Deepank Varshney
Senior DevOps Engineer
Noida
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer and FinOps Specialist with 6+ years of experience designing scalable AWS architectures, optimizing cloud costs, and automating infrastructure at enterprise scale. Expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform-based infrastructure as code, and Python-driven cloud automation. Proven ability to reduce cloud spend through FinOps strategies including Reserved Instances, Spot adoption, and cost analytics. Experienced in managing multi-account AWS environments and implementing CI/CD platforms to improve reliability and deployment velocity. AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Security Specialty, and FinOps Certified Practitioner.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
DevOps - Analyst
Coforge
2024.09 - Current
- Led Kubernetes resource management, overseeing releases, scaling, and troubleshooting in production environments.
- Creation and management of K8s clusters using Argo CD, Istio, Karpenter, Crossplane and other tools
- Investigated and resolved critical issues through detailed root cause analysis (RCA), ensuring system reliability and minimal downtime.
- Utilized observability and security tools including Splunk, Datadog, and Hashicorp Vault to monitor system health, manage secrets, and maintain compliance.
- Implemented Automations for repetitive manual tasks like backups, cluster provisioning and service orchestration
- Drove insights for Cost Optimization using FinOps principles resulting in 20% monthly reduction in cloud spends
- Working on Developer Support tickets encompassing resolving Production issues, outages and deriving RCAs
Senior DevOps Engineer
CloudKeeper
2021.09 - 2023.12
- Proven expertise in AWS encompassing design of scalable architectures, implementation of multi-account environments, and specialization in AWS Organizations, Serverless computing, Single-Sign On, and Cost Optimization strategies.
- Adept in leveraging Python to craft custom modules spanning Automations, Data Manipulation & Service Orchestration - Boto3 SDK
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive solution to track AWS RI Wastage with a greater accuracy factor than the native AWS Cost Explorer dashboard
- Utilized pSQL to conduct in-depth analysis of AWS Cost and Usage Reports, extracting valuable insights and setting up custom dashboards.
- Engineered and deployed a robust Transaction Management system, orchestrating the dynamic lifecycle of AWS Commitments amounting to $2 million annually.
- Directed the entire lifecycle of CK Auto, an Automated Reserved Instance (RI) Management Solution, overseeing development, delivery, and implementation
- Formulated a solution leveraging AWS convertible RIs to cover erratic AWS compute spend while maximizing RI coverage.
- Successfully migrated 100% of production workloads from On-Demand to Spot instances while ensuring application uptime
- Actively oversaw the access management of 6000+ AWS accounts through AWS SSO, Organizations & Google IdP.
- Led a team of more than 20 resources over the past four years, overseeing their onboarding, day-to-day management, and fostering their professional growth.
DevOps Engineer
To The New
2019.09 - 2021.09
- Implemented a comprehensive Jenkins Shared Library for a prominent E-Commerce platform, reducing the number of deployment pipelines from over 500 to less than 10
- Transformed manual environments into IaC using Terraform, concurrently establishing Disaster Recovery protocols for enhanced operational resilience.
- Extensive experience utilizing the TIG (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana) and ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stacks for effective monitoring and logging solutions.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive cost audit framework, resulting in an average monthly savings of 5-30% on AWS expenditures.
- Conducted 150+ AWS Well-Architected reviews, providing customers with actionable insights in the areas of Cost Optimization, Security & best practices.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Cloud Computing & Virtualization
GLA University
Mathura, IN2020-01
Secondary Education - Computer Science Major
St. Fidelis Sr. Sec School
Aligarh, IN2016-01
Skills
Python Groovy Appscript postgreSQL GoLang
ECS CloudFront S3 DynamoDB Lambda
AWS Organizations AWS CUR Quicksight
Linux Git Docker Jenkins SSH
Terraform ArgoCD Karpenter Crossplane
K8s Istio Datadog Vault Splunk
Automation Containerization Prototyping
Righsizing Cloud Economics Cost Optimization
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Timeline
DevOps - Analyst
Coforge
2024.09 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
CloudKeeper
2021.09 - 2023.12
DevOps Engineer
To The New
2019.09 - 2021.09
Secondary Education - Computer Science Major
St. Fidelis Sr. Sec School
Bachelor of Technology - Cloud Computing & Virtualization
GLA University