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Vishal Arora

@vishalarora

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Senior DevOps engineer building secure, developer-friendly Kubernetes platforms with automation and observability.

India

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What I'm looking for

I want to lead DevOps/platform work building secure, GitOps-driven Kubernetes platforms—focused on automation, observability, and audit-ready reliability. I’m excited to empower developers and improve scalability, governance, and cost efficiency.

I’m a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 9 years of experience designing secure, developer-friendly platforms, with a strong focus on reliability, governance, and developer enablement. I architect automation-first deployment and operations workflows that make releases consistent and scalable.

I standardize CI/CD and delivery with GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, and Kustomize—driving repeatable deployments across environments. I built and optimized cloud foundations with Terraform, establishing secure and compliant AWS setups for Kubernetes-based platforms.

I lead reliability and observability initiatives using Kubernetes best practices, resource governance, probes, and hardened configurations. I also improve operational visibility with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Datadog, and I’ve implemented audit-ready controls including RBI audit compliance.

I’ve reduced deployment friction and costs by measurable margins—improving deployment efficiency by 40% and achieving 30% infrastructure cost savings through right-sizing and automation. I also support faster incident response with AI/LLM-based tooling that summarizes CI/CD failures and suggests remediation from logs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior DevOps Engineer

Syfe

May 2021 - Apr 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Managed day-to-day AWS cloud operations and supported development teams. Architected and automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform and standardized Kubernetes deployments using Helm on Amazon EKS, while implementing Kong-based API management and Datadog observability.

Terraform Amazon EKS Helm Kong API Gateway Datadog AWS Cloud Operations API Management

Senior DevOps Engineer

Elara Group

Nov 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 5 months)

Provided architectural oversight and operational support for 300 AWS instances, building Kubernetes platforms with Kops and Amazon EKS and provisioning GKE clusters with Terraform. Led Jenkins-based CI/CD to build and version microservices, push images to Amazon ECR, and deploy with Helm, while enabling observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.

AWS Kubernetes Amazon EKS Terraform Jenkins Helm Amazon ECR Prometheus

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Paytm

Aug 2018 - Nov 2019 (1 year 3 months)

Built and optimized AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, and ELB/ALB with Auto Scaling to improve availability, scalability, and fault tolerance. Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and enhanced observability and incident management using the ELK stack, Nginx, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Consul-driven service discovery.

AWS Kubernetes Docker Ansible Terraform Gitlab CI ELK Stack Kong API Gateway Consul CI CD

DevOps Engineer

BigFoot Retail Solutions Pvt

May 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 3 months)

Set up monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager and implemented centralized logging using the ELK stack. Designed and managed AWS infrastructure, automated configuration with Ansible, and built Python/Bash scripts to automate backups and routine operational tasks.

Prometheus ELK Stack AWS Ansible Docker EC2 S3 Python BASH

Linux Administrator

Lenskart.com

Apr 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 1 month)

Managed and automated AWS infrastructure using Ansible and Chef, and designed high-availability EC2 architectures for scalable and secure operations. Administered Nginx/Apache/Redis and MongoDB replication, implemented Zabbix and New Relic monitoring, and automated build/deploy pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, and Docker.

AWS Ansible Chef Nginx Apache Redis Zabbix Jenkins