Karan Verma

Senior Delivery Manager

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

About

Senior Delivery Manager with a 10+ years of experience leading cloud transformation, automating infrastructure, and delivering secure, scalable AWS platforms. Skilled in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization. Known for improving release speed, accelerating incident recovery, enabling DevOps culture and driving end-to-end engineering excellence.

Experience

  • Senior DevOps Engineer at Confidential
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Engineering Consultant at GlobalLogic
    Jan 2023 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    As a DevOps Engineer, I was responsible for CI/CD management and optimization and leading automation projects across various cloud platforms (GCP, Azure DevOps, AWS). Key Responsibilities and Accomplishments: • Managed deployment and resource provisioning in GCP, Azure DevOps, and AWS, ensuring propriety within the secure cloud platforms. • Worked with developers to establish company best practices for branching and merging using GIT, to not only improve code management but also provide a common understanding and practice with GIT responsibilities. • Designed and developed CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, allowing the business to deliver regular and ad-hoc releases to a 'one-click' button process, first based on business needs. • Lead containerization by managing Docker images and containers and deploying containerized applications to docker. Successfully deployed applications to AWS using Amazon ECS and EKS (and Kubernetes). • Utilized Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management in AWS and GCP, to ensure that it was a repeatable infrastructure deployment process. • Provided configuration management and troubleshooting to developers and ensured build and release processes worked without errors. • Worked with development and QA teams to diagnose and resolve build failures to ensure a reliable and high-quality delivery pipeline. • Managed GitHub repositories for source code versioning and collaboration. • Used Jenkins for automation of daily processes as a part of the continuous integration and delivery pipeline. • Implemented and administered Kubernetes based infrastructure to deploy applications in a scalable and resilient manner. • Participated in DevOps processes, including collaborating with teams across domains, attending daily stand-up meetings, and engaging with client communication.

  • Senior Software Engineer at MothersonSumi INfotech & Designs Ltd. (MIND)
    May 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Responsibilities: • Worked collaboratively with stakeholders to understand business objectives and to define system specifications accurately. • Planned, designed, and architected effective technology solutions that aligned with corporate strategy. • Assessed and made recommendations for hardware and software products while determining optimum integration mechanisms. • Monitored assigned programs, provided technical advice and mentorship to meet project milestones. Cloud and Infrastructure: • Ample hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, CloudFront, IAM, AMI, Route 53, Lambda, CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit and CloudWatch. • Built and configured virtual machines and operated system level configuration using AMI templates in AWS. • Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure resources: launched EC2 and RDS instances, configured security groups, created auto-scaling and implemented load balancers (ELBs) within the specified VPC. • Used AWS CloudWatch to monitor and gather analysis on the performance of particular environment instances for monitoring purposes especially when load testing was done to determine performance. • Led cloud migrations projects transitioning from on-prem virtual machines to public cloud environments successfully. • Configured and managed Content Delivery Networks CDN on Amazon CloudFront (Origin Path: Server/S3) for website performance. • Proven record of successful deployments and operating highly available, scalable and fault-tolerant systems with AWS. • Create and administer snapshots for backup of your volumes and AMIs to maintain reusable desktop launches configurations of EC2 instances. • Administered user permissions and access using AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), administered security groups controlling specified network access to specified ports, protocols, and IP addresses.

  • System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services
    Aug 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Responsibilities: •Led the administering and supporting a very large Linux and Mac environment with over 80,000 physical and VM servers, proactively pursing daily server and hardware issues in an effort to ensure system availability and limited downtime. •Troubleshot high priority (P1) escalated incidents in a timely manner to either bring critical business services back online or help maintain the department’s overall confidence with stakeholder confidence. •Identified and monitored system performance by obtained CPU, memory, and disk utilization metrics to trace issues with server logon, boot processes or network connectivity. •Promoted an atmosphere of automation and efficiency by building servers using Kickstart installations, wrote basic scripts, and keeping server patching and firmware updates current. •Manage infrastructure on AWS cloud services, including provisioning, configuring, and maintaining EC2, RDS, ELB, VPC, S3, CloudFront, IAM, AMI, Route 53, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch. •Conducted large-scale cloud migrations of on-prem VM's to AWS, while maintaining performance, scalability, and cost of mission critical applications. •Developed and supported your organization's monitoring approach via AWS CloudWatch, for system monitoring and traffic load testing, to understand usage and maximize overall system reliability and operational performance for users. •Improved website performance and availability by creating a managed CDN on Amazon CloudFront (Origin Path: Server/S3). •High availability and fault tolerance were achieved by designing and deploying AWS environments that could scale with demand, leverage auto-scaling effectively, and that used load balancers, while implementing a secure VPC configuration. •Increased security through user permission management with AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) and configuration of security groups to restrict access based on ports, protocols, and/or IP address ranges.

  • Technical Service Specialist at IBM
    Oct 2016 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Key roles: Started working as a linux admin for 6 months then switched to AWS and migration projects later on career started on the concept of devops. Working on Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, Cloud Front, IAM, AMI, Route 53, Cloud Formation and Cloud Watch) and VM built, and OS level configuration as required using AMI template in AWS. Building servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, autoscaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection. Utilized AWS Cloud Watch to monitor the performance of environment instances during load testing. Cloud Migrations, on premise VM's •Diagnosing and monitoring performance issues like CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization. Troubleshooting logon problems, boot process. • Managing physical servers of HP using ILO, providing logs and work with vendor for the replacement of the part. Providing RCA on customer request for critical servers by analysing the logs for critical servers. • Installation and upgradation of OS, Kernel and additional Packages using RPM and YUM. Knowledge of command line utilities, ACL, CRON Job, Firewalls, virtualization, Boot Process and trouble- shooting. • Troubleshooting NFS servers and NFS clients. Installing, Configuring and Management of Linux Servers. Administration of Apache, Samba, DNS, LDAP. • Creating LVM, partition, LVM resize, Swap memory and responsible for User management and SUDO access management. • Addition of backup client with backup server and monitoring of backup on daily or weekly basis on Net- Backup. • Coordinating with vendors like Symantec, HP, IBM and Dell for resolving issues and hardware replacements. Working with global UNIX members team, providing 24/7 support to clients on UNIX servers. Also providing on-call support during emergencies. •Create and manage script to automate daily routine work, implementing a configuration over number of servers at a time to save time.