NAGA SAKETH JALIGAMA
Cloud SRE Manager
Summary
Dynamic SRE and DevOps Manager with over 15 years of IT experience, 5+ years in leadership roles within SRE, DevOps, and Release Engineering in AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments. I specialize in CI/CD , release automation, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitOps) to create secure and scalable environments. I lead Azure migration efforts, having executed 20+ application transitions while improving reliability through SLI/SLO-driven observability in Datadog. I'm recognized as a strategic leader and mentor , actively fostering team growth and driving operational excellence through AIOps innovation and AI-powered incident remediation.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Principal Engineer Mgr, Cloud SRE
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
04.2025 - Current
- Spearheaded weekly leadership syncs, bi-weekly squad lead connects, monthly stakeholder reviews, and 1:1s with engineers.
- Mentored and managed three SRE squads, driving Azure engineering tasks related to networking, identity, and governance.
- Orchestrated Azure cloud migration strategy: formed dedicated squads, migrated 20+ apps, and decommissioned legacy subscriptions.
- Led the new-joiner onboarding automation initiative for 10+ tools across multi-clouds using Python and GitLab, cutting onboarding time from 2 weeks to 1 day, and scaling it across the I&C division, driving SRE principles of reliability, scalability, and reduced toil.
- Refined SLIs/SLOs for Azure services (Firewall, DNS, ExpressRoute) in collaboration with engineering leads, improving Datadog dashboards and alerting .
- Conducted weekly Snow ticket analysis to identify toil patterns and drive automation-based remediation.
- Piloted Azure SRE AI Agent, Datadog BITS AI Agent for anomalies detection and automatic remediation and Chaos Studio for chaos engineering.
- Reduced first-line support escalations by 25% and improved MTTR by 20% for common Azure incidents by delivering automated incident runbook and enabling first-line teams to resolve issues independently, minimizing reliance on Cloud SRE and accelerating response times.
- Used Copilot to generate recurring sprint content, employee recognition templates and team achievement summaries.
- Shaped business initiatives by providing strategic input during PI planning and driving squad-level execution aligned to SRE goals.
- Accelerated Azure migration velocity by delivering targeted cloud enablement demos and workshops, empowering teams with hands-on guidance.
- Led monthly and quarterly tech talks on observability enhancements and AI agent PoCs (Azure SRE AI, Datadog BITS AI), fostering cross-team awareness and adoption.
- Launched internal learning series to bridge skill gaps, promote continuous learning, and scale technical maturity across the squads.
- Designed role-based Copilot personas and prompt templates to streamline AI adoption across squads— accelerating productivity and enabling contextual, task-specific AI usage
DevOps Manager
Zscaler
06.2022 - 03.2025
- People management:
- Managing a remote team of DevOps engineers, providing regular feedback and ensuring career growth and progression and identifying opportunities, areas of improvement and innovation.
- Successfully Hired and mentored the engineers to build a diverse and high performing distributed team.
- Improved the team coordination by creating automatic slack reminders and workflows to track daily updates and hand off items between onshore and off shore teams.
- Project management:
- Created DevOps charter, OKRs vision for the team through yearly roadmaps in Jira plans and re-aligning them with quarterly check-ins in corresponding sprints.
- Collaborating with cross functional teams like DEV/QA/Security and engineering leadership to define and prioritize projects that help us meet our objectives.
- Created and presented monthly Team metrics using Jira automation and dashboards to senior level leadership.
- Coordinated with IT team to customize project management in bitbucket and Jira by adding pre-hooks/add-ons/issue-types/workflows/alerts and custom fields.
- Technical Leadership:
- Led the below projects:
- Laid foundation of DevSecOps by adding all types of scans in CI (secret scanning, SAST, SCA, container etc)
- Implementation of open source container registry tool harbor to save cost and increase efficiency compared to AWS ECR.
- Implementation CI/CD Pipelines for front-end and backend services of zscaler control plane product.
- Migration of control plane services from monolithic to micro-services architecture with kubernetes based deployments i.e ec2/ecs -> eks using Jenkins and argoCD.
- Implementation of monitoring system based on Victoria metrics, grafana and Prometheus for Jenkins build clusters and agents.
- Driving architecture discussions and development decisions through inclusion and participation of the engineers on the team.
- Led projects and initiatives to improve our software delivery to release software from once a quarter to once a month by improving CI/CD and implementing GitOps.
- Led and Built vendor relationship management with tools like snyk, blackduck and sonarqube to standardize the licensing models across zscaler.
- Standardized the documentation process for project designs, RCA's, case studies and runbooks.
DevOps Lead
Footlocker Retail Inc
10.2018 - 05.2022
- Led a team of DevOps/Release engineers for infrastructure automation and Build/Release Automation (CI/CD).
- Implemented Bitbucket Repository -> GitHub Repository Migration project.
- Implemented CI/CD Roadmap for all customer facing apps in footlocker.
- Involved in infrastructure as a code (IAC) Migration process from Azure ARM Templates to Terraform.
- Worked on infrastructure automation using AzureDevOps and Terraform.
- Collaborated with cross functional teams to streamline the authentication and authorization for GitHub, Jenkins, Veracode and other CI/CD tools.
- Created shared-libraries and jobDSL for Jenkins Pipelines for all apps of footlocker online shopping portal.
- Created Blue/Green Deployment Pipelines using Jenkins and Kubernetes for Microservices Applications with zero downtime.
- Good Understanding of Configuration Management tools like Chef for installing and maintaining DevOps VM's.
- Provided training and support to the new joiners in the team on DevOps Practices.
Senior DevOps Engineer
American Insurance Group (AIG)
02.2017 - 09.2018
- Technologies/Skills: BitBucket, GitHub, Maven, Jenkins Pipelines, CI/CD, jFrog, Sonar, Veracode, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Jira, confluence, Hygiea devops dashboard, AWS
DevOps Engineer
Apollo Global
11.2015 - 01.2016
- Technologies/Skills: SVN, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence, JFROG, Maven, Puppet
Research Assistant
Purdue University
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Technologies/Skills: TFS, MS Build, Build and deploy automation.
Build and Release Engineer
Microsoft
06.2010 - 12.2013
- Technologies/Skills: CVS, ANT, Ms Build, Innosetup (windows packaging manager), Jenkins. Unix, Bash/Shell, Batch, Build and Release automation
Education
Master of Science - Computer Information Technology
Purdue University
Indiana,USA08-2015
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
JNTU
HYDERABAD,INDIA05-2009
Skills
- Project management and people management
- Release engineering and DevOps
- Infrastructure as code (IaC - Terraform)
- Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
- DevSecOps and GitOps
- Cloud computing and SRE
- AIOps
- Scripting languages
- Kubernetes orchestration
- Azure cloud services
- AWS cloud solutions
- Jenkins automation
Certification
SRE Foundation
Timeline
SRE Foundation
08-2025
Principal Engineer Mgr, Cloud SRE
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
04.2025 - Current
DevSecOps - Kubernetes DevOps & Security at KodeKloud
06-2024
GitOps Fundamentals and GitOps at Scale at Codefresh
09-2023
How to Manage a Remote Team at GitLab
08-2022
DevOps Manager
Zscaler
06.2022 - 03.2025
DevOps Lead
Footlocker Retail Inc
10.2018 - 05.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
American Insurance Group (AIG)
02.2017 - 09.2018
DevOps Engineer
Apollo Global
11.2015 - 01.2016
Research Assistant
Purdue University
01.2014 - 01.2015
Build and Release Engineer
Microsoft
06.2010 - 12.2013
Master of Science - Computer Information Technology
Purdue University
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
JNTU
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