Hi, I am Sunil Kumar

Lead DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience in managing cloud infrastructure ,integrating cloud based infrastructure components and developing automation solutions.

Contact : SVilambi@gmail.com  +91 9553990555  India  

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Certifications : AWS Solutions Architect – Associate  AZ-900  GCP   AWS CPE  AWS CSAA  Github Actions  CS AWS  CS DevOps

Career Objective : Lead DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing scalable cloud infrastructures, implementing CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and building enterprise-grade observability systems. Strong expertise across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, ELK, and Databricks. Proven track record of improving delivery speed, reducing operational costs, enhancing system reliability, and enabling data-driven decision-making through advanced analytics pipelines.

Work Experience:

Working in as a Lead DevOps Engineer for Kenvue from September 2023 to December 2025

Key Achievements:

• Improved software release efficiency by implementing optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enhancing deployment reliability and speed.
• Enhanced analytics workflows by building reusable dbt models and scalable ADF pipelines.
• Reduced troubleshooting time by establishing end-to-end observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch.

Responsibilities:

• Built dbt models for data transformations, enhancing data consistency and reusability.
• Developed and optimized Azure Data Factory pipelines for ingestion and transformation across Snowflake and Databricks.
• Designed Power BI dashboards connected to Snowflake and Azure SQL for real-time reporting.
• Implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery and reduce manual interventions.
• Managed containerized applications with Kubernetes, enabling scalable and resilient deployments.
• Drove Infrastructure-as-Code adoption using Terraform and Ansible for consistent environment provisioning.
• Implemented monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for improved reliability.
• Strengthened cloud security with RBAC, TLS/SSL, and proactive security audits.
• Managed Docker workloads on AWS EKS using Linux, Bash, and Git.
• Integrated Elasticsearch for advanced log search, index optimization, and query tuning.
• Built centralized log management using ELK, handling multi‑source log ingestion and enrichment.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to set up APM/BPM alerts and improve system health visibility.

Worked in as a Technical Lead for Wipro Software Pvt Client : SRE at GSK from April 2022 to June 2023

Key Achievements:

• Automated provisioning across Azure using Terraform, improving consistency and eliminating manual setup.
• Strengthened application reliability with Prometheus, Log Analytics, and alerting automation.

Responsibilities:

• Built Databricks notebooks and workflows for large-scale data processing into Snowflake.
• Integrated dbt with CI/CD to automate testing and deployment of data models.
• Designed Power BI dashboards for cost optimization and executive insights.
• Automated cloud provisioning using Terraform, enabling multi-environment setups with workspaces.
• Managed AWS infrastructure including EC2, VPC, S3, and VPC configurations.
• Utilized Azure monitoring tools for performance tuning and issue diagnosis.
• Developed and deployed enterprise Java/J2EE applications across Windows and Linux.
• Managed configuration via Ansible for multi-server deployments.
• Automated Windows patching reports and Azure backups.
• Implemented Prometheus and Prometheus Adapter for Kubernetes metric extensions.
• Managed EKS‑based Control Rooms for scalable bot-runner operations.
• Used CyberArk for secure operations and access management.
• Conducted POCs for GitHub Actions automation of bot runner machines.

Worked in as a DevOps Engineer for Amphora Software from April 2015 to March 2022

Key Achievements:

• Migrated applications from JBoss EAP to Wildfly and upgraded Java from 1.6 to OpenJDK 14.
• Managed over 10,000+ Splunk forwarders across Linux and Windows.
• Successfully migrated source code repositories from TFS to GitHub.

Responsibilities:

• Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Bamboo for automated deployments.
• Managed AWS services including Route53, ELB, Auto Scaling, Lambda, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch.
• Automated infrastructure using Terraform with built-in shell scripts.
• Configured applications using Ansible Playbooks across multiple servers.
• Integrated Selenium tests into CI/CD pipelines for post-deployment verification.
• Automated Nginx configurations and monitoring for improved performance.
• Integrated logs via Splunk DB Connect and tuned ingestion for better analytics.
• Deployed apps using Wildfly, JBoss, Tomcat, and created installers using Advanced Installer.
• Built Ant, Gradle, Perl scripts for automation, deployments, and builds.
• Worked with artifact repositories such as Nexus, Archiva, and NuGet.
• Managed Docker Swarm/Kubernetes clusters and performed PoCs for containerizing Java apps.

Worked in as a Java Developer for SkillFarm from March 2014 to April 2015

Major Achievements: 

• Developed Java based application for reading data from the excel sheet and filtering the data.
• SMTP, Java Mail, and JXL Libraries for sending Mails.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented MVC architecture.
• Responsible for handling Designing Layer and Data Access Layer.
• Utilized Java technology extensively for data retrieving, querying, storage, and manipulation.
• Translating technical specifications into code and documenting the code.
• Analyze existing business applications and leverage knowledge of data analytics to identify opportunities to enhance functionality.
• Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements.

Academic Chronicle :

• Master of Technology (M.Tech) (Computer Science) 2014
  Samskruthi College of Engineering and Technology Affiliated to JNTU (Hyderabad)
• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) (Computer Science) 2011
  Maheshwara Engineering College Affiliated to JNTU (Hyderabad)