Vidhya Shanker Goel

Senior DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer

Professional Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting, automating, and securing cloud-native systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven track record in designing scalable, cost-optimized, and self-healing platforms using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), Terraform, and GitOps (ArgoCD). Delivered $500K annual savings, 3× faster deployments, and 40% downtime reduction. Skilled in CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, SRE observability, and DevSecOps compliance for large-scale enterprise systems.

Core Skills

  • Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, EKS, CloudWatch), Azure (AKS, ASE, Blob, VNets, DR/BCP), GCP (GKE, IAM)
  • Containers/Orchestration: Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Docker, HPA, PDB, Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
  • IaC / Config: Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD
  • Security/DevSecOps: IAM/RBAC, Vault, KMS, OWASP Dependency-Check, Trivy, policy-as-code, CIS Benchmarks
  • Monitoring/SRE: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, DataDog, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry
  • Scripting/Automation: Bash, PowerShell, Python, SQL; CI/CD pipelines, self-healing automation
  • Networking: VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, SG/NACL, Ingress, ALB/NLB/ELB, DNS, Transit Gateway

Professional Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer | Wipro Technologies / Client: Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA)

Jan 2020 – Dec 2023

  • Engineered a multi-region Kubernetes (EKS) platform replacing 27 ALB services with a unified ALB Ingress Controller, saving $600/month and simplifying SSL lifecycle management.
  • Managed Auto Scaling Groups and CloudWatch-driven scale events, sustaining 99.9% uptime through self-healing and 3× surge handling during peak airline operations.
  • Configured Route 53 failover routing (ca-central-1→us-east-1) achieving automatic recovery in under 60 seconds.
  • Migrated 500+ AWS resources to Terraform, introducing state locking, drift detection, modular design, and remote S3+DynamoDB backends.
  • Implemented hybrid observability (CloudWatch + Prometheus + Grafana) reducing MTTR by 35%.
  • Automated S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and ECR-based Lambda containerization—cut cold-start latency 40%.
  • Delivered a secure hybrid API model via API Gateway (OAuth, throttling, WAF) and private ALB ingress.
Senior DevOps Engineer | Wipro Technologies / Client: RSA Insurance Group

Jan 2019 – Dec 2020

  • Led RSA's microservices modernization with multi-environment IaC pipelines (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) achieving 99.95% uptime.
  • Created reusable Terraform modules (VPC, EKS, RDS), standardizing deployments across environments and reducing drift by 45%.
  • Built automated rollback pipelines (Helm –atomic, ArgoCD self-heal, Terraform version recovery) ensuring rapid release safety.
  • Designed multi-stage Jenkins pipelines with dynamic approvals for secure, auditable deployments.
  • Enforced least-privilege access via RBAC, IRSA, and Vault-integrated credentials.
  • Introduced Transit Gateway architecture replacing 14 VPC peerings, reducing maintenance complexity.
DevOps Engineer | Wipro Technologies / Client: CitiBank

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018

  • Spearheaded migration of on-prem workloads to AWS Cloud using Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible, achieving zero downtime and 100% automated provisioning.
  • Resolved Terraform state corruption issues by restoring via Terraformer and implementing S3 + DynamoDB remote state locking.
  • Automated IAM and network policy enforcement with Terraform modules—standardized compliance across 12 AWS accounts.
  • Built shared-library Jenkins pipelines enabling 40+ microservices to deploy safely in parallel.
  • Introduced RDS Proxy and connection pooling for high-load APIs, reducing DB failures by 65%.
  • Integrated Vault secrets management into CI/CD, removing hardcoded credentials and strengthening audit posture.
  • Enhanced observability stack (CloudWatch + Prometheus + Grafana), cutting MTTR by 30%.
Data Engineer (Co-op / Intern) | Digitalogy LLC

Feb 2025 – Apr 2025

  • Built a multi-cloud DevOps platform integrating AWS, GCP, and on-prem systems using Terraform and Jenkins.
  • Diagnosed and repaired Terraform state corruption in multi-workspace backends (S3+DynamoDB) with drift detection.
  • Implemented Liquibase automation for 40+ microservices, enabling safe DB migrations and schema versioning.
  • Added RDS Proxy + Redis caching layers—reducing connection load 60% and latency 35%.
  • Created EFK + Grafana observability stack and Vault + Secrets Manager for dynamic secret rotation.
  • Reduced CI/CD release time from 90→25 minutes using parallel pipelines and shared caching.
Data Analyst (Co-op / Intern) | Rugby Canada

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

  • Designed and deployed a Terraform + Jenkins + Docker + AWS ECS data analytics pipeline supporting ETL workloads and dashboards.
  • Automated VPC, ECS, RDS, and IAM provisioning with Terraform modules ensuring consistent versioned deployments.
  • Recovered Terraform state inconsistencies using import/state validation, avoiding downtime during active deployment.
  • Integrated Grafana + CloudWatch for ingestion monitoring; improved coverage 60%.
  • Delivered zero-downtime upgrades via Blue-Green ECS deployments managed through GitOps pipelines.

Education

  • PG Certificate in Business Insights & Analytics, Humber College, Toronto, ON (2024–2025)
  • M.Tech in Software Engineering, BITS Pilani, India (2018–2022)
  • BCA, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India (2015–2018)

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2023)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (2022)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (2021)
  • In Progress: CCNA, CompTIA Network+

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