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Rohit Verma

DevOps/SRE Lead • UPI @ Paytm • Cloud & Platform Engineering

📍 Gurugram, India✉️ er_rohitverma@yahoo.inLinkedInhttps://rohit.verma.info

Professional Summary

DevOps/SRE leader with ~14 years of experience building reliable, cost-efficient platforms with focus on High Availability, Automation, and Microservices. Deep FinTech exposure on UPI at Paytm—owning Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps (Argo CD/Rollouts), service mesh (Istio/Nginx/HAProxy), autoscaling (KEDA), Kafka/Redis, ELK Stack, and observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos). I make data-driven architectural decisions, drive migrations, implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible/SaltStack), harden security, and ship experiments safely. Strong communicator with proven ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams. I also build for fun: bitresearch.ai, devxops.tech, and filehoot.ai.

Core Competencies

Kubernetes/EKS
Argo CD
Argo Rollouts (Canary/Experiments)
Istio Service Mesh
AWS (EC2, VPC, NLB/ALB, S3, ECR, IAM/IRSA, CloudWatch...)
Terraform
Helm
Kafka
Aerospike
Redis
Elasticsearch
Prometheus/Grafana
ELK Stack
Thanos
Alertmanager
GitOps
SRE/Resilience
Jenkins
Ansible
SaltStack
KEDA Autoscaling
DR/Failover
Cost Optimization
Python
Golang (K8s controllers)
Nginx
HAProxy
High Availability (HA)
Data-Driven Decisions
Automation
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Microservices

Professional Experience

DevOps Lead

Paytm • India

May 2022 – Present

  • •Ported entire UPI stack from PPBL (Paytm Payments Bank) on-prem DC to AWS—VPCs, subnets, peering, NAT/IGW, security controls, data migration, and cutover plan.
  • •Owned EKS with Istio; upgraded CNIs (e.g., Calico), refined HPA/KEDA policies; reduced p95 latencies during bursts.
  • •Implemented GitOps with Argo CD and safe deployments with Argo Rollouts canaries/experiments.
  • •Hardened posture: IRSA, least-privilege IAM, TLS policies, S3 bucket policies, runtime safeguards, audit-ready evidence.
  • •Strengthened security compliance with CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management), PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 certifications for FinTech regulatory requirements.
  • •Improved cost visibility; tuned ALB/NLB logging and S3 lifecycles; orchestrated right-sizing across services.
  • •Built Grafana SLO/SLA and DR dashboards with Elasticsearch for log aggregation; authored DR runbooks and conducted failover exercises.
  • •Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Ansible across multiple environments.
  • •Successfully handled multiple production incidents with minimal MTTR; led RCA sessions and implemented preventive measures.
  • •Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams (engineering, security, compliance, product) to deliver business-critical features on time.
Kubernetes
EKS
Istio
KEDA
Argo CD
Argo Rollouts
AWS
Terraform
Kafka
Aerospike
Prometheus
Grafana
Elasticsearch
Ansible
Linux
CSPM
PCI-DSS

Technical Leader

Capgemini Engineering • Gurugram, India

Jun 2020 – Mar 2022

  • •Led container orchestration (Docker Swarm → Kubernetes) and modernized CI/CD.
  • •Built scalable Python test automation framework (30K+ firmware test cases/day).
  • •Architected cost-effective AWS solutions (EC2, Lambda, S3, Route53, ELB, ASG, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EKS).
  • •Implemented Ansible playbooks for automated server configuration and application deployments.
Kubernetes
Docker
Python
AWS
CI/CD
Ansible

Lead Engineer

EVC Ventures • Gurgaon, India

May 2018 – Sep 2019

  • •Designed AWS infra for resilient microservices; Docker, Swarm/Kubernetes.
  • •Built ELK logging; MERN full-stack; established CI/CD to shorten release cycles.
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
ELK
MERN
CI/CD

Senior Software Engineer

Appster • Gurgaon, India

Oct 2016 – Apr 2018

  • •Org-level DevOps & test automation strategy; created CICD pipelines for multiple products.
  • •Designed solutions aligning present/future requirements; built robust test frameworks.
DevOps
CI/CD
Test Automation

Senior Engineer

HCL Technologies • Noida, India

Mar 2015 – Oct 2016

  • •Introduced DevOps practices; created CICD pipelines; performance monitoring & remediation.
  • •Customer-facing SME & primary point-of-contact for cloud adoption initiatives.
DevOps
CI/CD
Cloud
Performance Monitoring

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra • Noida, India

Apr 2011 – Mar 2015

  • •Built and deployed UI/API test automation frameworks using open-source tech.
  • •Introduced CI/CD & version control best practices; maintained apps on VMware ESXi.
Test Automation
CI/CD
VMware ESXi

Education

B.Tech., Electrical, Electronics & Communications Engineering

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

2006 - 2010

Higher Secondary

Boys' High School & College

Certifications

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation

2022-03

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

2022-01

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

2022-03

Docker Certified Associate

Mirantis

2022-02