Manojbabu Iruvuri

Site Reliability Engineer @ NVIDIA

About

Principal Systems Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer) with 17+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling mission-critical cloud and on-prem infrastructure across large enterprise environments. Expert in AWS, EKS, ECS, CI/CD, OpenStack, Linux, observability, automation, and incident management. Extensive hands-on experience managing on-prem datacenters with automation, including VMware clusters, bare-metal systems, enterprise storage, and configuration management, as well as hybrid cloud integrations. Deep experience working with GPU-accelerated infrastructure, including provisioning, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of high-performance compute environments. Skilled in workload orchestration using SLURM for distributed and batch processing systems, and experienced with NVIDIA Tegra-based platforms for edge and embedded compute use cases. Proven track record in reducing incident noise, improving MTTR, hardening production clusters, and driving reliability engineering practices across multiple teams. Known for deep troubleshooting skills, strong partnership with development teams, and the ability to lead high-severity incidents with clarity, stability, and speed.

Country

United States

City

Merrimack

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Amazon EKS, Datadog, Terraform, Red Hat Linux, Linux, Shell Scripting, Virtualization, Requirements Analysis, System Administration, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), High Availability, SDLC, Performance Tuning, Linux System Administration, Storage Area Network (SAN), Project Management, Cloud Computing, Scrum master, scrum product owner, VMware

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

NVIDIA

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

Principal SRE

Fidelity Investments

2022-5 - 2025-12 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Merrimack, NH

Lead SRE strategy for mission-critical customer-facing platforms, supporting 2000+ microservices. Designed and modernized EKS platform governance, upgrades, security baselines, and automation. Led failover response during AWS us-east-2 outage; executed multi-region traffic shift via Route53 ARC. Reduced alert noise by 40% through SLO tuning, noise reduction programs, and app-team coaching. Built production rollout strategies: Blue-Green, Canary, Ping-Pong with automated rollback support. Introduced OPA guardrails, IRSA, namespace governance, resource policies, and golden deployment templates. Drove Datadog and infrastructure cost optimization through metric tuning and rightsizing.

Sr SRE - Ceph Storage

Fidelity Investments

2018-6 - 2022-6 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Senior SRE - CEPH STORAGE Managed and scaled on-prem Ceph S3 clusters, improving performance and availability across multi -site deployments. Built a geo-redundant Ceph S3 cluster using cephadm, enabling faster failover and increased reliability. Automated health checks, operational workflows, and alerting to improve MTTR and reduce manual effort. Executed major Ceph upgrades, OS patches, and firmware baselines while minimizing maintenance windows. Conducted storage performance analysis, identifying bottlenecks and achieving 30% throughput improvement. Trained and mentored junior engineers, raising team capability and operational maturity.