SAUMYA KOHLI
Delhi
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in automating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments. Proficient in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and GitHub Actions, ensuring scalable and secure environments. Skilled in monitoring, scripting (Python, Bash), and incident management for high availability. Strong collaborator with a passion for automation, reliability, and DevOps best practices. Adept at optimizing performance, cost, and security in cloud-native architectures.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineer II
Planview
11.2023 - Current
- Achieved 35% AWS Infrastructure Cost Reduction by implementing best practices, optimizing resource utilization, and dynamically managing environment scaling.
- Automated Resource Scaling by strategically spinning environments up and down to minimize cloud expenses without compromising availability.
- Developed Privilege Escalation Mechanism to enhance security and streamline controlled access to critical infrastructure.
- Implemented API Gateway for Customer Self-Service to enable external users to conduct API testing independently, improving efficiency and reducing dependency on internal teams.
- Spearheaded the Migration from Gerrit & Jenkins to GitHub Actions—successfully transitioned 400+ CI/CD jobs with meticulous planning, extensive lower-environment testing, and phased production deployment.
- Planned and Executed Successful Disaster Recovery (DR) Activity for Planview Hub Product, ensuring business continuity and system resilience.
- Led RDS Major & Minor Version Upgrades, ensuring database security, performance, and compliance without impacting business operations.
- Pioneered Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) for Dynatrace & Observe, driving innovation in observability and performance monitoring.
- Automated User Privilege Escalation via AWS Lambda, Slack App, and IAM policies, enabling secure, on-demand access for developers.
- Designed & Established an End-to-End Incident Management Process with Incident.io, creating an integrated alerting, tracking, and debrief workflow for tech teams.
- Automated Infrastructure and Application Deployments for over 400+ AWS hosts using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring consistency and reducing manual intervention.
- Expert in Kubernetes & Container Management—handling cluster resizing, RBAC configurations, Ingress management, ArgoCD application sets, Helm charts, and Docker-based workloads
DevOps Engineer
Locon Solutions Pvt Ltd
07.2022 - 10.2023
- Cost Efficiency & Seamless Migration: Led migration to Graviton, transitioned from gp2 to gp3, and optimized S3 storage for cost savings.
- Downscaled under-provisioned production/staging instances with zero downtime using a Blue-Green deployment strategy.
- Developed nightly auto-scaling scripts, cutting cloud costs by 40% annually.
- Proactive Security Measures: Automated security checks via Python, alerting on open security groups, unnecessary CIDR whitelisting, and critical CloudTrail events via Slack.
- Ensured production resilience with site-to-site VPN configurations.
- High Availability & Performance: Maintained 99.99% Kubernetes uptime through multi-AZ deployments, node & pod autoscaling based on resource consumption.
- Improved user experience with CloudFront caching, optimized subdomain routing, and faster static content delivery.
- Infrastructure & Monitoring Excellence: Streamlined Terraform-based infrastructure management.
Established advanced monitoring using Kafka, ZooKeeper, and Elasticsearch. - Provided on-call support, ensuring rapid incident resolution on production.
- Automated onboarding & access management, reducing manual effort by 50% via Jira automation using Blink.
DevOps Engineer
Metis Eduventures Pvt Ltd
03.2021 - 07.2022
- Led and mentored DevOps team
- Built & Managed Integrated EKS Cluster with ECR as a Docker registry, ensuring seamless microservices deployment
- Optimized Production Monitoring & Alerts for real-time issue detection and fast resolution
- Expert in Server-Side Tools including Ingress Controller, Nginx, Apache, and HAProxy.
- Led POCs & RCA Debugging, integrating innovative features and resolving production issues efficiently.
- Designed Scalable Solutions for high-traffic workloads with horizontal autoscaling.
- Implemented Reliable Database Backup & Restore Strategies to ensure data integrity & swift disaster recovery.
Software Engineer - DevOps
83Incs Softech Pvt Ltd
02.2018 - 11.2020
- Leveraged AWS cloud services and security policies to enhance the scalability and security of application development and multi zone deployment processes
- Optimized Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines deployment time by 50% via Jenkins
- Orchestrated local deployments utilizing Helm charts and Kubernetes manifest files
- Handled and managed Docker Compose applications.
- Achieved and sustained 99.99% system uptime through effective monitoring tools, redundancy measures, and efficient infrastructure management.
Education
Bachelor's of Technology - Computer Science
SRM University
Sonepat05.2018
Skills
- Scripting Languages: Bash/Shell, Python, Ansible, PowerShell
- Databases: SQL , MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka
- Operating Systems: Linux and Windows
- Logging and Monitoring Tools: Logstash/Filebeat, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, New Relic, Pingdom
- Alerting tools: PagerDuty, Incidentio, Slack Webhooks
- Amazon Web Services: EKS, S3, VPC, RDS/Aurora DB, EC2, Load Balancer, Route 53 DNS, CloudFront, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Lambda Functions, SNS, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, OpenSearch, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation
- Containerization/Orchestration Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose, Helm
- CI/CD tools: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github Actions, GitLab
- Version Control Tools: Git, Bitbucket, Gerrit
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Cloudformation GitOps
- Collaboration & Project Management Tools: Jira, Slack, Confluence, Excel, MSTeams
- Soft Skills & Problem-Solving:
- Leadership, Collaboration & Teamwork, Critical Thinking, Troubleshooting and Resolution, Communication Abilities, Documentation Skills, Conflict Resolution, Problem-Solving, Proactive, Accountability & Ownership
Certification
AWS Solutions Architect Associate(By Aptron), 2023
Timeline
Software Engineer II
Planview
11.2023 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Locon Solutions Pvt Ltd
07.2022 - 10.2023
DevOps Engineer
Metis Eduventures Pvt Ltd
03.2021 - 07.2022
Software Engineer - DevOps
83Incs Softech Pvt Ltd
02.2018 - 11.2020
Bachelor's of Technology - Computer Science
SRM University
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