Azure DevOps Engineer

Yurii Grachov DEVOPS ENGINEER

Edwards, CA 818-***-**** ***************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/yurii-grachov DevOps Engineer with 6 years of experience in Cloud and Automation specializing in Azure, AWS. Optimized deployment processes, implemented CI/CD pipelines, designed and integrated IaC improvements for enterprise projects at EPAM Systems.

● Lynk&Co: Automotive brand under Geely and Volvo, has sold over 900,000 vehicles globally

● Alfresco: open-source enterprise content management company, served 1,300+ organizations, managing 7B+ documents

● GroupM: media investment group, manages $60B+ in annual ad spend

● Canadian Tire Corporation: retail giant with 1,700+ locations, generates over $16B in annual revenue

● Volunteer activity: Migration of university data to the AWS for optimizing process and cost efficiency

● GE Healthcare: global leader in medical technology and diagnostics with revenue $18B+, serves over 160 countries

● EPM-SSDL: provide security guidance and supervision of the SDLC and tailored security quality gates for 250 projects application KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

● Cut service deployment time by 20% by building infrastructure from scratch in Azure allowing faster feature releases and more flexible deployment cycles.

● Improved monitoring and observability by 25% by setting up Azure Alerts with Logic Apps and integrating notifications into MS Teams to notify the team via MS Teams, improving incident response times and operational reliability.

● Boosted security for ~250 Git projects by implementing SAST/DAST pipelines as part of the business security assessment leveled up security standards and collaborated with teams to implement these standards.

● Achieved 2x faster deployment and system loading by optimizing Azure DevOps pipelines for performance testing enabling high-load processing with 100k, 350k, 500k, 1mln, 5mln, and 10mln files.

● Reduced manual work for developers by 30% by automating the loading of JSON environment variables via pipeline got rid of repetitive tasks and minimized human errors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EPAM Systems November 2018 – October 2024

International IT company specializes in software engineering services, digital platform engineering, and digital product design for Fortune 500 clients.

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EPAM Systems – Project: Lynk&Co May 2023 – October 2024 Premium automotive brand under Geely and Volvo, has sold over 900,000 vehicles globally, redefining car ownership with its subscription-based mobility model.

● Enabled a subscription-based mobility model with 2k+ active subscriptions by creating the Commercetools environment from scratch using the 3rd party Terraform provider labd/commercetools facilitating new revenue streams and scaling business operations.

● Accelerated service deployment by 20% by building fully automated infrastructure on Azure using Terraform reducing time-to-market and increasing operational agility for new services.

● Reduced artifact delivery time by 30% by implementing a combination of CI/CD pipelines enhancing deployment efficiency and enabling quicker feedback cycles.

● Collaborated with the customer’s Front-end team by assisting in setting up CI/CD pipelines for React application builds enabling seamless integration and deployment, which improved productivity and strengthened customer partnership.

● Improved overall security score by 10% by enabling Lifecycle Management for Azure Blobs, reducing security risks and ensuring compliance with the customer's security assessment requirements.

● Created Dockerfiles for more than 20+ Azure Web Apps in different environments, to run and integrate services inside e-commerce platform.

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EPAM Systems – Project: GroupM June 2022 – May 2023 The world’s largest media investment group, manages $60B+ in annual ad spend, driving data driven marketing for clients in 100+ countries.

● Reduced code duplication by 50% by developing and implementing a map object schema approach in Terraform enhancing maintainability and scalability of infrastructure code.

● Enabled efficient cloud resource management by designing a flexible and reusable infrastructure approach allowing different teams within the project to deploy and manage cloud resources more efficiently.

● Boosted delivery process by 1.5x by refactoring Terraform code using a module structure enabling reusable infrastructure components and faster deployment cycles.

● Optimized developers manual work by 35% by implementing CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Azure CLI automating routine manual tasks and reducing operational overhead.

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EPAM Systems – Project: Canadian Tire Corporation December 2021 – June 2022 A retail giant with 1,700+ locations, generates over $16B in annual revenue, spanning automotive, hardware, sports, and housewares.

● Improved deployment efficiency for 40+ microservices by setting up CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins and GitHub Actions streamlining continuous integration and delivery processes.

● Minimized manual interruption by 2.5x by automating the process of Vault secrets rotation using GitHub Actions enhancing security practices and operational efficiency.

● Enhanced collaboration with the security team by standardizing the secrets rotation process across 40+ GitHub repositories ensuring alignment on security practices and fostering better communication between DevOps and security teams.

● Enabled versioning by 50% by transitioning from Classic pipelines to YAML pipelines improving maintainability and traceability of infrastructure changes.

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EPAM Systems – Project: Volunteer project October 2021 – December 2021 Migration of university data to the AWS for optimizing process and cost efficiency in scope of educational partnership between EPAM Systems and AWS.

• Enabled universities to allocate 30% of cloud cost savings by optimizing cloud computing costs using the AWS Pricing Calculator supporting teaching staff and enhancing educational resources.

• Reduced deployment time from 30 to 10 minutes by automating the deployment process of defined AMI for EC2 streamlining the release pipeline and increasing operational efficiency.

• Improved cost efficiency by 20% while maintaining performance and scalability by reviewing and optimizing RDS instance types ensuring high availability and resource optimization.

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EPAM Systems – Project: Alfresco February 2020 – October 2021 An open-source enterprise content management company, served 1,300+ organizations worldwide, managing 7 billion+ documents before its acquisition by Hyland.

● Boosted sales by developing 20+ AWS scripts for comprehensive load testing reports enabling the sales team to leverage data in client interactions and demonstrate system performance.

● Enabled high-load processing (1mln, 5mln, 10mln documents) by using Azure DevOps API to transfer set-up parameters between CI and CD pipelines ensuring smooth scalability and performance under heavy workloads.

● Onboarded and mentored 5 DevOps engineers by creating comprehensive technical documentation and conducting knowledge transfer

(KT) sessions facilitating skill development and team productivity.

● Implemented Python scripts to automate transfer dynamic environment variables through Azure DevOps pipelines which helped to reduce manual interaction by 20%

DEVOPS ENGINEER

EPAM Systems – Project: EPM-SSDL April 2019 – February 2020 EPAM’s internal project aimed to provide security guidance and supervision of the products development, deployment and enforce the tailored security quality gates across ~250 internal projects.

• Decreased severe vulnerabilities by 2x by leveraging Qualys scanner reports leading to increased application security and reduced exposure to critical threats.

• Improved vulnerability identification by 2x by leading demo meetings and presenting findings from security audits using Qualys Web Application Scanning influencing security practices across teams and driving awareness of risk assessment.

• Enabled secure development lifecycle in 250 projects by integrating SAST/DAST pipelines using Jenkins within EPAM Business Systems & Services, ensuring consistent security standards across internal projects. DEVOPS ENGINEER

EPAM Systems – Project: GE Healthcare November 2018 – April 2019

$18B+ global leader in medical technology and diagnostics, serves over 160 countries, advancing imaging, AI, and patient monitoring solutions.

● Reduced deployment time by 30% by implementing robust CI/CD pipelines enabling faster time-to-market and more efficient release cycles.

● Cut AKS cluster costs by 20% by optimizing compute resource distribution improving resource utilization and scalability while maintaining system performance.

● Decreased potential code issues by 50% by integrating SonarQube for comprehensive code coverage analysis across multiple development streams, ensuring higher code quality and maintainability. EDUCATION

Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Systems and Networks, National University of Radio Electronics Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications, National University of Radio Electronics CERTIFICATES

Hashicorp Terraform Associate May 2024

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) August 2023 Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) April 2023 Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) May 2022 TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Technologies: Azure (Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Web App, Azure App Configuration, Azure Monitor autoscaling, Azure Log Analytics, AKS, Azure Automation Account, ServiceBus, EventGrid, Azure VM, Azure VMSS, Azure Container Registry, Azure CosmosDB, VNet, NSG, Subnets, Azure Alerts, Azure Logic Apps), AWS (EC2, IAM, AMI, S3, VPC, RDS, Auto scaling, Secrets manager)

Automation and Orchestration: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform, ARM Templates), Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python, YAML), Azure CLI, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes

Monitoring and Security: Azure Monitor Metrics, Application Insights Tools: SonarCloud, SonarQube, Postman, Git.

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