Apoorv Upadhyay
Sheffield,South Yorkshire
Summary
Results-oriented DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud). Specialising in Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), with a strong focus on building reliable, high-performance microservices platforms.
Proven track record in cloud migration, cost optimisation, and high-availability architecture, delivering resilient systems with zero-downtime deployments and automated failover. Experienced in end-to-end platform engineering, from infrastructure provisioning to production-grade deployment pipelines.
Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes-based platforms, with growing exposure to enterprise container platforms such as OpenShift, and a proven ability to quickly adapt to new technologies in complex environments.
Passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges and driving engineering excellence in large-scale, high-impact systems.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
DevOps Engineer
Neuroglee India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
2023.03 - 2023.08
- Architected and managed cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, supporting backend systems serving 10k+ daily users across Android and iOS platforms
- Designed and implemented containerised microservices architecture using Kubernetes, managing 15+ services and improving system scalability and fault isolation
- Built and optimised CI/CD pipelines, reducing release cycle time by 40–50% and increasing deployment frequency from weekly to multiple releases per week
- Managed 4+ environments (Dev, Test, UAT, Production), ensuring consistency and seamless promotion of releases across stages
- Implemented blue-green deployment strategies, achieving zero-downtime releases and reducing production incidents by 30%
- Integrated Amazon CloudFront, improving application latency by 20–30% for end users across regions
- Designed and optimised data layers using DynamoDB and SQL Server, improving query performance by 25% and enhancing system reliability
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (10+ engineers), streamlining release processes and reducing deployment-related issues by 30%
- Ensured high availability (99.9% uptime) through scalable architecture design, monitoring, and proactive issue resolution
Devops Consultant
Infobell IT LTD
Bengaluru
2021.09 - 2023.03
- Designed and managed multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud, supporting 20+ applications with scalable and flexible deployment strategies
- Deployed and managed containerised workloads on Amazon EKS, orchestrating 15+ microservices and improving system scalability and operational efficiency
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for Python and Node.js applications, reducing deployment time by 40% and increasing release frequency
- Implemented secure secrets management using IBM Secrets Manager, managing 100+ secrets across environments and ensuring secure handling of sensitive credentials
- Managed artifact storage and versioning, supporting multiple release versions per week and ensuring traceability across deployments
- Optimised AWS S3 storage and lifecycle policies, reducing storage costs by 20–30% through efficient data tiering and cleanup strategies
- Administered IAM policies and access controls across multi-cloud environments, enforcing least-privilege access for 50+ users/services
- Reduced cloud spend by 25% through usage analysis, rightsizing, and automated resource cleanup across AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud
- Designed and managed VPC networking configurations, ensuring secure communication across multiple environments and services
- Contributed to the development and deployment of IBM Carbon Emissions Calculator, supporting infrastructure visibility and sustainability insights across cloud workloads
- Built and supported a multi-cloud cost estimation platform used by internal teams/projects, enabling better forecasting and cost optimisation decisions
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (10+ engineers) to improve deployment reliability, observability, and operational efficiency across distributed systems
DevOps Consultant
Deloitte India
Hyderabad
2019.06 - 2021.09
- Led migration of Apache Solr workloads from on-premise to AWS, improving system scalability and availability, supporting high-volume search workloads with enhanced performance
- Acted as Build & Release Lead for a pharmaceutical client, managing end-to-end CI/CD lifecycle across multiple applications and environments, ensuring reliable and compliant releases
- Designed and implemented highly available, fault-tolerant architectures on AWS, achieving 99.9% uptime and improving system resilience
- Built automation tools using Python and Shell scripting, reducing manual operational effort by 30–40% and improving deployment efficiency
- Integrated Jenkins with Git-based workflows, enabling automated build triggers and reducing release cycle time by 30%
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (developers, QA, operations – 10+ stakeholders) to streamline delivery pipelines, reducing deployment bottlenecks and improving release stability
Senior DevOps Engineer
V-Nova Ltd
Bengaluru
2017.09 - 2019.06
- Designed and implemented a multi-cloud infrastructure strategy using Terraform, enabling consistent, automated provisioning across AWS and other environments
- Designed and deployed end-to-end cloud infrastructure for a large-scale OTT platform, supporting high-traffic streaming workloads and thousands of concurrent users
- Built and managed scalable backend systems using AWS ECS and Fargate, reducing infrastructure management overhead by 30–40% and improving service reliability
- Architected and optimised Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB databases, achieving high availability (multi-AZ) and improving query performance by 20–30%
- Developed Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, enabling fully version-controlled deployments and reducing manual provisioning effort by 40%
- Implemented high availability and disaster recovery strategies, including multi-AZ deployments and automated failover, ensuring 99.9% uptime
- Managed and monitored Active Directory environments on Windows Server, ensuring system stability and availability using monitoring tools such as Zabbix
- Designed and implemented Redis caching strategies, reducing application latency by 20–30% and offloading significant traffic from backend databases
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment speed by 30% and enabling consistent delivery of microservices-based applications
Cloud Support Engineer
News Technology Services
Bengaluru
2016.09 - 2017.09
- Managed and supported hybrid cloud infrastructure across on-premise data centres and AWS, supporting critical production workloads and services
- Led migration of on-premise workloads to AWS using Snowball, enabling secure transfer of multi-terabyte datasets and accelerating cloud adoption
- Designed and implemented secure hybrid connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and VPN, improving network reliability and reducing latency between on-prem and cloud environments
- Provisioned and managed infrastructure using CloudFormation, enabling repeatable, version-controlled deployments across environments
- Implemented deployment validation and configuration checks, reducing configuration drift and improving release stability across multiple environments
- Designed highly available architectures using multi-AZ deployments, redundancy, and failover strategies, achieving 99.9% uptime
- Strengthened infrastructure security by implementing best practices across networking, IAM policies, and system configurations, improving overall compliance and risk posture
- Automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Elastic Beanstalk, improving deployment speed by 30% and ensuring consistent delivery
Application Development Associate
Accenture
Bengaluru
2015.10 - 2016.09
- Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, enabling repeatable, version-controlled deployments across multiple environments
- Led migration of AWS infrastructure across accounts, supporting multi-account strategies and improving environment isolation and governance
- Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) environments, ensuring high availability and business continuity for critical systems
- Managed IAM users, roles, and cross-account access using role assumption, enforcing secure access control across multiple AWS accounts
- Automated on-call rotation workflows using AWS Lambda, reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency
- Implemented cross-account communication using SNS and SQS, enabling decoupled and event-driven architectures across services
- Designed and implemented a centralised logging system for application logs, improving observability and troubleshooting efficiency
- Developed Python-based automation scripts for provisioning and managing AWS resources, reducing manual configuration effort by 30–40%
- Established and maintained VPC peering across multiple AWS accounts, enabling secure and efficient inter-service communication
- Monitored system architecture using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config, ensuring compliance, auditing, and system health visibility
- Contributed to building end-to-end cloud platforms on AWS, supporting scalable and reliable application deployments
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology
BENGALURU 2011.08 - 2015.07
Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield 2025.09 -
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, CloudFront, IAM, VPC
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud
- Multi-cloud architecture & cost optimisation
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Docker
- Microservices architecture & container-based deployments
- Jenkins (pipeline design & optimisation)
- Blue-Green deployments
- Build & Release Engineering
- Artifact management
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Infrastructure provisioning & automation
- Python
- Bash / Shell scripting
- Nodejs (deployment-level exposure)
- DynamoDB, Aurora, SQL Server
- Redis (caching & performance optimisation)
- CloudWatch, CloudTrail
- Zabbix, Nagios
- High availability, failover strategies
- Incident troubleshooting & system reliability
- IAM (Identity & Access Management)
- Secrets Management (IBM Secrets Manager)
- VPC design, VPN, AWS Direct Connect
- Secure architecture & access control
- CI/CD lifecycle management
- Dev/Test/UAT/Production environment management
- Infrastructure automation
- Network fundamentals
Certification
AWS certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2016)
AWS certified Developer - Associate (2016)
Languages
English
Fluent
Timeline
Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering
University of Sheffield
2025.09 -
DevOps Engineer
Neuroglee India Pvt Ltd
2023.03 - 2023.08
Devops Consultant
Infobell IT LTD
2021.09 - 2023.03
DevOps Consultant
Deloitte India
2019.06 - 2021.09
Senior DevOps Engineer
V-Nova Ltd
2017.09 - 2019.06
Cloud Support Engineer
News Technology Services
2016.09 - 2017.09
Application Development Associate
Accenture
2015.10 - 2016.09
Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology
2011.08 - 2015.07