Vivek Kumar
AVP - Cloud & DevOps Engineering | AWS Certified DevOps Engineer & Solutions Architect | Infra Automation | ECS, VPC, CI/CD | Delivering Reliable, Secure, and Scalable Cloud Platforms
- Role
- Assistant Vice President - Cloud & Devops Engineering at Barclays
- Location
- Pune District, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vivek Kumar
Senior engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building, scaling and evolving…
Experience
Assistant Vice President - Cloud & Devops Engineering
May 2018 — Present · Pune, IN
Leading cloud engineering initiatives with a dual focus on technical depth and team leadership across enterprise-scale AWS deployments and full-stack DevOps solutions.Key Achievements & Responsibilities:Spearheaded AWS infrastructure automation using CloudFormation and Terraform, reducing provisioning time by 40% and ensuring secure, scalable cloud environments.Architected and managed ECS-based containerized platforms and multi-region VPC networking, integrating Service Catalog for controlled provisioning.Led the development of cloud-native Data Lineage and Visualization apps using React, Next.js, GraphQL, and MariaDB — powering insights for internal stakeholders.Built resilient ETL/data pipelines with Lambda, Glue, RDS, S3, and IAM to streamline data movement and governance across platforms.Oversaw CI/CD pipelines via AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, and Bitbucket, improving release frequency by 30% and reducing incidents by 50% through SonarQube-integrated quality checks.Implemented hardened AMIs and automated EC2 lifecycle management, aligned with security and compliance best practices.Mentored cross-functional teams on DevOps best practices, Agile delivery, and observability using CloudWatch, SNS, and custom alerting stacks.Integrated project management tools like Jira and Confluence to support sprint planning, documentation, and stakeholder visibility.Actively contributed to DevOps capability building through Toastmasters-led communication training and knowledge-sharing sessions.Tech Stack & Tools:AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, Service Catalog, S3, VPC, IAM, Glue) · Terraform · Git · Jenkins · CodePipeline · SonarQube · React.js · Next.js · GraphQL · Jira · Confluence · Agile · CI/CD · Bash · MariaDB · QlikView
Education
Bangalore University
BCA, Computer Applications
2007 — 2010
Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning
Post Graduate Diploma in Banking & Finance, Banking & Finance
2011 — 2013
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