DevOps Engineer

The candidate is an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in optimizing cloud infrastructure and enhancing operational efficiency. He drove cost savings by refining application build processes and unifying monitoring procedures. Later, he led efforts to improve observability and availability of SaaS products, reducing costs while enhancing monitoring capabilities. Moreover, he managed AWS infrastructure for international financial institutions, implementing problem management procedures and improving system resiliency. Overall, his experience demonstrates a strong focus on efficiency, cost reduction, and operational improvement.

Senior DevOps Engineer

(Sep 2022 - Oct 2023)

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• Management of AWS cloud infrastructure providing services for Mediaprint and its BricBrac projects.
• Notable achievements and key responsibilities:
• Application build process changes resulting in significant cost savings in AWS andKubernetes infrastructure
• IaC Introduction and migration of cloud resource management to Terraform
• Unification of monitoring and alerting procedures which led to enhanced operationalefficiency across various application environments

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Senior DevOps Engineer, Monitoring Lead

(Sep 2020 - Aug 2022)

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• Leading monitoring team with focus on improving observability and availability of Ohpen SaaS products.Notable achievements and key responsibilities:
• Fostering cross-team relationships to enhance observability across company products,including legacy applications, by collaborating with development, cloud operations, finance,and management teams.
• Consolidation of observability tooling introduced after Davinci’s acquisition by Ohpen
• Initiated company-wide standardization of alerting approach, which led to faster onboard-ing of new on-call engineers
• Transitioning old monitoring tools to Terraform and facilitating the adoption of the newstandard through Datadog onboarding
• Substantially improving monitoring of systems and applications while keeping Datadogcosts in check

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Senior DevOps Engineer, Problem Manager

(Jul 2016 - Aug 2020)

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• BisBKR and Close Consumer Loans applications administration and management of underlying AWS infrastructure servicing several international financial institutions.Notable achievements and key responsibilities:
• Problem Management, Root Cause Analysis and investigation for Davinci SaaS products
• Improved resiliency of company SaaS product resulting in significant reduction of meantime to failure for checks against Dutch credit registry
• Design and implementation of change and incident management procedures that ledto overall improvement of change deployment for internal and customer facing applications

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System Engineer

(Sep 2014 - May 2016)

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• Responsible for administration, provisioning and maintenance of the company datacenter infrastructure and Call.me product.
• Notable achievements and key responsibilities:
• Network layout redesign of the on-premise and colocated server infrastructure
• Automated creation of development environments for developers to mimic Call.meproduction environment using HashiCorp tools
• Various storage and database performance improvements in host.sk free web hostingplatform
• Introduction of IaC for company-wide infrastructure observability

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System Administrator/VoIP Specialist

(Jul 2012 - Sep 2014)

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• Part of the customer technical support team and responsible for administration of production IT and telecommunications infrastructure.Notable achievements and key responsibilities:
• Troubleshooting, debugging and resolving of networking & infrastructure problems reportedby customers and suppliers
• Installation, management and deployment of VMware vSphere infrastructure alongsidesupporting services like Veeam Backup and Replication