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Georgi GeorgievGG

Georgi Georgiev

Senior DevOps Engineer

€300/day
Sofia, BG
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Georgi

Seasoned Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer with 21+ years of combined experience, including 17 years in system and network administration and 4+ years specializing in cloud-native DevOps. Proven track record of architecting and automating AWS infrastructure at scale using Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines across multi-account, multi-environment ecosystems. Deep expertise spanning the full infrastructure lifecycle — from bare-metal and VMware virtualization to containerized microservices on ECS/EKS with serverless and event-driven architectures. Certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional and Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) with hands-on experience building data engineering platforms, implementing security compliance frameworks, and driving cost optimization strategies. Known for bridging the gap between traditional infrastructure operations and modern cloud engineering, delivering reliable, scalable, and secure solutions that accelerate software delivery.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Yamasoft
    Senior DevOps Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    August 2025 - Today (10 months)
    Sofia, Bulgaria
    Architected and built complete AWS cloud infrastructure from scratch, designing network topology using VPC, subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, Internet Gateway and ALB. Deployed container orchestration solutions using Amazon ECS and EKS, configuring Fargate for serverless container execution and establishing auto-scaling policies for microservices workloads. Built comprehensive CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins, automating the entire software delivery lifecycle from source code commit through production deployment with automated testing and rollback capabilities. Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, creating modular, reusable templates to provision and manage all AWS resources across multiple environments and accounts with proper state management. Designed serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and EventBridge to build event-driven applications with automatic scaling and reduced operational complexity. Designed and implemented data science and machine learning infrastructure using AWS native services including AWS Lake Formation, EMR for big data processing, Glue for ETL workflows, Athena for data querying, and RDS PostgreSQL for relational databases. Developed automation scripts using Python and Bash. Established comprehensive monitoring and observability using AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. Configured security and compliance frameworks using AWS IAM, Organizations, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Secrets Manager, KMS for encryption, and implemented least-privilege access policies across all services. Designed disaster recovery and backup strategies using AWS Backup, implementing cross-region replication and automated snapshots. Built cost optimization strategies through implementation of AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor recommendations, right-sizing EC2 instances, utilizing Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
  • ITGix
    Senior DevOps Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2024 - August 2025 (1 year and 7 months)
    Sofia, Bulgaria
    Senior DevOps Engineer
    ITGix

    Designed and managed AWS cloud infrastructure, leveraging services including EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, and ALB to build scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions. Orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes, managing production clusters, deploying workloads, configuring autoscaling, implementing rolling updates, and ensuring high availability across multiple environments. Containerized applications with Docker, managing container registries (ECR), and implementing multi-stage builds to reduce image sizes and improve security. Administered Linux systems, performing system configuration, security hardening, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Developed automation scripts using Bash and Python. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitLab CI/CD, automating code integration, testing, security scanning, building, and deployment processes to accelerate software delivery. Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, creating modular, reusable configurations to provision and manage cloud resources across multiple AWS accounts and environments. Managed Kubernetes application deployments using Helm charts, creating custom charts, maintaining chart repositories, and implementing templating strategies for multi-environment configurations. Implemented comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions using Datadog, creating dashboards, configuring alerts, tracking application performance metrics, and enabling distributed tracing for microservices architectures. Optimized cloud infrastructure costs through resource right-sizing, scheduling, and utilization analysis. Collaborated with development teams to implement DevOps best practices, improve application architecture for cloud deployment, and troubleshoot production issues. Maintained security compliance by implementing IAM policies, secrets management solutions, WAF, and conducting regular security audits.
    Terraform Linux Kubernetes AWS ECS

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Education

  • Master
    Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski
    2010
    Information Security in Computer Systems and Networks

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