Vivek Kumar
Gurgaon
Summary
System Lead with 9+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps engineering. Expertise in GCP, GKE, and Terraform-based automation with strong hands-on exposure to CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and Jenkins. Proven track record in managing cloud infrastructure, optimizing deployments, and ensuring compliance with enterprise DevOps standards across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
System Lead
Publicis Sapient
06.2025 - Current
- Leading cloud and DevOps initiatives across GCP environments with a focus on GKE and Terraform automation.
- Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps for multi-environment deployments.
- Managing infrastructure provisioning and configuration through Terraform and Google Deployment Manager.
- Administering Kubernetes clusters (GKE) for scalable, containerized application workloads.
- Implementing proactive monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana.
- Supporting developers and SRE teams in improving release efficiency and system stability.
- Coordinating with clients and cross-functional teams for delivery, release management, and issue resolution.
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
HCL Technologies
08.2024 - 06.2025
- Managed Azure Landing Zones and cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
- Collaborated with development teams to streamline infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.
Publicis Sapient
03.2018 - 08.2024
- Designed and managed public and private cloud infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, IAM, and CloudFront.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation for multi-environment deployments (Dev, QA, UAT, PROD).
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Bamboo, enabling automated builds, testing, and deployments.
- Developed automation scripts in Python, Shell, and PowerShell to manage infrastructure and application deployments.
- Implemented containerization using Docker and Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS) for scalable microservices deployment.
- Configured and optimized monitoring and logging with ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
- Managed version control and release management using Git, Bitbucket, SVN, and Azure Repos.
- Applied security best practices, IAM policies, and encryption standards across environments.
- Executed AWS cost optimization, load balancing (ELB), and CDN implementations to enhance performance.
- Performed migration of applications from on-premises and legacy servers to cloud VPC environments.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and clients for release coordination, performance testing, and incident resolution.
Software Data India Private Ltd.
08.2015 - 03.2018
- Managed AWS and VMware environments, automated deployments using Terraform.
- Integrated monitoring with ELK Stack and automated infrastructure with scripting.
- Supported release management, CI/CD, and application lifecycle automation.
System Engineer (Solution Engineer)
Quatrro Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
08.2014 - 08.2015
- Linux OS management and various software installation.
- Setup EC2 instances with High availability and Auto scaling Architecture.
- AD integration with Application and instances.
- Creating, configuring and maintenance of servers on Amazon (AWS).
- Creating regular backup and maintenance of Database (MySQL)
- I was managing user’s using windows server 2008 AD.
- Also, was proving support to users remotely.
- Managing OS installation and application support locally.
- Managing WDS for windows OS deployments.
- Managing TSRM tools which was for ticking process.
Education
10th - undefined
PATNA
10+2 - undefined
PATNA
BSC - IT
SMU (Sikkim Manipal University)
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: GCP, AWS, Azure
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS)
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, GitHub Actions
- Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Dynatrace
- Scripting: Shell, Python, PowerShell, YAML
- Version Control: Git, Bitbucket, Azure Repos
- Agile & Ticketing Tools: Jira, ServiceNow
- CloudWatch, GCP Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Site24x7, Nagios and PagerDuty
Certification
- SAA-C02: AWS Solution Architect Associate Certified.
- 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
Timeline
System Lead
Publicis Sapient
06.2025 - Current
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
HCL Technologies
08.2024 - 06.2025
Publicis Sapient
03.2018 - 08.2024
Software Data India Private Ltd.
08.2015 - 03.2018
System Engineer (Solution Engineer)
Quatrro Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
08.2014 - 08.2015
10th - undefined
PATNA
10+2 - undefined
PATNA
BSC - IT
SMU (Sikkim Manipal University)