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Prince Vohra

Senior Technical Lead
Faridabad

Summary

Accomplished DevOps & Cloud Engineering with over 11 years of experience in designing, automating, and securing large-scale cloud-native platforms. Expertise in leading distributed teams across Germany, Europe, and India to drive strategic business initiatives while delivering secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud solutions. Proven ability to develop enterprise-grade DevSecOps frameworks aligned with SRE best practices, ensuring high availability, observability, and regulatory compliance, including GDPR, IAM, Secrets Management, and CI/CD governance. Proficient in cloud modernization, Kubernetes implementation, and security automation, with a strong track record of transforming legacy systems into scalable, cloud-first architectures.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Technical Lead

Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
01.2024 - Current
  • Drove engineering management initiatives in DevOps and Cloud Platform Engineering for scalable systems. Spearheaded cross-border business engagements throughout multiple European countries. Collaborated with stakeholders to align technology strategies with business objectives. Implemented secure and efficient systems to enhance operational performance.
  • Leading international distributed teams across Germany and Europe, enhancing collaboration and cross-cultural engineering delivery.
  • Deployed Dynatrace for enhanced observability and APM, delivering comprehensive insight into system performance.
  • Designed and scaled a logging platform using OpenSearch, managing 100+ TB of production data.
  • Deployed Karpenter on EKS for production and non-production clusters, facilitating dynamic autoscaling and cost-effective node provisioning.
  • Implemented KEDA-based practices with various strategies to enable efficient scaling of stateless applications."
  • Deployed Istio Canary rollout for all applications using ArgoCD, enabling progressive and safe rollouts.
  • Enhanced VictoriaMetrics and OpenSearch, upgraded EKS clusters, Kyverno, Istio, and Squid Proxy for improved observability, compliance, and proxy reliability.
  • Adopted Spot Instances with Karpenter for non-critical workloads, driving significant AWS cost savings.
  • Built automated container image scanning & reporting jobs for vulnerability detection.
  • Automated EC2 onboarding/offboarding with CyberArk via Lambda, enhancing cloud security governance.
  • Conducted security audits in Germany under GDPR compliance, ensuring regulatory alignment.
  • Implemented central API gateway frameworks to streamline API management and governance.
  • Automated ECR image scanning and lifecycle policies to enhance compliance and reduce attack surface.
    Integrated password rotation framework with AWS Secrets Manager and Lambda, ensuring credential freshness.
    Hardened IAM policies and roles to mitigate risks of privilege escalation.
    Migrated over 200 EC2 servers from outdated Ubuntu OS to new operational environment.
    Enforced least-privilege principles across DevOps pipelines to improve security and auditability.

Devops Technical Lead

Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
12.2020 - 01.2024
  • Travelled across multiple European countries to lead business engagements and solution workshops.
  • Directed cross-border DevOps engineering teams across Germany and Europe to deliver scalable, secure cloud-native platforms.
  • Enhanced CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Chef), and GitOps practices across product teams.
  • Migrated 70TB Elasticsearch data to OpenSearch, scaling logging & monitoring for 12 European countries.
  • Delivered cloud-first modernization by migrating 100+ microservices from EC2 → Kubernetes without downtime.
  • Automated environment provisioning with Terraform & Jenkins, ensuring consistency and reducing infra drift.
  • Defined DevSecOps pipelines with Checkmarx, container scanning, and encryption standards (at rest & in transit).
  • Introduced observability & monitoring stack using Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch.
  • Provided leadership in SRE adoption, embedding operational excellence into engineering practices.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Lenskart.com
02.2018 - 12.2020
  • Working upon Terraform for building AWS resources using Code as Infra methods.
  • Installation and management of Gitlab server for developers to store their code.
  • Developed Chef Cookbooks to manage all layers of services like crons , Solr nginx, ssm-agent,kafka,node and so many different services.
  • Developing Cookbooks, Recipes, Resources and Run lists, managing the Chef Client nodes, and upload the Cookbooks to chef-server from Workstation.
  • Develop, modify, support and maintain cloud-based components for supporting test and development environments
  • Experience in building highly available and highly fault tolerant redundant production and recovery systems using best practices.
  • Migrated Complete aws account with application, infra component and aws services with zero downtime
  • Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of the platform by engineering reliability into software and systems
  • Manage and develop continuous integration and deployment solutions for production applications across various sites/software.
  • Experience with setting up and maintaining Apache Kafka
  • Experience in managing infrastructure on cloud service providers, especially AWS
  • Building, and maintaining, robust alerting and monitoring systems and workflows
  • Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
  • Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.
  • Continuously improve our infrastructure for better scalability, security, and fault tolerance
  • Provide 99.99 % uptime for all our services.
  • Maintaining the cost of infrastructure.
  • Configured spostnt to provide between 70% - 80% savings for our infrastructure.
  • Implemented Sum logic to aggregate infra wide logs for analysis and easy diagnosis
  • Maintaining a private Wiki (Confluence) for every activity/project that goes live.

Software Engineer

One97Communicatin Limited/Paytm
05.2017 - 02.2018
  • Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Amazon EC2,RDS,S3,ELB,Cloudfront,HTTPD, Nginx, AutoScaling, MySQL, ,Route53, Docker etc.
  • Having a great experience in Amazon Cloud. These are the services which I have great experience on EC2, S3, Cloudfront, RDS, VPC, Route53, IAM user and group management, Cloudwatch.
  • Design, integration and management of Amazon Web Services cloud solutions
  • Working closely with development teams to maintain rapid release cycles
  • Improved the Build time and Deployment process using, chef, Jenkins, svn, .
  • Configuration & troubleshooting: apache, tomcat, nginx, redis and Build Deployment using GIT.etc.
  • Configuring, managing, troubleshooting Web Servers like Apache, Nginx.
  • Installation and management of Gitlab server for developers to store their code.
  • Worked on Tracking Tools like JIRA & operational support tool like confluence.
  • Analysis & identify leakage in system for performance betterment.
  • Build and deploy application using various build tools like Maven, ANT.
  • Responsible for build, optimize, automate, develop and test infrastructure pipeline.
  • Chef automation scripts to manage servers and micro services deployment as and when required on cloud and infra.

System Engineer

Yamaha Motors Solution
10.2014 - 05.2017
  • Implemented Release and Deployment of web archives (war).
  • Linux server support to application team.
  • Providing support for production servers on AWS.
  • Design roles and groups using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to define security policies.
  • Designing Amazon EC2 instance architecture for cloud computing to meet high availability application
  • Experience with Linux servers (RHEL) in virtualized environments and Linux scripting languages
  • Provide Linux and ESX systems support in a high availability, 24x7x365 environment
  • Working knowledge in Apache-Tomcat & MySQL Configuration and administration
  • Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as ntp,smtp,bind, Apache,etc.
  • Focus on project work to implement new systems and upgrade/improve upon existing infrastructure
  • Maintaining User profile on Linux Server.
  • Implementing network file system on the network.
  • Implementing Shell Scripting for enhancing system performance.
  • Monitoring and tuning performance
  • Roles and Responsibility:

Education

M.B.A - Information Technology

Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University
01.2018

B.Tech - Computer Science

Echelon Institute of Technology
01.2014

12th - C.B.S.E. Board

Vidhya Mandir Public School
01.2010

10th - CBSE Board

Vidhya Mandir Public School
01.2008

Skills

Databases

  • MongoDB, MySQL, Amazon RDS

Messaging / Streaming Components

  • Kafka, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper

API & Web Components

  • Nginx, Kong API Gateway, Squid Proxy, Istio

CI/CD & Orchestration Tools

  • Jenkins, Terraform, Chef, ArgoCD, GitOps, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Karpenter, Consul

Cloud Platforms

  • AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, ECR, CloudWatch, CloudFront, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager), Multi-cloud awareness (Azure, GCP)

Code Versioning

  • Git

Security & Governance Tools

  • Checkmarx, CyberArk, AWS Secrets Manager, IAM Hardening, GDPR Compliance, Cloudflare, Akamai

Monitoring & Observability

  • Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, AppDynamics, Zabbix, VictoriaMetrics, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Sumo Logic

Vendors / Cost Optimization

  • Spotinst, AWS Managed Services, Zenduty

Scripting

  • Bash

Certification

Redhat Certified Engineer.

Accomplishments

  • Awarded as Functional Star performer in 03rd Quarter in 2016
  • Working as an Configuration Controller For 3 project for 2 year
  • Rewarded for Media Project
  • Rewarded for Nxtgen Project
  • Received spot award for Feb 2021
  • Received T-star award for March 2021
  • Receiver Annual award for 2023

Timeline

Senior Technical Lead

Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
01.2024 - Current

Devops Technical Lead

Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
12.2020 - 01.2024

Senior DevOps Engineer

Lenskart.com
02.2018 - 12.2020

Software Engineer

One97Communicatin Limited/Paytm
05.2017 - 02.2018

System Engineer

Yamaha Motors Solution
10.2014 - 05.2017

B.Tech - Computer Science

Echelon Institute of Technology

12th - C.B.S.E. Board

Vidhya Mandir Public School

10th - CBSE Board

Vidhya Mandir Public School

M.B.A - Information Technology

Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University
Prince VohraSenior Technical Lead