Sokratis Kapetaneas - Lead Platform / Cloud Engineer

Q: Where is Sokratis based?

Sokratis is based in Argyroupoli, Greece and prefers 100% remote projects.

Q: What languages does Sokratis speak?

Sokratis speaks the following languages: Greek (Native), English (Advanced) .

Q: How many years of experience does Sokratis have?

Sokratis has at least 19 years of experience. During this time, Sokratis has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 10 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 11 months . Note that Sokratis may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Sokratis's latest experience?

Sokratis's most recent position is Lead Platform / Cloud Engineer at Independent Contractor .

Q: What companies has Sokratis worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Sokratis has worked for Independent Contractor and KX .

Q: Which industries is Sokratis most experienced in?

Sokratis is most experienced in industries like Information Technology , Professional Services , and Media and Entertainment . Sokratis also has some experience in Banking and Finance , Tourism , and Telecommunication .

Q: Which business areas is Sokratis most experienced in?

Sokratis is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology , Operations , and Product Development .

Q: Which industries has Sokratis worked in recently?

Sokratis has recently worked in industries like Information Technology .

Q: Which business areas has Sokratis worked in recently?

Sokratis has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology and Operations .

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Argyroupoli, Greece

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Experience

Mar 2026 - Present

5 months

Greece

Lead Platform / Cloud Engineer

Independent Contractor

Designed and operated GCP infrastructure across Production/Staging/Development utilizing GKE, CloudSQL, Redis, GCS, IAM
Built Terraform code using shared modules across multiple environments for both infrastructure and Kubernetes deployments
Designed CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments using Helm charts
Led application migration from GCP CloudRun to GKE with zero downtime
Delivered CI/CD pipelines for PR environments in development GKE clusters
Built monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and Elasticsearch
Optimized cloud cost by fine-tuning application and infrastructure components
Utilized GCP Secrets Manager to secure application sensitive data

Jun 2021 - Mar 2026

4 years 10 months

Lead Platform / Cloud Engineer

KX

Designed and operated AWS infrastructure supporting production, QA, and development workloads across multiple environments and teams
Acted as primary owner for cloud infrastructure and platform reliability across multiple environments
Led Kubernetes platform operations (EKS, GKE, AKS), ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
Delivered infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform across multi-environment setups
Adopted GitOps-based deployment workflows using ArgoCD and Helm
Improved system reliability and observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting
Optimized cloud architecture and reduced infrastructure costs across environments
Designed and operated on-prem Kubernetes environments on bare-metal infrastructure using OpenShift and vanilla Kubernetes (kubeadm) and automated cluster upgrades using CI pipelines

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

5 months

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead

AsianLogic

Led a cross-functional team of infrastructure and cloud engineers, defining priorities and direction
Implemented infrastructure modernization based on Kubernetes and HashiCorp Vault
Improved environment provisioning by utilizing Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI

Mar 2018 - Feb 2021

3 years

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Ticketmaster

Managed AWS infrastructure including networking (VPC, CloudFront, ALB), IAM, compute (EC2), databases (RDS), and security (WAF)
Deployed and supported containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Docker
Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and CI pipelines
Setup fully automated deployment process in Jenkins using Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab
Implemented monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and CloudWatch

Jan 2017 - Mar 2018

1 year 3 months

Senior DevOps Engineer

Tripsta

Supported Linux-based systems on bare-metal (Hetzner) and cloud infrastructure on AWS
Automated infrastructure and application deployment using SaltStack and CI/CD pipelines
Managed open source software (nginx, Tomcat, HAProxy, Redis, RabbitMQ)
Implemented monitoring and alerting using Graphite, Grafana, and Elasticsearch
Maintained system performance, availability, and security

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

1 year 1 month

Senior Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer

Arrikto

Designed and operated a fully automated bare-metal infrastructure based on Ansible and GitHub
Supported Linux-based servers, networking, and storage (Ceph)
Deployed and operated a VM infrastructure using Ganeti

May 2013 - Jan 2016

2 years 9 months

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer

Nova

Performed Linux and Windows systems administration on bare-metal and private cloud platforms (VMware, KVM)
Implemented monitoring and alerting using Nagios, Graphite, and Grafana
Managed configuration using Chef and Ansible
Managed various open source software (nginx, Apache, Tomcat, HAProxy, MongoDB, MySQL)

Jul 2011 - May 2013

1 year 11 months

Infrastructure Architect

Western Union

Performed Linux and Windows systems administration on bare-metal and VMware infrastructure
Designed and implemented a disaster recovery site utilizing VMware and EMC replication
Managed various open source software (Apache, Tomcat, JBoss)

Dec 2007 - Jul 2011

3 years 8 months

Infrastructure Engineer

Accenture

Performed Linux, Solaris, and Windows systems administration on bare-metal and VMware infrastructure
Managed various open source software (Apache, Tomcat, JBoss)

Jun 2006 - Sep 2006

4 months

Athens, Greece

On-site

Software Engineer

Intracom Telecom

Developed a .NET application in C# for location detection and wireless communication
Worked on Visual Studio 2005
Use PDA connected to VS 2005 to test application

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Professional Services, Media and Entertainment, Banking and Finance, Tourism, and Telecommunication.

Information Technology

Professional Services

Media and Entertainment

Banking and Finance

Tourism

Telecommunication

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development.

Information Technology

Operations

Product Development

Summary

Lead Platform Engineer / Cloud Infrastructure Consultant with 10+ years of experience in Cloud and 6+ years operating production Kubernetes environments. Expert in designing and running scalable, high-availability systems using AWS (EKS, VPC, IAM), GCP (GKE,VPC,IAM,CloudRun), Terraform, GitOps-based CI/CD platforms as well as multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure). Strong track record in improving system reliability, optimizing cloud costs, and delivering production-ready infrastructure for distributed systems. Extensive experience in bare-metal Infrastructure and networking in both On-Prem and Cloud environments. Led customer-facing cloud modernization and Kubernetes platform engagements, partnering with enterprise stakeholders to design, deploy and operate production infrastructure. Experienced working with distributed teams in async environments.

Skills

Cloud:

Aws (Eks, Ec2, Iam, Vpc, S3, Cloudfront, Rds)
Gcp (Gke, Vpc, Iam, Cloudrun)
Azure

Containers:

Kubernetes (Eks, Gke, Aks)
Helm
Docker

Infrastructure As Code:

Terraform
Aws Cdk

Ci/Cd:

Argocd
Github Actions
Gitlab Ci
Jenkins

Monitoring:

Prometheus
Grafana
Loki
Elasticsearch

Systems:

Linux
Networking
Security

Architecture:

Cloud Architecture
Platform Design
Infrastructure Scaling
Network Architecture

Languages

Greek

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Sep 2006 - Sep 2007

University College London

MSc · Telecommunications · London, United Kingdom

Sep 2000 - Mar 2006

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

BSc · Electrical & Computer Engineering · Thessaloniki, Greece

Certifications & licenses

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator RHEL 6

Sun Certified Java Programmer SE 5.0

Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS

VMware Certified Professional vSphere 5

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 10

Experience in Information Technology 12.5 y

Avg length 1 y 11 m

Longest experience 4 y 9 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 1 (Greece)

Primary country Greece

Expertise

Recent roles Lead Platform / Cloud Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead, Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Main industries Information Technology, Professional Services, Media and Entertainment

Main business areas Information Technology, Operations, Product Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Certifications earned 6

Profile

Created

July 2026

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Where is Sokratis based?

Sokratis is based in Argyroupoli, Greece and prefers 100% remote projects.

What languages does Sokratis speak?

Sokratis speaks the following languages: Greek (Native), English (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Sokratis have?

Sokratis has at least 19 years of experience. During this time, Sokratis has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 10 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 11 months. Note that Sokratis may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Sokratis be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Sokratis would be well-suited for roles such as: Lead Platform / Cloud Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead, Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer.

What is Sokratis's latest experience?

Sokratis's most recent position is Lead Platform / Cloud Engineer at Independent Contractor.

What companies has Sokratis worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Sokratis has worked for Independent Contractor and KX.

Which industries is Sokratis most experienced in?

Sokratis is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Professional Services, and Media and Entertainment. Sokratis also has some experience in Banking and Finance, Tourism, and Telecommunication.

Which business areas is Sokratis most experienced in?

Sokratis is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development.

Which industries has Sokratis worked in recently?

Sokratis has recently worked in industries like Information Technology.

Which business areas has Sokratis worked in recently?

Sokratis has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology and Operations.

What is Sokratis's education?

Sokratis holds a Master in Telecommunications from University College London and a Bachelor in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Does Sokratis have any certificates?

Sokratis has 6 certificates. Among them, these include: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate, and Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator RHEL 6.

What is the availability of Sokratis?

Sokratis is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Sokratis?

Sokratis's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.