Anjali Sachdeva

About Anjali Sachdeva

I’m a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Automation Engineer with 6+ years of experience building automation frameworks, observability systems, and internal platform tooling for large-scale distributed infrastructure.At Cisco Systems, I work on infrastructure automation and observability engineering for cloud collaboration platforms, building automation workflows, telemetry pipelines, and reliability tooling that improve operational efficiency and system visibility across distributed environments.My work focuses on turning complex, manual infrastructure operations into scalable automated systems using Python, Infrastructure as Code and now AI (exciting times, upskilling aggressively in AI)Core areas I work in:• Observability Engineering (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, telemetry pipelines)• Infrastructure Automation (Python, Ansible, REST APIs)• CI/CD pipelines and automation platforms• Containerized environments and Kubernetes-based deployments• Infrastructure reliability and operational toolingI’m currently expanding my experience in cloud platform engineering, AI-driven automation, and large-scale infrastructure automation, and I’m interested in roles focused on platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and reliability engineering.If you enjoy discussing automation, observability, platform engineering, or AI-driven infrastructure tooling, feel free to connect.

Experience

1. Senior Platform and Infrastructure Automation Engineer

   Cisco

   Sep 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Focus Areas: Observability Engineering | Infrastructure Automation | NetDevOps | Platform Engineering | Internal Tooling | AI Automation• Designed and implemented infrastructure automation across Cisco collaboration platforms, ACI, firewalls, and virtualized environments, saving hours of manual operations.• Built Python automation services and REST API integrations for infrastructure lifecycle management and remediation workflows using Ansible and Jinja.• Managed Kubernetes clusters including certificate lifecycle management, node scaling, and workload migration; deployed containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.• Built observability pipelines and telemetry exporters using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk to improve infrastructure visibility and reliability.• Implemented CI/CD pipelines and automation services to standardize platform lifecycle management.• Developed automated incident detection and remediation workflows, improving incident resolution rate by 30%.• Administered AWX automation platform enabling self-service automation execution for engineering teams.• Designed an LLM-powered defect remediation pipeline that detects new defects and generates remediation scripts.

Education

• Nextleap

  Product Management Fellowship

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communication

• Delhi Public School,Gurgaon

  School

  2004 — 2016