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Sam Virk

@samvirk

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Senior DevOps and SRE engineer building secure, scalable, resilient multi-cloud platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to help modernize and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud platforms—owning SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident response), building automation and observability, and strengthening DevSecOps to improve reliability and developer productivity.

I’m a Senior DevOps, Cloud & Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and cloud-native platforms across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I focus on Platform Engineering, Cloud Architecture, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud automation to deliver highly available, resilient production environments.

I architect and run Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE) and implement GitOps with Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize to enable standardized, automated, zero-downtime deployments. I also lead reliability and operational excellence—defining SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and error budgets, building observability with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry and ELK-style logging, managing incident response and root cause analysis, and strengthening DevSecOps with tools like HashiCorp Vault, SonarQube, Trivy, and Snyk.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Kentik

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Architected, engineered, and operated highly available, fault-tolerant, cloud-native production platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Led Kubernetes platform operations with GitOps, enterprise observability, SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs), incident response/RCA, and automated CI/CD and DevSecOps across multi-cloud infrastructure.

Senior cloud DevOps Engineer

EverOps

Jan 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 11 months)

Engineered and managed secure, highly available, and scalable cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and AWS, including AKS and AWS services. Built CI/CD and GitOps delivery pipelines, implemented observability and SRE practices, and led modernization and production support including DR, autoscaling, and FinOps.

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Cloudmersive

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 11 months)

Engineered and managed secure, highly available, and scalable cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and AWS, including Kubernetes-based platforms. Implemented CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation with IaC, observability/SRE monitoring, DevSecOps security controls, and production support practices including disaster recovery and autoscaling.

DevOps Engineer

iXsystems

Mar 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years 6 months)

Administered and maintained Linux-based infrastructure across development, testing, staging, and production environments, including AWS cloud services. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and automation scripts, configured container and web infrastructure, and supported production monitoring with incident troubleshooting and performance optimization.