DevOps Lead, Senior DevOps, Platform Engineer, AWS architect
Amey Dixit
@ameydixit
Platform Architect at Amdocs who cut deployment lead time 83% with a zero-downtime release strategy.
What I'm looking for
Senior DevOps Engineer and Platform Architect with 12+ years of IT experience and 7+ years designing and leading cloud-native infrastructure. Proven track record of architecting zero-downtime deployment strategies, multi-region Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure as Code frameworks, and observability platforms while collaborating with engineering leadership, product teams, security, and operations. Experienced in defining scalable cloud architectures, standardizing platform engineering practices, and delivering reusable infrastructure solutions that improve developer productivity, operational resilience, and deployment velocity. Specialized in integrating Gen-AI tooling into CI/CD pipelines — building Gen-AI-powered developer platform tooling: self-service deployment, AI-assisted CI/CD, and self-service engineering workflows.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
DevOps Specialist
Amdocs
Apr 2021 - Present (5 years 5 months)
Owned enterprise DevOps platforms across AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform and Jenkins. Reduced deployment time 83% (3h→30m), provisioning effort 70%, and platform upgrades 5 days→1 day through automation. Led a 4-engineer team, drove observability, zero-downtime releases, and standardized CI/CD across production clusters.
Built a custom MCP-based upgrade agent that autonomously reconciles version deltas and triggers Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, reducing per-environment upgrade time from 5 days to 1 day. Architected zero-downtime release strategies and redesigned CI/CD pipelines, cutting deployment lead time by 83%.
Middleware Administrator
Reflexis Systems
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 4 months)
▸ Automated 15+ daily operational tasks with Ansible and shell scripting (−50% effort); migrated 8+ apps from VMs to Docker/Kubernetes.
▸ Integrated Jenkins CI/CD with Git, reducing deployment effort by 60% and standardising workflows across dev and ops teams.
System Administrator
Ebix Technology
May 2014 - Oct 2018 (4 years 5 months)
Managed 50+ Linux nodes (physical + VMware) and maintained 99.9% uptime. Improved SSL rating from C to A via OpenSSL upgrade and automated patching with Ansible, reducing toil by 60%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Cloud Architecture
Expected to complete the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification in Q4 2026.
Red Hat
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), System Administration
Earned the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification in 2013.
Government college of Engineering Amravati
Government College of Engineering, Amravati
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering
Completed a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering in 2013.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
AWS CLI
AWS IAM
Azure RBAC
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Helm
Argo
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Azure DevOps
Sonatype Nexus
Python
Grafana
Prometheus
Azure Monitor
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenSSL
Ansible
Shell
Amazon RDS
Docker
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Groovy
LangChain
ArgoCD
Dynatrace
Bash
LangGraph
AWS
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
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