BHAVINKUMAR PATEL

DEVOPS ENGINEER

Salary / Daily rate

London, UK

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

AWSTerraformKubernetesAmazon EC2AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle BigQueryPythonJavaJenkinsAnsibleDockerPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisDynamoDBPrometheusGrafanaELK StackElasticsearchAgile CoachingScrumMicroservicesRESTful APIsPostman

Languages

English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Results-oriented DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on expertise architecting scalable cloud infrastructure, automating delivery pipelines, and orchestrating containerized workloads across enterprise-grade environments. Proven track record designing multi-cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP while enforcing infrastructure-as-code practices through Terraform and Ansible. Adept at accelerating release cycles via robust CI/CD workflows, hardening Kubernetes clusters, and embedding comprehensive observability stacks. Combines deep technical aptitude with collaborative leadership to bridge development and operations, driving measurable reductions in deployment lead times, incident rates, and operational overhead.

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Work experience

DevOps Engineer

Wex Europe Ltd.

Apr 2021 - Present

5 years 7 months

London, UK

– Created AWS native landing zone across multiple accounts using Terraform modules with remote state stored in S3 and DynamoDB locking, slashing environment provisioning from 3 days to under 90 minutes. – Engineered GitHub Actions pipelines with matrix strategies and reusable workflows, integrating Bitbucket repository webhooks for cross-platform triggers and achieving a 98% build-success rate. – Containerised 40+ microservices using Docker multi-stage builds and hosted images in Amazon ECR; orchestrated workloads on Amazon EKS via Helm charts, Customize overlays, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler policies. – Deployed Jenkins GitOps workflows synchronising 60+ Kubernetes manifests directly from Git, enabling instant rollback and a full audit trail for every production change without manual kubectl intervention. – Implemented Ansible playbooks executed through AWX, automating OS hardening, certificate rotation, and patch management across 200+ EC2 nodes, eliminating configuration drift by 85%. – Integrated HashiCorp Vault with EKS via sidecar injection, delivering dynamic AWS IAM credentials and RDS passwords at runtime and removing all hard-coded secrets from application code. – Authored Python Lambda functions and Bash automation scripts to orchestrate nightly RDS PostgreSQL snapshots, DynamoDB TTL purges, and S3 intelligent-tiering lifecycle transitions. – Configured PagerDuty escalation trees tied to Prometheus alert severity levels, guaranteeing on-call engineers received high-priority pages within 3 minutes of threshold breach.

DevOps Engineer

Optal Financial Ltd.

Jul 2019 - Apr 2021

1 year 10 months

London, UK

– Provisioned Azure infrastructure - Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, and Azure Key Vault - through Terraform with ARM template fallbacks, replacing ad-hoc portal clicks with fully version-controlled IaC. – Deployed containerised workloads onto Azure Kubernetes Service using Helm, configuring RBAC, pod-security standards, and cluster autoscaler policies for cost-efficient horizontal scaling. – Authored Ansible roles for middleware provisioning on Azure VM scale sets, substituting lengthy manual runbooks and compressing host-setup duration from several hours to under 15 minutes. – Created Jenkins shared-library pipelines integrated with Bitbucket Pipelines for pull-request validation, enforcing code-quality gates and automated unit-test execution before every merge. – Shipped Docker Compose based local development environments mirroring Azure staging topology, cutting environment-related defect reports by 40% within the first quarter of rollout. – Configured an ELK Stack on Azure VMs - Elasticsearch indexing, Logstash ingestion pipelines, and Kibana visualisation boards - centralising 500 GB of daily application telemetry. – Managed Azure Database for MySQL with read-replica promotion scripts and Redis Cache warm-up automation written in Python, supporting zero-impact failover drills every quarter. – Created automation framework from scratch using IntelliJ IDEA, Selenium web driver, Maven, Cucumber with Java and POM (Page Object Model). – Directed the setup of Docker-based isolated testing environments, enabling rapid and consistent microservices validation across local and CI/CD pipelines.

Automation Test Engineer

HealthAid

Sep 2017 - Jun 2019

1 year 10 months

London, UK

– Championed Shift-Left testing by leading Three Amigos sessions during design phases, surfacing and resolving quality risks before development began. – Participate in Scrum ceremonies such as Discovery, Daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospectives and maintaining the product and sprint backlog as a result. – Led the scheduling and execution of automated test runs, sprint regression cycles, functional testing, system testing, UAT, and exploratory testing. – Refactored legacy code and engineered new test suites for evolving features, ensuring comprehensive coverage of core website functionality. – Use JIRA for defect management, tracking & reporting and Confluence for documentation of knowledge base articles and TestRail for test cases.


Education

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Bachelor of Science


Licenses & certifications

ISTQB Certified - 00453017

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Certified by ISTQB

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate - 531041596

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Certified by AWS

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