Ankit Kumar Sharma
Databricks Platform Architect and Devops consultant
New Delhi
Summary
Accomplished Platform Architect with over 12 years of experience specializing in Databricks platform architecture, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps and DevSecOps. Expertise in constructing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient Databricks platforms on Azure and AWS. Spearheaded Unity Catalog migrations, enterprise data governance initiatives, and served as the PO for Platform-as-a-Product (PaaP) delivery. Proficient in Kubernetes architecture, including HA cluster design, and experienced in designing and deploying Monitoring solutions for robust and reliable operations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Databricks Platform architect
Adidas India Marketing Pvt. Ltd
12.2021 - Current
- Spearheaded the design and standardization of Databricks workspace architecture across multiple environments (dev, staging, prod), ensuring security, scalability, and reusability.
- Defined and enforced governance standards for Unity Catalog, including catalog layering strategy, access models, and naming conventions aligned with enterprise data policies.
- Led the implementation of cross-platform integrations between Databricks, Azure AD, S3 (via Unity Catalog external locations), and enterprise CI/CD tooling.
- Architected multi-tenant Databricks environments for analytics and ML teams, incorporating workspace separation, role-based access control (RBAC), and SSO integration.
- Championed the transition from the legacy Hive metastore to the Unity Catalog with a comprehensive migration playbook, minimizing downtime, and ensuring metadata continuity.
- Owned the platform roadmap for Databricks infrastructure, including performance tuning, cost optimization, and feature adoption (e.g., serverless SQL, Delta Live Tables).
- Managed stakeholder relationships across BI, ML, and Data Engineering functions to gather architectural requirements, and deliver platform capabilities as a service.
System Integration Specialist
Nokia
02.2021 - 11.2021
- Collaborated with security and compliance teams to architect and implement security policies, cluster policies, init scripts, and Databricks pipelines.
- Collaborated with the strategy to design the security framework, workflows, job scheduling, and Databricks CLI/REST API.
- Deploy the solution from pre-sales to live networks across various on-premises and public cloud environments.
- Automate and integrate the onboarding of various offerings and third-party applications in the Azure ecosystem.
- Run end-to-end testing for the solution for UAT, and keep the solution under observation until it is handed over to the Operations team.
- Troubleshoot various issues with EKS, Vanilla K8s, and other K8s offerings, using Ansible, shell, and Python scripts during the deployment of the K8s infrastructure and the deployment of the 5G applications.
- Troubleshoot issues with storage solutions of K8s, such as Rook, GlusterFS, OpenEBS, Amazon EBS, and EFS, etc.
- Automation through Python and shell script.
Associate Consultant
Global Logic
05.2020 - 02.2021
- Working in the Scrum Agile framework to deliver epics taken from business use cases.
- Use Jira as a tracking tool for BUC, EPIC, and US progress.
- AWS is a public cloud for infrastructure management.
- Create Docker images for containerizing microservices.
- Write Helm chart to include the image for micro services architecture orchestration.
- Write test cases in python to check the functionality of the Helm chart.
- Write Shell script config maps in helm charts.
- Building Jenkins pipelines for Git development branches to test the E2E functionality of the code.
- Write ansible roles and playbooks for post-provisioning and deployment of application/db infra.
- Write test cases in UnitTest & Pytest framework, design documents, and CPI documents.
- EFK stack for monitoring the resources.
- Handling trouble tickets for Openstack related issues having production grade applications &
- Writing ansible roles for provisioning machine and applications on the platform.
IT Analyst
TCS
01.2019 - 05.2020
- Managing Private Cloud infra. – Openstack.
- Containerize microservices app using docker, write efficient Docker file, using docker compose and multistage docker images, coordination with developers in reducing the size of resultant image by a great proportion.
- Orchestration of containers (Pods) using kubernetes, writing helm charts for the microservices.
- Bash and python Scripting for automation.
- Writing Ansible playbook for the deployment of the platform (customized version of the vanilla Kubernetes).
- Management of playbooks through git/gerrit code review.
- Container orchestration through Kubernetes and usage of helm.
- Manage KVM and VMware VMs.
- Server provisioning through cobbler, Pxeboot.
- Automation using Shell and python &
- Remote troubleshooting of HP DL380 Gen9,10 series server, ZTE-System servers.
Senior Systems Engineer
Aricent (now Altran/Capgemini)
03.2016 - 01.2019
- Automate using Shell and python.
- Deploy resources on public cloud – AWS, through Ansible and python.
- Manage and provide operational support for application platform on AWS.
- Manage vulnerability patching of Linux servers.
- Manage around 35 Cisco customers for support of Linux servers as well as Cisco NOS Application.
- Deployment of Cisco CSPC application on docker platform.
- Provide operational support for the platform of the application as well and
- Administration of syslogs through Splunk and rsyslogs.
System Analyst
HCL
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Give L2 support for the Linux (RHEL and Solaris) server across 11 DCs.
- Prepare and present daily sanity check report for all 11 DCs servers.
- User and File system management and troubleshooting.
- Write shell script for automation &
- Be on call support over weekends.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
Rajasthan Technical University
Kota, India 05.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
Databricks Lakehouse Platform with Unity Catalog – Design, governance, and operational management of secure and scalable data platforms
Cost-Efficient Cloud & Container Infrastructure Architecture – Design and development of optimized solutions on AWS and EKS with performance and cost in focus
Cloud Security Hardening & Governance – Implementation of IAM, network isolation, encryption, and policy enforcement across cloud and container ecosystems
DevOps Automation & Platform Lifecycle Management – End-to-end CI/CD deployment with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Bitbucket/Gerrit/Github and GitHub Actions for robust platform operations
Secure Container Environments on Kubernetes – Architecture and delivery of hardened, production-grade environments on vanilla Kubernetes with workload isolation and policy controls
Additional Information
- Databricks Azure Platform Architect
- Databricks AWS Platform Architect
- Databricks Platform Administrator
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
- Terraform Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Security specialist
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Redhat Certified Security Specialist in Ansible automation
- Redhat Certified Engineer
Timeline
Databricks Platform architect
Adidas India Marketing Pvt. Ltd
12.2021 - Current
System Integration Specialist
Nokia
02.2021 - 11.2021
Associate Consultant
Global Logic
05.2020 - 02.2021
IT Analyst
TCS
01.2019 - 05.2020
Senior Systems Engineer
Aricent (now Altran/Capgemini)
03.2016 - 01.2019
System Analyst
HCL
01.2013 - 01.2016
B.Tech - Computer Science
Rajasthan Technical University
05.2007 - 05.2011