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Deepak Kumar

Deepak Kumar

Gurgaon

Summary

Results-driven Cloud & DevOps Architect with over 16+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and IT solutions architecture across diverse industries. Expertise in designing scalable cloud-based solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and driving digital transformation initiatives. Adept at leading teams, optimizing system performance, and managing cloud security to ensure 99.99% uptime and operational efficiency.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Architect

Publicis Sapient
11.2016 - 05.2025

- Lead large-scale cloud transformation initiatives across AWS and Azure, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.

- Strong Proficiency in services offered by AWS/Azure including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

- Handling a team of Cloud/DevOps Engineers to design and implement high available Cloud orchestration using automation tools.

- Manage Pre-Sales activities and work on RFP, new proposals, work allocation, and resource estimation.

- Design and implement application deployment and state management using leading industry standard CI/CD and configuration management tools.

- Design and implement CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, Jenkins.

- Involved in solution architecture design, project estimation, backlog grooming and sprint planning, and work with open-source tools (terraform) community to track bugs and fix the issues.

- Manage teams to design and develop specific solutions leveraging technologies and design practices that enable a scalable, extensible and flexible solution.

- Provide training and support to subordinates and manage stakeholders' communication.

- Serve as a liaison between multiple entities to facilitate project prioritization roadmap definition, scoping, requirements gathering and solution architecture.

- Responsible for Infrastructure Capacity, Migration Strategy and Solutions in multi-Cloud like AWS and Azure.

- Due diligence and evaluating customer requirements.

- Good interpersonal skills, a teamwork attitude, taking initiative, and being very proactive in solving problems and providing the best solutions.

Senior Linux Administrator

PayU Payment Pvt Ltd.
02.2016 - 11.2016

The primary task in this role is to handle the complex payment system on multiple layers including B2B payment and B2C payment. Guarantee an uptime of over 99.9% and minimize chances of service interruption. The daily mix of tasks includes Linux/Windows, Apache, Nginx, Nagios, and MySQL Databases administration.

- Infrastructure Management across various Datacenters

- Strategic-Planning and Infrastructure designing for application from scratch to achieve vertical and horizontal scaling.

- Automation of daily and repetitive tasks by shell scripts, backup management (application and DB)

- Ensuring High availability of applications (Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Redis, MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, Jboss and postfix mail server)

- Information Security (Server and Application security and hardening) according to PCI-DSS and ISO standards

- Ensuring patching for servers in scope for zero day and other critical bugs

- Ossec hids as FIMS and IDS setup

- APM tool AppDynamics (Setup and configuration)

Platform/technologies used: CentOS, Red Hat, Nagios, MySQL (Master-Master, Master-Slave replication), VSFTP, Tomcat, Apache, NFS, Nagios, Shell Scripting Jenkins etc

Senior Associate Infrastructure L2

Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd.
09.2013 - 02.2016

Sep 2013 - Feb 2016 (2 years 6 months)

The primary task in this role is to Lead the multiple projects, guarantee an uptime of over 99.5% and minimize chances of service interruption.

- Design, implement and maintain multiple AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment

- Lead development team in designing/migrating AWS cloud-based solutions

- Work with distributed teams to design, proofs of concept, and external customer facing products

- Good knowledge of networking fundamentals

- Create a lift and shift process model clearly defining the individual steps of the lift and shift process

Platform/technologies used: CentOS, Red Hat, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, ELB, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, Cloudfront), Nagios, MySQL (Master-Master, Master- Slave replication), VSFTP, Samba, Windows 2003/2008, Tomcat, Apache, NFS, Nagios, Shell

Senior Linux Administrator

Cognizant Technology Solution Pvt Ltd.
05.2011 - 09.2013

The primary task in this role is to support the multiple projects, guarantee an uptime of over

99.5% and minimize chances of service interruption. The daily mix of tasks includes Linux/CentOS system

administration, Amazon Web services and MySQL Databases. As a, we are supporting multiple platforms such as Red Hat, CentOS, and Windows.

- Administration of Linux/CentOS servers running Apache/Tomcat.

- High Availability System Design and Implementation

- MySQL Database Administration.

- User access system, running on the servers.

- Writing basic shell scripting for various schedule and routine tasks.

Platform/technologies used: CentOS 5.x, Red Hat 5.x, ESX, Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, ELB, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, Cloudfront), Nagios, MySQL, VSFTP, Samba, Windows; , VMware VSphere, vCenter, Tomcat, Apache, NFS, Shell Scripting etc

Senior System Engineer

Ubique Systems
09.2010 - 04.2011

The primary task in this role was to support the Labara (UK Based Telecom Company). As

a senior member of the team, I was responsible for to configure the testing environment for developer and supported the production environment. Proactively monitored and administered production and development servers remotely.

- Managing servers, software installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, build and deployment, process.

- Reviewing software installation procedures, testing on Development/Staging environment before on Production.

- Providing 24/7 on call availability by means of cell phone, instant messaging and e-mail.

- Configured and administered Apache-Tomcat clusters.

- Implemented monitoring systems using Nagios to determine outages, downtime and track system performance.

- Leading Infra Team, working on all technical issues, taking sole responsibility and provided competent resolution to all problems during the tenure, ensuring 99.99% availability of servers for business units.

- Platform/technologies: Red Hat, Nagios, Tomcat Cluster, Apache, OpenLdap (Master-Slave Replication), Hybris, Hudson, NFS, Sendmail, VSFTP, MSSQL, Shell Scripting

System Engineer

Cybernet Slash Support Ltd.
10.2009 - 07.2010

Administrated nearly 2500 portal servers in large Network architecture. I was responsible for Blackboard (US Based Company) Web / DB servers. Possess extensive experience in the supporting and maintenance of Dell Power edge servers running in Linux.

- Responsible for software installation, building startup shell scripts, managing the automation of CRON

jobs and managing file systems.

- Installation, configuration and implementation of Linux service on Linux based systems.

- Troubleshooting the all application issues running on servers.

- Providing 24x7 supports to the production division in a highly demanding environment.

- Troubleshooting in Web Servers and site related issues.

- Power management done through MPS, KVM and DRAC Enterprise software for managing network booting, physical hardware, and virtual machines using Scalent.

- Successfully resolved customer issues ranging from machine failure to operating systems issues.

- Platform/technologies used: Red Hat 5.x, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Customized Monitoring Tool, Shell Scripting etc

Server Administrator

INTRASOFT Technologies Ltd.
09.2008 - 07.2009

The primary task in this role was to maintain the site (www.123greetings.com) running with

200+ production servers. The goal of the project was to migrate our flagship website from physical hosting to cloud computing infrastructure after proper evaluation and testing of Amazon AWS.

- Administrated 200+ production servers on AWS (Amazon Web Services) running with Red Hat and Centos.

- Troubleshooting Day–to-Day issues with various Servers on different platforms.

- Responsible for software installation, building startup shell scripts, managing the automation of CRON jobs and managing file systems.

- Monitored servers for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring

- Configuring administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.

- Installed and configured Apache, Samba, HAProxy, and Squid (Linux Proxy). Platform/technologies used: CentOS 5.x, Red Hat 5.x, Load Balancers ( HaProxy), FreeBSD, AWS (EC2, EBS, S3,), Nagios, Munin, MySQL VSFTP, Shell Scripting, Apache, NFS etc.

Education

MBA - IT

Sikkim Manipal University

Bachelor of Art -

M.D.U

Skills

  • Cloud architecture
  • AWS services
  • Azure services
  • Infrastructure design
  • Team leadership
  • Security compliance
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Capacity management
  • Problem solving
  • DevOps methodologies
  • Compliance and regulations - (SOC2, PCI DSS)
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Cost management
  • Continuous integration, continuous deployment
  • Multi-cloud management
  • Cloud security management
  • Identity and Access management
  • Hybrid cloud environments
  • Cloud migration strategies
  • Scalability planning
  • Containerization technologies - (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Monitoring and logging
  • High availability design
  • Cloud governance
  • Network configuration
  • Requirements analysis
  • Firewalls
  • Network security
  • CI/CD pipeline

Certification

  • RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer RHEL 5)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - 70-533
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate - AZ 104
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert - AZ 305
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate - AZ 700

Timeline

Cloud Architect

Publicis Sapient
11.2016 - 05.2025

Senior Linux Administrator

PayU Payment Pvt Ltd.
02.2016 - 11.2016

Senior Associate Infrastructure L2

Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd.
09.2013 - 02.2016

Senior Linux Administrator

Cognizant Technology Solution Pvt Ltd.
05.2011 - 09.2013

Senior System Engineer

Ubique Systems
09.2010 - 04.2011

System Engineer

Cybernet Slash Support Ltd.
10.2009 - 07.2010

Server Administrator

INTRASOFT Technologies Ltd.
09.2008 - 07.2009

MBA - IT

Sikkim Manipal University

Bachelor of Art -

M.D.U
Deepak Kumar