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Cloud Infrastructure / Automation Specialist / PCI-DSS Compliance Engineer

Professional Summary

Infrastructure and DevOps engineer with 7+ years of experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud platforms. End-to-end ownership across AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack, including networking, security, monitoring, and compliance (PCI-DSS 4.0). Comfortable with Linux at every level, from RHEL production fleets to building Gentoo and LFS as a daily driver. Known for fast execution and shipping reliable platforms that scale with the product.

Experience

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Farel (YC S20)

Jul 2023 – Present · Full-time

  • Migrated the entire production stack from AWS to Azure as the initial onboarding engagement, using Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI.
  • Built and maintain the company's first PCI-DSS 4.0 compliant infrastructure from scratch. Passed annual re-validation in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
  • Implemented branch-isolated Kubernetes environments: each Git branch spawns an ephemeral, fully isolated deployment that auto-removes on merge, enabling parallel non-blocking development.
  • Connected Azure Kubernetes workloads to multi-country on-premise data centers via policy-based IPSec (StrongSwan + iptables + Ansible).

Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps Consultant, GRACE

Autumn 2025 · Paris, FR · Remote

  • Built complete cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for GRACE, a French fintech offering AI-powered embedded insurance and claims processing for luxury goods (partnered with brands including Messika and RIMOWA).

Infrastructure / DevOps Consultant, Information Security firm

Summer 2025

  • Designed and deployed a Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox VMs backed by Fibre Channel SAN storage for a regional information-security firm providing services to a state cadastral registry.

DevOps / SRE, Aitu-DALA

Nov 2019 – Mar 2023 · Full-time · Astana, KZ · Remote

  • Built and operated a Prometheus-based monitoring stack across the company: Alertmanager, dozens of Grafana dashboards, Slack + IRC integration, downsampled long-term storage with S3 snapshots, and Twilio voice + SMS alerting via a custom Python relay.
  • Wrote and maintained 57 GitLab CI/CD pipelines: build, test, component-test, ephemeral per-branch deployments, and tagged release flows.
  • Deployed Loki-based logging and multi-location blackbox monitoring with an interactive response-time map.
  • HA Nginx HTTP/TCP load balancers with VTS metrics and Keepalived; Ingress-Nginx, Ambassador / Emissary / Envoy gateways tuned for production.
  • Built custom RHEL-compatible OS images via Kickstart + Packer with CIS benchmark hardening applied.
  • Provisioned Kubernetes clusters with Kube-Spray; ran "Kubernetes the Hard Way" deployments for component-level testing.
  • OpenStack infrastructure managed via Terraform; ConsulDNS as a PowerDNS recursor for dynamic dev-environment domains.
  • Helm-chart-based deployments with migration pre-hooks; decentralized per-service config kept in each microservice repo.

Cloud Engineer, WildApricot (by Personify)

Nov 2017 – Apr 2019 · Full-time · Moscow, RU · On-site

  • Deployed an InfluxDB-based TICK monitoring stack (Chronograf, Kapacitor, Grafana, Consul, Fabio, Telegraf) on AWS across 3 load-balanced instances.
  • Migrated 40 dashboards from Zabbix, ported ~20 bash/Python exec scripts, and programmed 85 alerts across 26 service groups.

Linux System Engineer, Trio KZ

Nov 2015 – Nov 2017 · Full-time · Astana, KZ · On-site

  • Hosting engineer and Linux system administrator with responsibility for web-development infrastructure support.

Linux System Administrator, IHT KZ (Kazatomprom)

Sep 2010 – May 2015 · Full-time · Almaty, KZ · On-site

  • Linux system administration and network administration; led the IT support team.

Core Skills

  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack
  • DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, Terraform, Ansible
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Helm
  • Programming: Bash, Python (Flask, Django)
  • Operating Systems: Debian, Gentoo, RHEL, FreeBSD; LFS
  • Networking: TCP/IP, IPX, iptables, nftables
  • VPN & Tunneling: IPSec, StrongSwan, OpenVPN, WireGuard, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, Azure VPN Gateway, Google Cloud VPN, including cross-cloud BGP peering
  • Ingress / Load Balancing: Nginx (HTTP/TCP, VTS), Keepalived, Ingress-Nginx, Ambassador, Emissary, Envoy
  • Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Loki, InfluxDB (TICK), Telegraf
  • Image Building: Packer, Kickstart, custom CIS-hardened RHEL images, cloud AMIs/ACIs
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB

Certifications

  • RHCSA: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (2016)

Languages

  • English: B2 (Upper Intermediate)
  • Russian: Native

Availability

Prefer remote work. Open to short on-site trips when hardware work requires it.