Raja Mandava

About Raja Mandava

Senior DevOps / Site Reliability / Platform / Cloud Engineer with proven expertise in designing, automating, and operating secure, scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments. I specialize in building resilient platform ecosystems that improve deployment velocity, strengthen security posture, and ensure high availability at scale.With a strong foundation in Windows Server administration, Active Directory, and enterprise platform engineering, I bridge traditional infrastructure with modern DevOps practices. I design and provision infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation), enabling consistent, repeatable, and compliant deployments across multi-cloud environments.I bring hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines that streamline build, test, and release processes, reducing manual effort and accelerating time-to-market. My automation-first mindset, powered by PowerShell and scripting, drives operational efficiency, configuration management, and proactive health monitoring.From an SRE perspective, I focus on reliability engineering principles observability, incident reduction, performance optimization, and automation-driven remediation. I have implemented monitoring solutions using Dynatrace and Nagios to enhance visibility, reduce MTTR, and maintain SLA-driven platform performance.Experienced in containerized workloads and hybrid cloud integrations, I ensure platform stability, scalability, and security while continuously improving system resilience and operational excellence.I am passionate about building self-healing infrastructure, strengthening reliability engineering practices, and driving automation strategies that enable high-performing, cloud-native platforms.

Experience

1. Sr Cloud Devops Engineer

   Staples

   Jun 2023 — Present · Framingham, MA, US