Vivek Kumar

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

11+ years of experience in DevOps and cloud engineering.
Expert in designing scalable architectures across AWS and Azure.
Proven track record in CI/CD and infrastructure automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in DevOps practices and security compliance.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesAwsAzureCi/cdSecurityObservabilityDevopsNetworkingMonitoringAutomationServer Management

Other Skills

Security TestingDockerContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Root CauseGitOpsReliabilityFault ToleranceHigh Availability (HA)Amazon EKSTroubleshootingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Container OrchestrationOrchestrationTerraformMicrosoft Azure

About

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience. Specialized in designing scalable, secure, and highly available architectures across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and serverless ecosystems. Proven expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and security compliance for enterprise-grade systems. Passionate about driving cloud cost optimization, DevOps best practices, and high-performance platform reliability. Focused about enabling engineering velocity, standardizing best practices, and aligning DevOps strategy with business outcomes.

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Kodo

Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

➤ Designed and managed highly available & scalable AWS and Azure cloud architectures, microservices hosting platform from scratch on Kubernetes (EKS & AKS), enabling seamless deployments and scaling for high-traffic services using API gateways, service mesh, cloud controllers, operators etc. Ensuring security, performance, and cost efficiency across multi-account setups.
➤ Led the migration from AWS to Azure, re-architecting infrastructure for improved performance, security, and cost optimization. Optimized AWS & Azure cloud costs through auto-scaling strategies, right-sizing workloads, and adopting serverless patterns, reducing infrastructure spend significantly.
➤ Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Ansible, Packer and GitOps principles, enabling consistent, automated, and auditable infrastructure deployments.
➤ Developed robust CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions and Jenkins enabling faster, reliable, and zero-downtime deployments across microservices. Automated day-to-day operations and ad-hoc tasks using Python and Golang, significantly reducing manual effort and improving team productivity.
➤ Strengthened security and compliance by implementing access management via Teleport, Cloudflare Zero Trust, Kyverno, NetworkPolicies, encryption standards, SOC2 and PCI frameworks, SIEM integrations, IDS/IPS systems, and firewalls. Integrated security and quality scans into CI pipelines using Trivy, SpotBugs, and SonarQube, ensuring early detection of vulnerabilities, secrets, code quality issues, and compliance risks.
➤ Implemented comprehensive open source observability and incident management system using Prometheus, Grafana, Istio service mesh, ELK/ECK, Kiali, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. Integrated with Slack, JIRA, and Squadcast/Pagerduty for proactive monitoring, alerting, and faster incident resolution.

Security TestingDockerContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Root CauseGitOpsReliability+36

Byju's

Lead Engineer - DevOps

Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

➤ Spearheaded cloud platform modernization on AWS with EKS & ECS, API gateways, centralised authentication etc boosting scalability and reliability. Re-architected AWS accounts, infrastructure & networks for security, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
➤ Managed scale and reliability during global peak traffic driven by worldwide advertisements, ensuring seamless learning experiences for millions of users.
➤ Deployed and managed hundreds of microservices on EKS & ECS, driving agility and faster feature delivery. Optimized cloud costs and security compliance, strengthening resilience and performance.

Shell ScriptingDistributed SystemsRoot CauseReliabilityNetworkingKubernetes+16

Happay - expense management solution for businesses

Lead - DevSecOps

Oct 2017 – Oct 2021 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

➤ Implemented Infrastructure and Job as Code with CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Jenkins, Codepipeline etc enabling automated, reliable, and repeatable deployments.
➤ Re-architected AWS accounts, infrastructure & networks for security, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
➤ Drove cloud cost optimization and strengthened security posture with SOC2 & PCI compliance, reducing risk across fintech workloads.
➤ Developed Python and Bash automation scripts/programs to support developers, optimize cloud costs, and streamline ad-hoc operations.

Shell ScriptingDistributed SystemsRoot CauseReliabilityNetworkingAmazon Web Services (AWS)+15

Hashedin technologies pvt ltd

DevOps Engineer

Jun 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

➤ Containerized legacy apps and migrated to Docker Swarm & Kubernetes, improving scalability.
➤ Automated end-to-end deployments with Jenkins pipelines, reducing manual effort.
➤ Supported clients with cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and integrations across AWS.

Shell ScriptingRoot CauseAnsibleReliabilityNetworkingKubernetes+13

Ntt data services

Sr. System Admin Associate

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Managed enterprise-grade load balancers (HAProxy, F5, A10) and mission-critical infra. Automated infra operations, boosting system uptime and reliability. Enhanced observability with Nagios, Zabbix, and Monit, reducing incident MTTR.

Shell ScriptingNetworkingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Data MigrationLinuxTroubleshooting

Raymn & br technologies

Linux Administrator

Jul 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

Developed Python and Shell scripts to boost developer productivity and automate routine server tasks. Administered LAMP stacks and VPS hosting for global clients, ensuring high availability. Configured and optimized proxies, LDAP, Samba, and NFS servers. Deployed monitoring solutions with Nagios & Observium, cutting downtime across environments.

Shell ScriptingNetworkingData MigrationLinuxTroubleshooting