Sai Chivukula
Clarksville,MD
Summary
Results-driven management professional with proven ability to lead teams to success. Strong focus on team collaboration, operational efficiency, and achieving measurable outcomes. Adept at strategic planning, process improvement, and fostering culture of accountability and excellence. Known for adaptability and consistently meeting changing organizational needs.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
DevSecOps / SRE Manager
DLH Corp
05.2020 - Current
- Extensive experience in design, develop, deploy infrastructure and applications on Multi-Cloud Environments such as GCP and AWS
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframe.
- Cloud Cost Optimization.
- Designed and Implemented DevOps CICD Pipeline
- Designed and Implemented DevSecOps Tools and Orchestration such as DAST, SCA, IAST, IaC, Container Scanning.
- Define and Implement SRE Metrics around MTTR, KPI’s, Availability, Scalability, Performance to define SLA's, SLO's and SLI's
- Designed and Developed Infra-As-Code Automation using Terraform and Helm
- Designed, Developed Active-Active Multi Region Data Centers
- Work closely with Compliance and Cyber Security Teams to remediate Vulnerabilities in infrastructure and Code
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, project managers and product managers
- Built high-performing teams through effective recruitment, onboarding, and talent development initiatives.
- Increased production efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing automation techniques.
- Established strong relationships with vendors to negotiate favorable pricing structures and secure high-quality components for projects.
- Developed innovative solutions for complex technical challenges, resulting in improved product functionality.
DevOps and SRE Manager
Kohls Corp
04.2017 - 05.2020
- Designed and implemented DevOps CI/CD Automation across all of applications deployed in AWS
- Design and implementation of Stateless Microservices Architecture
- Worked with Engineering on process Improvements and Automation
- Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems to help all teams ensure systems are running as expected using Splunk and Cloud Watch
- Complete capacity plans for sustainability and ensure we are operating at 5 9's during peak/ seasonal load as identified by the Business needs
- Respond to incidents, resolve issues, and completing root cause analysis to develop short term and long-term plans to prevent them from occurring in the future
- Responsible for 7x24 support of core platform applications managing teams onshore / offshore
- Extensive experience in working with cross functional teams’ coordination and engaging with Development Teams to proactively discuss the forth coming architecture changes.
DevOps Manager
Total Wine & More
04.2014 - 03.2017
- Enabled DevOps transformation across Organization
- Implement DevOps Orchestration and SRE best practices for site reliability, release management, performance testing and scalability
- Lift and shift from hosted platform to Cloud in AWS
- Designed/ Developed and implemented a fully automated CICD Pipeline by incorporating Unit tests, Code Quality Checks, API Testing, Smoke / Integration Testing and finally Integration with Jira to update the ticket status opened for the release
- Digital Transformation Platform from Hosted to Google Cloud Platform
Sr, Principal Engineer, DevOps, and Engineering
Common Securitization Solutions
11.2011 - 03.2014
- Automated CICD pipeline for deployments
- Experience using Containerization to isolate various environments from overlap with same code base using same infrastructure
- Experience in delivering SaaS using DevOps Automation tools and Orchestration Build and Provision environments on AWS using Terraform
- Deploy code to production and support operational readiness and associated tasks
- Identified potential risks in projects, developing contingency plans to mitigate impact on project timelines and deliverables.
- Increased production efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing automation techniques.
- Established strong relationships with vendors to negotiate favorable pricing structures and secure high-quality components for projects.
- Developed innovative solutions for complex technical challenges, resulting in improved product functionality.
Principal Engineer, IT Operations
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
04.2002 - 10.2011
- Provided day to day leadership to a team of 7 engineers and hands on experience in handling crisis management
- Delivered multiple projects under budget and experience in managing departmental budget
- Designed and Implemented Business Continuity Planning
- Worked with Business Users in defining the requirements and drive Business Solutions
- Lead client discussions and meetings as subject matter expert across multiple business units
- Participated in Scrum Meetings to define the deliverables for each Scrum based on JIRA tickets
- Mapped functional requirements to Business and Technical Requirements
- Key Team member in implementing ITIL, ITSM best practices
- Interacted with several 3rd parties / vendors in identifying the products that enable smooth workflow of day-to-day operations, monitoring and service delivery
Sr. Software Engineer
Siebel Systems
11.1999 - 03.2002
- Experience in leading mid to large size teams across multiple complex CRM Implementations
- Managed development and service delivery teams in multiple projects
- Worked as Solutions Architect for CRM Applications in design and implementation phases
- Ensured that Service Delivery meets the SLA
- Maintained comprehensive documentation of development work, facilitating knowledge sharing among team members.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
University of Madras
Chennai, India05.1993
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat OpenShift
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Helm
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git Hub Actions
- Programming: Python, Java, My SQL
- Tools: JFrog XRay, Invicti, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, Nagios
- Source Code Management: Bitbucket and Artifactory
- Change Management: Service Now, Jira
Training
- ARO Open Shift Admin Training
- GCP Cloud Platform Training
- Coursera Certified GCP Enterprise Architect
Experience Highlights
- Delivering Client value through agile methodologies and DevOps Culture.
- Business Continuity, Disaster Recover, Site Reliability, 24x7 Operations Support.
- Infrastructure Growth Planning, Capacity Management.
- Project Management, Program Management and Cost Planning Delivery Execution and Cost Management.
- Align IT Vision and direction with customer business requirements.
- Business process improvement, Change management, Release Management, Access Control and Incident Management.
Timeline
DevSecOps / SRE Manager
DLH Corp
05.2020 - Current
DevOps and SRE Manager
Kohls Corp
04.2017 - 05.2020
DevOps Manager
Total Wine & More
04.2014 - 03.2017
Sr, Principal Engineer, DevOps, and Engineering
Common Securitization Solutions
11.2011 - 03.2014
Principal Engineer, IT Operations
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
04.2002 - 10.2011
Sr. Software Engineer
Siebel Systems
11.1999 - 03.2002
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
University of Madras
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