Devops Engineer Project Management

AZAMAT CHOLPONBEK

DevOps Engineer

513-***-**** *******.******@*****.*** Cincinnati, OH www.linkedin.com/in/azamat-cholponbek PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

AWS and Kubernetes Certified DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of experience in managing and configuring scalable, resilient and cost-efficient cloud infrastructures using AWS and Terraform. Proficient in automating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins; utilizing Git for version control and streamlining production practices. Experienced in deploying containerized microservice applications, ensuring optimal performance, rapid deployment, and enhanced security within EKS clusters. Highly proficient in collaborative teamwork, leveraging collective strengths to achieve common objectives. Team player who is driven by collaboration and knowledge-sharing to achieve common objectives and deliver organizational goals efficiently

SKILLS

AWS Cloud: CLI, IAM, EC2, VPC, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancer, Secrets manager, Lambda, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, CloudFront, Route53, WAF

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

Container Orchestration: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, AWS EKS & ECR Infrastructure as a Code: Terraform, Cloudformation Configuration Management: Helm, Packer, Ansible

Monitoring: Datadog, Cloudwatch, PagerDuty, Prometheus, Grafana Logging: Datadog, EFK & ELK stacks, Cloudtrail

Scripting: Bash, Shell, Python

Version Control: Git, GitHub

Project Management: JIRA, Confluence, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) WORK EXPERIENCE

DevOps Engineer June 2021 - Present

Brad’s Deals Chicago, IL

● Developed a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions for AWS infrastructure to automate deployments on merge by integrating the best practices for maintaining, provisioning and configuring the cloud resources across dev, test and prod environments

● Built AWS EKS Cluster with self-managed nodes via Terraform. Wrote and customized Terraform modules from scratch in order to satisfy in-house network and security requirements

● Migrated monolithic applications to Kubernetes (EKS) clusters as container-based microservices, leveraging Docker and working closely with Development and QA teams

● Automated the creation of customizable images for production environments through refactoring Packer scripts, substantially reducing deployment durations

● Utilized Datadog for comprehensive observability across Kubernetes and AWS resources, monitoring metrics, collecting logs, preventing and troubleshooting incidents

● Served in on-call rotations utilizing PagerDuty, quickly troubleshooted incidents beyond regular business hours, performed RCA (root cause analysis) and PIR (post incident review)

● Conducted research on new technologies and initiated new solutions for the company, prepared Readme and Confluence internal documentations

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DevOps Engineer October 2018 - June 2021

Ampersand New York, NY

● Configured and managed various AWS services including EC2 instances, Amazon S3, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Route53, RDS, ASG, ELB, and DynamoDB, focusing on maintaining high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling capabilities to ensure uninterrupted service delivery.

● Created and implemented Terraform modules to facilitate the efficient creation of RDS databases across multi-stage environments, which led to minimized downtime and increased efficiency in database management.

● Undertook standard system administration tasks involving user access management, patching, software upgrades, troubleshooting, and issue resolution on Linux platforms, ensuring system stability and optimal performance.

● Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines based on Jenkins, Make and Python scripts to automate deployments of Dockerized applications to AWS EKS clusters across multi-stage environment

● Developed and implemented advanced cloud security strategies and solutions, including the integration of cutting-edge security tools and the enforcement of security best practices, to protect cloud environments against various threats and vulnerabilities.

● Provisioned Prometheus and Grafana as a monitoring solution, and EFK (ElasticSearch, FluentD and Kibana) stack as a logging solution to improve resilience and troubleshooting

● Automated the principle of least privilege (PoLP) within AWS Organization by provisioning SSO resources via Terraform

CERTIFICATIONS and EDUCATION

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) July 2023 Certified Kubernetes Administrator October 2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-CO3) June 2023 MBA in Marketing Kyrgyz Slavic University June 2012 2

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