Yogita Singla

DevOps Engineer

Delhi, India10 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 40-50%
Led successful offshore-to-inhouse infrastructure transition
Designed large-scale AWS & Kubernetes platforms

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert in Fintech with extensive experience in cloud architecture and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureDevopsCloud Computing

Other Skills

AWS EKSCI/CD pipelinescost optimizationproduction reliabilityKubernetesJenkinsHelmGit-based workflowsreal-time monitoringcentralized loggingGitCI/CDContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Automation

About

Senior Lead DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and securing high-availability cloud platforms. Currently leading a DevOps team at Paytm, owning AWS EKS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, cloud architecture, cost optimization, and production reliability. Key Highlights: • Designed and managed large-scale AWS & Kubernetes (EKS) platforms • Reduced AWS infrastructure cost by ~40–50% through strategic optimization • Led offshore-to-inhouse infrastructure transition • Executed EKS version upgrades during non-peak hours with minimal downtime • Handled traffic spikes during high-traffic business events • Owned on-call processes and incident response for critical systems Strong believer in automation, reliability, and proactive scaling. Open to fully remote DevOps / Platform Engineering opportunities (India & Global).

Experience

10 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Paytm

4 roles

Senior Devops lead Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Senior Lead DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and securing high-availability cloud platforms.
Currently leading a DevOps team at Paytm, owning AWS EKS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, cloud architecture, cost optimization, and production reliability.
Key Highlights:
Designed and managed large-scale AWS & Kubernetes (EKS) platforms
Reduced AWS infrastructure cost by ~40–50% through strategic optimization
Led offshore-to-inhouse infrastructure transition
Executed EKS version upgrades during non-peak hours with minimal downtime
Handled traffic spikes during high-traffic business events
Owned on-call processes and incident response for critical systems
Strong believer in automation, reliability, and proactive scaling.
Open to fully remote DevOps / Platform Engineering opportunities (India & Global).

AWS EKSCI/CD pipelinescloud architecturecost optimizationproduction reliabilityCloud Architecture+1

DevOps Lead

Nov 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon Web Services (AWS)DevOpsCloud ComputingAutomationSecurity

DevOps Manager

Promoted

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

Promoted multiple times based on performance: Senior DevOps Engineer → DevOps Lead (Dec 2023) → Senior Lead DevOps Engineer (Jul 2025). Lead and mentor a team of 7–8 DevOps engineers, driving cloud architecture, delivery standards, and operational excellence. Took complete ownership of understanding, documenting, and migrating critical infrastructure previously built by an offshore team, enabling full transition to an in-house DevOps model and removal of offshore dependency. Planned and executed multiple Amazon EKS version upgrades during non-peak hours with zero or minimal downtime, ensuring platform stability and backward compatibility. Handled traffic spikes and ensured platform reliability during high-traffic business events through proactive scaling, performance tuning, and real-time monitoring. Architected and managed large-scale AWS EKS-based Kubernetes platforms handling peak production traffic. Owned CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Helm, and Git-based workflows, improving deployment reliability and speed. Drove aggressive FinOps initiatives, reducing AWS infrastructure cost by ~40–50% through rightsizing, Spot instances, storage optimization, and architectural improvements. Owned on-call and incident response for mission-critical systems, ensuring high availability and uptime. Implemented centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch. Led security hardening, IAM audits, Cortex XDR implementation, and compliance best practices. Actively involved in hiring, interviews, technical evaluations, and onboarding of DevOps engineers.

AWS EKSCI/CD pipelinescloud architecturecost optimizationproduction reliabilityJenkins+6

Senior Devops Engineer

Oct 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Unicommerce

2 roles

Senior Devops Engineer

Sep 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Unix/Linux Administrator,AWS,CI/CD: Jenkins,Ansible
Work with Cloud-based technologies and command-line administration of EC2, ECS, Auto Scaling,
ElastiCache, RDS, ELB, NLB, VPC, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Amazon EBS
Automating Daily Admin Tasks & configuration Management using Ansible/Chef.
Build robust infrastructure in AWS appropriate to a respective component of product e.g.: EC2 or
Lambda etc. with Horizontal or Vertical scaling available with no downtime to the deployed component.
Build ELK as a core infrastructure engine to solve problems like centralized logging.
Proactive in providing Technical solutions with effective communication & collaboration skills.
Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring & operations. And troubleshoot and resolve issues
in dev, test and production environments.
Work in agile team environment and collaborate with internal teams to ensure smooth product delivery.
Performance Improvements with the help of metrics provided by automatic monitoring of product.
Continuous Knowledge sharing internal & external of Team.