ASHWANI KUMAR
Gurgaon
Summary
DevOps & SRE Engineer with 5.5+ years of hands-on experience in architecting, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Proven track record in building scalable CI/CD pipelines, implementing robust monitoring solutions, and reducing infrastructure costs by up to 50%. Adept at managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS), automating infrastructure with Terraform and Helm, and ensuring high availability and security of cloud-native applications.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Tech Lead
COFORGE
Gurgaon, India
11.2025 - Current
- Managed and optimized SAP infrastructure, including system administration, performance tuning, and environment configuration.
- Designed and managed AWS cloud infrastructure, leveraging services such as EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and VPC to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-optimized environments.
- Containerized applications using Docker, improving deployment consistency, portability, and development efficiency across environments.
- Orchestrated containerized workloads using Kubernetes (K8s), implementing automated scaling, rolling updates, and cluster monitoring to enhance system resilience.
- Built and maintained Infrastructure as Code ( using Terraform, automating provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of cloud resources.
- Worked closely with business and technology teams to integrate SAP modules with banking applications, enabling seamless data flows and operational efficiency.
- Used the MAX tool to design, configure, and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth and automated code integration and deployment workflows.
- Collaborated with application, SAP Basis, and infrastructure teams to integrate new jobs into existing Control-M schedules, improving automation and operational efficiency.
- Ensured adherence to banking regulatory requirements, data privacy standards, and audit controls within SAP landscapes.
- Implemented disaster recovery and high-availability strategies for banking and SAP platforms to minimize downtime and operational risk.
- Led cross-functional teams to develop and implement technical solutions, enhancing project delivery timelines.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Designed and executed system architecture strategies, ensuring alignment with organization goals.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project requirements and deliver innovative software applications.
- Client: Macquarie Group (Australian Investment Bank)
DevOps Engineer
BJS Distribution, Storage & Couriers Pvt. Ltd
Chandigrah
12.2023 - 11.2025
- Infrastructure Design & Automation: Designed and deployed production infrastructure on AWS EKS Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability. Set up stage and pre-prod environments using Terraform for efficient software development lifecycles.
- Cost Optimization: Successfully reduced production environment costs by 50% through infrastructure optimization strategies, including efficient resource utilization and autoscaling.
- Serverless Development Environment: Hosted the development environment on a serverless ECS platform, enabling seamless scalability and cost savings.
- CI/CD Implementation: Set up CI/CD pipelines on Bitbucket, automating build and deployment processes. Integrated Sonar ube for code quality checks and enforced pipeline gates.
- Implemented ansible-based automation for server configuration and application setup, improving deployment reliability across environments.
- Application Deployment & Scaling: Deployed and managed applications on EKS Cloud using all core components, ensuring security, scalability, and resilience. Configured health checks, livenes and readiness probes for container monitoring.
- Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana on EC2 instances, set up dashboards, and implemented alerts for AWS resources and EC2 instances. Configured Cloud watch alarms to monitor system health and performance.
- Backup & Disaster Recovery: Used velreo to back up the EKS cluster and implemented snapshot strategies for EC2 and RDS instances for disaster recovery.
- Secret Management & Security: Implemented hashicorp Vault for secret management and enforced IAM role-based access control, security group policies, and AWS WAF configurations to enhance security. Managed Nginx servers for load balancing and traffic control.
- Resource Provisioning & Management: Storage Management: Provisioned EBS volumes, attached them to EC2 instances, and configured file systems as per business needs. Database Management: Created and managed RDS instances in AWS, generating insights for performance optimization Networking & Load Balancing: Configured Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Auto Scaling for optimized resource utilization. Migration: Led the migration of the existing Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux for improved performance and scalability.
- Automation & Cost Efficiency: Developed an AWS Lambda function to scale down the EKS cluster during non-working hours, optimizing cloud expenses.
- Team Leadership & Collaboration: Leading the DevOps team, collaborating with developers and operations teams to troubleshoot build issues, improve deployment efficiency, and implement DevOps best practices.
DevOps Engineer
Antier Solution Pvt ltd
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Cloud Infrastructure & Application Deployment: Designed and deployed multiple applications on AWS using EC2, RDS, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, S3, IAM, Security Groups, EBS, VPC, and Cloud Watch. Managed the deployment of fan-\versus.io, an NFT marketplace, on EKS, integrating Rabbit MQ, Redis, RDS, AWS Code Pipeline for CI/CD, AWS WAF, and AWS Cloud Map for service discovery.
- Deployed bitqik, a hybrid exchange, on ECS fargate with Rabbit MQ, Redis, RDS, AWS Code Pipeline for CI/CD, and AWS Lambda for automated tasks.
- Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Installed and configured Prometheus and Grafana on EC2 instances, set up dashboards, and implemented alerts for AWS resources and EC2 instances. Configured Cloud Watch alarms to monitor system health, application performance, and resource utilization.
- Security & Compliance: Configured IAM role-based access control, security group policies, and AWS WAF to enhance security.
- Storage & Database Management: Provisioned EBS volumes, attached them to EC2 instances, and configured file systems as per business needs. Created and managed AWS RDS instances, optimizing database performance and generating insights.
- Application Health & Scalability: Configured livenes and readiness probes to monitor container health and ensure high availability. Implemented load balancing (ALB) and auto-scaling strategies for optimized resource utilization.
- Backup, Disaster Recovery & Security: Performed snapshots for EC2 and RDS instances to ensure data protection and disaster recovery. Managed security rules and enforced best practices across AWS infrastructure.
- Blockchain Deployment & Automation: Deployed Blockchain Nodes (Ethereum, Bitcoin) for secure transactions and network reliability. Developed and automated workflows using AWS Lambda for task automation.
- Migration & Infrastructure Optimization: Led the migration of existing Linux environments to AWS/RHEL Linux, improving performance and scalability.
Linux System Admin
Nexever Pvt Ltd
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Worked closely with system, network, security, and storage teams to set up and configure new servers.
- Installed and configured essential services such as DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache Web Server, Samba, and SSH.
- Managed Logical Volume Management (LVM) & Swap partitions and handled LVM and VXVM file systems for optimized storage management.
- Designed and deployed multiple applications utilizing AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Load Balancing, AutoScaling, S3, IAM, Security Groups, EBS, VPC, and CloudWatch.
- Created and managed AWS EC2 instances and RDS databases to support business applications.
- Configured Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Auto Scaling for optimized resource utilization and high availability.
- Implemented security policies by managing IAM roles, security groups, and access controls.
- Performed snapshots and backups for EC2 and RDS instances to ensure data protection and disaster recovery.
- Led the migration of Linux environments to AWS/RHEL Linux, improving scalability and operational efficiency.
Linux System Admin
Whmcs Global Services private Limited
01.2021 - 10.2021
- Linux Server Administration & Configuration: Installed, configured, and managed Linux servers (RHEL 5/6/7) to ensure system stability and security.
- Created and managed AWS RDS instances to support database operations.
- Managed Logical Volume Management (LVM) & Swap partitions for efficient storage allocation.
- Configured Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Auto Scaling to improve system availability and performance. Created and managed AWS RDS instances to support database operations.
- Provisioned EBS storage for EC2 instances, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
- Automation & CI/CD: Automated system tasks and job scheduling using Cron, reducing manual intervention.
- Worked with Continuous Integration (CI) tools like Jenkins to streamline build and deployment processes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
HPTU - Abhilashi Group
HPTU08.2018
High School Diploma -
HPBOSE - HPBOSE
HPBOSE01.2014
High School Diploma -
HPBOSE - HPBOSE
HPBOSE03.2012
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
- AWS Services: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, Cloud Front, Route 53, IAM, WAF, Guard Duty, Inspector, KMS, Amplify, Cloud Watch, SQS, Cloud Map, Inspector
- Azure Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service (AKS), App Service, Azure DevOps, Blob Storage, SQL Database, Container Registry, Virtual Network
- GCP Services: Compute Engine (VM), Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Storage, Cloud Function / Container Registry (GCR), Cloud SQL, Vertex AI
- Infrastructure as Code : Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Helm
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE)
- CI/CD Tools: AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines
- Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Loki, Dynatrace, SumoLogic
- Source Code Management: GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code Commit, Bitbucket
- Operating Systems: Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux
- Scripting Languages: Bash, Python, Apache Airflow
- Security & Compliance: IAM, Security Groups, WAF, Guard Duty, Inspector, trivy, KMS
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Cloud SQL
- Caching & Messaging: Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, memorystore
- SRE Tools & Practices: SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management
- Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd
Timeline
DevOps Tech Lead
COFORGE
11.2025 - Current
DevOps Engineer
BJS Distribution, Storage & Couriers Pvt. Ltd
12.2023 - 11.2025
DevOps Engineer
Antier Solution Pvt ltd
04.2022 - 04.2023
Linux System Admin
Nexever Pvt Ltd
10.2021 - 04.2022
Linux System Admin
Whmcs Global Services private Limited
01.2021 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
HPTU - Abhilashi Group
High School Diploma -
HPBOSE - HPBOSE
High School Diploma -
HPBOSE - HPBOSE