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Yesbol Kaken

Astana,Kazakhstan

Summary

Highly skilled and detail-oriented DevOps Engineer with over 6 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure solutions. Adept at automating workflows, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and leveraging cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to enhance deployment processes. Proficient in tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible, with a strong background in scripting and system administration. Proven ability to streamline software delivery, reduce downtime, and ensure reliable monitoring and logging using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack. A team player with excellent problem-solving abilities, continuously improving DevOps practices to foster collaboration between development and operations teams. RHCSA certified; CKA( Certified Kubernetes Administrator); AWS

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior DevOps Engineer

CDEK Company
Астана, Kazakhstan
01.2023 - 11.2024
  • Managed and automated deployment, scaling, and maintenance of applications and infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes
  • Develop and use automation to deploy infrastructure, applications, and configurations - Ansible
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform making it more predictable and scalable
  • Web/App/DB servers deployment and configuration (Nginx, Apache, Postgresql)
  • GitOps: Leveraging for GitOps-based continuous delivery to synchronize application deployments with Git repositories, enhancing deployment automation
  • Orchestrated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, automating code deployment, testing, and integration with version control systems
  • Engineered HAProxy-based load balancing infrastructure, improving application availability and enhancing performance by evenly distributing traffic across multiple backend servers
  • Implemented custom health checks and fine-tuned load balancing algorithms
  • AWS SDK (ec2, route54, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS, etc.);
  • Kubernetes;
  • Ansible, Helm, Terraform;
  • FluxCD/ArgoCD/Fleet;
  • Led the implementation and management of Minio, a high-performance object storage system, ensuring data durability, high availability, and efficient data distribution across the organization
  • Configured and maintained storage buckets, access policies, and monitored system performance
  • Developed and maintained Python and Shell scripts for routine system tasks and created Python scripts for custom automation

DevOps Engineer

BTSDigital
07.2021 - 03.2023
  • Managed and automated deployment, scaling, and maintenance of applications and infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes
  • Develop and use automation to deploy infrastructure, applications, and configurations - Ansible
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform making it more predictable and scalable
  • Web/App/DB servers deployment and configuration (Nginx, Apache, Postgresql)
  • GitOps: Leveraging Argo CD for GitOps-based continuous delivery to synchronize application deployments with Git repositories, enhancing deployment automation
  • Orchestrated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, automating code deployment, testing, and integration with version control systems

Lead DevOps Engineer

IT Invest Group
Казахстан
05.2019 - 07.2021
  • Automating build and deployment process using Jenkins (basic creation of CI/CD, before it was manual)
  • Migration pipelines to Gitlab (gitlab.com): configuring yaml pipelines, maintaining gitlab-runners
  • Preparing dev/preprod environments and automation of upgrades: ansible, terraform, bash
  • Splitting application to microservices: containerization (docker)
  • Deployment of Consul+Nomad clusters and migrating deployments from baremetal servers to Nomad cluster
  • Later was decided to use managed Kubernetes and all workloads was migrated to Kubernetes: had a great experience with working Kubernetes, started learning deeper anything about Kubernetes
  • Participated in performance testing, automated infrastructure creation which was used for generating required load to our services: ansible, terraform
  • Monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana

DevOps Engineer

HIBRAIN
05.2018 - 04.2019
  • Deploy and manage RedHat 7.5/CentOS 7 based systems
  • Plan, build, and engineer all public facing application servers
  • Plan and deploy Docker/Kubernetes distributed application/distributed systems
  • Building Infrastructure As Code for automated deployments
  • Source and version control of all contributed code in Gitlab
  • Deploy monitoring solutions for AWS/Linux environment
  • Use of Atlassian Jira and Confluence for ticketing/documentation
  • Configuration Management with Ansible Tower
  • Scripting/automating Linux/Windows servers with Python, Bash, YAML, and PowerShell
  • Deploy HYPR web based applications in cloud based clustered environments
  • HYPR Windows application version control for multiple home-grown applications
  • Test/QA web based applications on various Linux based distributions to ensure HYPR runs across any environment
  • Administer ESXi 6.7 vCenter environment
  • Manage Active Directory environment (server 2012/2016)
  • Stress test web based applications prior to delivery
  • Work alongside CISO to ensure all aspects of Cyber Security for internal and external environments

Системный администратор

Национальный Архив РК
Казахстан
01.2018 - 06.2018

Преподаватель по С

школа-лицей 72
Астана
10.2016 - 03.2018

Education

Степень магистра - Информационные технологии

L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
01.2016 - 01.2018

Бакалавр - Информационные технологии

L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
01.2012 - 01.2016

Skills

  • Python
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • git, GitLab, GitLab-CI;
  • docker, docker-compose;
  • AWS SDK (ec2, route54, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS, etc);
  • Kubernetes;
  • Ansible, Helm, Terraform;
  • FluxCD/ArgoCD/Fleet;
  • Experience with Service Mesh solutions (Consul/Istio/etc);
  • Grafana, Zabbix;
  • SQL & NoSQL (PostgreSQL, TSDB, etc);

Certification

  • Helm
  • RHCSA
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Базовые знаний по c++
  • CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Languages

English
Fluent
Russian
Fluent

Personal Information

Title: DevOps Engineer | CKA | RHCSA | AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

CDEK Company
01.2023 - 11.2024

DevOps Engineer

BTSDigital
07.2021 - 03.2023

Lead DevOps Engineer

IT Invest Group
05.2019 - 07.2021

DevOps Engineer

HIBRAIN
05.2018 - 04.2019

Системный администратор

Национальный Архив РК
01.2018 - 06.2018

Преподаватель по С

школа-лицей 72
10.2016 - 03.2018

Степень магистра - Информационные технологии

L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
01.2016 - 01.2018

Бакалавр - Информационные технологии

L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
01.2012 - 01.2016
Yesbol Kaken