Arjun Kanojia | Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer & SRE

10,000+requests per second at World Cup peak, zero downtime

20+production EKS clusters, 40+ services each

300+CI/CD pipelines moved from Jenkins to GitLab

~70%less pipeline overhead after the migration

What I do

Platform engineering, DevOps and SRE

Three overlapping jobs, one goal: let product teams ship fast on infrastructure that doesn't fall over.

Platform engineer

I build internal developer platforms: Backstage self-service templates, GitOps with Argo CD and Kargo, and multi-tenant Amazon EKS with observability built in, so teams onboard and deploy without raising infrastructure tickets.

DevOps engineer

I automate the path from commit to production: GitLab CI and Jenkins pipelines, Helm, Terraform modules with remote state and drift detection, and AWS infrastructure as code, including agentic AI that helps create and maintain it.

Site reliability engineer

I keep systems up under real load: SLOs and alerting, k6 load testing, Karpenter and KEDA autoscaling, multi-region disaster recovery with backup-restore and failover drills, and on-call for events like the FIFA World Cup 2026.

Selected work

Platforms built to take real traffic

Design it, automate it, run it. Each project starts with the result, then how I got there.

Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs · 2026

FIFA World Cup 2026 infrastructure

→ 10,000+ RPS at peak · zero downtime

Designed and ran the multi-region platform behind the tournament's digital services, then carried on-call through live matches.

Multi-region DR with automated backup and restore
k6 distributed load tests to size the platform before match days
Pre-scaled EKS and non-EKS tiers, dynamic autoscaling at peak
Spot and Reserved Instance strategy to hold cost down

REQUESTS / SECOND · MATCH DAY (ILLUSTRATIVE)

10k+

sustained at peak · 0 downtime

AWSEKSKarpenterk6PrometheusGrafana

Deutsche Telekom · 2026

Internal developer platform

→ onboarding without infra tickets

Helped build a global platform where teams onboard, deploy and promote services without filing infrastructure tickets.

Backstage self-service templates
GitOps with Argo CD, promotions with Kargo
Multi-tenant EKS with default observability

BackstageArgo CDKargo

Deutsche Telekom · 2026

CI/CD consolidation

→ ~70% less pipeline overhead

Led the move of 300+ Jenkins pipelines onto self-hosted GitLab runners on EKS Spot, deployed with Helm.

One pipeline standard for every team
Lower runner cost on Spot

GitLab CIHelmSpot

Deutsche Telekom · 2026

EKS upgrades & hardening

→ 3 Kubernetes versions in ~2 months

Kubernetes 1.33 → 1.36 across prod and non-prod, with change requests and rollback plans.

44 images, 1,000+ pods moved to ECR with scan-on-push
TLS 1.3, customer-managed KMS keys, CISA KEV fixes

EKSECRIstioTrivy

Avizva Solutions · 2023–26

SOC 2 healthcare platform

→ 30-minute MTTR in DR drills

Ran 20+ EKS clusters for US health insurers including Aflac and Renaissance.

Multi-region HA for EKS, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
Karpenter and KEDA autoscaling

SOC 2KEDAMongoDB

Avizva Solutions · 2023–26

Terraform registry & AWS networking

→ one module registry for 5+ client environments

A versioned internal module registry, plus the network stacks it deploys.

VPC, EKS, RDS, MongoDB and Elasticsearch modules, each with its own release pipeline
Remote state, locking, monthly drift detection
Transit Gateway, site-to-site and client VPN, private endpoints

TerraformArtifactoryTransit Gateway

Avizva Solutions · 2023–26

Real-time search pipeline

→ search indexes updated live

A self-hosted change-data-capture pipeline that keeps search indexes fresh as data changes.

MongoDB Change Streams → 3-node HA consumers → Kafka → Logstash → Elasticsearch
Full reindex and live incremental updates

KafkaLogstashElasticsearch

Experience

Where I've shipped

FEB 2026 — NOW

DevOps Engineer

Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs · Gurugram

FIFA World Cup 2026 infrastructure: 10k+ RPS, DR, load testing, on-call
Internal developer platform: Backstage, Argo CD, Kargo, multi-tenant EKS
300+ pipelines to GitLab CI · EKS 1.33 → 1.36 · security hardening

JUL 2023 — FEB 2026

DevOps Engineer

Avizva Solutions · Gurugram

20+ EKS clusters for SOC 2-compliant US healthcare insurers
Terraform module registry and multi-AZ AWS network design
Jenkins as code with 90+ pipelines · real-time CDC search pipeline

2019 — 2023

B.Tech, Computer Science

Manav Rachna University

Stack

The layers I work across

Cloud

AWS: EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ECR, KMS, Lambda, WAF, CloudWatch

Runtime & mesh

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio, Karpenter, KEDA

Delivery

GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Kargo, Backstage

Infrastructure as code

Terraform modules, remote state, drift detection · Ansible · Python, Bash, Go

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, OpenSearch, Datadog, Dynatrace, k6

Security

SOC 2, OPA, Kyverno, Trivy, Vault, KMS, least-privilege IAM

AWS

Solutions Architect – ProfessionalAmazon Web Services

CKA

Certified Kubernetes AdministratorCNCF · Linux Foundation

Interactive

Query me like a cluster

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Writing

Latest from the blog

Reliability · October 2026

Surviving peak traffic on EKS: architecture, KEDA, Karpenter and DR drills

Akamai, EKS, MongoDB, Kafka, Aerospike and RDS under a traffic spike: load testing, pre-scaling, DR strategies and backup-restore drills.

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Contact

Need someone to build and run your platform?

I'm a Platform, DevOps and SRE engineer based in New Delhi. If you're hiring or want to talk platforms, here's the short version.

Roles: Platform Engineer · DevOps Engineer · SRE · Cloud Engineer
Based in: New Delhi, India
Experience: 3+ years · Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs, Avizva
Certifications: AWS SA Professional · CKA
Languages: English (professional) · Hindi (native)
Focus: AWS · Kubernetes (EKS) · Terraform · GitOps

arjun.kanojia.in@gmail.com Email me Resume (PDF) ↓ LinkedIn ↗