Vijay Kovelkar

About Vijay Kovelkar

Results-oriented, innovative thinker with solid technical and business acumen. Proven track record of success in designing, building and growing both business organizations, as well as strategic and tactical IT solutions in complex multi-vendor environments. Noted for driving value for the organization, customers, partners and employees through: Customer Success – Actively involved with customers. Served as the Executive Sponsor for key strategic accounts, where I was the primary point of contact for customer executives. Also served as executive on strategic customer escalations, both as the face of the Company to the Customer, as well as the voice of the Customer when driving requirements back to Product Engineering. Thought Leadership – Spoke on customer panels, executive briefings and industry events on various topics, including company strategy, cloud deployment, and migration best practices, migrating to an IT-as-a-Service model and new approaches to web-based security.

Experience

1. Devops Manager

   Dell Technologies

   Nov 2021 — Present · IN

   Led and managed high-performing, globally distributed DevOps/SRE teams, driving 24/7 operations and large-scale cloud transformations across AWS and Azure platforms.Directed end-to-end migration from legacy systems to cloud-native, containerized environments using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Ansible, reducing infra cost by up to 40%.Spearheaded the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD, achieving 80% faster deployment cycles and improved release stability.Defined and enforced DevOps strategy and product roadmap, aligning automation, observability, and release management processes with evolving business and technology goals.Mentored a geographically distributed team of engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, career development sessions, and performance reviews to retain top talent and foster growth.Championed agile transformation and change management within the infrastructure team, improving operational velocity and reducing risk in production changes.Managed third-party vendor relationships to augment cloud operations capacity during critical project phases, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery.Applied ITIL best practices for incident and problem management, improving service stability and compliance for regulated and enterprise-grade environments.Migrated over 20+ legacy applications from on-prem VMs to cloud-native architecture, utilizing Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker, reducing infrastructure cost by up to 40%.Built and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, enabling rapid deployments with reduced human intervention and near-zero downtime.Standardized infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and compliance across staging and production environments.

Education

• Acharya Nagarjuna University

  Bachelore of engineering, Information Technology

  2003 — 2007

• Acharya Nagarjuna University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology