (OPA) and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.

• Implemented GitOps practices with ArgoCD and FluxCD, ensuring consistent and auditable deployments across staging and production clusters.

• Developed automation scripts in Python and Bash to manage backups, scaling operations, and service restarts, eliminating manual intervention and improving reliability.

• Partnered with development and QA teams to integrate automated testing, code quality checks, and static analysis

(SonarQube, Trivy) within CI pipelines for early defect detection.

• Collaborated cross-functionally in an Agile + DevSecOps environment, defining SLIs/SLOs, improving release velocity, and contributing to internal Site Reliability initiatives that enhanced uptime to 90%. SKILLS

Programming & Scripting Languages: Python, Bash, Shell, Go (Golang), YAML, JSON Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, Config, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible CI/CD & Automation: AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, FluxCD Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Kustomize, Istio, Blue-Green & Canary Deployments Monitoring, Logging & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch, Loki

Security & Compliance: AWS IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, AWS Config, Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Trivy, DevSecOps best practices

Performance & Reliability (SRE): SLIs/SLOs, Error Budgets, Autoscaling, Chaos Engineering, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), Incident Response, MTTR Optimization Cost & Performance Optimization (FinOps): AWS Cost Explorer, Resource Right-Sizing, Cloud Cost Governance Version Control & Collaboration: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Agile/Scrum, DevOps & Site Reliability Culture Tools & Frameworks: Amazon Q Developer, SonarQube, Nexus, JFrog Artifactory Soft Skills: Problem-Solving, Verbal and Written Communication, Best Practices, Code Review, Troubleshooting, Attention-to-Detail.

CERTIFICATE

Certified AWS Developer – Associate

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering University of Central Missouri- Kansas City, MO, USA Bachelor of Computer Science

Malla Reddy Engineering College

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