Vinay Kumar

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | DevOps | AWS | Terraform | Linux | CI/CD (Jenkins) | Docker | Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, Zabbix) | Cloud Reliability | MySQL | HTML | PHP

Role
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at redBus
Location
Gurugram, HR, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Vinay Kumar

Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux administration, large-scale distributed systems, automation, observability, and production operations. Skilled in designing, deploying, and maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems in fast-paced environments.Expert in AWS (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git), and monitoring/alerting (Grafana, Zabbix). Strong background in performance optimization, log analytics, backup and recovery, capacity planning, and system hardening.Proficient in core SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), on-call operations, change management, and service reliability improvement. Experienced in automating infrastructure, reducing operational toil, and ensuring consistent production stability.Key Skills: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, Linux Systems Engineering, Terraform, CI/CD Automation, Docker, Monitoring & Observability, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), MySQL Administration, Cloud Security Best Practices, Networking (DNS, Load Balancing), Scalability Engineering, Troubleshooting & Debugging.

Experience

  1. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

    redBus

    Oct 2014 — Present · Gurugram, IN

    Improved platform reliability and reduced major incidents by ~35% through better alerting, RCA-driven improvements, and SLO-based monitoring.• Optimized AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3) to support rapid business growth, improving system performance and reducing cloud spend by 10–15%.• Designed and automated infrastructure using Terraform, cutting deployment time from hours to minutes and eliminating manual configuration drift.• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git), increasing release frequency and enabling safer, faster deployments.• Enhanced observability using Grafana, Zabbix, and CloudWatch, reducing MTTR by ~40% and improving proactive issue detection.• Managed on-call operations and led high-severity incident response, ensuring minimum downtime and driving long-term reliability improvements.• Supported containerized workloads using Docker and improved service scalability during peak traffic events.• Partnered with cross-functional teams (Dev, QA, Product) to drive SRE best practices, enhance system resilience, and deliver high-availability services to millions of users.

Education

  • Delhi University

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Human Resources Management and Services

    2007 — 2013

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering

    2010 — 2014

  • Web Net Infotech

    Diploma, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

    2010 — 2012

  • SBV Chand Nagar

    Intermediate, Economice, Mathematics, History, Pol Science, Hindi, English

    2006 — 2007

  • Industrial Training Institute

    Computer Programming, Specific Applications

    2007 — 2008

  • Govt. Boys Sec School Chand Nagar

    High School, Mathematics, Science, Social Study, Hindi, English

    2003 — 2004

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