Valerii K. Senior DevOps Engineer

Work Experience

Senior DevSecOps, Custom Audio-Video Solution

Duration: 2022-2023 (13 months)
Summary: A project tailored for 5G networks focused on the analysis and visualization of communication issues during audio-video content transmission.
Responsibilities: Creating infrastructure for the development using Terraform; customizing and hardening BigData applications; providing CI and CD pipelines; implementing CIS Benchmark recommendations; working in a multinational team; reducing cloud costs and improving performance and scalability.
Technologies: Azure, Terraform, Helm/Helmfile, k8s, GitLab CI, Artifactory, BigData applications, custom ML solutions

DevOps Engineer, Company development IaC and CD refactoring

Duration: 2021-2022 (6 months)
Summary: IaC and CD refactoring for a company specializing in smart water management solutions.
Responsibilities: Updating and refactoring existing Terraform code; refactoring YAML files to standalone Helm Chart; using Helmfile for continuous deployment; solving autoscaling and performance issues on IoT device data; adapting the monitoring system.
Technologies: AWS, IoT, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm charts, Autoscaling, Kafka, DataDog

DevOps Engineer, Healthcare company infrastructure refactoring

Duration: 2021 (6 months)
Summary: Infrastructure refactoring for optimizing costs within a healthcare company's Kubernetes clusters.
Responsibilities: Establishing Kubernetes clusters using Terraform; developing Helm charts for microservices; conducting high load tests for autoscaling; migrating production environment; maintaining system health and security.
Technologies: GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm charts, Autoscaling, Grafana

DevOps Engineer, Web application for staff analysis

Duration: 2020-2021 (5 months)
Summary: Development of a web application for staff analysis aimed at improving HR strategies and process.
Responsibilities: Creating AWS infrastructure; deploying kubernetes clusters; automating autotests; configuring backup and monitoring systems.
Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Helm, k8s, Bitbucket Pipeline, Grafana, Stash, RabbitMQ

DevOps Engineer, SaaS platform

Duration: 2020 (4 months)
Summary: Migration of a SaaS CRM platform from bare-metal server to Kubernetes clusters focused on managing communities and educational events.
Responsibilities: Creating Kubernetes clusters in AWS / Azure; deploying containers; making builds with Bitbucket Pipelines; creating Grafana dashboards.
Technologies: AWS, Azure, k8s, Helm, Autoscaling, Bitbucket Pipeline, Grafana

DevOps Engineer, A set of portals for the Jewish community

Duration: 2020 (8 months)
Summary: Migration and maintenance of a set of portals for the Jewish community focused on combating destructive addictions.
Responsibilities: Developing a migration plan; performing migration; preparing sites for donation campaigns; setting up Zabbix; streamlining cloud infrastructure.
Technologies: cPanel, PHP, MySql, Zabbix

Team lead of the Support team, Confidential

Duration: 2011-2020 (over 8 years)
Summary: Overseeing IT support for a large fintech company with a network of offices, optimizing company projects and internal processes.
Responsibilities: Managing a team of IT engineers; working with VIP clients; developing management projects; optimizing service quality and proactive responses; providing technical support.
Technologies: Windows Server, Hyper-V, MS SQL Server, CentOS, Debian, Tomcat, Microsoft Azure, Active Directory

Education

• Specialist in Applied Mathematics
  2004 - 2009