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Saumya Khandelwal

Open to work1 years experience

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Bangalore, IndiaTarget Roles: Backend Engineer • Full-Stack Developer • Frontend Specialist

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 1.5+ years of experience in GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.

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gcpawsdockerkubernetesterraformjenkinsgithub actionsgitlab cicloud buildargocdprometheusgrafanalokitempoopentelemetrycloud monitoringvpcload balancersiamdnsvpnsecrets managementworkload identity federationbashpythonlinux

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Work Experience

Cloud Engineer

Searce Inc

Apr 2026 - Present Bengaluru, India
  • Provisioned and enhanced GCP Landing Zone infrastructure using Terraform across multiple environments.
  • Resolved cloud infrastructure and security vulnerabilities across production environments.
  • Deployed and managed applications on GKE using production deployment strategies.
  • Implemented External Secrets Operator (ESO) to automate synchronization of Kubernetes secrets from GCP Secret Manager.

Cloud Engineer

Cloudside Technologies

Feb 2025 - Mar 2026 Bengaluru, India
  • Deployed and managed 20+ microservices on GKE, implementing Gateway API, HTTPRoute, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) across multiple production environments.
  • Built and maintained 20+ Cloud Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments to GKE.
  • Executed migration of 200+ TB of workloads and storage from AWS to GCP with minimal downtime.
  • Configured Workload Identity Federation (WIF) for 30+ Kubernetes Service Accounts, eliminating static credentials and enforcing least-privilege IAM access.
  • Developed modular Terraform infrastructure for GCP Landing Zone, including VPC, GKE, IAM, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Build across multiple production environments.
  • Provisioned private GKE infrastructure using Terraform, implemented KEDA autoscaling with GCP Pub/Sub, and configured Prometheus & Grafana monitoring.
  • Implemented GitOps-based deployments using ArgoCD with automated synchronization and rollback capabilities.

Projects

GPU Workload Enablement on GKE

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  • Built an Infrastructure-as-Code delivery pipeline by integrating GitLab CI/CD with Terraform Cloud to automate provisioning of Google Cloud Landing Zone resources.
  • Deployed and managed cloud-native applications on GKE and Cloud Run, integrating Cloud SQL, Redis, Artifact Registry and Secret Manager.
  • Implemented GPU workload provisioning on GKE using Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS) and Provisioning Request for efficient GPU resource allocation.

Observability Driven Autoscaling on GKE

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  • Built an observability platform using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Alertmanager.
  • Implemented custom metrics-based Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) using Prometheus Adapter and validated autoscaling with k6 load testing.
  • Implemented centralized logging, distributed tracing, monitoring dashboards, and alerting for Kubernetes microservices.

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Achievements

Certification

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Certification

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

About Details

Professional Bio

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 1.5+ years of experience in GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD. Experienced in building and automating cloud infrastructure, deploying production workloads, and implementing secure, scalable cloud solutions.

B.A. (Bachelor of Arts)

Lal Bahadur Shastri PG College (2021 - 2024)

Languages: English, Hindi
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