Alexander B. Senior DevOps

DevOps

Summary

- 6 years in the System Engineering industry with Linux/Windows-based environment
- 4 years in Cloud Computing from System Administrator till DevOps Engineer
- 5 years hands-on AWS Cloud, migration/cross-region infra
- 2 years with CI/CD and GoCD Jenkins pipelines for AWS multi-region environment
- 2 years in IaC Terraform (Terragrunt) solutions, development huge infrastructure projects in AWS, EKS, KOPS, Kafka, GCP etc.
- Upper-intermediate English.
- Available ASAP.

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jul 2021 - Present (9 months +)
Responsibilities:

  • Work with a Gaming Development company
  • Atlassian stack in Jira and wiki with Confluence
  • Working with Openshift clusters for Gaming Evironment
  • Deployment new GECO clusters for all regions that customer needs
  • Delegating all environment question, scaling, restarts and setting up new solutions
  • Monitoring with Logz.io and Grafana + Prometheus configuration for alerts to Slack and Opsgenie
  • Creating and support RHEL packages updater script for 100+ servers
  • Building and Maintaining Game Platform services
  • Using VMs as well as Containers across multiple different datacenters and also on Cloud (GCP)
  • Using CI/CD stack and true continuous delivery
  • Providing 24/7 support for all our products
  • Automating/coding and finding a way of applying best software engineering practices to systems engineering field
  • Offering to work on truly interesting technical challenges

DevOps Engineer

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021 (5 months)
Responsibilities:

  • Setting up the notification for Alerts per evironment dev/qa-stage/prod
  • Migrate from AWS ECS to AWS EKS with Helm 3 and Terraform
  • Support 24/7 for all Application on AWS EKS microservices for Rocket Delivery
  • Weekly billing reports

Devops Engineer

Jan 2020 - Feb 2021 (1 year 2 months)
Responsibilities:

  • Setting up and support Kubernetes Clusters on AWS by EKS, KOPS, Helm and Lens IDE
  • Configuration Apache Kafka in K8S Clusters (Kafka Streams, Spring Cloud and Banzai Cloud architecture)
  • Working with K8S Ingress, Traefik or another LB solutions for different projects (Istio as self education)
  • Gitlab Runners and Jenkins Pipelines configuration for CI/CD to K8S with troubleshooting errors with a backend team
  • AWS Cloud resources management and monitoring
  • Supporting and troubleshooting around 4-5 project on Java, NodeJS and PHP
  • Organise QA-Devops team for load testing application services and defining scaling solutions for them
  • Setting up Security Administration solutions for clients requirements
  • Setting up and support S3 backups cron jobs for company indoor content server
  • Prometheus+Grafana metrics configuration and monitoring

Devops Engineer

Mar 2019 - Jan 2020 (11 months)
Responsibilities:

  • Migrate all AWS Infrastructure in Terraform
  • Cost saving
  • Setup Docker-Compose for Node.js based Applications
  • Setup AWS EKS cluster for new Application Products (Dev/QA/Stage/Prod env)
  • Jenkins CI/CD automate for all SDLC
  • Git, Bitbucket CI
  • Managing task by Jira in a Team
  • Application front/backend administration and supporting
  • AWS Infrastructure development

DevOps Engineer

Mar 2017 - Mar 2019 (2 years 1 month)
Responsibilities:

  • Migrating infrastructure from Cloudformation to Terraform
  • Setup RDS MySQL Master-Replica configuration between 3 regions
  • Encryption data on S3 and EBS
  • Terraforming for AWS, describing existing services and apply new in 3 regions as well
  • Setting up new services on EC2 with Chef, Ansible
  • Setting up Elasticache Clusters in new regions Reddis / Memcache with encryption
  • Ansible /Chef provisioning for AMIs environment
  • Deploy and building new AMIs for App Services by Packer and GoCD
  • Manage code for QA and DEV with Jenkins Pipelines
  • Compiling AMI for new services by Ansible and GoCD for Production
  • Familiar with Bash and Python
  • Github, Makefiles, CodeBuild for infra code

Network System Engineer

Nov 2013 - Jan 2017 (3 years 3 months)
Responsibilities:

  • Launched and supported company website with MySQL Server via Apache, based on Linux Ubuntu
  • Created stable Load Balancing servers for companies web applications
  • Supported e-mail server via Windows Server 2003 - 2012
  • Supported and prepared accountant Software
  • Purchased regular technical equipment
  • Installed and adjusted account servers
  • Set up and supported Video and VoIP Security
  • Managed team of system administrators
  • LAN / WAN / Internet services administration
  • Solving some network problems;
  • Repairing and installing workplaces for employees;
  • Setting up workplace equipment for VPN, LAMP/LEMP by Linux Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian;
  • Setting up Routers and WiFi Points in Office, switches, VPN, LAN, WAN, setting up network security;

Network Engineer

May 2008 - Sep 2013 (5 years 5 months)
I was my first HardWork international experience and also responsible for YOTA project in providing communication sites and developing a WiMAX network.
Responsibilities:

  • Checking the readiness in communication nodes launch;
  • System quality communication nodes permanent checking;
  • Samsung WiMAX communication nodes launching;
  • Communication object modules testing;
  • Team Leading with group of Junior Engineers to fixing bugs and solving problems;
  • Java Development for virtual imitation mobile base stations for testing parameters of communications and network process;
  • Installation and programming Cisco optical modul for WiMAX Base Stations;
  • Programming and setting up the parameters of network units and putting network objects into WiMAX;
  • Control and acceptance of network construction & communication WiMAX objects;
  • The WiMAX hand-over system mobile check with USB WiMAX Modem; Also as in Samsung Co