Samyak Jain

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands4 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management.
Expert in Kubernetes and CI/CD automation.
Proven track record in reducing cloud costs significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Kubernetes and CI/CD for SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesCloud PlatformsSecurity ManagementInfrastructure As Code (iac)Cloud Cost ManagementCi/cdLogging ManagementSoftware DevelopmentMonitoring

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)CiliumHashiCorp VaultTerraformGitOpsFinOpsGCPRKE2LoggingC#AWSAzureAzure DevOpsYAML

About

Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience in the IT industry, certified in Kubernetes and multiple cloud providers. Skilled in infrastructure automation, container orchestration, CI/CD, code migration, logging, monitoring, and system administration across both cloud and on-premises environments. Proven track record in optimizing cloud costs, managing large-scale Kubernetes clusters, and implementing self-healing mechanisms to improve system reliability and reduce operational overhead. Key Skills: Cloud Platforms: GCP, Azure, AWS Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, Rancher RKE2), Docker Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Packer Configuration Management: Ansible Scripting & Automation: Bash, Python CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure Pipelines Messaging & Streaming: Kafka Databases & Storage: MongoDB, ClickHouse Logging & Monitoring: Fluentd, Elasticsearch (ELK), Splunk, Datadog, Grafana Incident Management & Alerting: PagerDuty, Incident.io Project Management: Jira, Notion, Azure DevOps 📬 For collaboration or opportunities, feel free to connect or email me at samyakj0@gmail.com.

Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Picnic technologies

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

- Building a next-generation, Kubernetes-based compute platform, leveraging Istio and Cilium to enable secure, scalable cluster mesh capabilities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesCloud Platforms

Brevo

2 roles

Platform Engineer

Apr 2025 – Nov 2025 · 7 mos · On-site

Led the migration of 1,600+ applications, ensuring seamless transition and minimal downtime.
Bootstrapped 12+ RKE2 Kubernetes clusters by leveraging Cilium CNI for L4/L7 capabilities with Envoy.
Architected a robust Kubernetes networking model using Cilium BGP peering for dynamic route propagation and BFD for failure detection, enabling reliable public and private traffic handling.
Designed and implemented a comprehensive Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for ETCD and control-plane failures, reducing recovery time by 65%.
Introduced HashiCorp Vault across the organization and drove company wide adoption for secure secret management.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)KubernetesCloud Platforms

Platform Engineer

Dec 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · On-site

Strategically implemented FinOps practices resulting in a 40% reduction in cloud (GCP) infrastructure costs.
Built a hybrid Kubernetes setup using RKE2 Rancher on-premises with GCP for on-demand scaling, enabling cluster expansion in under 5 minutes while optimizing costs.
Developed CI pipelines to fully automate Kubernetes cluster provisioning on bare-metal servers, cutting bootstrap time by 60%.
Implemented Argo CD App of Apps and AppSet patterns for scalable and modular GitOps deployments.
Migrated the company’s logging pipeline to a fully private on-premises setup leveraging Partner Interconnect, reducing network egress costs by 30%.

TerraformGitOpsInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Kubernetes

Accenture

2 roles

Application Development Senior Analyst

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022 · 6 mos · On-site

Reduced AWS and Azure infrastructure costs by 30% by eliminating unnecessary resources.
Experienced in designing, configuring, and deploying solutions on AWS and Azure cloud using IaC tools like Terraform, PowerShell CLI, and AWS CLI focusing on high availability and auto-scaling.
Led the deployments for migration of 280+ containerized Applications from EC2 servers to AWS ECS Fargate and Kubernetes (AWS EKS) with <0.004% error rate.
Created Azure automation pipelines that reduced the deployment efforts by 80% saving ~2400 hrs/yearly.
Containerized multiple applications using Docker and deployed them as AWS ECS/EKS services by using Terraform modules.
Developed a solution to store service configurations in the AWS S3 bucket. Automated the entire process by creating Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

C#TerraformCloud PlatformsInfrastructure as Code (IaC)

Full Stack Engineering Analyst

Sep 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

Upgraded and Refactored the code of existing micro-services from the .NET framework to the latest version of .NET Core (3.1 & 6) and created a cloud-ready application.
Developed Enterprise Level Web Applications & RESTful services. Written a clean scalable code using .NET programming language and OOPs principles.
Developed Azure CI-CD pipelines for deploying the web applications on the Azure Web App and Azure Functions.
Created Terraform modules from scratch to deploy the applications on AWS ECS fargate.
Automated the process for monitoring and troubleshooting by creating Splunk alerts and Datadog dashboards saving ~600 hrs/month.
Analyzed existing tech stack and help developers to make applications DevOps-friendly and follow best practices.

C#YAMLSoftware DevelopmentCloud Platforms