DevOps Engineer

Highly organized and motivated individual with a strong background in architecture, analysis, and problem-solving within the field of IT. With over 9 years of experience in Software Maintenance, Support, and DevOps, I have honed my skills and capabilities. My expertise extends to operating in regulated environments, particularly within international financial companies.
I have a proven track record of effectively managing and maintaining 24/7 High Availability (HA) Linux infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud. My experience includes working with relational and non-relational databases and implementing DevOps practices to enhance efficiency. I am well-versed in CI/CD processes and proficient in integrating these practices.
Efficient team player, comfortable working as a team member and as a single problem owner responsible for the entire system health. Communication and problem-solving are strong suits of mine, allowing me to contribute effectively to any team or project.

Skills

DevOps Engineering

AWS Infrastructure

CI/CD Processes

CloudExpert

FullStack Automation

Technology stack

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Project Overview

Cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers.

Responsibilities

  • Was responsible for implementing DevOps/SRE practices on the project: Cloud, IaC, CI/CD
  • Automation, Containerization, Monitoring
  • Was responsible for helping developers to deliver product on-time
  • Developed/maintained/improved CI/CD pipelines based on GitHub Actions
  • Developed and implemented infrastructure deployment/provisioning approaches
  • Migrated Kubernetes manifests to Helm charts
  • Upgrading Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Different maintenance complexity (databases backups and improvements, infrastructure cleanup to save costs)
  • Deployment and configuration of ArgoCD with the next migration of GHA to ArgoCD

Tools&Technologies

Confluence, GitHub, Jira, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Bash, Python, Groovy, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, SumoLogic, Fastly, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Lead DevOps Engineer

Project Overview

American multinational consumer credit reporting agency headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies, along with Experian and TransUnion.

Responsibilities

  • Worked closely with Application, Infrastructure, and Client Support teams in order to meet business expectations
  • Trained and mentored new joiners
  • Drove Major Incidents of different complexity
  • Collaborated with Development and QA teams in regard to production issues and found temporary fixes as well as strategic solutions
  • Managed a resource team of 6 engineers
  • Shared Best Practice cases

Tools&Technologies

Confluence, GitHub, Jira, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bash, Python, Groovy, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Vault Secure Store

DevOps/Build Engineer

Project Overview

Web application that provides a creation, sharing, interaction, presentation of all MB information. It can be imagined as a web based substitute of power point with additional functionalities.

Responsibilities

  • Was responsible for implementing DevOps/SRE practices on the project: Cloud, IaC, CI/CD
  • Automation, Containerization, Monitoring
  • Was responsible for helping developers to deliver product on-time
  • Developed/maintained/improved CI/CD pipelines
  • Developed and implemented infrastructure deployment/provisioning approaches
  • Migrated Kubernetes infrastructure from On-Prem to AWS cloud
  • Developed/maintained/improved Kubernetes namespace resources
  • Migrated Oracle DB from On-Prem to AWS RDS Aurora
  • Deployed and configured monitoring solutions
  • Was responsible for application security

Tools&Technologies

Confluence, Bitbucket, Jira, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket-Pipelines, Oracle, AWS Aurora MySQL compatible, DocumentDB/MongoDB, Bash, Python, Groovy, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, Instana, Grafana, Prometheus, Matomo, OpsGenie, Fortanix Secure Store, Veracode, Aqua Security Scan, SonarQube, Harbor, Kafka

Senior DevOps Engineer/SRE

Project Overview

Providing Professional Services for enterprise clients using machine learning to ensure data quality, spot patterns, and train automation.

Responsibilities

  • Worked closely with other Application, Infrastructure, and Client Support teams for environments and services stability & reliability
  • Prepared and drove customer's infrastructure audit
  • Drove Major Incidents of different complexity
  • Collaborated with Development and QA teams
  • Developed advanced watchers/alerts for Kibana (ELK monitoring)
  • Contributed to product installer by developing modules on Ansible
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines for releasing new business processes for customers on different stack (Jenkins/TeamCity/Octopus)
  • Prepared HA infrastructure using Terraform for customer's tech-writes. Helped to migrate from Confluence to Docusaurus platform
  • Built a tool to get the information about AWS services that may help the customer to minimize costs
  • Contributed to the Docker project for fast infrastructure deployment
  • Performed manual functional testing of new releases on AWS and VmWare
  • Maintained and updated knowledge base repository

Tools&Technologies

On-Premise, AWS, Linux (RHEL), Windows Server, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, SonarQube, Nexus, Minio, ELK stack, Bash, Python, Nginx, Tomcat, Docker, Marathon, Mesos, Terraform, Ansible

DevOps Engineer/Deployment Stream Lead

Project Overview

Smart Process Automation (Robotics, Machine Learning)

Responsibilities

  • Led a team of 5 team members
  • Worked closely with other Application, Infrastructure and Client Support teams in order to meet business expectations
  • Trained and mentored of new joiners in the local team
  • Drove Major Incidents of different complexity
  • Collaborated with Development and QA teams in regard to production issues and found temporary fixes as well as strategic solutions
  • Shared Best Practice cases
  • Troubleshoot and root cause analysis for ongoing issues
  • Maintained and updated knowledge base repository
  • Coordinated DEV/UAT/PROD environments preparation
  • Performed manual functional testing on AWS

Tools&Technologies

On-Premise, AWS, Linux (RHEL), Windows Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SonarQube, Nexus, Riak, Bash, Java, Nginx, Tomcat, Docker, Marathon, Mesos, Terraform, Ansible

System Engineer

Project Overview

Smart Process Automation (Robotics, Machine Learning)

Responsibilities

  • Installed and Configured customer's on-prem servers
  • Troubleshoot performance/other issues
  • Improved installation scripts
  • Configured secure connections between components/servers/containers
  • Performed manual functional testing on AWS
  • Assisted customers to develop machine learning/robotics processes
  • Worked on documentation
  • Improved workflow between L1 and L3

Tools&Technologies

On-Premise, Linux (RHEL), Windows Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Nexus, Riak, Bash, Nginx, Tomcat, Docker, Marathon, Mesos

DevOps Engineer

Project Overview

Building a platform that empowers everyone to become a fundamental investor.

Responsibilities

  • Implemented DevOps practices on the project: Cloud, IaC, CI/CD, Automation, Containerization, Monitoring
  • Developed/maintained/improved CI/CD Bitbucket pipelines
  • Developed and implemented infrastructure deployment/provisioning approaches
  • Developed/maintained/improved Kubernetes (EKS) resources

Tools&Technologies

AWS, Bitbucket pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, DocumentDB

Technical Support Engineer/Duty Lead

Project Overview

Enables service providers to launch and manage modern telecommunication services on a single software platform. It offers an integrated software platform for service providers, wholesale carriers, ISP, MVNO, and NGN operators

Responsibilities

  • Providing technical support of the Company’s products and related systems through e-mail (chat) and remote access
  • Remotely troubleshooting software/hardware issues
  • Monitoring customers' installations and configuring software parameters
  • Investigating and analyzing the cause of problems
  • Bash, Perl, Ansible scripting for automation regular tasks
  • Duty Lead - related responsibilities
  • Mentoring of duty engineers
  • Dispatching tasks between engineers within the shift
  • Duty engineers performance evaluation

Tools&Technologies

MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Redis, Linux (RHEL, SUSE, Fedora, Arch Linux), Linux troubleshooting tools, percona toolkit, Nagios monitoring, Ansible, web-server (apache), KVM, tcpdump, wireshark, sip, asterisk, git, RT (request tracking system), network technologies, virtualization, VoIP, bash, perl scripting