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Suryateja Kanchi

@suryatejakanchi

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Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer specializing in scalable, secure AWS and Kubernetes platform automation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior DevOps/Cloud role focused on automation, secure CI/CD, and SRE-driven reliability within collaborative, security-conscious teams that value scalability and operational excellence.

I am a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 9+ years designing, automating, and supporting large-scale, high-availability cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. I specialize in CI/CD, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Terraform, Jenkins, and DevSecOps, and I apply SRE principles to maintain reliable production systems.

Throughout my career I have reduced deployment cycles by 50%, maintained 99.9% uptime, automated backups saving 20+ hours/month, and managed 50+ microservices on Kubernetes with zero downtime. I have implemented infrastructure as code, built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, integrated security scanning into pipelines, and automated compliance and monitoring frameworks.

I collaborate closely with development and security teams to enable smooth platform transitions, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence. I hold AWS Solutions Architect – Associate and HashiCorp Terraform Associate certifications and look to bring robust automation, security-first practices, and resilient cloud operations to my next role.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps SRE

Current

Verizon

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Provisioned and secured EKS clusters with Terraform and IAM/RBAC, developed Helm charts and CI/CD pipelines, and integrated Prometheus and ACM to improve reliability and reduce deployment cycles by ~50%.

Terraform EKS Helm Prometheus IAM Jenkins Gitlab CI CI CD

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Leidos

Sep 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 4 months)

Automated backups, Route 53 and ALB configurations, and Lambda-driven EBS snapshotting; implemented CI/CD with CodePipeline/CodeBuild and enforced security via CloudTrail and MFA across accounts.

AWS Lambda Terraform Route 53 CloudTrail Code Pipeline Jenkins S3 Security Groups Python

SRE & Production Support Engineer

Verizon

Oct 2021 - Sep 2022 (11 months)

Managed infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and CloudWatch; built and deployed Docker images to EKS via GitLab CI and automated backups and monitoring to maintain high availability.

Terraform Ansible EKS Docker Gitlab CI Cloudwatch RDS Linux Python

DevOps Cloud Engineer

Truckstop

Nov 2020 - Oct 2021 (11 months)

Designed hybrid cloud solutions, implemented Kubernetes security (PSP) and AKS ingress/TLS, and built logging and analytics pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, Lambda and BigQuery.

Kubernetes AKS Helm Prometheus Grafana AWS Lambda BigQuery Python Gitlab

Cloud Engineer

Capital One

May 2020 - Nov 2020 (6 months)

Provisioned and secured AWS environments including EKS, RDS, VPCs and IAM; developed Lambda functions and Terraform modules and improved CI/CD with Jenkins and Ansible.

AWS EKS Terraform Jenkins Ansible Lambda RDS CloudFormation Docker

AWS DevSecOps Engineer

Western Union

May 2019 - May 2020 (1 year)

Authored Terraform modules for IAM, S3, Lambda and DynamoDB; enabled ECR image scanning and integrated DevSecOps tooling (Tenable, CyberArk) to harden CI/CD and runtime security.

Terraform AWS Lambda DynamoDB ECR CI CD DevSecOps Tenable Python

Site Reliability Engineer

Caterpillar

Sep 2018 - Apr 2019 (7 months)

Applied SRE practices for monitoring, capacity planning and release engineering; automated Azure remediation and ARM/JSON deployments and managed CI/CD pipelines and backup strategies.

SRE Azure Arm Terraform PowerShell VSTS AppDynamics Kubernetes CI CD

Senior AWS / DevOps Engineer

FPT Software

Feb 2017 - Jul 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Built and maintained AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes-based CI/CD workflows, using Jenkins, CloudFormation and Docker to deliver containerized applications and automated deployments.