Ankit Khare
Senior Cloud Engineer
Hyderabad
Summary
Diligent Senior Cloud Engineer with a robust background in cloud infrastructure and automation, recognized for leading successful cloud migration projects and implementing scalable solutions that enhance system reliability. Expertise in cloud architecture and DevOps practices ensures high availability and security across all deployments. Proficient in code deployment using advanced AI tools such as Cline, Codex, and Oracle Cloud AI Services, driving innovation and efficiency within cloud environments. Committed to leveraging technical skills and industry knowledge to deliver exceptional results in dynamic settings.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Cloud Engineer
Oracle IDC
Hyderabad
05.2021 - Current
- Currently working as Senior Cloud Engineer for Health Insurance Product of Oracle (OHI) which is being used by 35 clients across the globe UNICEF, HSBC, DHL to name few.
- As a Lead Devops Engineer instrumental in design, architecture, and deployment of cloud solutions on Oracle Cloud platform.
- Extensive experience in Product Development, Deployment & Delivery of product on Client and Internal environment, maintaining Continuous Delivery and Integration using Gitlab as CI/CD tool, Product Automation, Monitoring the product creating dashboards in Grafana and Kibana for logging.
- I have successfully done the Database Migration from VMDB to Autonomous Database (ADB) for all the current clients and we support the Production Support team for various technical issue that they find challenging and need our help from Product Development end for Severity 1 issues.
- As a part of the SRE team take care of the application maintenance, it’s continuous availability, managing application logs and monitoring the performance through the Dashboards using Grafana, Kibana and Prometheus and communication with the customers taking care of the SEV1 issues and handling SR’S
- Proficient with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services like Load Balancers, Dynamic Routing Gateway, Object Storage, Oracle Analytics (Data Intelligent Services), Oracle Autonomous DB service, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), Elastic Search, IAM, OCI Monitoring and Observability, DNS service.
- Migrating close to 20 customers for the existing application in Docker Platform to Kubernetes Cluster successfully.
- Designed and implemented continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab, optimizing workflows and enhancing team productivity.
- Worked extensively on deploying the Hashicorp Vault for all the existing customers for managing the secrets.
- Created multiple Grafana dashboards for visualizing the K8 Infra elements performance, pods performance, Database Dashboards for the application modules.
- Worked extensively on deploying the monitoring components for the application with the likes of Prometheus and Blackbox Exporter.
- Deployed monitoring component oracle-db-exporter which was used for capturing the DB metrices for the components and then created Grafana Dashboards for those DB metrices.
- Automated multiple components of application getting rid of the manual activities with the help of Shell scripting and Python scripting and creating the CI/CD stages for them through GITLAB
- Domain: Insurance
- Provided expert guidance on selecting appropriate cloud services based on technical requirements and budgetary constraints, maximizing ROI for stakeholders.
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
- Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
Senior Associate/Devops Engineer
State Street Corporations
08.2018 - 05.2021
- Worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, Elastic Load-balancers, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), S3, Elastic Beanstalk, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, IAM.
- Collaborated closely with the Production Support team, providing expert technical assistance for Severity 1 issues, and ensuring timely and effective resolution.
- Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
- Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
- Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed reaching one or more AWS EC2 instances.
- Creating Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.
- Creating Cloud Watch alerts for instances and using them in Auto-scaling launch configurations.
- Wrote Python routines to log into the websites and fetch data for selected options.
- Building Object Oriented applications using writing Shell Scripts on Linux Platform.
- Focus on Continuous Integration and deployment, promoting enterprise Solutions to target environments.
- Work with product development to resolve build-related issues in all projects.
- Implemented a GIT mirror for SVN repository, which enables users to use both GIT and SVN.
- Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins and GIT.
- Used GIT for source code version control and integrated with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline, code quality tracking and user management with build tools Ant and Maven.
- Used Ansible to manage Web applications, Environments configuration Files, Users, Mount points and Packages.
- Created and configured the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle and for branching purpose.
- Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, Linux, Bash, GIT, Docker, on AWS cloud.
- Automated builds to the Docker hub on every commit and release.
- Responsible for build and deployment automation using Docker containers, Kubernetes.
- Worked on the installation and configuration of the monitoring tool Grafana and Kibana
- Domain: Banking & Compliance
DevOps Engineer
CGI Group
Hyderabad
03.2014 - 08.2018
- Worked extensively as a part of the L3 Production Support Engineer solving the technical and Functional Issues of the Product.
- Automated various Daily Maintenance activities writing CRON jobs in Linux
- Utilizes Genos to monitor and control-m Cron jobs, Server failures and Messaging Queues.
- Worked on the enhancement request of the Compliance product writing several Stored Procedures and Compliance Rules in SQL and PL/SQL.
- Gained Knowledge of all the Business Flows, Architecture and Hardware Configuration for Supported Applications.
- Detailed analysis of issues on Web Applications, Autosys batch jobs, and databases.
- Excellent knowledge on Debugging Prod Issues, Root Cause Analysis and Fix.
- As a part of Devops Engineer having good knowledge in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies.
- Implemented a CD pipeline involving Jenkins & GIT to complete the automation from commit to deployment.
- Deployed application using Jenkins server and Troubleshoot build and release job failures, resolve, work with engineers on resolution.
- Deployed and managed many servers via script and chef, utilizing cloud providers as a direct substrate for implementation.
- Domain: Wealth Management and Insurance
- Environment: AWS (EC2, Auto-Scaling, S3, Elastic, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, IAM, SNS), Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Ant, Maven, ELK Ansible, Docker, Splunk.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
SRM University
Chennai, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Cloud architecture design
CI and CD pipelines
Monitoring and logging
DevOps methodologies
Infrastructure as Code
Docker and Kubernetes
Microservices architecture
Containerization technologies
Monitoring tools
Data migration
Cloud computing
DevOps principles
Cloud services
Cloud security best practices
Certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Timeline
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
04-2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Generative AI Professional | 1Z0-1127-25
09-2025
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 AI Foundations Associate (1Z0-1122-25)
09-2025
Senior Cloud Engineer
Oracle IDC
05.2021 - Current
Senior Associate/Devops Engineer
State Street Corporations
08.2018 - 05.2021
DevOps Engineer
CGI Group
03.2014 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
SRM University
04.2001 -