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Ankit Charolia

@ankitcharolia

DevOps & Cloud Engineer | 10+ yrs | GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Istio | Cloud migration, cost optimization & GitOps CI/CD

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead cloud-native infrastructure modernization, implement GitOps/CI-CD, improve observability, and mentor teams in scalable, secure deployments.

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

Current

Founder & Cloud Consultant

Current

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.

Kubernetes Istio Terraform ArgoCD Observability AWS GCP Terragrunt Grafana Prometheus Helm MySQL GKE EKS Gitlab CI GitHub Actions PostgreSQL

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.

AWS Kubernetes Istio Terraform ArgoCD Prometheus Grafana Terragrunt Helm Gitlab CI GCP

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.

Gitlab CI Docker Terraform GKE ArgoCD Workload Identity Prometheus Helm Terragrunt PostgreSQL MySQL AWS

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.

AWS EC2 S3 RDS)VMWare Splunk Ansible Datadog Kubernetes RDS

DevOps Engineer

Cloud & Heat Technologies GmbH

Mar 2016 - Sep 2016 (6 months)

• Automate Openstack Infrastructure using Chef
• create/modify Chef cookbooks and test cookbooks using kitchen.
• Continuous deployment of dockerized services using Jenkins.

OpenStack Chef Jenkins Docker Packer Vagrant Git

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.

OpenStack Ceph RabbitMQ Shell Scripting Linux

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.

OpenStack VMware VSphere DNS Active Directory SQL IaaS