Ankur Walia

Glasgow, United Kingdom, +44-7501243833 ankur@ankurwalia.com Download Resume Schedule Meeting

I am an AWS Infrastructure Engineer working to help business getting started with AWS, and make their AWS experience a great one. I have extensive experince in working closely with the customer to help bring their requirements to reality.

Experience

Senior Devops Engineer

Surecloud Ltd

Working as part of DevOps team in a multi team and multi AWS account setup buiding SaaS application.

  • Built modern AWS cloud Infratstructure using AWS CDK, and Terraform to support next-gen SaaS platform.
  • Focus on security, scalibility, backups, and cost efficiency of every cloud component provisioned.
  • Created reusable CDK L3 constructs and CDKTF modules, reducing duplication by 40%.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Jenkins) for microservices across multiple teams.
  • Developed python based AWS Lmabda functions using boto3, and achieved 1005 test coverage using moto and Jest.
  • Integrated and configued Enterprise-grade security tools like Sonarcloud.
  • Configured AWS Identity Centre with automatic provisioning of Azure AD users via SCIM.
  • Configured permission sets for IAM users with focus on least privilege principal.
  • Automated onsite and offsite backups for RDS, DynamodDb, S3, Auth0 data to prepare for Disaster Recovery.
  • Designed and Implemented serverless malware scanning pipeline triggered by s3 uploads using AWS Lambda, and event driven architecture.
  • Configured Datadog for observability, metrics collection, and incident response analysis by creating dashboards, alarms, errors etc.
  • Provisioned Cloudfront distribution with multiple backends like S3, and ALB, and handled the routing and DNS using Route 53.
  • Setup Auth0 with multiple organization setup and created users, tenants, SAML connections, Databases etc using Auth0 API, and CDKTF.
  • Involved in Development process and expereince improvements projects.

    • November 2022 - August 2025

    AWS Consultant

    Avaloq Innovation

    Working as part of Infrastructure Development team managing multiple teams and AWS account in a multi AWS account setup.

  • Co-ordinating with the customer for requirement gathering and analysis and transforming into technical tasks.
  • Working together with the customer in an Agile way to manage the changing requirements.
  • Planning and creating the SSO permission sets and account assignment at the organization level.
  • Lead the product search to automate the architecture diagram creation (Cloudcraft, Hava, Lucid). Coordinated with the sales team of mentioned products saving substantial man hours in maintaining the diagram updated.
  • Lead the Proof-of-Concept mini project to implement IP Address Manage (IPAM) and setup CIDR pools to be used by various AWS accounts using Resource Access Manager (RAM).
  • Designed and developed a solution for automated OS patching, and Database service restart using System Manager’s maintenance window.
  • Designed and developed a cloud native serverless solution for Python job automation.
  • Worked on managing IAM user polices, roles, and Service Control Policies (SCP) to grant appropriate permissions using principle of least privilege.
  • Designed a Highly available and fault tolerant multi-AZ system for application using Oracle database hosted on EC2.
  • Extensive experience in Infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as a code with Terraform.
  • Integrated of Gitlab and Terraform cloud workspaces for automating deployments.
  • Experienced in working on Linux environments, and creating bash scripts for automation.
  • Creation of automation scripts using Python API for AWS (Boto3).

    • April 2021 - November 2022

    Assoiate Consultant

    Atos Syntel Europe ltd.

    Project – Provisioning Infrastructure to host a web application using Oracle Database hosted on EC2 instances.

  • Provisioning of EC2 Instances behind an Application Load Balancer hosting the web application.
  • Provisioning of EC2 instances hosting the Oracle Database, and creating communication between these two tiers.
  • Storing the VPC access log files in S3.
  • Storing the application binaries in S3 and accessing using S3 endpoint.
    • April 2020 - November 2020

    Assoiate Consultant

    Atos Syntel Europe ltd.

    Project - Oracle Database 12c Implementation consisting of implementation of Oracle database release 12c with maintenance and addition of new functionalities.

  • Created and modified Oracle PL/SQL packages and procedures.
  • Created Oracle and SQL reports 12c as per the business requirements.
  • Created and modified existing Oracle forms 12c.
  • Developed several application objects as per requirements, created custom job schedules.
  • Client interaction for information gathering & analysis and code review.
  • Team Working within other Project teams including Production Support Team using Agile principles.
  • Individually responsible to manage Highest Priority issues requiring Urgent Fix.
  • Solutions of Live defects using my strong analytical thinking to provide quick response in Live Time.
  • Performed code reviews for Team members and responsible for approval for the code for Live Deployment.
    • January 2018 - April 2020

    Oracle Developer

    Syntel ltd.

    Project - Product Data Hub Implementation - This project consisted of implementation of Oracle Product Hub (PDH) for Humana and several customisations as per Humana requirements

  • Responsible for Custom Oracle PL/SQL code; packages and events as per the requirements
  • Personalisation’s as per requirements
  • Developing custom business events, subscriptions and business rules for PDH
  • Developed several AOL objects and created custom concurrent programs for data extraction
  • Client interaction for gathering information for analysis and code reviews
  • Metadata import
  • PL/SQL Code(Package, Procedure, Function)
  • Using Web Adi for data load
    • October 2014 - January 2018

    Education

    RGPV- Bhopal (India)

    • Bachelor of Engineering
    Computer Science

    GPA: 6.96/10

    August 2010 - May 2014

    Interests

    When I am not working, I enjoy playing football or cricket with friends. If that's not happeing then you will find me playing computer games with my friends.

    I love cooking and cook almost daily. I mainly enjoy cooking Indian cuisine.

    Certifications

    • Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Assocaite
    • Avaloq Certified Customization Professional