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Chiemela Umeh

@chiemelaumeh

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Skyward, building multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms and cutting MTTR from 45 to 12 minutes.

United States

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At Skyward, I design and operate AWS EKS and Azure AKS platforms supporting distributed workloads. I built observability and incident-response practices that cut MTTR from 45 to 12 minutes and reduced alert noise by 60%.

At Viasat, I architected Azure and AWS infrastructure for production clusters, with zero audit findings over two years. Earlier, at Payday, I automated cloud provisioning and CI/CD; my work cut release lead time from four days to under two hours.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Current

Skyward

Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Designed and operated cloud-native infrastructure platforms on AWS EKS and Azure AKS supporting 50+ microservices and 500+ pods. Established monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response practices, cutting MTTR from 45 to 12 minutes and alert noise by 60%.

AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform Helm ArgoCD GitOps Entra ID Azure RBAC Key Vaults AWS Secrets Manager Trivy GitHub Actions azure monitor Cloudwatch Prometheus Grafana Zero Trust

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Viasat

Feb 2022 - Feb 2025 (3 years)

Architected multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS supporting 20 production clusters for high-throughput SaaS, applying CIS Benchmark controls with zero audit findings over 2 years. Automated multi-account cloud provisioning via modular Terraform and standardized GitOps workflows for global adoption.

Azure AWS Kubernetes Terraform GitOps Cloudwatch Prometheus Grafana IAM CIS Benchmarks VPC VNet

DevOps Engineer

Payday

Aug 2018 - Jan 2022 (3 years 5 months)

Engineered CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps with Terraform IaC for Node.js and Python services, cutting release lead time from 4 days to under 2 hours. Automated Azure and AWS provisioning via modular Terraform and developed Python and Bash automation to reduce operational toil.