- Architected and led Splunk migration to a multi-site clustered deployment; achieved WK Architecture Review Committee (ARC) certification — stronger search performance, HA, and DR readiness.
- Designed DR plans with defined RPO/RTO for mission-critical Splunk across data centers.
- Automation workflows reduced BAU operational workload by ~35%.
- Built end-to-end monitoring for patching cycles (pre / during / post); fewer patch-related incidents via proactive detection.
- Led P1/P2 response on production Splunk; drove RCA toward 99.9%+ availability.
- Mentored 3+ engineers; CI/CD for automated infrastructure provisioning; monitoring-agent migration.
$ ./spawn ankit.sh
LIVE · DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
Ankit Kumar
Software Engineer Platform Ops SRE-minded
4+ years building reliable enterprise platforms — Splunk multi-site, Azure, Terraform, and automation that cut operational toil by 35–70%. Open to DevOps / SRE roles in Germany · EU Blue Card eligible · German A1.
> whoami
I'm a DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer focused on platforms that must stay up — especially Splunk multi-site clusters, Azure foundations, and CI/CD / IaC that remove repetitive BAU work.
Currently at Wolters Kluwer (IT Infrastructure & Operations). Previously global endpoint & patch operations at Colgate GBS. Certified AZ-104, Terraform Associate, and RHCSA; AZ-400 in progress.
Based in Mumbai · targeting Germany · English (C1) · Hindi (native) · German (A1, leveling).
> ls -l ./skills
Cloud & platforms
- Azure (IaaS/PaaS)
- Splunk Enterprise
- Entra ID / SSO
- Key Vault · CyberArk
DevOps & IaC
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- YAML CI/CD
- Docker · K8s
Automation
- Python
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Runbooks
- Patch automation
Ops & OS
- RHEL / Linux
- Incident Mgmt
- Grafana
- SCCM/MECM · Tanium
- SOC2 practices
> cat ./certs.txt
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
- AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- AZ-900 · AI-900
- AZ-400 — in progress
> cat ./experience.log
- Splunk dashboards for real-time financial reporting and SOC2 compliance visibility.
- Data protection controls (sensitive-field ingestion suppression) and secure network patterns for enterprise / SOC2 standards.
- Provisioned Azure-based dev/test with clustered Splunk for safe change validation.
- SSO via Azure Entra ID; tooling with Jira, Key Vaults, CyberArk for access and secrets.
- Automation runbooks cut manual operational effort by ~70%; Star Performer Award (Q1 2023).
- Managed 20,000+ global Windows endpoints (SCCM/MECM, Workspace One, Tanium).
- Led Windows patch operations across 79 factories / 70 countries.
- Silent deployment automations; emergency zero-day patch response with Security.
- PowerShell automation for Autodesk decommissioning with licensing partners.
> ls ./side_quests
> open ./contact
Best for DevOps / SRE conversations — especially Germany-based roles.