Sai Charan

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Amazon

   Jan 2024 — Present

   At Amazon, I contributed to scaling and optimizing large-scale cloud infrastructure by automating provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, building high-availability solutions, and streamlining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI. I implemented observability frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to enhance visibility and reduce MTTR, while enforcing IAM security policies to strengthen compliance.Optimized 200+ EC2 instances to improve scalability, security, and compliance for high-demand workloads.Automated provisioning and configuration using Ansible & Terraform, boosting delivery speed and consistency.Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, streamlining integration, testing, and deployments.Implemented observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and ELK, reducing MTTR by 25–30%.Enforced IAM security policies/roles, strengthening access controls and ensuring organizational compliance.Led incident response and RCA for P1–P4 issues, driving preventive actions and minimizing downtime.Designed high availability & disaster recovery solutions, ensuring uptime for mission-critical systems.Executed cost optimization strategies (auto-scaling, reserved instances, rightsizing), cutting cloud spend by up to 25%.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Master's degree, Information Technology

• CMR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering