Platform Engineering · DevOps · GCP Professional

Ravindra Kumar

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer @ Admiral India
Building platforms above the clouds since 2018

GCP Professional Kubernetes Terraform ArgoCD Azure DevOps Istio · Service Mesh Helm Terragrunt
6+Years
9+Certs
10K+Followers
500+Connections
RK

Work Experience

Jun 2024 – Present
Senior Role
Admiral India · Gurugram · Hybrid
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Leading Platform Engineering and Developer Relations for Admiral Group PLC (UK). Building the GCP cloud platform for Tibco API microservices. Architecting GitOps workflows, service mesh with Istio, and multi-cloud delivery pipelines for a major UK insurance group.

GCPTerragruntAzure DevOpsArgoCDHelmIstioService MeshDeveloper Relations
Jun 2021 – May 2024
3 years
Admiral India · Gurugram · Hybrid
Cloud DevOps Engineer

Deployed microservices via Azure pipeline, created and maintained CI/CD pipelines for GCP-based infrastructure. Managed Kubernetes clusters and drove infrastructure automation across the software delivery lifecycle.

GCPTerraformKubernetesAzure PipelinesDockerIstio
Oct 2019 – Jun 2021
1 yr 9 mos
Publicis Sapient · Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP
Associate Infrastructure L2

AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Certified Oracle Cloud Infrastructure practitioner. Continuous delivery and infrastructure automation using Ansible across AWS and GKE environments.

AWSGKEAnsibleTerraformCI/CD
Sep 2018 – Sep 2019
1 yr 1 mo
Atos Syntel · Gurgaon, Haryana
Associate Consultant

IT Infrastructure and Linux Support Engineer. Provided system administration, infrastructure support, and foundational cloud engineering services.

LinuxIT InfrastructureSystem Administration

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms
Google Cloud (GCP)AWSMicrosoft AzureOracle CloudGKE
Containers & Orchestration
KubernetesDockerHelmArgoCDIstioService MeshKustomize
Infrastructure as Code
TerraformTerragruntAnsiblePulumi
CI/CD & GitOps
Azure DevOpsGitHub ActionsJenkinsGitLab CIArgoCD GitOps
Observability & Security
PrometheusGrafanaDatadogELK StackOPA / GatekeeperVault
Languages & Scripting
Bash / ShellPythonYAMLHCLJSON

Certifications

GCP
Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Google · Dec 2025 – Dec 2027
GCP
Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Google · Dec 2024 – Dec 2026
GCP
Professional Cloud Architect
Google · Jul 2024 – Jul 2026
CKS
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
The Linux Foundation · Sep 2022
CKA
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation · Jan 2022
AWS
Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services · Feb 2020
OCI
Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate
Oracle · Jul 2020
OCI
Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Associate
Oracle · Jul 2020
OCI
Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Cloud Operations Certified Associate
Oracle · Jul 2020

Achievements

GCP Professional

Three active Google Cloud Professional certifications — DevOps, Security, and Architect.

10K+
LinkedIn Followers

Built a thriving DevOps community through knowledge sharing and hands-on cloud content.

5 yrs
At Admiral India

Grew from Cloud Engineer to Senior Platform Engineer owning GCP infra for a UK insurance giant.

9+
Certifications

Across GCP, AWS, Kubernetes (CKA & CKS), and Oracle — covering the full cloud spectrum.

Tech Talks

Talk
GitOps at Scale with ArgoCD & Kubernetes
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2024
Workshop
Securing Kubernetes — CKS Best Practices
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2023
Talk
Terragrunt for Multi-Environment GCP Infrastructure
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2023
Internal
Service Mesh with Istio — From Zero to Production
Admiral India
2022

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