Ankit Ranjan

DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India11 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Over 9 years in DevOps and Cloud specialization
Expert in infrastructure automation and CI/CD
Proven track record in cloud cost optimization

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Specialist with a focus on DevOps and Security in SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCloud-native ArchitectureCloud SecurityInfrastructure As Code (iac)Cloud ComputingSolution Architecture

Other Skills

AI AgentsAWS CloudWatchAWS GlueAWS S3Amazon AthenaAmazon CloudWatchAmazon DynamodbAmazon ECSAmazon EKSAmazon RedshiftAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon Route 53Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache Airflow

About

With over 10 years of IT experience (10 years 7 months), including 9+ years specializing in DevOps and Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), I have helped organizations adopt DevOps and DevSecOps practices for scalable, secure, and compliant cloud infrastructure. My expertise spans infrastructure automation, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD, cloud cost optimization, and security compliance (HIPAA, SOC2, ISO).

Experience

11 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Cognida.ai

DevOps Lead

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Designed and managed AI agentic platforms (Zuno Lens, AX, Codian) on Azure AKS, utilizing Azure PostgreSQL and OpenAI LLMs.
Assisted clients like Phia in deploying secure environments with RBAC, network isolation, and compliance guardrails.
Developed centralized Terraform and Terragrunt frameworks for multi-cloud deployments, ensuring security policies and minimal rework.
Migrated running workloads from on AKS cluster to other for internal projects ensuring minimal downtime.
Contributed to AI projects, designing deployment architectures and implementing high availability, DR strategies, and strict security compliance for sensitive data-first workloads.
Drove cloud cost optimisation initiatives without compromising compliance or security.

DevOpsAzure DevOps ServicesAI AgentsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GrafanaPrometheus+8

Fresh from farm (f3)

Angel Investor

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Pictory

DevOps Lead

Mar 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Optimized Cloud Infrastructure Costs: Spearheaded cost reduction initiatives by analyzing access logs and leveraging tools like AWS CloudWatch and Cost Explorer, achieving a more then 50% reduction in cloud infrastructure expenses. Evaluated and implemented multi-cloud cost analysis solutions, such as Komiser by Tailwarden, to streamline cost management.
Architectural Modernization: Transitioned storage from AWS S3 to R2, and migrated compute workloads from public clouds to bare-metal servers hosted in data centers, enhancing performance and cost efficiency.
Centralized Compute and Configuration Management: Developed a centralized compute management system using Ansible roles and AWS Systems Manager (SSM) documents to automate configuration, patching, and management across environments.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Designed and implemented a robust IaC suite using Terraform and Terraform Cloud, enabling seamless management of multi-environment infrastructure.
Vendor-Agnostic Monitoring and Logging: Implemented a comprehensive logging and monitoring solution with OpenTelemetry (OTEL), encompassing tracing, APM, logging aggregation, and compute monitoring. Set up cost and incident alerts to ensure proactive issue resolution.
Compliance Automation: Evaluated and deployed compliance automation platforms like Sprinto, accelerating the organization's security and compliance readiness journey.
Resource Optimization: Standardized resource tagging, identified and removed unused assets, and streamlined resource utilization to align with industry best practices.
CI/CD Process Refinement: Enhanced CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency and reliability, ensuring seamless delivery of updates and services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon ECSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)LinuxCloud SecurityTroubleshooting+8

Rakuten india

Senior Software Engineer ll (DevOps)

Mar 2022 – Jan 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed and deployed a robust Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform for Rakuten One Cloud, incorporating RBAC and audit logging.
Conducted proof of concepts for Monitoring-as-a-Service (MonAAS) and Event-as-a-Service (EaaS) utilizing OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Resolved cross-network Persistent Volume integration, ensuring secure workload access to Data Platform storage across VPCs.

Cloud ComputingSolution ArchitectureTroubleshootingKubernetes