DevOps Engineer & Windows Administrator

Systems Engineer with around 4 years of experience in DevOps. He is currently responsible for the infrastructure, RedHat, for provisioning and supporting of OpenShift platform, RHEL based VM fleet, VM and Bare Metal Monitoring, CI/CD integration and deployment with Jenkins, automation of processes with Ansible, support and management of NetApp storage solution. Previously he was doing release management for DEV and UAT environments, management of applications running on Windows servers. He has been working in Linux environmnet for almost 3 years. He has experience with scripting in Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ruby. He has been working with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Microsoft Exchange, AD, Hyper-V, VMWare. Since he is working on trading platform that is on-premise, his experience with Cloud was in his previous job. He was working with GCP and AWS. He worked with Terraform on approximately 100 VMs. He was also using GCP on his own projects. He is currently trying to improve his programming skills as the main reason for him to change the job is that he is stagnating and wants to learn new things. He is fluent in English and Russian is his mother tongue.

May 2020 - ongoing: Systems Engineer

• Provisioning and support of OpenShift platform
• Provisioning and management of RHEL based VM fleet
• VM and Bare Metal Monitoring
• CI/CD integration and deployment with Jenkins
• Automation of processes with Ansible

February 2019 - March 2020: Systems Engineer

• Release management for DEV and UAT environments
• Management of applications running on Windows servers
• Automated development with TeamCity, Chef deployment systems
• Repository, Package, and Artifact management with Bitbucket
• Python and Ruby scripts for automating the processes

July 2018 - February 2019: System Administrator

• Providing centralized systems administration, operational support and problem resolution.
• Executing all routing administrative and operational tasks.
• Coordinating basic system administration and operational support (e.g. hardware/software installation, maintenance and support, system logs and problem reports, adds, changes, deletes, disk space management, backups, and file restores).
• Assists in monitoring of the system's performance and capacity planning. Troubleshoots and/or interacts with IT staff or vendors in testing, operational support and troubleshooting of complex system hardware and software problems.
• Develops, communicates, and monitors the operational standards and procedures.

August 2017 - May 2018: IT Operations Department Leading Specialist

• ESXi machines, vCenter administering
• Providing VMWare cluster with protection groups, recovery plan, and replication
• EMC, 3PAR, and Dell MD 32xx storages administration and monitoring
• Administering Microsoft products inside organization – Exchange, SFB, SCCM, SCOM, SCDPM, Insight, and VLSC
• Managing backups of critical system with DPM software in combination with MD 3200 storages

September 2015 - August 2017: Division of Systems Management Expert

• Corporate Network and Logical infrastructure (Active Directory), Microsoft Exchange Servers, Skype for Business servers providing and managing
• Administration of Banking VoIP PBX system: 3CX Phone System, Asterisk FreePBX, IVR upgrade and improvement for Call Center, IP phones provision, GSM Gateways installation and management
• Provide service and terminal servers with required software
• Monitor their normal and stable work
• Maintenance and security support

October 2012 - February 2013: Web Designer

• Development of web sites, coding, hosting, support, and maintenance
• Integrating digitalized imaginary into the HTML code with applying CSS 3.0 and JQuery scripts

June 2009 - August 2009: Assistant of system administrator

• Provide Wi-Fi and LAN networks for customers
• Configuration of the devices and installation of required software
• Support and maintenance