Position: Junior DevOps Engineer
Category: DevOps
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

To highlight a few notable achievements at my previous work, I successfully upgraded an internal mission-critical core bare metal server that ran a legacy Ubuntu LTS system and made a number of architectural changes in the process:

* Migrated a multitude of various VPN services with overlapping subnetworks and routes to dedicated, per-VPN service LXD/LXC containers with OpenZFS file-backed storage. 
* Configured a policy-based routing to enable interoperability of isolated, overlapping VPN subnetworks and host's networking.
* Implemented a backup, restore and disaster recovery processes utilizing native zfs send/receive functionality. This particular solution allowed for a flexible and rapid restore of individual containers and entire LXD container hypervisor with a very low MTTR.
* Improved storage layout (software RAID and LVM) by clearly defining roles and assigning logical volumes for use with services running on the host.

I was also responsible for instilling a structured and well-organized process for handling regular application updates for one the firm's clients. In this project, I'd been brought on to help development team to conduct regular application data updates and had been handed poorly documented deployment instructions, which with time I turned into a highly detailed, accurate, up-to-date, repeatable, step-by-step deployment guide. I introduced a well-structured process for managing and conducting these regular application updates by designing a workflow for a ticketing system to track the deployments and their results.

I also developed and maintained PostgreSQL snap packages which was an employer-sponsored Open Source project. I had the privilege to join Snapcraft Summit 2018 and hack on the PostgreSQL snap packages with Snapcraft developers at Canonical's HQ in London.

I am an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Linux Foundation Certified Linux System Administrator.
I am an aspiring DevOps engineer with some of the required experience and skills already under my belt. I'm actively learning to fill in the knowledge and skills gaps and I would be thrilled to join a team of DevOps professionals as a Junior DevOps to learn the craft through hands-on experience.

I have rich experience (over 10 years) in system and network administration accumulated over many years of work in several domains: consulting, software development and ISP.

From bare metal to virtualization to cloud, I love working with infrastructure and specifically to design and implement new architectures.

In general, I love to build stuff but I also get a kick out of continuous improvement of existing systems and processes alike, as well as ensuring everything runs smoothly and coherently.

At my previous job, a firm offering white glove consulting services to various clients in North America and EU seeking to improve performance, reliability and design of their PostgreSQL deployments, I was responsible (among many other things) for automating all sorts of deployments with Ansible from databases (PostgreSQL) to monitoring services (Zabbix, icinga2), to provisioning new cloud instances (AWS EC2), to managing storage (physical and cloud), DNS (Route53 and BIND), networking, firewalls, routing, to deploying regular application changes and configuring centralized logging for Docker containers, to contributing to an Open Source project and so on.
* Looking to join a team of DevOps professionals in a company with a nurturing environment that enables continuous professional development and career advancement.
* Clearly defined career growth path within a company.
* Clearly defined job responsibilities.
* Competitive compensation.
* Timely payments and regular compensation reviews.
* Flexible work hours and hassle-free approval of days off.
* Competent management.
* Professional relationship built on trust and mutual respect.