I am a Site Reliability Engineer specializing in building and operating highly available, secure production platforms across Azure, AWS, and OpenShift. I blend SRE disciplines with DevOps and Platform Engineering to design scalable, reliable systems using Kubernetes, Terraform automation, and secure-by-default workflows. Throughout my career I have improved availability, reduced operational risk, and strengthened security with Vault PKI, mTLS, and incident response improvements. I thrive on building internal developer platforms, self-service templates, and guardrails that empower teams while maintaining governance.

Sridath Jeelugula

I am a Site Reliability Engineer specializing in building and operating highly available, secure production platforms across Azure, AWS, and OpenShift. I blend SRE disciplines with DevOps and Platform Engineering to design scalable, reliable systems using Kubernetes, Terraform automation, and secure-by-default workflows. Throughout my career I have improved availability, reduced operational risk, and strengthened security with Vault PKI, mTLS, and incident response improvements. I thrive on building internal developer platforms, self-service templates, and guardrails that empower teams while maintaining governance.

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I am a Site Reliability Engineer specializing in building and operating highly available, secure production platforms across Azure, AWS, and OpenShift. I blend SRE disciplines with DevOps and Platform Engineering to design scalable, reliable systems using Kubernetes, Terraform automation, and secure-by-default workflows.

Throughout my career I have improved availability, reduced operational risk, and strengthened security with Vault PKI, mTLS, and incident response improvements. I thrive on building internal developer platforms, self-service templates, and guardrails that empower teams while maintaining governance.

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Work Experience

Site Reliability Engineer at Morgan Stanley
December 1, 2024 - Present
Owned reliability and security of a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform (AKS, EKS, OpenShift) spanning 3 clouds, 3 regions, and 3 environments, sustaining 99.99% availability. Designed and operated Vault-based identity and credential workflows using cert-manager and Kerberos, reducing certificate-related incidents by 40%. Administered intermediate CAs in Vault, issuing short-lived client certificates for internal and customer workloads to enforce mTLS-by-default. Automated environment provisioning through Terraform modules and Jenkins GitOps pipelines, accelerating deployments by 60% and reducing configuration drift. Improved detection and response by tuning Datadog alerts and PagerDuty routing, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) by 35%. Strengthened compliance posture through Vault audit logging and CIA governance controls, improving non-repudiation and audit readiness. Led certificate lifecycle automation (renewal and rotation), improving business continuity and reducing manual operatio
Site Reliability Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer at Cognizant Technology Solutions
November 1, 2020 - September 1, 2024
Project: Chubb Insurance — Built enterprise Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, enabling 100+ deployments per month with zero-downtime patterns. Onboarded .NET, SSIS, and SharePoint workloads to AKS and implemented Istio service mesh, improving inter-service security and observability by 45%. Integrated CyberArk Vault and SAST, DAST, and SCA tooling into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with automated policy gates, reducing security vulnerabilities by 30% and improving audit readiness. Deployed Datadog monitoring and alert-driven dashboards for AKS, reducing unplanned outages by 25%.
Build & Release Engineer at Virtusa Consulting Services
January 1, 2015 - April 1, 2017
Automated server provisioning with Puppet and managed AWS EC2 environments, reducing setup time by 40%. Integrated Bitbucket with Jenkins for CI/CD automation across UNIX and Windows environments. Managed end-to-end software release lifecycle, ensuring consistent and traceable deployments.

Education

Master of Engineering (Quality Systems Engineering) at Concordia University, Montreal
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026
Master of Engineering (Quality Systems Engineering) at Concordia University, Montreal
January 11, 2030 - January 22, 2026

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Financial Services, Professional Services, Software & Internet