Sonu Chauhan
@sonuchauhan
Lead SRE and cloud infrastructure engineer delivering secure, scalable platforms and DevSecOps.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a Lead SRE with 7+ years of experience building and managing cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP, specializing in Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD.
I design modular, self-service infrastructure and have led a team of 16 engineers to deliver scalable, reliable platforms; I advised 6+ product teams on AWS Well-Architected best practices and reduced deployment failures by 40%.
My work focuses on observability, incident automation and DevSecOpsāimplementing policy-as-code with OPA and Sentinel, embedding Trivy and secret scanning into pipelines, and maintaining SOC2/ISO27001 compliance while cutting provisioning time and MTTR by ~60%.
I enjoy driving efficiency in fast-paced, research-driven engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering cost-efficient, audit-ready cloud solutions; I am open to relocation across the EU to continue that work.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead Cloud SRE
Fractal.ai
Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 5 months)
Led a team of 16 engineers to design and deliver a Terraform-based self-service AWS provisioning platform, reducing provisioning time by 60% and deployment failures by 40% while ensuring SOC2/ISO27001 compliance.
DevOps Engineer II
RetailMeNot
May 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 7 months)
Reduced cloud costs by $180K annually through rightsizing and reserved instance planning. Managed AWS EKS clusters supporting 50+ microservices with 99.95% uptime and improved deployment reliability by 40% via CI/CD improvements.
Deployed containerized Finacle banking suite using Ansible and Kubernetes, reducing deployment cycle from 7 days to 4 hours. Implemented multi-region disaster recovery and enforced TLS 1.2 across database environments.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Babu Banarasi Das University
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering
2013 - 2017
Completed a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering at Babu Banarasi Das University from 2013 to 2017.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
IndiaAuthorized to work in
Portfolio
github.com/sonuchauhan1597Job categories
Skills
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