Senior DevOps Engineer

Vladimir Shmalko

Pleasanton, CA • 925-***-**** • ********.*******@*****.*** • linkedin.com/in/vladimir-shmalko Senior SRE / DevOps / Kubernetes / AWS Engineer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior SRE and DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience building, automating, and supporting cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and production services. Strong background in AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Python, Bash, Linux, observability, and secrets management. Proven track record of improving reliability, standardizing infrastructure, and enabling engineering teams through automation and platform improvements.

CORE SKILLS

• AWS • Bash • Postgres / MySQL / AWS RDS

• Kubernetes / Amazon EKS • Linux / UNIX • NGINX Ingress / NLB

• Terraform • Infrastructure as Code • ArgoCD

• CloudFormation • CI/CD • Ansible

• Helm • Observability & Monitoring • AWS CDK

• Python • Secrets Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior SRE Engineer Apple, SDG Team (contract) Jun 2023 – Mar 2026

• Built a sandbox environment for the infrastructure team using AWS EKS, Helm, and Terraform.

• Supported and upgraded AWS EKS clusters used by the internal platform.

• Developed and maintained Helm charts for existing and new platform services.

• Implemented and updated AWS connectivity for services, including NLB and NGINX Ingress integration.

• Migrated 10+ platform services from on-premises Kubernetes to AWS EKS to improve scalability.

• Rolled out centralized secrets management for platform services and created scripts and tooling to simplify adoption and daily operations.

• Planned and executed a secrets consolidation project, standardizing naming, creating shared secrets, and reducing the number of unique secrets across the platform by more than 50%.

• Improved and maintained the monitoring stack, including Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos.

• Led a DNS migration to a new platform domain without service interruption. Job Search Jan 2023 – May 2023

Senior DevOps Engineer Upstart Jul 2021 – Dec 2022

• Supported Kubernetes platforms in Red Hat OKD and ROSA environments.

• Handled day-to-day Kubernetes operations, including RBAC and network policy creation, updates, and troubleshooting.

• Set up new applications in Kubernetes environments.

• Participated in the migration from OKD 3.11 to ROSA, deploying and configuring multiple clusters using the Red Hat Console, ROSA/oc CLI, and AWS CDK.

• Deployed LaunchDarkly Relay Proxy in playground, staging, and production environments using AWS CDK and ArgoCD.

• Converted multiple application deployments from Jsonnet to Helm.

• Built a proof of concept for a template application using modern deployment practices: migrated deployment from Jsonnet to Helm, updated Jenkins CI, deployed ArgoCD applications to staging and production, created a new CD pipeline with ArgoCD, and wrote RFC/documentation.

• Created a standardized set of Datadog Kubernetes alerts with Terraform and introduced it as a standard approach for DevOps alert creation.

Senior DevOps Engineer TrueAccord Jan 2019 – Jul 2021

• Standardized AWS VPC architecture with CloudFormation and deployed 10+ VPCs, including 8+ PCI-compliant environments.

• Introduced Kubernetes to the engineering organization.

• Standardized Kubernetes cluster deployment, including metrics, autoscaling, monitoring, ingress, DNS, and other system services.

• Deployed and supported 10+ Kubernetes clusters.

• Refactored an older CI/CD pipeline to support multiple environments, deployed a QA environment, and implemented CI/CD for it.

• Introduced HashiCorp Vault to the engineering team with a production deployment on Kubernetes.

• Built a proof of concept for Airflow on Kubernetes for the data team; the solution was later adopted in production.

• Created a reusable Helm/Jenkins deployment pipeline used by developers as the standard for new services.

• Refactored CloudFormation scripts to build standardized PCI-compliant environments.

• Deployed Prometheus Operator, Thanos, and Grafana for metrics collection across 8 PCI environments.

• Deployed Fluent Bit and Fluentd for centralized logging across 8 PCI environments.

• Integrated Okta with Vault and Grafana.

• Supported migration from legacy environments to PCI-compliant infrastructure, including Kubernetes application and database migration work.

• Developed Ansible roles and playbooks, CloudFormation and AWS CDK templates, and AWS CLI, Bash, and Python automation scripts.

Senior SRE, Ops Sage Intacct Apr 2018 – Dec 2018

• Supported production infrastructure availability, troubleshooting, and monitoring.

• Designed and implemented a scaling solution for Graphite and Grafana services across multiple pods and environments.

• Implemented OBIEE/WebLogic metrics collection for Graphite using WLST and Python.

• Built metrics scripts for Elasticsearch and Squid services.

• Developed a generic Python script to send metrics to Graphite and reuse the same metrics for Nagios alerting. Senior Systems Engineer, Backend Team ThinAir Aug 2017 – Mar 2018

• Designed and implemented backend APIs using Django and Python.

• Improved local development workflows by introducing Docker and Docker Compose test environments.

• Increased custom query engine performance by 30% through major refactoring of legacy code.

• Improved PostgreSQL performance on AWS RDS by 25% through Django migration refactoring, index cleanup, query plan optimization, and Postgres tuning.

Senior Systems Engineer, Professional Services

Dev Team Five9

Sep 2013 – Jul 2017

• Developed and maintained an in-house large-scale FTP/FTPS/SFTP upload framework using Linux, Python/Twisted, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Git.

• Managed 15 Linux servers running the framework across 3 data centers, including deployment and performance tuning.

• Improved framework architecture to support multiple destination servers for the same source file using Python and Postgres.

• Gathered customer requirements, evaluated requests, provided consulting, and implemented hundreds of custom upload workflows.

• Designed and implemented a new transport module supporting AWS S3 and Dropbox uploads using RabbitMQ and Erlang/OTP.

• Designed and implemented internal web services for CS, NOC, and Ops using Flask, jQuery, Bootstrap, Autobahn, and Fabric.

• Created Python scripts for database queries, reporting, and file replication between data centers.

• Developed a deployment pipeline using custom RPMs and Python eggs.

• Successfully deployed the framework stack to multiple new data centers and locations, including connectivity planning, host setup, and Ansible-based deployment.

• Provided SRE/on-call support from Sep 2013 to Dec 2014, including Linux administration, troubleshooting, and NOC ticket handling.

Earlier IT / Linux Roles Various companies in

Russia

May 1995 – Aug 2013

EDUCATION

Bachelor Degree in Electronic Engineering, Krasnodar College of Electronic Instrument Making, Krasnodar, Russia 1990 – 1993

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