Vijay Kumar Yuvaraj
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, productiongrade platforms on AWS. Deep expertise in Terraform-driven Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and CI/CD automation, with proven success in designing highly available, secure, and cost-optimized cloud architectures. Strong individual contributor known for owning end-to-end infrastructure, driving zero-downtime deployments, improving system reliability, and solving complex production issues in enterprise environments.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President
Goldman Sachs Pvt Ltd
06.2022 - Current
- Architected a high-resiliency, multi-region AWS platform for a transaction banking application, designed to meet strict availability, durability, and fault-tolerance requirements expected in regulated financial systems.
- Designed a regionally isolated architecture spanning US East and US West, ensuring application continuity in the event of AZ-level or region-level failures, while maintaining consistent transaction processing.
- Implemented active-active / active-passive resilience patterns at the application and infrastructure layers to support disaster recovery, controlled failover, and operational stability.
- Engineered a containerized compute layer using Amazon ECS, deployed across multiple Availability Zones, with load balancing and autoscaling to handle variable transaction volumes without service disruption.
- Designed a highly available data layer using Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, ensuring synchronous replication, automated failover, and strong data durability aligned with banking SLAs.
- Developed zero-downtime deployment strategies for ECS-based services, enabling seamless releases, configuration changes, and infrastructure updates without impacting live transaction flows.
- Automated the entire infrastructure stack using Terraform, including VPC design, subnet isolation, routing, security groups, IAM roles, ECS services, RDS, and supporting AWS services, enabling repeatable, auditable, and compliant deployments.
- Created modular and reusable Terraform patterns to enforce standardized architecture, security baselines, and environment consistency across production and non-production accounts.
- Embedded resilience-first design principles such as AZ isolation, stateless service design, health checks, and automated recovery to minimize blast radius during failures.
- Partnered with application and risk teams to align infrastructure design with RTO/RPO objectives, transaction throughput expectations, and regulatory compliance standards.
- Actively supported production readiness and incident scenarios, ensuring rapid recovery, controlled failover, and minimal impact to critical banking operations.
- AWS, IAC Terraform, RDS, Python, EKS and automation
Lead Engineer
Lululemon Athletic Canada
03.2022 - 06.2022
- Lead DevOps Engineer supporting a large-scale global e-commerce platform, with primary ownership of AWS EKS-based Kubernetes infrastructure, GitOps deployments, and production observability.
- Led end-to-end Kubernetes (EKS) platform engineering, managing highly available clusters for customer-facing e-commerce applications.
- Implemented GitOps deployment model using Flux CD, enabling automated, auditable, and consistent application rollouts across environments.
- Designed and maintained Helm charts for microservices, enforcing standardized deployment patterns, configuration management, and environment parity.
- Built and operated CI/CD pipelines integrating GitHub / Jenkins with Flux CD for seamless continuous delivery to EKS.
- Implemented blue-green and rolling deployment strategies on Kubernetes to ensure zero-downtime releases during peak retail traffic.
- Set up cluster-level and application-level monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, improving system visibility and reducing MTTR.
- Defined and enforced Kubernetes best practices including resource limits, HPA, pod security policies, and namespace isolation.
- Integrated AWS-native services such as ALB Ingress Controller, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), and CloudWatch for secure and scalable operations.
- Supported high-traffic sales events (product launches, seasonal sales) ensuring 99.9%+ availability and performance stability.
- Partnered with SRE, application, and security teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, and deployment confidence.
- AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Flux CD, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, CloudWatch, Linux, Bash
Senior DevOps Engineer
Standard Chartered Global services
06.2021 - 03.2022
- Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer responsible for end-to-end AWS platform setup and Kubernetes (EKS) cluster design for banking-grade, security-critical applications.
- Designed and implemented complete AWS landing zone architecture including VPCs, subnets, routing, NAT, security groups, and IAM following banking security standards.
- Led EKS cluster architecture and setup for enterprise banking applications with focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and regulatory compliance.
- Designed multi-AZ EKS clusters with node group strategies, autoscaling, and workload isolation for critical banking services.
- Implemented Helm-based deployment frameworks to standardize application onboarding and configuration management on EKS.
- Integrated IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to enforce fine-grained access control between Kubernetes workloads and AWS services.
- Implemented secure networking patterns including private clusters, internal load balancers, and restricted ingress/egress controls.
- Set up observability for Kubernetes workloads using Prometheus and Grafana, enabling proactive monitoring and alerting.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, ensuring repeatable, auditable deployments across environments.
- Collaborated closely with banking clients, security, and compliance teams to meet regulatory, audit, and risk requirements.
- Supported production workloads with incident response, root cause analysis, and platform hardening.
- AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, IAM, VPC, IRSA, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Linux
Technology Analyst
Edgeverve Systems (Infosys company)
02.2019 - 07.2021
- Cloud Engineer supporting Finacle (core banking) as a SaaS offering, responsible for deploying and operating mission-critical banking applications on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) for major banking clients.
- Deployed and operated Finacle core banking platform as a SaaS solution on AWS cloud, supporting multiple enterprise banking clients.
- Designed and implemented Kubernetes (EKS)-based deployment architecture for Finacle components, ensuring scalability, resilience, and high availability.
- Led application deployment and lifecycle management on EKS, including configuration, upgrades, patching, and version rollouts.
- Built and managed Helm charts to standardize Finacle deployments across environments and client instances.
- Implemented secure AWS infrastructure including VPC design, IAM policies, security groups, and private networking aligned with banking compliance requirements.
- Integrated monitoring and alerting for mission-critical workloads using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
- Provided end-to-end production support for 24x7 banking systems, including incident management, root cause analysis, and performance tuning.
- Collaborated directly with banking clients, application teams, and product owners to ensure SLA adherence and production stability.
- Supported high-availability and disaster recovery setups for core banking workloads.
- Ensured platform reliability during business-critical banking operations with minimal downtime.
- AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Finacle, Helm, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Docker, Linux
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2017 - 02.2019
- Worked on AWS services and VMware virtualization, supporting application hosting and infrastructure operations.
- Assisted with environment builds, monitoring, and production support for enterprise systems.
Systems Engineer
CSS Corp Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 07.2017
- Supported multi-cloud monitoring solutions (AWS and other clouds) offered as SaaS to enterprise customers.
- Performed alert analysis, incident resolution, and platform support to maintain high uptime and reliability.
Associate Analyst
HCL
11.2013 - 02.2016
- Assisted in building virtual machines on AWS and VMware, supporting infrastructure setup for enterprise applications.
- Worked on Windows, Linux server provisioning and configuration, supporting virtualization builds and basic infrastructure operations.
Education
Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Technology
Paavai Engineering College
06.2012
Skills
- AWS
- IAC Terraform
- RDS
- Python
- EKS
- Automation
- Kubernetes
- Flux CD
- Helm
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Docker
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- CloudWatch
- Linux
- Bash
- IAM
- VPC
- IRSA
- Finacle
Timeline
Vice President
Goldman Sachs Pvt Ltd
06.2022 - Current
Lead Engineer
Lululemon Athletic Canada
03.2022 - 06.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
Standard Chartered Global services
06.2021 - 03.2022
Technology Analyst
Edgeverve Systems (Infosys company)
02.2019 - 07.2021
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2017 - 02.2019
Systems Engineer
CSS Corp Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 07.2017
Associate Analyst
HCL
11.2013 - 02.2016
Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Technology
Paavai Engineering College