Ankit Charolia
@ankitcharolia
DevOps & Cloud Engineer | 10+ yrs | GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Istio | Cloud migration, cost optimization & GitOps CI/CD
What I'm looking for
With over 10 years of experience in DevOps and Cloud Engineering, I specialize in building automated, scalable, and secure systems that accelerate software delivery and ensure reliability.
I have strong hands-on expertise in multi-cloud environments (GCP & AWS), Kubernetes (GKE, EKS), and GitOps with ArgoCD, helping teams ship applications faster and with confidence. My work consistently bridges the gap between development and operations, fostering collaboration, efficiency, and innovation.
Key strengths:
Cloud architecture design for scalable, secure, and resilient systems
Cloud cost optimization (reduced billing by up to 30%)
Cloud migrations with smooth, zero-downtime execution
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Observability with Prometheus & Grafana
Service mesh: Istio for secure, reliable traffic management
CI/CD: ArgoCD, Gitlab CI/CD, GitHub Actions
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder & Cloud Consultant
CogniVeu
Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Provide cloud consulting and DevOps services to modernize infrastructure, cloud cost optimization, improve observability, and execute cloud migrations using Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, Terragrunt, Observability stack and ArgoCD.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Jakala Germany GmbH
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025 (1 year 8 months)
- Led the migration of microservices from AWS to GCP, enabling cost savings and improved scalability.
- Automated deployments using ArgoCD/Argo-Rollout, reducing deployment time by 60%
- hands-on experience with setting up Google Cloud infrastructure using GitOps approach, including Istio managed GKE, Cert-manager, External Secrets
Operator, with Terraform/Terragrunt.
DevOps Engineer
Jakala Germany GmbH
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023 (11 months)
- GCP Networking: Implement GCP Private Service Connect (PSC) to securely publish and manage services within a single project, facilitating seamless and secure service consumption across multiple GCP projects.
- CI/CD: configure Gitlab CI pipeline for application dockerization and infrastructure changes deployment using workload identity federation.
DevOps Engineer
Lotto24 AG
Oct 2016 - Jul 2022 (5 years 9 months)
- Provisioned and maintained AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, Secrets Manager, RDS) to ensure scalability and reliability.
- Deployed and maintained Cassandra in Docker containers configured in cluster mode.
- Set up and managed Kubernetes clusters using the Kubespray upstream repository, deploying and scaling microservices.
Student Intern
Datenwerk GmbH
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016 (10 months)
- Deployed and tested OpenStack Kilo and integrated CEPH storage with OpenStack services, plus configured HA clustering for RabbitMQ and Galera MySQL.
System Engineer Intern
PP-IT GmbH
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015 (2 months)
Deployed Mirantis OpenStack and VMware vSphere HA/DRS clusters, performed IaaS platform setup and basic AD and MS-SQL operations for cloud platform delivery.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Fachhochschule Kiel
Master of Science, Information Technology
2013 - 2016
Grade: 2.2
Activities and societies: Internship and Thesis
Master of Science (M.S.) in Information Technology
V.V.P. Engineering College, Rajkot
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering
2008 - 2012
Grade: 7.78
Activities and societies: Student
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
GitLab
GitHub Enterprise
Kubernetes
Helm
Argo
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Galera Cluster
MySQL
MariaDB
Cassandra
Hadoop
Gmail
Rollout
Redis
Terraform
Jira
HAProxy
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Istio
PagerDuty
VictorOps
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenStack
Keepalived
Ubuntu
Linux
Windows
Datadog
Ansible
Google Cloud SQL
JUnit
Docker
VMware vSphere
NGINX
dockerized
ceph
libvirt
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Kubernetes Engine
ArgoCD
Terragrunt
External Secrets Operator
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
cogniveu.comSalary expectations
Social media
Job categories
Skills
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