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Manoj Patel

@manojpatel1

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I’m a Platform Engineer and DevOps leader building secure, automated Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own end-to-end platform and IaC engineering for AWS/Kubernetes, automate CI/CD, and strengthen observability, reliability, and security/compliance in mission-critical environments with strong cross-team collaboration.

I’m a Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience building, scaling, and owning production-grade infrastructure on AWS. I’m an expert in Kubernetes (EKS), IaC, CI/CD platform engineering, and developer enablement, with a track record of delivering mission-critical platforms end-to-end—from greenfield IaC-driven builds to live production support.

At Kotak Mahindra Bank, I’m currently building the CBS 2.0 core banking platform as a fully automated, secure, compliance-ready foundation. I architected the platform end-to-end using 100% Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), resolved 400+ VACA security issues per environment, implemented zero-downtime blue/green EKS upgrade strategies, and standardized operational patterns like Kubernetes Job/CronJob, centralized logging (FluentBit → ELK), and production/DR alerting (PagerDuty).

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps / Platform Eng

Current

Kotak Mahindra Bank

May 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Architected and built the CBS 2.0 cloud platform end-to-end with 100% Terraform infrastructure-as-code across CUG, Prod, and DR, eliminating manual resource creation. Owned production operations and security hardening, resolving 400+ VACA security issues, implementing blue/green EKS upgrades for zero downtime, standardizing Kubernetes batch jobs, centralized logging, PagerDuty alerting, enforced p

Terraform Amazon EKS Kubernetes Operations AWS Infrastructure CI CD Pipeline Engineering IAM Access Analyzer Fluent Bit ELK OpenSearch Logging PagerDuty

Lead DevOps Engineer

Ace Turtle Omni Private Limited

Feb 2024 - May 2024 (3 months)

Owned infrastructure across GCP and AWS multi-account environments, stabilizing mock service operations and automating MongoDB release processes. Automated ECS service shutdown during non-working hours and consolidated staging onto a single load balancer to reduce costs.

GCP AWS MongoDB ECS Load Balancing Release Automation Cost Optimization

Senior DevOps Engineer

SmartShift Logistics Solutions Pvt Ltd

Mar 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 6 months)

Led RDS-to-Snowflake migration for hybrid cloud and on-prem databases, adding automated query monitoring, alerting, and guardrails. Built analytics platform infrastructure for international rollout (India + Dubai) with Jenkins CI/CD, secrets management, and deployment pipelines, improving stability of Metabase/JupyterHub/Amundsen/Streamlit via autoscaling, auth, backups, and monitoring.

RDS To Snowflake Migration Hybrid & Cloud Jenkins CI Secrets Management Spot.Io Autoscaling AWS Cost Explorer Monitoring

Senior DevOps Team Lead

DataGrokr Analytics Pvt Ltd

Jun 2016 - Feb 2022 (5 years 8 months)

Led the DevOps function for 5.5 years, owning end-to-end infrastructure delivery and client-facing operations while mentoring the team. Reduced AWS costs by 30% and improved Security Hub scores from 20% to 75%, migrated secrets to Secrets Manager, and built a central golden image pipeline (CloudFormation/StackSets/Lambda/EventBridge, later ImageBuilder) plus a reusable ServiceCatalog of CloudForma