About Alex
Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer / Head of DevOps Team- AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform. From zero to production.
I help tech companies build cloud infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and built to scale - so your engineering team ships faster with fewer 3 a.m. fires. 10+ years of hands-on DevOps & SRE across European B2B and SaaS.
What I do:
- Cloud & IaC - AWS-first architecture, Terraform/Terragrunt, multi-account setups, cost optimisation
- Kubernetes - cluster design, Helm, autoscaling, multi-cluster operations
- CI/CD - GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD - commit to production in minutes
- Observability - Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK — know before your users do
- Reliability & Security - SLOs, on-call/runbooks, disaster recovery, hardened baselines, NIS2 readiness
I can take a project from an empty AWS account to a monitored, automated production environment - and stay on for ongoing SRE support if you need it.
Based in Finland, working with clients across the EU (remote). Fluent in English and Russian.
Let's talk about what you're building. 👇
Russian
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- BORZODevOps Team LeadTRANSPORTATIONJanuary 2023 - Today (3 years and 6 months)Helsinki, FinlandDuties:- Conducting technical interviews and hiring for the DevOps team- Onboarding new team members and mentoring them through ramp-up=- Reviewing team's work and maintaining infrastructure quality standards- Quarterly OKR/sprint planning and task prioritization- Owning infrastructure architecture decisions- Cloud cost optimization and budget management- On-call 24/7 as an escalation point for critical incidents- All of the below (from previous job in Borzo)
- Unlimited Services OÜDevOps EngineerENTERTAINMENT AND LEISUREOctober 2022 - January 2023 (3 months)Tallinn, EstoniaDuties:- Deploy and maintain infrastructure in AWS (terragrunt, TF modules)- Creation of CI/CD on Gitlab to k8s clusters (gradle, kustomize)- Working with MSK (Kafka), DynamoDB, RDS, Elasticache- Deploying and configuring Grafana Cloud with promtail and prometheus- Deploy High-load PostgreSQL environment based on AWS RDS
- BORZODevOps EngineerJanuary 2021 - December 2021 (11 months)Moscow, Russia• - Deploy and manage 10 k8s clusters in different clouds and VPCs (Terraform, EKS, Werf+Helm, kubeadm)• - Deploy and manage standalone services via Ansible (MariaDB, Clickhouse, Grafana, Tableau, MongoDB, OpenVPN, etc.)• - Creating an environment for analysts in k8s (spark, airflow, tableau).• - Maintenance of ML projects (CI, OSRM, etc.)• - Responsibility for company downtime• - Creation of automated deployment (GitLab-CI, Jenkins, Ansible)• - Creation of infrastructure in AWS and Russian cloud (terraform)• - Creation of auto-generated CI in Gitlab (pipeline which generates new jobs depending on input vars)• - Creation of CI/CD uses by Werf, ArgoCD and Gitlab• - Deep Research problems• - Made CI as Service. Developers can use CI just set some variables• - Control Clickhouse users by ansible vars• - Kubernetesied services (small Go services and huge ML services)• - Moved from one AWS account to another with 5-minutes of downtime (could be without one)
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Education
- Bachelor's degreePenza State University2009Bachelor's degree
- Master's degreePenza State University2009Master's degree