Bharath Nadar

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands13 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led multimillion-dollar cloud migrations with zero downtime.
Transformed unstructured environments into efficient systems.
Expert in AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering expert.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureSite Reliability EngineeringDevops

Other Skills

AWSAnsibleAtlassian toolsAzureCost OptimizationDockerECSELK StackGCPGitLab CIGitOpsGrafanaIaCJenkinsKubernetes

About

I’m a Senior Staff SRE with solid experience in designing, managing, and improving SaaS platforms on AWS and GCP, using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and other DevOps staples. I’ve led major migration projects, like moving infrastructure to Terraform and GitOps, AWS to GCP migration and Migrating an unstructured environment to a structured platform within AWS. I focus on building reliable, scalable platforms, optimizing cloud resources, and ensuring smooth migrations with zero downtime. I enjoy collaborating with teams to implement CI/CD, automation, and observability best practices while keeping things efficient and cost-effective.

Experience

Bloomreach

3 roles

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Jul 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Leading a multimillion-dollar migration of infrastructure from AWS to GCP, driving cost optimizations and streamlining operations.
Transforming an unstructured cloud environment with high costs and no ownership into a well-governed, efficient system by establishing SRE-driven best practices.
Redesigning infrastructure and processes, implementing IaC, GitOps, and observability solutions that streamline development workflows and improve scalability and reliability.
Developing design documents and finalizing solutions, ensuring infrastructure alignment across teams while meeting business objectives.
Managing SaaS platforms on AWS, leveraging Kubernetes to deliver highly reliable and scalable solutions for critical applications and services.
Utilizing cutting-edge tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, GitLab CI, and Ansible to maintain high platform availability and performance.
Leading the migration of infrastructure to Terraform and GitOps, driving automation and scalability improvements.
Spearheading the transition from KOPS to AWS EKS, designing observability solutions and executing seamless customer migrations with zero downtime.

AWSGCPKubernetesTerraformGitOpsIaC+8

Malwarebytes

Site Reliability Engineer

Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 · 11 mos · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Managed cloud platforms for SaaS products, leveraging AWS services (ECS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, RDS, S3, ElasticSearch, Redis, EC2) and Terraform to streamline resource management, deployments, and monitoring.
Conducted periodic cost analysis to optimize resource utilization, reducing overhead while maintaining performance.
Orchestrated microservices with ECS and Fargate, managing IaC using Terraform and Ansible, and automating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
Collaborated with development teams to enforce best practices and standards for seamless, production-ready releases.
Implemented monitoring solutions with Signalfx, creating custom metrics and APMs to ensure scalability, reliability, and compliance with defined SLIs/SLOs.

AWSTerraformECSJenkinsSignalfxAnsible+2

Symantec

Site Reliability Engineer

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019 · 9 mos · Pune Area, India

Senior SRE supporting Symantec’s SaaS solutions under the Enterprise BU, optimizing workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP for enhanced performance, scalability, and reliability.
Led the design and implementation of solutions for distributed microservices management, improving efficiency in hybrid cloud and container technologies like OpenShift, Docker, and CI/CD tools (Artifactory, -- BitBucket, Jenkins, ELK Stack, Ansible, Grafana).
Architected scalable logging and monitoring systems, addressing reliability challenges and ensuring high availability in complex microservices environments.
Collaborated with development teams to optimize Jenkins pipelines, ensuring seamless and dependable production deployments.

AWSAzureGCPOpenShiftDockerJenkins+5

Cdk global

2 roles

Cloud Platform Engg (Devops)

Promoted

Sep 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs

Began Cloud/DevOps journey by managing AWS services, including EC2, ELB, S3, EFS, EBS, VPCs, and IAM, to optimize cloud resource utilization.
Designed and implemented cloud platforms for microservices, deploying and supporting Kubernetes clusters on AWS and on-prem VMware.
Integrated logging and monitoring solutions, leveraging Splunk for microservices, Sysdig for container monitoring, and Atlassian tools (Bamboo, Stash) for build and deployment automation.
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines to streamline microservices deployment, ensuring scalability and reliability in Kubernetes environments.

AWSKubernetesTerraformSplunkSysdigAtlassian tools+2

Sr Member Technical

Apr 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Managed DMI's IT infrastructure, overseeing 600+ Linux servers, VMware, firewalls, and load balancers, and developed a custom patching solution using Bash scripts and Puppet to improve system efficiency.

Atos origin

Sr System Engg

Aug 2010 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Linux Administrator for NXP Semiconductors, managing 2000+ Linux servers for high-performance workloads.
Enhanced monitoring systems by transitioning from Nagios to Zabbix with custom scripts.
Optimized infrastructure by migrating workloads from Xen to VMware, improving scalability.
Managed NAS storage across 8 data centers, overseeing NetApp clusters, snapshots, and NFS troubleshooting.

Capgemini

Linux Admin

Dec 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Linux Administrator supporting IM Sogetie's internal infrastructure, managing services like user administration, Samba, DNS, FTP, NFS, and system monitoring (Nagios).

In2m corporation

Jr Linux Admin

May 2008 – Dec 2008 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Entry-level Linux Admin managing monitoring solutions with Nagios and handling infrastructure services such as mail servers, web servers, firewalls, routers, user accounts, and system engineering tasks.