Kushal Kumar

Director of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India10 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led compliance initiatives for FedRAMP and SOC 2.
Expert in cloud governance and infrastructure optimization.
Proven track record in driving automation and security alignment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure and DevOps expert with a strong focus on compliance and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCloud GovernanceCompliance ManagementInfrastructure OptimizationAutomationInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

AWSAWS GlueAerospikeAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon RedshiftAnsibleApache AirflowApache KafkaArangoDBArgoAthenaAuditingCDNCassandraCollaboration

About

As a DevOps leader, shaping infrastructure, security, and compliance to support scalable, high-growth operations. I drive initiatives that modernize deployment strategies, streamline processes, and reduce operational risk—turning complex infrastructure challenges into resilient, efficient solutions. By aligning DevOps, automation, and compliance with business strategy, I ensure our systems not only perform reliably but also accelerate growth and enable engineering excellence. My focus is on strategic oversight, cross-functional collaboration, and building infrastructure that scales securely with the business.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Ontic

3 roles

Director of DevOps

Promoted

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

As a DevOps leader, Aligning infrastructure, automation, and compliance efforts with business strategy. My role spans cloud governance, platform reliability, and enterprise DevOps transformation-enabling secure, scalable operations that meet the demands of a high-growth SaaS company.
Leading Ontic’s infrastructure through key compliance milestones including FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, while modernizing deployment practices through container orchestration and global CI/CD frameworks. These initiatives have reduced operational risk, improved delivery velocity, and positioned our platform for long-term scalability.
I bring a strategic lens to automation, security, and cross-functional alignment-ensuring infrastructure not only supports but accelerates business outcomes. My leadership in cloud optimization, disaster recovery, and DevSecOps has helped Ontic maintain resilience, customer trust, and engineering excellence at scale.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)OrchestrationSecurity CompliancecloudDigital TransformationDevSecOps+4

Principal Engineer - DevOps

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Ensuring seamless operations and driving efficiency across the infrastructure. My focus extends to conducting infrastructure and security audits, implementing robust automation using Terraform and Ansible, and optimizing infrastructure security and costs.
Key Achievements:
Build and leading a team through the FedRAMP program, ensuring compliance with stringent federal requirements and standards.
Lead team in deploying, upgrading, and maintaining products and services, ensuring seamless operations and high performance.
Implemented deployment strategies using container orchestration tools, enabling efficient scaling and management of applications.
Established and maintained monitoring systems with NewRelic, Prometheus, and Grafana, providing actionable insights for continuous improvement.
Orchestrated SDLC automation, configuration management, and release management strategies, improving productivity and delivery speed.
Designed and implemented backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.
Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to mitigate risks and comply with industry standards.
Documented infrastructure planning, POCs, and configurations, facilitating knowledge sharing and future scalability.

TerraformAnsibleMonitoringAutomationSecurityCost Management+1

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Oct 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Nykaa.com

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Feb 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Responsible infra security and cost optimisation
Responsible for deploying, upgrading, operating/maintaining, and scale products and services
Closely collaborate with Software Engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products
Responsible for monitoring applications in production environments, managing application uptime
Streamlined applications delivery
Implement/Integrate/Poc new tools/technologies Developing high signal-to-noise ratio monitoring and alerting policies and technology to help us meet our SLAs Issues troubleshooting and ﬁx
Manage shared systems and services, such as the docker orchestrator, service registry, secrets management and more
Develop tools to streamline and automate steps and processes for Engineering
Help shape infrastructure to support high availability and performance of e-commerce products and services for our end users
Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
Closely worked with BigData and analytics team to setup pipeline, integration and automation

Infrastructure SecurityCost OptimizationMonitoringCollaborationInfrastructure Management

Ixigo

2 roles

Senior DevOps Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Feb 2020 · 10 mos

Responsible to maintain application uptime Securing the complete VPC environment and ensuring that both cloud and on-premise resource interaction is appropriate (setting up VPNs, ACLs, security groups, route tables, etc.)
Applications migration to Kubernetes
Performed DevOps tasks for Linux Application monitoring and bug ﬁx
Automation, integrations and configuration management
24*7 availability for streamlined applications delivery to get applications out to customers faster
Involvement in minor and major activities for SQL, NoSQL database systems
Involvement in daily tasks like user Management, backup and recovery

KubernetesAutomationConfiguration ManagementInfrastructure Management