Position: Lead/Contractor DevOps engineer
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Years of experience: 7

Decreased time needed to deploy new applications from a month to one day.

Leading two teams of 10 DevOps engineers combined.

Built large-scale enterprise solution adoption to work on production Kubernetes clusters in a secure, highly available, and cost-effective way which gave like-to-like environments from dev to prod and near zero-downtime deployments.

Auditing, re-architecting, and implementing infrastructure for streaming platforms across the world using modern IaaC tools and AWS services.

AWS cost reduction by 30% (yearly saving over 1M) by re-architecting legacy solution - increasing service density, implementing IaaC and Configuration Management.

CI server and agents optimization to speed up build times and reduce operational costs - build time reduced from 1 hour to 10 minutes with the same costs. Optimized build agents, application dockerfiles, used spot instances without impacting critical operations.

Move from legacy architecture with manual deployments to modern Kubernetes-based architecture with automated CI/CD.
Leading experience for mixed DevOps teams. Preparing SOWs and project plans. Taking part in DevOps competence development in current company, performing reviews, conducting technical interviews, and performing mentoring for up to senior level engineers.

Experience working on different projects from the discovery stages to the sunset.
 - Migrations: on-prem to AWS, GCP, GCP to AWS, AWS to Azure
 - Current infrastructure re-architecture, development, and migration to a new architecture.
 - IaaC with Terraform/Terragrunt implementation.
 - Deployments to Kubernetes with Helm/Helmfile and Kustomize.
 - Security configuration - IPS/IDS.
 - Monitoring with CloudWatch, DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus.
 - Dockerization, automation.
 - Release management planning.
 - Cost control and optimization.
 - HA and DR implementation
Focus on goals rather than processes.
Not interested in competitions between competing vendors.
Avoid MS-based stack.