Shitiz Kumar
DevOps Tech Lead
Summary
Flexible professional with experience developing and building IT solutions. Confident DevOps Engineer with exemplary expertise in routine application maintenance tasks, including troubleshooting and testing.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
11
11
Certifications
Work History
Lead Systems Engineer
EPAM Systems
04.2024 - Current
- Leading the development of new IT capabilities for a portfolio of 15+ live use cases under PMI’s Digital Industrial Solutions, supporting manufacturing and engineering business needs.
- Designed and implemented disaster recovery strategies to ensure robust system reliability for development initiatives.
- Performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues.
- Optimized system performance by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
- Collaborated with product teams—including Product Owners, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and Software Developers—to build and enhance innovative use cases.
- Developed and optimized cloud-based solutions using AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps methodologies to meet evolving business requirements.
DevOps Tech Lead
Metyis
10.2021 - 04.2024
- Managed various e-commerce clients, including Pepe India, PVH, CK, and TH, working on the WCS platform.
- Proficient in infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
- Expertise in configuration automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
- Built and set up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git Action, CodePipeline, VSTS, Bamboo, etc.
- Hands-on experience building highly scaled databases (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL) on the cloud.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Qualitest
09.2020 - 10.2021
- Led a team of DevOps engineers and collaborated with application and delivery teams for large-scale projects.
- Proficient in server-side technologies, including Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Node, etc.
- Worked with major public clouds (AWS, Azure, DO) and had strong knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm, and related cloud-native ecosystems.
DevOps Engineer
LYBRATE TECHNOLOGIES
10.2019 - 09.2020
- .Worked on Docker containers and images, creating Docker images for different environments.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration processes, resolving build/release failures.
- Automated CronJobs using Shell-Scripts and deployed applications to Tomcat application servers.
Software Engineer
TECH MAHINDRA LTD
10.2016 - 10.2019
- Installed, configured, and maintained Continuous Integration, Automation, and Configuration Management tools.
- Established and maintained code repository standards (GIT) and improved branching and code merge practices.
- Deployed and troubleshooted war, ear, and jar applications, and performed Web Logic Administration.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY
New Delhi, India 08.2012 - 08.2016
Skills
Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL), Windows Server, Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell, Groovy
Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, GitOps Workflows
Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, VPC), Azure (VMs, AKS, Azure DevOps), GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions)
Zabbix,Grafana,CloudWatch,NewRelic,Squadcast
Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Puppet
Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm
TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Load Balancing, Firewalls;
Vault, SAST/DAST tools
RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka;
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Lead Systems Engineer
EPAM Systems
04.2024 - Current
DevOps Tech Lead
Metyis
10.2021 - 04.2024
Senior DevOps Engineer
Qualitest
09.2020 - 10.2021
DevOps Engineer
LYBRATE TECHNOLOGIES
10.2019 - 09.2020
Software Engineer
TECH MAHINDRA LTD
10.2016 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY
08.2012 - 08.2016