About
I am a passionate technology enthusiast who loves working on new emerging technologies that help solve day-to-day problems and automate common repetitive activities, transforming business challenges into actionable solutions. With 11+ years of technology experience, I specialize in architecting, designing, and implementing solutions using the latest cloud-native technologies to meet client and business objectives. My expertise spans building, scaling, and managing highly available web services — covering Cloud Platforms, Security, Automation, Orchestration, Container Technologies, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring, CI/CD, and Configuration Management. Experienced working with enterprise customers worldwide.
Always open to connect. I take on senior full-time roles as well as freelance and consulting engagements — cloud architecture, AI-driven automation, Kubernetes and DevOps implementations, CI/CD, and infrastructure migrations. If you need reliable infrastructure built or fixed, get in touch.
Cloud & AI Solutions Architect · Senior SRE
Cloud & DevSecOps Specialist with strong skills in AWS/GCP/Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Python and Terraform IAAC with over 11+ years of experience in planning, implementing and maintaining Infra, business applications and microservices in AWS, GCP and hybrid Cloud leveraging Configuration Management, Container Orchestration and Continuous Integration tools.
- Website: mayankkoli.com
- Phone: +91 88266 34734
- City: New Delhi, India
- Degree: Bachelors Of Commerce
- Email: mayank.c.koli@gmail.com
Impact at a Glance
Years of Experience across cloud, DevOps & SRE
Certifications incl. CKS, CKA, CKAD, AWS, GCP, Terraform
Cloud Platforms — AWS, Azure & GCP in production
Enterprise Clients served worldwide, incl. Fortune 500
Hire Me
I'm available for freelance projects, consulting engagements, and senior full-time roles. Here's what I can do for your team — from a one-week architecture review to building and running your entire platform.
Cloud Architecture & Migration
AWS, Azure and GCP architecture design, on-prem to cloud migrations with Terraform, and cost optimization reviews.
Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
Production-grade cluster design, security hardening (CKS certified), Helm, Istio, and GitOps with ArgoCD.
CI/CD & Automation
End-to-end pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, plus infrastructure-as-code and Python automation.
SRE & Observability
Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and Datadog stacks built from scratch — SLOs, alerting, and on-call readiness.
High-Concurrency Systems
Architectures that survive traffic spikes — queue-based admission control, Redis, connection pooling, and end-to-end load testing.
AI-Driven Automation
AI integrations for ops and product — Anthropic API workflows, chat assistants, and intelligent automation pipelines.
Projects & Key Achievements
Selected work spanning cloud migration, serverless architecture, and large-scale automation. I help teams with cloud architecture & migration, Kubernetes & DevOps implementation, CI/CD automation, and monitoring & SRE — hire me for your next project.
Naman Event Booking Platform
5,000 concurrent users at ticket-open · 60,000 seats · sub-second latency
Engineered the high-concurrency booking system for one of India's largest convention centres. Full request path: Cloudflare WAF/CDN → DigitalOcean LB → Go backend on DOKS → PgBouncer → PostgreSQL, with Redis atomic seat counting and queue-based admission control. Load-tested the stack, tuned connection pooling and query plans, and delivered stakeholder-ready Grafana/Prometheus reports covering throughput, p95/p99 latency, and error budgets. (Client engagement — source code private.)
ADO Ticket Auto-Assignment & Research Automation
Event-driven automation · Azure DevOps
Architected an opt-in, event-driven auto-assignment capability for unassigned Azure DevOps tickets, built around a 15-minute Azure Automation Runbook poller that detects unassigned work items per Area Path and routes them automatically. (Client engagement — source code private.)
Cloud Migration — American Express
Migrated on-premises VMs to AWS using Terraform, delivering repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure and reducing manual provisioning effort.
Serverless Platform — HCL Technologies
Architected app deployment onto serverless resources with ARM templates and Azure DevOps pipelines, cutting release lead time and infrastructure overhead.
CI/CD Automation — Bharti Airtel
Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines automating the full application lifecycle — build, test, security scan, and deployment.
AWS Automation Toolkit
Built cloud automation solutions with Python, boto3, Lambda, CloudWatch Events and SNS; orchestrated multi-stage Lambda workflows with AWS Step Functions, Jenkins-pipeline style.
Computer Vision Detection
Developed a program to detect stable and moving images using OpenCV cascading templates.
E-commerce Platform (Ongoing)
Building a cloud-native e-commerce project applying containerization, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
Featured on GitHub
Open-source work from github.com/manukoli1986
jenkins — Jenkins Training Repo
⑂ 36 forks — most-forked repository
A hands-on Jenkins training repository (Groovy pipelines) used by engineers learning CI/CD — forked 36+ times by the community.
Kubernetes Monitoring Stack
Prometheus + Alertmanager + Grafana on Kubernetes with Helm — a complete, ready-to-run observability stack for MySQL workloads.
Terraform Consul on AWS
Terraform (HCL) modules deploying a HashiCorp Consul cluster on AWS — infrastructure-as-code service discovery.
Python Automation Scripts
A collection of practical Python automation scripts for day-to-day DevOps and cloud operations tasks.
Nourish Weekly — Meal Plan App
A JavaScript web app that builds weekly meal plans and pushes them to Google Calendar — Google OAuth sign-in, AI-generated plans via the Anthropic API, and Supabase-backed preferences.
MK Stock Screener
A Python-based stock screener for the trading workflow — scans and filters market data to surface candidate stocks against configurable criteria.
Skills
Technologies and tools I work with daily
Resume
Passionate cloud infra and containerization with 11+ years of experience working in platform modernization, technology integration, solution development, and process improvement initiatives. Strategist for cloud solutions (Private, GCP, AWS, Azure, Hybrid) Carrying rich experience of Implementing and Migration planning for true world IT scenarios. Well-developed knowledge and understanding of the global cloud infrastructure marketplace.
Summary
Mayank Koli
Results-driven Senior SRE & Cloud Engineer with 11+ years of experience in designing, automating, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure. Proven track record in Kubernetes, multi-cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and team leadership. Passionate about building reliable, secure systems at scale.
Currently available — Senior DevOps, SRE, Cloud Architect & Platform Engineering roles, plus freelance and consulting engagements.
- New Delhi, India
- +91-8826634734
- mayank.c.koli@gmail.com
Education
Bachelor of Commerce
2007 - 2011
Delhi University, New Delhi
Licenses & Certifications
- Measuring and Assessing AI Risks — Skillsoft (Dec 2025)
- AI Change Management: Leading the Transformation — Skillsoft (Dec 2025)
- Leading through the AI Disruption with Empathy — Skillsoft (Nov 2025)
- Recognizing Hallucinations, Inaccuracies, and Bias in AI — Skillsoft (Nov 2025)
- Secure Coding and Static Code Analysis — Skillsoft (Nov 2025)
- Generative AI and Its Impact to Everyday Business — Skillsoft (Aug 2025)
- Using AI for Effective Business Communication — Skillsoft (Nov 2025)
- Fostering a Growth Mindset in the Age of AI — Skillsoft (Nov 2025)
- OPA Policy Authoring — Styra (Apr 2025)
- Getting Started with APM Metrics & Traces — Datadog (Feb 2025)
- Introduction to Observability — Datadog (Feb 2025)
- Kubecost Technical Certification — IBM Kubecost
- CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist — The Linux Foundation (Dec 2021)
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator — The Linux Foundation (Aug 2021)
- CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer — The Linux Foundation (Dec 2020)
- Associate Cloud Engineer — Google Cloud (Oct 2022)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate — HashiCorp (Jun 2021)
- LFS169: Introduction to GitOps — The Linux Foundation (Aug 2021)
- Jenkins Administration & Automation - Advance — Xebia (Jan 2018)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate — AWS (Mar 2018)
- Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator — Red Hat (Mar 2012)
- RHCE — Red Hat (Feb 2009)
Professional Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Aug 2023 - Present
Insight, New Delhi, India (Remote)
- AWS, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Istio Service Mesh
- Automation using Packers, Ansible, Bash, Python
- Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and GitFlow
- ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud Computing, Agile Methodologies, SaaS solutions
- Jenkins, Atlassian Suite integration
- Team Leadership and Team Building
Senior Associate
Apr 2021 - Aug 2023
Cognizant Softvision, Bengaluru, IN
- Cloud infrastructure and Architectural Designs (AWS/Azure)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM Templates)
- Configuration Management (Ansible/Puppet)
- Jenkins, AzureDevOps, CloudBuild, GitOps, SonarQube
- MySQL, Oracle database management, Cassandra
- Java (Spring Boot), Microservices (Consul, Zuul, Eureka, Vault, Prometheus)
- Container Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS)
- Python, Bash, JavaScript, Terratest, Cucumber
Senior DevOps Engineer
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
HCL Technology Ltd, Noida, IN
- Proficient with Kubernetes — designed and implemented end-to-end container management solutions
- Architecture and engineering of secure and reliable hybrid cloud-oriented solutions (AWS & On-Prem) leveraging the DevSecOps paradigm (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Designed and implemented complex AWS projects aligned with Cloud best practices
- Using Helm Chart Museum for Production Deployments on EKS
- Expertise in container architecture, Docker universal packaging, and Microservices architecture
- Designed automation solutions on the cloud using AWS Lambda Functions
- Developed tools to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications at large-scale
- DevOps support: Jenkins (Master-Slave), Selenium, SonarQube, Aerospike, Kafka, MySQL, ELK, Docker, Kubernetes, Atlassian tools (Crowd, Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket)
DevOps Engineer
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Atem Corp, Gurugram, IN
- Worked in CI/CD framework using Jenkins, GIT, ELK, Puppet, Docker, Bash/Python
- Well versed with CI tools like Jenkins, Nexus and IQ Server
- Infrastructure support for Jenkins, Atlassian Tools, Selenium, SonarQube, ELK
- Master-slave configuration in Jenkins
- Version control with SVN, GIT
- Atlassian tools: Crowd, Bitbucket, Confluence and JIRA
- Using ELK & Nimsoft for application & server monitoring
- Automation using Python and Bash scripting
System Administrator
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Aspen Communication Pvt Ltd, Gurugram, IN
- Managed websites built on Magento with REDIS caching
- Servers deployed and managed on AWS cloud platform
- Managed LAMP-based websites
- Configured Cyberoam Firewall for the organisation
- Website data backup and restore
- Implemented AWS WAF for secure web applications
- Work managed via JIRA with Git as repository
Senior Linux System Engineer
2015 - 2016
Chi Networks Pvt Ltd, Noida, IN
- Providing support and monitoring all location network for Pepsico
- Manage FTP server, mail server and monitoring server
- Writing Bash scripts to install web server, LAMP stack
- Updating OS patches on scheduled basis
- Taking backup for servers and working 24x7 Support model
System Administrator
2014 - 2015
Progression Infonet Pvt Ltd, Gurugram, IN
System Administrator
2011 - 2014
INS E Solution Pvt Ltd, Delhi, IN
Let's Work Together
Have a project, a role, or an infrastructure problem to solve? Send a message — I usually reply within 24 hours. Available for full-time, freelance, and consulting engagements (remote or hybrid).
Location:
Pitampura, New Delhi 110034, India