Summary
Jessica Cherry is a DevOps leader and infrastructure architect with eight years of experience building secure, cloud-native platforms and leading SRE teams across Fortune 500 and federal projects. Currently DevOps Manager at Arch Insurance Group, she has hands-on expertise designing AKS/EKS environments with Terraform, automating CI/CD with ArgoCD and GitHub runners, and championing cloud security in both AWS and Azure. A published author on Kubernetes and chaos engineering, she combines practitioner-level ops skills with clear technical writing and training—having onboarded hundreds of engineers through internal workshops and documentation. Her background spans roles from cloud architect to VP of Development, giving her a rare blend of operational rigor, developer enablement, and program-level leadership. Uncommonly, she pairs this technical career with yoga teacher training, reflecting a focus on resilience and mindful leadership.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Johnston Community College
Technical Information Technology, Technical Information Technology at My Computer Careers
Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy, Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy at Yoga Off East
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) at East Carolina University
French