Alex Akilin

Skills

• Linux RedHat, Windows Server
• AWS, Azure, Rackspace, IBM Softlayer
• EC2, RDS, IAM, Route53, S3, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS,Lambda
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL
• Jenkins
• GitHub, Gitlab
• Nginx, Apache, IIS, Tomcat
• Bash, PowerShell, Python
• Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios, Logic Monitor
• VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker, Vagrant, K8s
• RabbitMQ
• Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation

Work Experience

DevOps, UpTeam, 2019 – present

Nexar Project - a social network of dashcams aimed at dashcams interaction and enabling new vision-based applications for better driving.

• Automating deployment processes
• Building continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Setting up new and/or support of existing infrastructure: providing automation, including cloud services
• Providing reliability improvements
• Setting up Monitoring and alerting systems
• Carrying out maintenance and preparing documentation
• Interacting closely with project managers, other engineers and client-side stakeholders involved in product delivery
• Participating in planning discussions and leading related design discussions and in product meetings with business owners providing personal input to enhance the product
• Configuring Kubernetes KOPS
• Researching and pioneer the adoption and use of new technologies

Stack: Linux, AWS, GitHub, Terraform, ElasticSearch, HBase, Kafka, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins

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DevOps System Engineer, Aquiva Labs, 2018 – 2020

• DevOps methodology, implementation of practices and culture
• Configure and administration of infrastructure in AWS
• Deploying infrastructure in AWS with Terraform
• SFTP with AWS S3 bucket mount + AWS Lambda
• Ensuring the availability of servers in 24x7 mode, Duty Management, OpsGenie
• System analytics for the description and automation of business processes
• Deploying infrastructure with Ansible, Docker, Docker-Compose
• AWS ECS Cluster Administration- Setup and administration, process automation using TeamCity
• Setup and administration of servers based on Ubuntu, Centos, Linux AWS
• Setting up automatic backup of internal services, databases, sites on AWS to storage in S3
• Monitoring setup based on Zabbix, Prometheus (+ JMX, Node Exporter), Grafana, InfluxDB
• Configure ELK logging (Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana), and alert CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Sonar.
• Setting ChatOps (Slack, Telegram, OpsGenie)
• Configure Kubernetes KOPS
• Kafka Aiven Administration- MongoDB cloud administration
• PCI DSS compliance, work with documentation
• Disaster recovery trainings preparation- Bash, Python scripts for automation undefined
• AWS CloudWatch

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Senior System Administrator / DevOps, Breffi, 2017 – 2018

• DevOps, find bottlenecks, automation and optimization of the system
• Setup and administration of infrastructure, cloud services Microsoft Azure, Cloud4You, Google CloudPlatform
• Redundancy at the data center
• Ensuring the efficiency of servers in operation 24x7
• Setting up a local infrastructure clusters on Windows Server 2016 virtualization Hyper-V-based
• Setting up a local area network, ACL security, Cisco Catalist 3560CX, Cisco 2911. UniFi Wifi
• DHCP, DNS, Active Directory on Windows Server 2016.- User Access Administration on portal.microsoft.com
• System analyst to describe and automate business processes
• Provisioning and scale of infrastructure with Packer, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Docker-Compose
• Setup and Administration GitLab.- Setup and administration of servers based on Ubuntu 16.0.4
• Configure and administer cloud OwnCloud data server on the internal network.
• Setting up automatic backup internal servers and user’s computers using standard Windows tools
• Virtualization-based Proxmox, cluster on the CEPH
• Virtualization based on VMWare
• Setting up of the local environment on Vagrant + Ansible + Docker, Docker-Compose.- Setting up Jenkins
• Setting up Monitoring, logging and alerting based on Zabbix, Prometheus, Docker Logging via EFK(Elasticsearch + Fluentd + Kibana)
• Setting Kubernetes (Minikube, K8s GCP)