SHIVA CHINNAM

I’m a Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale, from early-stage startups to enterprise environments serving millions of users. I specialize in AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform. At Rialtic, I led the migration of production workloads from AWS MSK to self-managed RedPanda, drove AWS cost optimization initiatives, and architected a multi-account Cloudflare setup. I’ve deployed and managed EKS clusters with full observability stacks including Datadog and Linkerd service mesh, and built on-call workflows integrating Jira, Slack, and PagerDuty. Previously, I spent four years supporting Apple’s customer-facing production systems — owning zero-downtime weekly deployments across on-premise DCs and AWS, and holding rotational on-call for critical incident response. My core stack: Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD/FluxCD, Ansible, Python, and shell scripting — across the full infrastructure lifecycle from provisioning to production operations. I’m looking for a fully remote Senior Cloud or Platform/DevOps Engineer role where I can own cloud infrastructure, scale engineering platforms, and solve high-impact problems — ideally in a startup or growth-stage environment.