Deep Karan Kumar
Gurgaon
Summary
Experienced senior manager proficient in managing reporting, budgeting and compliance areas. Adept at updating and working with executive leadership. Bringing superior skills in planning, negotiation and complex problem-solving gained several years experience.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Manager DevOps
PayU
Gurgaon
07.2024 - Current
- Led and mentored a team of 12 DevOps engineers, overseeing the design, implementation, and ongoing management of cloud infrastructure, platforms, applications, and shared services across multiple environments.
- Provided strong leadership in driving projects from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment with business goals, security standards, and operational excellence.
- Demonstrated exceptional organizational and time-management skills, successfully managing multiple high-impact initiatives in parallel.
- Implemented DevOps best practices, CI/CD standardization, and automation frameworks, resulting in a 50% increase in team productivity and a 30% reduction in time to market.
- Designed and maintained end-to-end automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and testing using Jenkins, Ansible.
- Established and scaled a containerization and orchestration strategy using Docker and Kubernetes, significantly improving system scalability, availability, resilience, and resource utilization.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting ecosystem using Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack, improving system reliability, observability, and incident response.
- Led compliance and audit readiness initiatives, ensuring continuous alignment with SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and CIS benchmarks, and worked closely with security, compliance, and audit teams to provide evidence, remediation plans, and control ownership.
- Established server patching and vulnerability management processes, ensuring timely OS and application patching across environments, reducing security risk, and meeting audit and regulatory requirements.
- Drove security-by-design and compliance-by-default practices across infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, integrating policy checks, access controls, and monitoring into day-to-day operations.
- Resolved complex production issues, improved operational stability, and consistently delivered high availability and performance for business-critical systems.
- Led cross-functional collaboration with engineering, security, compliance, and leadership teams to define and execute long-term platform, reliability, and governance strategies.
Manager DevOps
PayU
Gurugram
06.2019 - 04.2024
- Managed and coached a team of 5 to 7 DevOps engineers, balancing hands-on technical work with people management responsibilities.
- Owned day-to-day DevOps operations, including sprint planning, workload Prioritization, incident management, and on-call rotations.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines and automation for infrastructure and application deployments using Jenkins, Ansible.
- Led the adoption of Docker and Kubernetes, improving application scalability, availability, and resource utilization.
- Implemented and maintained monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, improving observability and MTTR.
- Partnered with security and compliance teams to support SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and CIS controls, including evidence collection, remediation tracking, and policy enforcement.
- Owned server patching, OS hardening, and vulnerability remediation are necessary to maintain secure and compliant systems.
- Drove continuous improvement initiatives, reducing deployment failures, and improving operational stability.
- Acted as the primary point of contact for DevOps across engineering teams, ensuring smooth delivery, and reliable operations.
DevOps Engineer
PayU
Gurgaon
07.2017 - 07.2018
- Strong Hands-on on AWS (S3, VPC, EC2, CLOUD WATCH, SUBNET, IAM, AMI,
- AURORA, ELASTIC CACHE etc.)
- Hands-on Ansible for Configuration Management
- Proficiency in Bash Scripting
- Working experience on Jenkins for Automating the Deployments
- Strong Working experience on MySQL
- Nagios Setup and monitoring of servers using Nagios
- Elk Cluster Configuration and Management
- Apache-Tomcat Troubleshooting and Configuration
- Hands on Nginx/Apache for achieving optimized performance
- Proficiency in Git
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Production/Non-Production server to ensure High
- Availability
- Machine Provisioning
- Mail Server configuration and Troubleshooting
- Vulnerability assessment using Nessus
- And mitigation of Vulnerability
Education
Some College (No Degree) -
Secondary Zila High School, BSEB
Saharsa03.2007
Some College (No Degree) - Intermediate
Secondary M.R Inter College(BSEB)
Saharsa03.2010
B-Tech - CSE
PTU
Jalandhar06.2014
Skills
- Kubernetes (EKS, GKE)
- Security compliance
- Incident management
- Team leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- CI/CD automation
- Container orchestration
- Cloud infrastructure
- Monitoring systems
- Vulnerability management
- Infrastructure automation
Personal Information
Title: Sr. Manager DevOps
Certification
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator(https://www.credly.com/badges/59d7f27a-4bee-46ac-9306-a45512f3ed63)
Timeline
Sr. Manager DevOps
PayU
07.2024 - Current
Manager DevOps
PayU
06.2019 - 04.2024
DevOps Engineer
PayU
07.2017 - 07.2018
Some College (No Degree) -
Secondary Zila High School, BSEB
Some College (No Degree) - Intermediate
Secondary M.R Inter College(BSEB)
B-Tech - CSE
PTU