Amit Kumar

About Amit Kumar

A focused, innovative, and goal-oriented Cloud Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years of experience in designing & implementing highly available, fault-tolerant & secure cloud solutions by specializing in availability, reliability, and scalability of mission critical systems. Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code(IaC), CI/CD pipeline setup using Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, GitHub Actions coupled with configuration management tool like Ansible alongside GitOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub, Shell Scripting, Server Management, Security. Experienced in leading cloud migration projects, optimizing costs, and enforcing robust security measures. Strong in monitoring, logging and observability tools such as New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk to ensure proactive performance management. Expertise in planning and designing technology roadmaps, facilitating cloud adoption, and ensuring compliance with Industry standards to address complex business challenges.CERTIFICATIONS: Certified Kubernetes AssociateAWS Certified “Security - Speciality”AWS Certified \"Solution Architect - Professional\" AWS Certified \"DevOps Engineer - Professional\"AWS Certified “Solution Architect - Associate”AWS Certified \"SysOps Administrator - Associate\" AWS Certified \"Developer - Associate\"Terraform Certified Associate

Experience

1. Sde - Devops

   Expedia Group

   Aug 2021 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Architected and implemented highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, self-healingcloud infrastructure with disaster recovery, while overseeing infrastructure analysis,resilient architecture on AWS for multiple applications.• Worked on migration of On-premises Application into AWS cloud by setting up highlyavailable, highly scalable, cost efficient, monitored infrastructure.• Participated in creating RFP documents & network architecture which needs to bedeployed on AWS along with DevOps best practices.• Designed and implemented progressive deployment strategies, including Canarydeployments, blue-green deployments, rolling deployments, enabling safe andefficient rollouts of new features with minimal user impact.• Achieved significant reductions in CI/CD pipeline execution times by optimizing buildprocesses, parallelizing tasks, and implementing caching strategies, resulting in a 40%decrease in deployment times.• Engineered AWS cloud infrastructure provisioning processes, optimizing resourceutilization and reducing infrastructure costs by 25% through efficient resource allocationand reserved instance management.• Expertise in AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Load Balancer, Autoscaling,CloudWatch, Route53, etc, facilitating robust and scalable cloud infrastructuresolutions.• Developer and enforced best practices for CI/CD pipelines, configuration management,and Infrastructure as Code(IaC), ensuring consistency, reliability, and security across the entire software delivery life cycle.• Implemented fault-tolerant architectures and redundancy mechanism, increasingsystem resilience and reducing the impact of failure on critical services.• Led the provisioning and optimization of Kubernetes clusters across multipleenvironments ensuring scalability, reliability and performance.• Setup & configured Kubernetes by using EKS Cluster. Handles deployments and releaseson EKS cluster.

Education

• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2014 — 2017

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science

  2017 — 2020