Kamal Kumar
Builder — Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Delhi, India
kamal@kamal.shExperience
2026-01 to present, Remote, India
Principal Consultant – Cloud & SRE, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Leading cloud security posture governance, CI/CD automation, and platform engineering with SRE best practices.
- Security Posture Modernization: Significantly reduced security vulnerabilities and enforced continuous compliance.
- CI/CD & Automation Overhaul: Improved deployment velocity while ensuring zero-trust security principles.
2025-08 to 2025-12, Gurugram, India
Cloud Engineer (A4 – Lead), McCain Foods
Cloud adoption program migrating 70+ on-prem applications with new governance frameworks.
- Enterprise Cloud Migration: Minimal disruption, optimized cost.
- Security Governance Framework: Reduced risk surface.
2022-06 to 2025-08, Gurugram, Haryana, India
Cloud Migration & DevOps Lead, EPAM Systems
Led zero-downtime migration of a 30-component Java/C++ monolith to AKS serving 100K+ daily users.
- Monolith to Microservices (AKS): 99.99% reliability for 100K+ daily users.
- FinOps Optimization: $1.4M annual savings (25% cost reduction).
- GitLab CI/CD & ArgoCD Pipeline: 70% faster provisioning, 94% faster deployments.
2018-10 to 2022-06, Gurugram, Haryana, India
DevOps Engineer, ITC Infotech
Infrastructure standardization and automation across 15+ environments.
- Infrastructure Standardization: 50+ automated workflows, 60% efficiency gain, 45% faster releases via Azure DevOps.
- Security Hardening: 40% fewer security incidents.
2017-04 to 2018-10, New Delhi, India
Systems Engineer, Collabera Technologies
Branch infrastructure setup and operations across 200+ locations.
- Branch Infrastructure Setup: 99.9% uptime across 200+ branch locations.
Education
MCA (Master of Computer Applications)
Jain University
2021-06 to 2023-07, 8.7 CGPA
BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications)
Sikkim Manipal University
2013-06 to 2016-07, 6.3 CGPA
Certifications
Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft
2026
Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate, Microsoft
2026
Terraform Associate, HashiCorp
2025
Oracle Cloud Foundations Associate, Oracle
2025
API Management Certifications (Product Manager, Security Architect, Designer), API Academy
2025
Gravitee Event-Native API Management (Professional & Architect), United Latino Students Association
2025
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), The Linux Foundation
2025
Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft
2023
Lean Six Sigma White Belt, CSSC
2023
GitLab Certified CI/CD Associate, GitLab
2023
Azure Network Engineer Associate, Microsoft
2023
Azure AI Fundamentals, Microsoft
2023
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft
2022
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Microsoft
2021
Azure Developer Associate, Microsoft
2021
Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-300), Microsoft
2019
MCSA: Windows Server 2012, Microsoft
2018