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Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305) | DevOps | AKS, Bicep, Terraform, IaC, CI/CD

Cesis, Latvia
Only remote
Cesis, Latvia
Only remote

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About me

Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305, AZ-104) and hands-on DevOps engineer. I design secure, cost-aware Azure platforms and build them as code. Currently running production Azure for a regulated Swiss bank. Remote, EU-based.

Argo CDHelmAzure DevOpsActive DirectoryAmazon CloudfrontMicrosoft AzureCloud EngineeringDevOpsAzure SQLAzure Active DirectoryAnsiblePrometheusSolution ArchitectureGrafanaIT ArchitectureAzure PowerShellInfrastructure as Code (IaC)GitLabMicrosoft InTuneGitlab-ciKubernetesBicepAzure AKSTerraformDevSecOpsAzure Resource ManagerAWS EKSDockerElk Stack
Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305, AZ-104) and hands-on DevOps engineer with 5+ years in DevOps and systems engineering. I design secure, cost-aware Azure architectures and build them as code. Currently designing and running production Azure infrastructure for a regulated Swiss financial institution.

Azure architecture: landing zones (Cloud Adoption Framework), Well-Architected reviews, identity and governance (Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, management groups), hub-spoke networking, Private Endpoints, high availability and disaster recovery, cost optimisation, migration to Azure.

Microsoft Azure services: AKS, Azure DevOps, Bicep, Key Vault, VNet, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Azure SQL, SQL Managed Instance, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure OpenAI infrastructure.

AWS: EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch.

Kubernetes & containers: Kubernetes (AKS, EKS), Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, GitOps, migration of legacy applications to containers.

Infrastructure as Code & automation: Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, reverse-engineering existing Azure resources into IaC, PowerShell, Bash, Python.

CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, approval gates, multi-environment releases (DEV/UAT/PROD).

Monitoring & observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Zabbix.

Databases: Azure SQL, SQL MI, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS RDS.

Microsoft 365 & endpoint management: Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, Entra ID, Conditional Access, Microsoft Defender, Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Server.

Selected results:
  • Run 7 AKS clusters across 6 environments in a regulated banking environment
  • Designed and support the end-to-end infrastructure architecture for an Azure OpenAI service in banking
  • Multi-region infrastructure migration; credit-decision platform restructured to Helm
  • Owned an AWS estate of 75+ EC2 servers and 2 EKS clusters; full Terraform IaC rollout from scratch
  • Cut VM provisioning from 1.5 hours to 15 minutes per machine
  • Migrated 500+ endpoints to Windows 11 with zero-touch Intune provisioning
Languages: English (fluent), Russian (fluent), Latvian (native). Remote only, EU-based (CET+1).

Experience

Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2026

Languages

EnglishFluentRussianFluentLatvianNative speaker

Project history

DevOps Engineer / Azure Infrastructure Architect

Swiss bank (regulated financial services)

Banking & Financial Services

500-1000 team member

Remote member of the infrastructure team at a regulated Swiss bank; owner of the Azure platform under strict compliance requirements.
  • Designed the end-to-end Azure infrastructure architecture for Azure OpenAI services used in banking, and support it in production
  • Run 7 AKS clusters across 6 environments; CI/CD and GitOps with Azure DevOps and Argo CD; Infrastructure as Code with Bicep
  • Delivered a multi-region infrastructure migration
  • Migrated and restructured a credit-decision platform to Helm
  • Operate Azure SQL, SQL MI, MSSQL and MySQL; monitoring with Azure Monitor and Prometheus
  • Azure networking and VPN management; DNS management automated and under source control
  • Technologies: Azure, AKS, Helm, Argo CD, Azure DevOps, Bicep, Azure OpenAI, Entra ID, Key Vault, Private Endpoints, Azure SQL, Prometheus

IT Administrator / DevOps Engineer (full DevOps ownership)

Dynatech, Riga

Internet & IT

Full DevOps responsibility for a production AWS environment with 75+ EC2 servers and 2 EKS clusters.
  • Rolled out Infrastructure as Code from scratch with Terraform and Ansible
  • Migrated legacy services to Docker containers on Kubernetes (EKS)
  • GitOps delivery with Argo CD and GitLab CI/CD
  • Monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Zabbix and ELK
  • Optimised infrastructure for a 24/7 call-centre platform
  • Cut VM provisioning from 1.5 hours to 15 minutes per machine, speeding up disaster recovery
  • Technologies: AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS), Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitLab CI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Prometheus, Zabbix, ELK

Windows System Administrator (Microsoft infrastructure, Intune)

Eleving Consumer Finance, Riga

Banking & Financial Services

Managed enterprise Microsoft infrastructure for a consumer-finance company: 500+ workstations, 50+ servers, Azure administration and security.
  • Migrated 500+ endpoints to Windows 11 with zero-touch provisioning via Microsoft Intune
  • Microsoft Intune and MECM deployment; Autopilot-based device setup
  • Active Directory, Group Policy and Office 365 administration
  • Technologies: Microsoft Intune, Autopilot, MECM, Active Directory, GPO, Office 365, Azure, Windows Server

IT System Administrator

Molport (global chemical compounds marketplace), Riga

Internet & IT

Full scope of internal IT infrastructure for a global e-commerce marketplace.
  • Active Directory: user accounts, group policies and access control
  • Administered AWS cloud resources supporting the company platform and internal systems
  • Servers, workstations and end-user support; documentation and IT asset inventory
  • Technologies: Active Directory, GPO, AWS, Windows Server, Linux

IT Help-Desk Technician (data-centre operations)

DEAC (data-centre provider), Riga

Internet & IT

First-line technical support at a Latvian data-centre provider.
  • Handled infrastructure incidents and ensured operational continuity across hosted environments
  • DNS management: zone configuration, record maintenance and troubleshooting for client domains
  • Data-centre operations: hardware monitoring, rack management, responses to physical infrastructure issues
  • Continuous monitoring of servers and network equipment; escalation of anomalies before they impacted clients
  • Technologies: DNS, server and network monitoring, Linux, Windows Server

Certificates

Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Microsoft

2026

Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Microsoft

2026

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