Sneha Panda

I am a highly driven Senior DevOps Engineer & Cloud Infrastructure Specialist, with over 5 years of experience designing, securing, and scaling high-availability infra systems on Azure. My career sits at the intersection of Cloud Engineering, Platform Reliability, and Product Ownership, enabling me to deliver both deep technical execution and strong product-driven leadership. My technical expertise spans Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Azure cloud architecture, CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), Kubernetes, and observability frameworks. I build fully reproducible, multi-region cloud environments and engineer delivery pipelines that have improved release velocity by 40%, reduced failures by 30%, and optimized cloud spend by 20%. Alongside my engineering work, I operate with a strong Product Owner mindset; translating business needs into technical roadmaps, defining user stories, acceptance criteria, managing backlogs, and leading cross-functional teams in Agile environments. I collaborate closely with stakeholders to align infrastructure capabilities with business outcomes, ensuring reliability, compliance, and long-term platform scalability. Key Strengths • DevOps & Cloud Engineering: Terraform IaC, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD automation, cloud governance, cost optimization • Site Reliability & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, MTTR reduction, incident & problem management • Product Ownership: Requirements gathering, roadmap creation, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, stakeholder management • Leadership: Mentoring engineers, driving DevOps best practices, building a culture of automation and continuous improvement I am passionate about bridging engineering excellence with product strategy, ensuring that cloud platforms are not only robust and secure, but also aligned with the evolving needs of the business.