Manish Chandel

I'm a Staff-level Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud Platform Architect with 18 years of experience — 12 of them spent working directly on-site at Equifax Inc. in Atlanta, USA, before transitioning to a global remote setup.

I specialize in owning reliability end-to-end: SLO/SLI frameworks, error budget policies, and burn-rate alerting across 100+ microservices on GCP/GKE. My work is measurable — 35% MTTR reduction, $500k+ in annual cloud savings, 40% faster deployment cycles, 30% fewer operational tickets, and zero unauthorised container deployments in production.

On the platform side, I've built and operated enterprise CI/CD platforms (Jenkins Shared Libraries + GitHub Actions), established ArgoCD GitOps as the delivery standard across entire engineering orgs, authored modular SOC 2-compliant Terraform libraries adopted as the global infrastructure standard, and implemented Observability-as-Code using OpenTelemetry with the full Grafana Labs stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir).

Beyond the tools, I've driven org-wide engineering culture: reliability reviews across squads, SRE onboarding standards, DevSecOps stop-the-build enforcement, and FinOps governance with real accountability to cloud spend budgets.

I hold four Google Cloud certifications (Professional Cloud Architect, Associate Cloud Engineer, Cloud Digital Leader) and an AWS Solutions Architect Associate.

I'm based in India, fully remote, and comfortable working EST/PST overlap hours for global teams. Open to full-time, contract, or fractional Staff/Senior SRE and DevOps Lead engagements.