Jitendra Bhalothia

Platform Engineer

Berlin, Berlin, Germany11 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proven track record in implementing GitOps workflows.
  • Strong focus on developer experience and operational resilience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert in the Fintech sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesCloud InfrastructureObservabilityDevops

Other Skills

24x7AWSAmazon EKSAnsibleArtificial Intelligence (AI)AutomationCI/CDCentOSCommunicationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DHCPDockerDomain Name System (DNS)EKSElastic Stack (ELK)

About

I work at the intersection of Cloud, Kubernetes, and Platform Engineering — helping teams move faster without breaking production. Most organizations don’t struggle with tooling. They struggle with complexity, ownership, and unsafe defaults. My focus as a Platform Engineer is simple: → Make the right path the easiest path for developers. I design and operate internal platforms that abstract cloud complexity while enforcing security, reliability, and cost controls by default. 🔧 What I work with daily: • Kubernetes (production-grade, multi-environment) • AWS & Google Cloud • Terraform & Infrastructure as Code • GitOps & CI/CD platforms • Observability, security, and reliability practices 🏗️ What I actually build: • Self-service infrastructure platforms • Secure CI/CD pipelines with guardrails • Cloud-native architectures that scale with teams • Developer experiences that reduce cognitive load I strongly believe: DevOps is about delivery. Platform Engineering is about enablement. Here on LinkedIn, I share practical insights on: • Platform Engineering vs DevOps • Kubernetes in real production (not tutorials) • Cloud architecture decisions • Career growth in DevOps / SRE / Platform roles

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Commercetools

Platform Engineer

Dec 2025Present · 6 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

Dkb | deutsche kreditbank ag

Senior SRE | Cloud Engineer | Platform Engineer

Aug 2022Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Implemented GitOps workflows using FluxCD for automated, declarative, and version-controlled Kubernetes deployments.
  • Executed the critical data migration of a bank’s GitLab instance from a Kubespray-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS, ensuring minimal downtime, data integrity, and enhanced operational resilience.
  • Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Crossplane for scalable, declarative infrastructure-as-code deployments.
  • Managed Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS with emphasis on scalability, high availability, and workload optimization.
  • Built and maintained observability stacks using Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana, including custom dashboards and proactive alerting mechanisms.
  • Performed regular upgrades and maintenance of key infrastructure components such as EKS, GitLab, and SonarQube to uphold security, reliability, and performance standards.
GitOpsKubernetesTerraformAWSPrometheusGrafana+3

Dkb code factory gmbh

Senior DevOps Engineer

Dec 2020Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Helped in setting up GitLab pipelines.
  • Helped in Implementation for EKS Cluster.
  • Implemented Cart Manager and Secret Management.
  • Participated in on calls.
  • Terraform modules for new AWS Services.
  • Taking Care of Infra Upgrades.
GitLabEKSTerraformDockerAnsibleCloud Infrastructure+1

Kreditech

SRE

Mar 2020Dec 2020 · 9 mos · Hamburg, Germany

  • Helped in the migration of monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture on Kubernetes.
  • Designed the AWS architecture for the in-house products.
  • Maintaining more than 1000 containers for Kubernetes production clusters for multiples countries.
  • Automates the infrastructure with Terraform for AWS Services Provisioning.
  • Introduced Ansible for handling configuration management tasks.
  • Build up the Centralized log-stash pipeline for logs forwarding from Yandex Cloud to AWS Elastic Search and automated with Ansible.
  • Run-book and Confluence documentation for Infrastructure Issues. Enabled Nginx Proxies for New Architecture.
AWSKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCloud InfrastructureDevOps

Autogrid

2 roles

DevOps Technical Lead

Feb 2019Dec 2019 · 10 mos

AWSDockerCI/CDDevOps

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jan 2017Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Helping Auto-grid to enable the scalable approach for addressing the infrastructure problems.
  • Created fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment with the help of Groovy and
  • enabled the Jenkins shared library structure for code reusability.
  • Wrote Ansible Playbooks for server provisioning, App deployment, and
  • configuration management.
  • Deployed Kubernetes cluster using kops for Containers Orchestration.
  • Took an initiative to move infrastructure towards Containerization. Enabled Autoscaling, Developing the Dockerfile and Kubernetes objects/yml's for Containerized environments.
  • Wrote Monit checks to monitor infrastructure, Application, and Integration Jobs.
  • Design VPC's and involved in deep-dive in AWS
  • Centralized Log management using ECK.
  • Keywords = [Ansible, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Hadoop, Jenkins, GIT, and Python]
JenkinsAnsibleKubernetesDevOps

Above solutions

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · bangalore

  • ABOVE Solutions expertise in areas of Design, Mobility, Enterprise Applications and Professional and has deep domain knowledge and experience in sectors such as Education, Health & Wellness, Internet of Things and operates out of offices in the US and India.
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • My role is to identify and prioritise features and stories for CD/CI Pipeline development.
  • Work with other teams to identify their needs to automate DevOps processes and help the team automate their delivery pipeline.
  • Git strategies for multi-tenant platforms and Implemented git best practices across the team.
  • Configuration Management through Ansible for Cloud Provisioning, Application Deployment and Orchestration.
  • Docker (Docker Integration with Jenkins for Dev Environment)
  • Bringing in new ideas for clients on their DevOps infra.
  • Designed architectural workflow of automation (DevOps Processes).
  • Amazon Web Services.
AWSDockerAnsibleDevOps

Vaycayhero, inc. (y combinator company)

DevOps Engineer

May 2015Jan 2016 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • VaycayHero is the easiest way to book high quality, predictable vacation rentals. Its investors include Y Combinator and an all-star list of VCs and angels.
  • Take care of vaycayhero Infrastructure along with Build and Deployment. Vaycayhero is a hassle free way to book high quality, professionally managed vacation rentals. Its investors include Y Combinator and an all-star list of VCs and angels.
  • AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Using more than 20 AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, Route53, RDS, CloudFront ElasticCache, CloudWatch etc
  • Setup Nagios for monitoring the infrastructure; also used Nagios Handlers, which acts on the service status with pre-defined steps/scripts.
  • Created proper documentation for new server setups and existing servers
  • Configuration Management,Build Management, Environment Management
  • Maintaining a farm of EC2 instances, ELB’s and RDS.
  • Brought down AWS costs significantly by bringing governance tools
  • Take care of build and release responsibilities including deployment automation using continuous integration concept(Jenkins)
AWSNagiosDevOps

Javlin informatics

Co-Founder

May 2014May 2015 · 1 yr · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

  • To install, configure, and manage all the Linux Servers as per the specification of
  • clients.
  • Monitoring servers along with User administration (setup and maintaining account).
  • Responsible for various software installation and maintenance.
  • Extensive experience in Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu System
  • Administrator.
  • Improve system performance by working with the development team to analyze,
  • identify, and resolve issues quickly.
  • Automate administration tasks through the use of scripting.
  • Linux Distributions: Red Hat, Centos & Ubuntu.
  • AWS and Linux training to college students
LinuxAWS

Education

Rajasthan Technical University, Kota

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2013

NDSIS

Jan 2003Jan 2008

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