Dilawar Rajput 🇮🇳 — Director of Engineering

14+ Years of professional experience in the IT industry with Strong background of Infrastructure Architecture level Devops -SRE and GRC -infosec security -Fintech Domain -complaince, and Cloud Implementation & Cost Management (Finops) ,Incident and cyber security management ,monitoring and securing cloud Application. DevOps and Automation practice leader and lead application modernization and transformation projects. Rich experience in Multi-Clouds (Specialized in AWS), Server Administration, Networking, Infrastructure Security and Monitoring ,Cloud-Native, Container-Native . Execution and implementation of multiple BCP - robust disaster recovery drill in AWS & other DC successfully with adhering all compliance protocols. Beyond technical prowess, Specialised knowledge in the Fintech domain coupled with his extensive experience in infosecurity & GRC compliance audits and Certified Payment Card Industry Security Implementer(CPISI). Comprehensive knowledge spans from full-stack proficiency to adept management of product deployment, change management and incident & SOC resolution. Budgeting, Vendor/Contracts management Hiring & Team building from scratch. *Specialties/Key Skills* ************************ • Cloud Services - AWS , Azure,GCP and Data Center (Netmagic,Nxtgen etc) • Monitoring and Observability -Grafana, Loki,Zabbix, Appoptics , New Relic, Pagerduty, Signalfx ,Checkmk,PMM,Prometheus,Pingdom,Victorops,ELK ,Checkmk,Uptime Robot,IPA,AD ,AWS S3 etc. • CI/CD Framework & SAST-DAST-SCM tool - Jenkins, AWS Code build/Pipeline ,Maven,SonarQube,Semgrep,Check Mark,Jmeter ,Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, ECR Docker registry, jfrog ,artifactory,Argo. • Information Security - Cloud Security (CSPM-Security hub ,IAM ,Guardy,Trusted advisor,Ping Safe ), Endpoint (Sentinel One -XDR, DLP, Deep Security,Clamav) & DB Security (IBM DAM, FIM), SIEM IBM QRADAR ,Wazhu SIEM, Perimeter (WAF-Cloud flare /Akamai , IPS ), AppSec (SAST, DAST, VAPT), Compliance (PCI DSS ,ISO ,SOC2,REBIT,ITGC,DL SAR ,Tokenization etc) ,Qualays ,Nessus,SSL Certificate etc. • Containerization - Docker, EKS. • Web Application - Apache, Nginx,Citrix Load Balancer ,Ingress controller ,ALB ,ELB etc. • Atlassian Tools -Jira , Confluence ,Bitbucket. • DNS-CDN-WAF- Route53,Zedit ,Akamai ,Cloud flare ,cloud front ,AWS Network Firewall. • IaC &Configuration & Other Tool - Terraform & Ansible. • Database/Queuing -MySQL, Redis ,Postgres, DynamoDB ,RDS ,Redis ,Elastic cache ,SQS ,Kafka ,AWS MSK etc. • Unified Contact Centre Solutions (Ameyo),On-Premise/ Cloud deployment, SIP, VOIP.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Infrastructure Architect with extensive DevOps and cloud migration expertise.

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Experience: 14 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Devops
Cloud Migration
Cloud Architecture
Infrastructure Management
Site Reliability Engineering
Cloud Support
Technical Support
Customer Support

Career Highlights

14+ years of experience in IT and DevOps.
Expertise in cloud migration and infrastructure security.
Led multiple compliance audits in Fintech domain.

Work Experience

MobiKwik

Director of Engineering -Devops -Infra -Security (1 yr 11 mos)

Associate Director Devops (2 yrs 2 mos)

DevOps Manager (9 mos)

Airtel Africa Digital Labs

Site Reliability Engineering Manager -SRE/Devops (4 mos)

Freecharge

Principal Engineering Manager -SRE/Devops (1 yr 10 mos)

Ameyo

Assistant Techinical Manager Cloud(AWS/Azure/GCP) and Enterprise Customer Support (2 yrs 6 mos)

Tech Lead (1 yr 5 mos)

Product Enginner/Sr Product Enginer (3 yrs 9 mos)

Education

Bachelor's degree (B.Tech) at RTU,Kota

Dilawar Rajput 🇮🇳

Director of Engineering

Gurgaon, Haryana, India14 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14+ years of experience in IT and DevOps.
Expertise in cloud migration and infrastructure security.
Led multiple compliance audits in Fintech domain.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Infrastructure Architect with extensive DevOps and cloud migration expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCloud MigrationCloud ArchitectureInfrastructure ManagementSite Reliability EngineeringCloud SupportTechnical SupportCustomer Support

Other Skills

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)IT Infrastructure ManagementAWSInfrastructure SecuritySRE PracticesInfrastructure SupportAntivirusInfrastructure AutomationKubernetesLinuxAmazon EC2LeadershipApache KafkaBalbix Security CloudVulnerability Assessment

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Experience

Mobikwik

3 roles

Director of Engineering -Devops -Infra -Security

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Managing end to end Devops/SRE/DBA infra team and Infra tech new project delivery .
Led the migration of BBPS and Interops (UPI PPI) from the data Center to AWS to support business growth with enhanced scalability and reliability.
Leading micro-service and Database architecture designing and revamp monolithic service to micro-service service architecture with engineering team .
Leading Compliance -Audit with internal and external team (Regulated body like ReBit)
Set up new site for disaster recovery on premise-cloud and execution of multiple DR Drill .
Upgrading and Enhancement at infra end like all db system up to date like MySQL /Mongo /redis/ Kafka /Kubernetes etc version upgrade to keep system reliable and complaint as per regulatory .
Managing vendor and third party partner -vendor engagement -agreement,cost negotiations etc
Finops Cost optimization up to 20 % in organisation like implemented EKS Spot instance strategy (karpanter) for staging envirnment and stateless application and other cost-optimized utilies and automation .
Streamline Jira -change -incident COE process and prioritisation processes with weekly team sync-ups
Upgrade On premises Datacenter NTT-Nxtgen Firewall Switch setup with proper planning along with AWS P2P Direct Connect high availability setup .

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)IT Infrastructure ManagementDevOpsCloud Migration

Associate Director Devops

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Led the migration of payment gateway (Zaakpay) and microservice from On premises to AWS ensuring with high availability ,reliability and scalability while implementing best SRE practices .
Accountable for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements in support of a given project or capability in organsation.
Managed diverse teams comprising over 25+ professional including Devops, SRE,DBA ,SOC ,GRC team etc.
Responsible of Infrastructure Support 24*7 on-call support schedules across the organisation and handle incident response with RCA to ensure high availability & reliability ,Scalability 3rd party Endpoint Integration Support, Proper planning and coordinating with engineering and external team for new infra provisioning and services Onboarding etc .
Led the Infra provisioning in AWS Hyderabad (other DR site as well ) for DR Drill and successfully execution of multiple application DR Drill Activity with adhering all compliance (RTO-RPO) and audit like RBI ,PCI DSS etc.
Compliance -GRC -Management -Led the audit REBIT ,PCI DSS, DL SAR ,COFT and other all critical audit from infra end.
Led the all major upgrade activity like MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8 and Mongo,redis etc successfully on AWS RDS and non RDS Env.
Implemented EKS based framework and migrate service from Monolithic to microservice and architecture ,AWS Network firewall implementation,On premises UIDAI Set up implementation and other tool SSO etc.
Led the end to end Soc Set up -SIEM QRadar, Sentinel One EDR, IBM Guardium DAM for Data base monitoring etc as per regulatory compliance .
Budgeting, Vendor/Contracts management .
Hiring & Team building from scratch .

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)IT Infrastructure ManagementDevOpsCloud Architecture

DevOps Manager

Jul 2021 – Apr 2022 · 9 mos

Building and Leading team of 20+ members- Devops/DBA /Soc.
Led the migration of Mobikwik’s infrastructure from an on-premise data center to a AWS cloud focusing on high availability,reliability and scalability following industry best SRE practices with in challenging timeline and Ensured high business continuity during the transition.
Led Security compliance activities & Involved in all infosec audit and compliance activities like PCI DSS,REBIT,SAR,IS,internal audit ,ITGC etc.
DR Planning and BCP activity execution to comply with RBI and other regulatory requirment .
Led the automation of infrastructure provisioing ( Terraform ) and orchestration (Ansible ) with EKS /ECS framework and resilient Ec2/RDS based database .
Automation Of Devops tools and Framework Deployment CI CD Pipeline setup.
Database management -Mysql/Mongo /Redis/Elastic cache etc
Set up multiple process and introduced (Confluence ) across organisation for knowledge management.
Support across team 24*7 and Coordinating with internal and external entities.
Infra Monitoring Alerting setup on cloud and non cloud.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)AntivirusDevOpsInfrastructure Management

Airtel africa digital labs

Site Reliability Engineering Manager -SRE/Devops

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Building the team from Zero ,Set up complete new monitoring,infra tools and CI CD Deployment pipeline .
Managing Tech Devops support multiple Africa
Continent and internal team , Process and SOP Documentation . Received Award with in Quarter for managing multiple product deployment set up and support across team.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)KubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringDevOps

Freecharge

Principal Engineering Manager -SRE/Devops

May 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

Managing and Provisioning infrastructure AWS/Azure Cloud .
Support multiple team for prod and non prod env.
Supporting and readiness all microservices deployment and tool set provision.
Heading Infosec Audit (PCI DSS ,ITGC ,SAR)
Devops tools -Jenkins CI/CD , Kubernates,EKS Prometheus ,Grafana ,Zabbix,APM ,ELK,Appoptics, Hasicorp Vault,Terraform ,Nessus,Qualys,Pingdom
Heading infra Cost Optimization etc
Coordination with multiple team for onboarding new project in infra.
Databases -Postgres, MySQL, redis,Mongodb.
Migrate service into EkS environment
Leading DR Drill activity.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)IT Infrastructure ManagementDevOpsInfrastructure Management

Ameyo

3 roles

Assistant Techinical Manager Cloud(AWS/Azure/GCP) and Enterprise Customer Support

Promoted

Oct 2016 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Managing Cloud Support for Enterprise customer and onboarding process of new clients into Cloud.
Leading team of around 15 member.
Managing release Deployment and Onboarding set up on AWS/Google/Azure cloud.
Leading Layer 2 & Layer 3 technical support to clients and Handling customer and internal escalations.
Consulting clients over integration between Ameyo and other third party application.
All types of technical POA for all type of activities which includes setup migration release and patch upgrade or any type customer set up activity.
Arranging meetings with customers, understanding their business requirements .
Prioritised, tracked, monitored, updated, and followed-up tech support calls and emails to fix hardware, software, and connectivity issues.
Worked over different Cloud service and migration client set up from AWS to Azure using cloud Endure .
Good Hands on Upgradation activity (DB,release , patching etc)

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)LinuxCloud SupportTechnical Support

Tech Lead

Promoted

May 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Leading Layer 2 & Layer 3 technical support to clients and Handling customer and internal escalations.
Responsible for the operations under technical support department, reporting to the Manager.
The role involved building, supporting and refreshing of environments.Handling Support Team

LinuxAmazon EC2Technical SupportCustomer Support

Product Enginner/Sr Product Enginer

Jul 2011 – Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Providing support to customer and also worked in product certification team and lead the certification team for 1 year .
Good full stack Product knowledge.
Managing Ameyo Application to provide maximum productivity in predictive and preview dialing.
IP-phone registration and troubleshooting with user management in Ameyo
Also good knowledge of Linux server, Postgresql Database and Asterisk/SIP/VOIP.
Reviewing Server performance and maintaince to ensure quality and accuracy.
Managing Load Balancer, Database Server, SIP Server.
Responsible for uptime of all server Hardware, Software and Application at client end
Manage Installation of Contact Centre Suite over client side.
Handling RAID policies on servers.
Installation and integration of Postgresql Database with Asterisk SIP server and Ameyo Application.
Installation of Asterisk PBX and Ameyo Application and configuration of VOIP Gateway, E1 Lines.
Remote Support and Monitoring of Setup (Premise and Hosted based).
Monitoring SIP responses of calls including coordination with VOIP Vendors.
Analyzing logs of OS, database and asterisk (SIP and ISDN).