Bikash Jena — Engineering Manager

Results-driven Engineering Manager with 14+ years of experience in DevOps and Infrastructure. My expertise lies in architecting scalable AWS platforms and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code. Proven expertise in system design for distributed infrastructure and in scaling Kubernetes workloads in production environments. ★ Built and led a high-performing DevOps team through hands-on technical leadership, regular 1:1s, and implementing knowledge-sharing initiatives, resulting in improved team skill sets, higher retention rates and a strong culture of team ownership and vision. ★ Created a cross-functional collaboration model between DevOps, Engineering, QA, Product, and Security teams, leading to faster alignment and better requirements gathering and enhancing communication. ★ Extensive hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) and tools used to automate Kubernetes infrastructure in AWS. This includes creating ArgoCD, Karpenter, Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd), Terraform modules, Helm Charts, and Kubernetes manifests from scratch. ★ Defined system design principles for distributed infrastructure, improving scalability, high availability (HA), fault tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) across critical services. ★ Architected and led the design of CI/CD pipelines using Kubernetes-native deployment with GitHub Actions & ArgoCD, while enforcing policy-as-code frameworks. ★ Elevated system reliability and developer efficiency by implementation of a unified observability stack using OpenTelemetry and Grafana, enabling cross-team visibility into metrics, traces, and logs for faster troubleshooting and data-driven decision-making. ★ Directed scaling and resilience strategies for high-traffic production environments, handling peak loads of 75,000 RPS through optimized auto-scaling, caching architectures, and Kubernetes orchestration, achieving 99.99% system availability and reliability. ★ Designed and implemented SLO-based alerting using SLIs and error budget burn rates, which helps to reduce false alarms and distinguish between critical failures and minor issues. ★ Led the migration of infrastructure from EC2 instances to Graviton instances, achieved significant cost savings and migrated observability Stack from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics, reduced infrastructure costs while achieving higher ingestion scalability (millions of metrics/second). ★ Ensured adherence to cloud security best practices by continuously monitoring, auditing, and improving the platform's security posture using tools like AWS GuardDuty, WAF, and IAM policy management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert in the SaaS and Logistics industries.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 9 yrs 10 mos