Vikrant Badkas

About Vikrant Badkas

I specialize in building production-grade cloud infrastructure that is scalable, resilient, and automation-driven. I’ve led large-scale AWS migrations, implemented GitOps delivery models, and optimized enterprise platforms serving 25K–40K users with 99.9% uptime. Core Expertise• Architect and operate AWS-backed Kubernetes platforms (EKS, OpenShift)• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD & GitLab• Design Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for secure, repeatable environments• Apply SRE practices (SLA/SLO, observability, incident response)• Drive zero-downtime deployment and upgrade strategies Impact Delivered• Led migration from Rancher to AWS EKS, establishing scalable multi-environment Kubernetes architecture• Reduced environment setup time by 60% through automated cluster bootstrapping• Improved incident detection time by 40% and MTTR by 35% using Prometheus, Grafana & CloudWatch• Achieved zero-downtime upgrades, reducing release-related incidents by 30%• Standardized Terraform provisioning, cutting manual errors by 50%• Designed serverless automation (Lambda & API Gateway), improving release turnaround by 40% Production OwnershipCurrently own and operate enterprise-scale Atlassian platforms deployed on AWS-backed OpenShift clusters supporting 25K–40K users with strong focus on high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.AWS Certified Solutions Architect with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, automation, observability, and reliability engineering.Passionate about reducing operational toil, improving system resilience, and engineering reliable cloud platforms at scale.

Experience

1. Senior Devops Engineer Sre

   Accenture

   Mar 2023 — Present · Pune, IN

   Application Development Senior Analyst (DevOps):Led migration of mission-critical workloads from Rancher to AWS EKS, designing scalable multi-environment Kubernetes architecture• Architected GitOps deployment strategy using ArgoCD integrated with GitLab for automated, auditable releases• Reduced environment setup time by 60% via automated Kubernetes cluster bootstrapping• Achieved zero-downtime upgrades, reducing release-related incidents by 30%• Improved incident detection by 40% and MTTR by 35% using Prometheus, Grafana & CloudWatch• Standardized Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning, reducing configuration errors by 50%• Own and operate enterprise-scale Atlassian platforms serving 25K–40K users on AWS-backed OpenShift clusters

Education

• K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering

• LAL Bahadur Shastri Jr College(Nagpur Board)

  High School Diploma, Applied Science

  2010 — 2012

• Jaycees Convent

  SSC, Applied Science

  2000 — 2010