Sandeep Sunku

Dynamic and results-driven Program Manager with over 14 years of experience in leading large-scale, cloud-native technology programs. Specialized in DevOps transformation, SRE implementation, and agile delivery across global teams. Proven ability to align engineering execution with business goals, drive operational excellence, and deliver scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure solutions.

• Delivery Excellence: Reduced average release cycle by 50% and improved predictability.
• SRE Maturity: Introduced SLOs and error budgets, improving system reliability to 99.95%.
• Process Innovation: Built a delivery maturity model for CI/CD, SDLC, and observability.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Enhanced visibility and trust through structured reporting and communication.
• Team Growth: Mentored 15+ engineers, fostering a collaborative and resilient DevOps culture.

• AWS Cloud Migration, Led the end-to-end migration of 100+ applications from on-prem to AWS, managing cross-functional teams across 3 regions. Delivered with zero downtime and 25% cost savings.
• Security & Vulnerability Remediation, Directed a DevSecOps initiative to patch critical vulnerabilities across 300+ systems. Integrated security tools with CI/CD and ensured full compliance without production impact.
• RHEL 7 to 8 Upgrade, Oversaw the upgrade of 200+ Linux servers, coordinating across DevOps, infra, and app teams. Automated workflows and ensured zero disruption with full compatibility.
• Disaster Recovery Program, Directed the design and implementation of a resilient DR network architecture, ensuring alignment with business-defined RTO/RPO objectives and maintaining high availability across critical services.
• Containerization Strategy, Program-managed the transformation of 500+ microservices from binary-based deployments to Docker containers, enabling standardized and scalable delivery pipelines.
• Kubernetes Modernization, Led the enterprise-wide migration of 1,000+ microservices to a production-grade Kubernetes platform, driving automation, high availability, and efficient resource utilization.
• Cloud Infrastructure Optimization, Oversaw the migration of 500+ EC2 instances to a modern VPC architecture, enhancing security, performance, and operational agility through subnet segmentation and NAT gateway integration.
• Crisis Management & DNS Recovery, Successfully led emergency DNS migration from GoDaddy to AWS Route 53 during a critical outage, restoring services within 3 hours and minimizing business impact.
• Environment Automation, Spearheaded automation of ITX environment provisioning, reducing lead time from 3 months to 2 weeks through cross-functional collaboration and process streamlining.
• Cloud Cost Optimization, Directed a cost-efficiency initiative that migrated workloads to AWS Graviton instances, achieving $500K in annual savings while improving performance-to-cost ratios.