Amit Kumar

Summary

IT professional with ~5 years of DevOps experience in cloud administration, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security hardening. Specialized in Kubernetes on Azure/AWS, Terraform modules, GitHub Actions automation, and platform engineering.

Experience highlights

• Owned multi-cloud infra on Azure and AWS; built AKS/EKS from scratch and standardized Terraform modules for common resources.
• Created reusable GitHub Actions workflows and ARC runners on Kubernetes; set branching standards and ArgoCD releases.
• Implemented observability with Loki/Grafana/Tempo/Mimir, cutting managed-stack costs by 60%+.
• Rolled out Kyverno policy-as-code and image signing; delivered VPC/S3 endpoints and private endpoints for secure connectivity.

Roles

Recent work

• Managing healthcare infrastructure; designed and built AKS, onboarded multiple services on Kubernetes, and implemented ArgoCD, GitHub Actions workflows, and private endpoints.
• Implemented Azure OpenAI (Document Intelligence) for analytics; configured custom filters and OpenAI instances.
• Delivered Loki/Grafana/Tempo/Mimir on Kubernetes, reducing observability cost by 60%+ vs managed services.
• Set up Kyverno policy-as-code and image signing on AKS; built VPC endpoints for S3 and Azure private endpoints.
• Ran KubeFlow/KServe POCs for ML pipelines; deployed GitHub ARC runners as ephemeral K8s pods, cutting runner spend ~30%.
• Standardized Helm templatization and Jenkins pipelines; onboarded Dynatrace and ArgoCD across EKS estates.
• Built and operated ELK/Filebeat clusters ingesting 60+ GiB/day; created centralized Terraform modules and Redis clusters.

Skills

Certifications

Education

• Punjab Technical University — B.Tech Computer Science (2016–2020), 72.5%.
• Published journal (IJTC 2017): Review Study of Net Trap Java Honeypot architecture.

Contact

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