Ankit Sharma
Gurugram
Summary
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience, including 5+ years specializing in cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. Proven ability to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes platforms, observability, and automation. Experienced in modernizing legacy systems with cloud-native architectures and collaborating closely with security, developer, and platform teams. Demonstrated success delivering international projects across Japan, Sweden, and India.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager – Cloud & Platform Engineering
PwC(India)
Gurugram
10.2025 - Current
- Designed and operated secure AWS cloud foundations using Terraform, supporting multi-account, and multi-environment setups.
- Implemented landing zone architectures with standardised VPCs, IAM guardrails, centralised logging, and encryption.
- Built CI/CD-driven infrastructure pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS-native tools), enabling safe self-provisioning of cloud resources.
- Partnered with security teams to implement compliance-ready IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and audit logging.
- Drove cost optimisation and reliability improvements, reducing AWS spend while enhancing platform stability.
Ceph Storage & Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Rakuten
Tokyo
10.2024 - 10.2025
- Acted as regional liaison for Rakuten's "One Cloud" hybrid platform (BMaaS, StaaS, BaaS, VmaaS), overseeing service lifecycle and user enablement across business units.
- Led automation of infrastructure workflows using Terraform, Python, and Ansible, reducing manual provisioning effort by 60%.
- Managed AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch to enhance cloud infrastructure reliability.
- Enabled DX initiatives via cloud-native modernisation and cloud-finops planning for major telecom clients.
- Delivered agile release trains for internal tools using Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and SRE-driven alerting frameworks.
- Managed on-premises storage and backup devices with Ceph software-defined object storage clusters.
- Architected and operated large-scale hybrid cloud platforms spanning AWS and GCP, focused on scalability and fault tolerance.
- Designed high-availability architectures with multi-AZ resilience, automated recovery, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Managed over 20 distributed storage clusters (~15 PB), achieving 99.99% uptime through proactive monitoring and automation.
- Led cloud migrations utilising EC2, S3, RDS, Direct Connect, and Terraform, increasing provisioning speed and reducing costs by approximately 30%.
Senior Technical Leader – Cloud & DevOps
VVDN Technologies
Gurugram, India
04.2023 - 07.2024
- Executed cloud-native storage and data platform migrations to AWS S3 using Python automation.
- Built secure migration pipelines leveraging IAM, KMS, PrivateLink, and network isolation.
- Implemented Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI.
- Enhanced observability through Prometheus and Grafana, enabling faster incident detection and resolution.
- Authored runbooks and operational documentation to support long-term platform ownership.
Specialist
Amdocs
Pune
04.2023 - 07.2024
- Streamlined day-to-day operations across diverse storage platforms including IBM XIV, Pure, EMC, Infinity, Hitachi, Dell EMC VNX, VMAX3, PowerMax, and Data Domain-improving performance, reliability, and manageability in a heterogeneous environment.
- Conducted proactive analysis of SAN FC switches to identify and mitigate potential faults, enhancing infrastructure stability and reducing unplanned downtime.
- Executed VLUN migrations and coordinated firmware upgrades for SAN switches and storage controllers, ensuring smooth transitions with minimal business disruption.
- Transitioned and managed storage operations for the VSSI Qatar project, including knowledge transfer, environment setup, and operational readiness.
- Administered enterprise storage systems (Dell EMC VPLEX, RecoverPoint, VNX 5300/5200, HP 3PAR T8000, HPE Primera, EMC PowerScale) ensuring availability and performance.
- Deployed SDS solutions (ScaleIO, Ceph) and led POCs for OpenStack-based cloud environments.
- Oversaw storage provisioning, capacity reclamation, hardware lifecycle, and SAN switch management.
- Partnered with vendors to scale storage infrastructure by 20 PiB for enterprise data growth.
Technical Leader
LTIMindtree
Stockholm
01.2020 - 02.2023
- Designed and operated AWS and hybrid cloud environments, managing compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
- Migrated legacy workloads to cloud-native platforms, retiring outdated infrastructure components.
- Implemented disaster recovery and backup strategies, improving RTO/RPO by approximately 40%.
- Automated infrastructure operations and patching to enhance stability and maintainability.
- Collaborated with European stakeholders in a distributed, cross-location team.
- Managed cloud PaaS and IaaS operations, ensuring continuity and compliance with GDPR, and EU data protection regulations.
- Delivered enterprise backup modernisation (Cohesity, NetBackup), achieving a 40% faster RTO/RPO.
- Implemented secure cloud solutions, migrating on-premises workloads to AWS using native services, with IAM, ACLs, and KMS.
- Partnered with international teams, and diverse stakeholders to execute complex infrastructure initiatives.
Assistant Manager( Infrastructure Operations)
Vodafone Shared Services
Pune
03.2017 - 10.2018
- Managed enterprise-scale infrastructure operations across storage, SAN, compute, and virtualisation platforms in a 24/7 production environment.
- Led SAN migrations, firmware upgrades, and capacity expansions with minimal downtime and strict change control.
- Conducted proactive fault analysis and performance tuning to enhance platform stability and availability.
- Established operational processes for incident management, root cause analysis, and vendor coordination.
- Developed strong expertise in production ownership, reliability, and operational excellence, transferable to cloud platforms.
IT Analyst II
Tata Consultancy Services
Noida
09.2014 - 03.2017
- Delivered enterprise backup support using Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec, ensuring reliable backups, restores, and refreshes in coordination with application teams.
- Led SAN data migrations using SANCopy, SRDF/NDM, and VPLEX with minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
- Managed and optimized daily operations for EMC VNX (5200, 5300, VNX2), RecoverPoint, and replication processes to enhance data availability.
- Streamlined storage operations across IBM XIV, SVC, and Dell EMC VNX, including LUN provisioning, storage reclamation, media retention, and deduplication.
- Diagnosed backend SAN issues, upgraded HBA firmware/drivers on UNIX.
Senior Analyst
HCL
Noida
09.2012 - 08.2014
- Managed daily storage operations across HP, NetApp, and Dell EMC (VMAX, DMX4) using Unisphere and SE, optimizing performance and resource use.
- Delivered hands-on data center support for SAN device installation, configuration, and troubleshooting to ensure system uptime.
- Applied disaster recovery, storage management, and backup best practices to enhance virtual environment resilience and SLA compliance.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (Btech.) - IT
Uttarakhand Technical University
2011
MBA - Business Administration
Sikkim Manipal University
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, SQS), Azure (VNet, VM, Storage, IAM/Entra, Subscriptions, RBAC)
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation (working knowledge), GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI; Python, Shell scripting
- Containers & Platforms: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, cluster operations, workload debugging; CI/CD pipelines, platform enablement
- Observability & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace; SRE practices, incident response, performance tuning
- Security, Compliance & Cost: IAM & RBAC models, encryption (KMS), secrets management; cost optimization, tagging, budgets, lifecycle policies
- Storage and Distributed Systems: S3, Ceph; object, block, and file storage; basic exposure to event-driven and distributed architectures
Certification
- AWS Cloud Solution Architect - Associate
- IBM / Vblock / Enterprise Storage Certifications.
- Vmware certifications
Languages
English
Hindi
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankit-sharma-24a32535/
Timeline
Manager – Cloud & Platform Engineering
PwC(India)
10.2025 - Current
Ceph Storage & Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Rakuten
10.2024 - 10.2025
Senior Technical Leader – Cloud & DevOps
VVDN Technologies
04.2023 - 07.2024
Specialist
Amdocs
04.2023 - 07.2024
Technical Leader
LTIMindtree
01.2020 - 02.2023
Assistant Manager( Infrastructure Operations)
Vodafone Shared Services
03.2017 - 10.2018
IT Analyst II
Tata Consultancy Services
09.2014 - 03.2017
Senior Analyst
HCL
09.2012 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Technology (Btech.) - IT
Uttarakhand Technical University
MBA - Business Administration
Sikkim Manipal University