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Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer II @ McKinsey & Company
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User: Virendra Kumar
Current Role: Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer II @ McKinsey & Company
Uptime: 12+ years and counting...
Primary Function: DevOps Architect, Cloud Automation Specialist, AI-Driven Workflow Optimizer
Skills Loaded: Multi-Cloud Architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, AI Automation, Cost Optimization
Current Status: Building scalable cloud platforms
Education: Bachelor's, Computer Science — Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (2009–2012)
From carrying CPUs across office floors to leading DevOps automation at McKinsey, my journey has been all about transforming challenges into opportunities.
Over the years, I've helped enterprises optimize costs, enhance scalability, and implement intelligent automation, ensuring their infrastructure is efficient, resilient, and future-ready.
With a blend of DevOps, cloud engineering, and AI-driven automation, I specialize in designing scalable architectures, cost-effective solutions, and high-performing workflows for global organizations across industries.
✅ Optimizing cloud infrastructure to reduce costs while maximizing efficiency
✅ Automating DevOps workflows to eliminate manual interventions and improve reliability
✅ Building AI-powered solutions that streamline operations and enhance scalability
✅ Mentoring and enabling DevOps teams to drive innovation and operational excellence
✅ Led DevOps delivery for enterprise clients at Accenture (team of 10); Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins/CloudBees
✅ Developed cloud-native strategies improving deployment speed and system resilience
✅ Implemented security-focused DevOps (DevSecOps) ensuring compliance and reliability
✅ Scaled CI/CD pipelines & multi-cloud infrastructures for enterprise-grade applications
✅ Bridged the gap between development and operations, ensuring seamless collaboration
✅ $100K+ annual cloud savings through optimization & automation
✅ 15+ environments migrated with zero downtime
✅ 70+ applications CI/CD pipelines built at Mercer
✅ 75% faster deployments by rearchitecting CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes
✅ Team of 10 engineers led at Accenture
✅ 20+ technical interviews conducted for hiring DevOps talent
✅ Achieved SOC2 compliance
✅ Multi-client DevOps architectures with dynamic configurations & auto-scaling
✅ AI-powered automation significantly reducing manual workflows
🎯 Philosophy: I firmly believe that DevOps is not just about automation - it's about building a culture of innovation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer II (Nov 2024 – Present)
Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer I (Feb 2023 – Nov 2024)
🚀 Reduced deployment cycle time by 75% across GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, ArgoCD
💰 Drove $100K+ annual cloud savings through hibernation, right-sizing, and decommissioning
🔄 Migrated 15+ environments to GitHub Actions with zero production downtime
🏗️ Architected unified deployment framework — 20 manual steps → 1 automated trigger
🔒 Achieved SOC2 compliance — comprehensive DevSecOps pipeline
🛠️ Built internal developer portal, Terraform Plan Visualizer, and self-service config tools
📈 Dynatrace observability — dashboards, alerting, automated performance testing
📦 Led source control platform migration; 40+ reusable GitHub Actions workflows
👥 Conducted 20+ technical interviews and mentored junior engineers on Terraform, K8s, CI/CD
🎓 Selected for firm-wide engineering development program (2025)
👨💼 Led a team of 10 DevOps engineers for enterprise clients — established standards for pipelines, Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks
🔄 Designed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and CloudBees for multiple development teams
🏗️ Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, reducing environment setup time
📚 Maintained compliance documentation and runbooks for knowledge transfer
🔧 Built CI/CD for 70+ applications using Jenkins and Azure DevOps with automated quality gates
🔒 Introduced DevSecOps — SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, DefectDojo — significantly reduced security findings
🚀 Led cross-team DevOps standardization — shared libraries, templates adopted by multiple teams
👥 Mentored ~10 junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, weekly sessions
🖥️ Administered GitLab servers for 30+ developers — repos, CI runners, access controls
🔧 Automated daily ops with Bash — eliminated ~2 hours/day of manual work
🌐 Managed WHM/cPanel hosting for 9+ client websites (99.9% uptime)
📊 Optimized MySQL performance — backups, query tuning, Nagios/Zabbix monitoring
📞 Administered Linux and Asterisk-based VoIP for call-center ops (downtime = revenue loss)
🏢 On-site customer deployments — server install, network, application setup
🔧 Bash scripts for maintenance and monitoring
🌙 Production incidents on night shifts and weekends — early ops under pressure
☁️ Cloud Platforms: Azure (30+ services, primary), AWS (VPC, EKS, S3, IAM)
🏗️ Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, ARM Templates
🔄 CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
📦 Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, Helm, KEDA, Traefik, Consul
📊 Data Platforms: Databricks (SQL, Unity Catalog, DAB), PostgreSQL, Redis, dbt, Trino, Event Hub
🔍 Observability: Dynatrace, ELK Stack, Azure Monitor
🔒 DevSecOps: SonarQube, JFrog Xray, Gitleaks, Wiz, DefectDojo
💻 Languages: Bash, Python, Go, SQL, JavaScript, PowerShell
🤖 AI/GenAI: Ollama, LangChain, MCP Servers, GitHub Copilot, Cursor
🛠️ Platform Tools: Backstage, Slack Automation, Confluence, Jira, Miro
☕ Tea Devotee: In a world obsessed with coffee, I'm proudly brewing the perfect cup of tea. (Yes, tea ≠ coffee!)
📷 Photography: When not debugging infrastructure, I'm capturing moments through my lens. "Photography is the story I fail to put into words."
🎯 Life Philosophy: "Wasting my time to save other people's time" - because today's automation = tomorrow's freedom!
🎮 Hidden Talent: Can navigate vim faster than most people can open VS Code! (Try the games in this portfolio!)
🌙 Night Owl: Best code is written at 2 AM with a cup of tea and lo-fi beats.
🤓 Did You Know?: This entire portfolio was built with vanilla JavaScript - no frameworks harmed in the making!
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Reusable Terraform modules for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Infrastructure as Code best practices with modular, scalable, and maintainable cloud resources.
Enterprise-grade Jenkins Shared Library for standardized CI/CD pipelines. Groovy-based reusable pipeline components for consistent deployments across projects.
Comprehensive Kubernetes examples and demonstrations. From basic pods to advanced patterns including Helm charts, operators, and service mesh implementations.
Collection of Python automation scripts for DevOps tasks. Infrastructure automation, cloud resource management, and daily operations simplified.
Interactive AI-powered portfolio chatbot. Visitors can ask questions about experience, skills, and projects through natural conversation.
Creative portfolio website with terminal interface and unique user experience. System boot animation and command-line style interactions.
Custom Azure DevOps extension that generates executive-friendly Terraform plan summaries with visual charts.
Internal developer portal with Azure DevOps integration, self-service environment lifecycle, and service catalog.
AI agent built with FastMCP that interacts with Azure DevOps pipelines, repositories, and work items through natural language.
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer | Platform Engineering | 12+ Years
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with 12+ years of progressive experience from system administration through enterprise-scale platform engineering. Currently at McKinsey & Company, owning the end-to-end DevOps platform for an enterprise-scale Azure platform — CI/CD, Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, observability, security, and cost optimization. Reduced deployment cycle time by 75%, delivered $100K+ in annual cloud savings, and migrated 15+ production environments to GitHub Actions with zero downtime. 14+ industry certifications. Track record of building DevOps functions from scratch, leading teams of 10+ engineers, and driving DevSecOps adoption across organizations.
McKinsey & Company
Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer II (Nov 2024 – Present) · Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer I (Feb 2023 – Nov 2024)
Accenture
Mercer
Clavax
Aannya Softwares Pvt. Ltd.
Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur
Cloud & Infra: Azure (30+ services), AWS, Kubernetes/AKS, Docker, Helm, KEDA, Traefik
IaC & Config: Terraform (modules, state, multi-client), Ansible, ARM Templates
CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
Data Platforms: Databricks (SQL, Unity Catalog, DAB), PostgreSQL, Redis, dbt, Trino
Observability: Dynatrace, ELK Stack, Azure Monitor
DevSecOps: SonarQube, JFrog Xray, Gitleaks, Wiz, DefectDojo
Languages: Bash, Python, Go, SQL, JavaScript, PowerShell
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