Ridam Kundu

Results-driven Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable, highly available multi-cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and OCI. Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, OKE), Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices. Proven track record of reducing manual operational effort by 70%, accelerating deployment speed by 50%, and enabling zero-downtime releases for enterprise-scale workloads across international teams.

Recognized with Vodafone Star Award for cross-region infrastructure automation excellence.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (2024-06 – Present)

Senior DevOps Engineer managing multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters

• Developed and maintained reusable Terraform IaC modules for provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters on OKE and AKS, including automated backups, security hardening, monitoring, and auto-scaling — ensuring 99.9%+availability for enterprise workloads.
• Managed 20+ production Kubernetes clusters using a GitOps (ArgoCD) model, enabling version-controlled deployments, faster rollbacks, and improved production stability with minimal downtime.
• Developed Helm charts automating Kyverno security policies, Kubernetes RBAC, and Prometheus alerting rules, ensuring consistent DevSecOps enforcement and regulatory compliance across all environments.
• Managed OKE and AKS deployments via OCI Resource Manager and Azure DevOps; accelerated CI/CD delivery with ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Helm — reducing manual effort by 70% while supporting critical production workloads.
• Implemented centralized monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, and OCI Logging —reducing incident detection time and improving MTTR for production issues by ~40%.

AWS DevOps Engineer at CBNITS (2022-02 – 2024-05)

AWS DevOps Engineer managing infrastructure and microservices deployments

• Built and managed infrastructure across AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS, MQ, Redis, DocumentDB, OpenVPN) automating multi-environment provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing manual effort and deployment time by several hours per cycle.
• Orchestrated microservices deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, automating workflows via GitLab CI across all environments.
• Developed and implemented multiple features using AWS Lambda, leveraging serverless and event-driven architectures to automate operational tasks, reduce manual effort by 50%, improve system performance, enhance cloud monitoring efficiency, and minimize production downtime for customers.
• Implemented end-to-end monitoring and alerting for Amazon EKS using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch, improving cluster visibility, capacity planning, and production reliability.
• Led production incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis, driving continuous reliability improvements and maintaining SLA targets for customer-facing workloads.

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering – Guru Nanak Institute of Technology (2018-06 – 2022-06)