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Principal Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Barcelona, Spain Master
Barcelona, Spain Master

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About me

I am a Principal DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer with full ownership of large-scale, mission-critical production infrastructure operating high-load systems processing +100k HTTP requests per second.

Amazon Web ServicesApplications ArchitectureAutomationMicrosoft AzureCloud ComputingConfiguration Management DatabasesContinuous IntegrationData InfrastructureData MigrationDevOpsIncident ResponseInfrastructure ManagementVirtual Private Networks (VPN)Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP)Load TestingOAuthOctopus DeployProduction SystemsRabbitMQReliability EngineeringAnsiblePrometheusSecurity Assertion Markup Language (SAML)Security ManagingStorage SystemsRoot Cause AnalysisGoogle CloudPerformance TestingGrafanaGitlab-ciKubernetesDeployment AutomationApache KafkaPuppetTerraformDockerJenkins
Cloud Infrastructure Management
Expertise in AWS, GCP cloud platforms with experience in migration, optimization, and multi-region deployments

DevOps Automation and CI/CD
Proficiency in GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and Puppet for automated deployment and infrastructure management

Container Orchestration and Monitoring
Advanced skills in Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring tools like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus

Site Reliability Engineering
Production system monitoring, incident response, L2/L3 troubleshooting, and root cause analysis

Performance Testing and Load Engineering
Performance load testing implementation and infrastructure optimization for high-traffic applications

Infrastructure as Code
Terraform and Puppet automation for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management

Database and Storage Solutions
Experience with Clickhouse clusters, data migration, and managing large-scale data infrastructure

Network and Security Management
VPN solutions, SSO/LDAP/SAML/OAuth integration, and corporate CDN setup across multiple regions

Languages

EnglishFluentRussianFluentSpanishBasic knowledge

Project history

Senior DevOps [B2B 6+2 month contract]

Wallchain

Internet & IT

10-50 team member

Help to build/automate infrastracture with Terraform/Terragrunt within GCP, including GKE with Gitlab CI and ArgoCD.
Monitor production systems and respond to alerts and incidents, perform L2/L3 troubleshooting, support CI/CD pipelines, maintain GCP resources and access management, assist development teams with infrastructure-related issues

Principal Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Adpartner

Media & Publishing

10-50 team member

Lead role organizing cloud vendor unlock solutions including Kubernetes on-prem, cover project lifecycle from planning to optimization, improve infrastructure TCO, migrate services from AWS/GCP to On-Prem, organize distributed corporate CDN in multi regions

For the past 3 years, I have been the sole engineer responsible for architecture, automation, reliability, networking, and cost efficiency across multiple hybrid environments (bare metal + virtualization + cloud).
Across all environments, I manage 300+ servers covering the full lifecycle from hardware procurement to production operations.

Senior DevOps/SRE

Techiia Holding

Internet & IT

250-500 team member

Rollout infrastracture changes under AWS
Automate workflow for AWS with Terraform
Automate non cloud systems by Puppet and Ansible
Provide 24x7 support.
Provide continuous RND for further DevOps/DevSecOps/NetOps
Support daily deployments
Migrate all business microservices from Apache Mesos to AWS EKS.
Organize SSO: LDAP/SAML/Oauth integration
Prepare VPN solution: RA and S2S
Decrease cloud costs by FinOps
Migrate full infrastracture from MS Azure to AWS

Perf Load Test Engineer/Middle+ DevOps

Playtech

Other

250-500 team member

Provide Performance Load Tests for William Hill agency
Support Performance Load Injection infrastracture on AWS with Ansible And Terraform
Provide Performance Load Tests reports and conclutions
Automate manual workflows with CI/CD with Jenkins/Ansible
Work with QA automation team and DEV teams

Certificates

CCNA Security

Cisco

2013

CCNP

Cisco

2012


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