DevOps Team Leader
DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience in automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and driving cloud-native adoption on AWS. Skilled in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and observability stacks (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir).
user@praveen-pkg:~$ whoami
praveen_kumar_devops_lead
user@praveen-pkg:~$ curl ipinfo.io/city
Gurugram, India
user@praveen-pkg:~$ kubectl get nodes
user@praveen-pkg:~$ terraform version
Terraform v1.5.0 on linux_amd64
user@praveen-pkg:~$
Tech_Stack_Audit
Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Architecture
AWS
EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS clusters.
Containers
Docker & Kubernetes orchestration.
CI/CD
GoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
IAC
Terraform, Ansible automation.
Metrics
Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK.
Deployment_Logs
Career progression and architectural impact
DevOps Team Leader
Payoneer
- >> Managing a Team of 5 DEVOPS MEMBERS.
- >> Handling Infrastructure across AWS, AZURE AND ON-PREM systems.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Aspire
- >> Led a team of 5 DevOps engineers, driving quarterly goal-setting, daily scrum meetings, and providing structured monthly feedback.
- >> Led the complete migration of logging and tracing infrastructure from Datadog to self-hosted Grafana OSS (Loki, Tempo, Mimir) on Kubernetes, resulting in ~40% COST SAVINGS.
- >> Deployed and managed AI-driven applications in production, including hosting Onyx and n8n for production workflows.
- >> Implemented and operated observability stack by hosting MCP servers for Grafana, ensuring reliability of AI workloads.
- >> Orchestrated the migration of PHP and Golang services from AWS ECS to Amazon EKS, enhancing scalability.
- >> Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines in GoCD, migrating from GitHub Actions to support a “build once, deploy multiple times” model.
- >> Devised and implemented canary deployment strategies using Kubernetes, with percentage based promotion.
- >> Achieved over 40% reduction in container build time through build layer caching and parallelized builds.
- >> Drove cloud cost optimization by rightsizing resources and tuning autoscaling policies.
Staff DevOps Engineer
SIMPL Inc
- >> Managed a team of 5 DevOps engineers and worked on setting up quarterly goals.
- >> Automated the creation and configuration of multiple environments ensuring consistency and reproducibility.
- >> Setup the monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting for resources on AWS.
- >> Secured infrastructure by monitoring and remedying any security threats.
- >> Designed and implemented serverless architecture resulting in improved performance and cost saving.
- >> Collaborated with Engineering team to optimize deployment and scaling of application.
- >> Participated in on-call rotations for incident management on L1 and L2 level.
- >> Managed automated secure network architecture with performance tuning.
DevOps Engineer
Flux7, an NTT DATA Company
- >> Build and manage IAC for hardening AWS Accounts using Control Tower, System manager, CloudTrail, Config, Trust Advisor and Lambda.
- >> Accountable for working closely with clients to understand, review and implement architecture as per the requirements.
- >> Build CI/CD pipeline to automate various deploy process in AWS Environment.
DevOps Engineer
Coral Blockchain
- >> Manage, design, analyze and implement Enterprise Blockchain Solutions in domains like Healthcare, Water Supply and Government Processes.
- >> Build and Deploy Enterprise Blockchain application on AWS.
- >> Mentoring new interns and helping them navigate through problems to account for the deliverables on a daily basis.
DevOps Engineer
DataGrokr Analytics Private Limited
- >> Accountable for working closely with clients to understand, review and implement architecture as per the requirements.
- >> Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.
- >> Handled tasks independently and collaboratively within a team; mentored new interns.
Certification_Logs
Validated Cloud Expertise
AWS Certified DevOps - Professional
ID: AWS-CERT-DV-PRO
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
ID: AWS-CERT-DEV-ASO
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
ID: AWS-CERT-SYS-ASO
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
ID: AWS-CERT-SA-ASO
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