Randhir .

About Me

DevOps and Cloud Architect with 13+ years of experience in AWS, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code. Extensive background in Git-based lifecycle management, metadata-driven deployments, and scalable automation frameworks. Recently worked on Salesforce deployment processes using Copado, including metadata pipeline configuration and dependency resolution. Randhir has handled end to end Azure deployment using AKS, Azure VM blob, container service and Azure DevOps. Randhir has used ArgoCD for over 5 years in Kubernetes deployment for Azure, AWS, and GCP services. Randhir is proficient in AWS, CI/CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, Metadata pipeline configuration, deployment fundamentals, Salesforce Deployment, ANT migration tool, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Python, and Bash.

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Bitbucket TeamCity Helm Bash VPC IAM Copado Lambda RDS S3 ECS EKS Salesforce Deployment ANT migration tool

Work history

Upstack
Devops Engineer
2024 - 2026 (2 years)
Remote
  • Leading automation and release workflows across cloud environments with Git-based deployment governance and metadata management.

  • Implementing structured promotion flows and dependency checks similar to Salesforce deployments.

  • Ensure compliance with security and operational standards.

ZS Associates
DevOps Engineering Lead
2022 - 2024 (2 years)
Remote
  • Directed a team of 7 engineers, delivering enterprise-scale automation frameworks.

  • Standardized CI/CD workflows support modular deployments and Git branching strategies.

  • Led DevOps engineering initiatives, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions.

T-Systems India
Consultant (DevOps & Architect)
2021 - 2022 (1 year)
Remote
  • Architected containerized and cloud-native onboarding frameworks.

  • Implemented Copado-based deployment automation for Salesforce projects.

  • Resolved deployment dependencies.

Cloud-nativeCopado Salesforcedeployment automation
ZS Associates
Senior DevOps Engineer
2017 - 2021 (4 years)
Remote
  • Created 100+ CI/CD pipelines with Git-driven validation flows and incremental deployment strategies.

  • Authored Terraform-based Infra Provisioning Framework enabling standardized module-based deployments.

  • Integrated Git-based workflows with Copado for controlled promotion and rollback strategies.

CI/CD GitTerraformCopado

Showcase

Cloud-Native Infrastructure Provisioning Framework

Project Description: Designed and implemented a modular cloud-native infrastructure provisioning framework using Terraform and AWS services. The framework introduced standardized configuration governance similar to metadata driven deployment models, ensuring consistency, scalability, and compliance across environments. Roles & Responsibilities: Architected reusable Terraform modules for networking, compute, storage, and IAM. Designed standardized configuration patterns for multi-environment deployments (Dev, QA, Prod). Implemented infrastructure-as-code best practices including state management and version control. Integrated CI/CD pipelines for automated provisioning and validation. Enforced tagging policies, naming conventions, and governance standards. Conducted infrastructure reviews and security hardening assessments. Impact: • Reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 60%. Improved deployment consistency across multiple AWS accounts. Minimized manual configuration errors through standardized automation.

ECS & EKS Deployment Frameworks

Project Description: Developed scalable and reusable deployment frameworks for containerized microservices using ECS and EKS. Enabled environment-specific configuration management and seamless promotion workflows across multiple AWS accounts. Roles & Responsibilities: • Designed ECS task definitions and EKS Helm charts for microservices deployments. Implemented container image build and promotion pipelines. Configured auto-scaling, load balancing, and service discovery mechanisms. Established blue-green and rolling deployment strategies. Enabled cross-account deployments using IAM roles and secure access policies. Standardized CI/CD workflows for multi-environment releases. Impact: Improved deployment reliability and reduced release failures by 40%. Enabled faster microservices onboarding with reusable templates. Ensured high availability and scalability of container workloads.

Infrastructure Drift Detection & Compliance Framework

Project Description: Built an automated drift detection framework to identify and remediate infrastructure deviations from defined Terraform states. The solution ensured alignment across environments through continuous metadata comparison and validation. Roles & Responsibilities: • Developed automated scripts to detect configuration drift. Integrated AWS Config and Lambda for real-time compliance monitoring. Implemented alerting and remediation workflows. Built dashboards for infrastructure health visibility. Enforced governance policies for security and compliance standards. Impact: • Reduced configuration drift incidents by 70%. Strengthened compliance posture across AWS environments. Improved audit readiness and operational transparency.

Golden AMI Pipeline Automation

Project Description: Designed and implemented automated Golden AMI pipelines to create hardened and standardized EC2 images. Ensured uniform security baselines and compliance standards across production deployments. Roles & Responsibilities: • Automated AMI builds using EC2 Image Builder and Packer. Applied CIS benchmark hardening and security patches. Integrated vulnerability scanning and validation steps. • Implemented automated versioning and lifecycle management. Ensured seamless AMI promotion across accounts and regions. Impact: • Improved deployment security posture. Reduced manual image configuration efforts by 80%. Ensured consistent and compliant server provisioning.

Copado Salesforce Deployment Automation – (T-Systems)

Project Description: Configured and automated Salesforce metadata deployments using Copado across multiple environments. Implemented structured release management processes ensuring reliable, dependency-aware, and error-free production releases. Roles & Responsibilities: • Configured Copado pipelines for multi-environment Salesforce deployments. Developed ANT migration scripts for metadata deployments. Optimized Package.xml for selective and incremental deployments. Implemented dependency resolution and version control strategies. Designed rollback mechanisms and release validation workflows. Collaborated with development and QA teams for release coordination. Impact: • Reduced deployment errors by 50%. Improved release cycle efficiency and traceability. Enabled controlled, compliant, and automated Salesforce releases.

Education

Education
Administrator - Associate
AWS Certified SysOps
Education
- Associate & Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Education
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Education
Administrator
Red Hat Certified System Administrator