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Jukka MerinenJM

Jukka Merinen

Senior DevOps Engineer

€480/day
Helsinki, FI
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jukka

Jukka is an experienced cloud architect and DevOps engineer with over 10 years of professional experience. He is proficient in planning cloud architecture and migration strategies, managing infrastructure with Terraform, managing Kubernetes clusters, and defining CI/CD pipelines. Jukka has professional cloud architect certifications for both GCP and AWS.
  • Finnish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Web3 Service Provider:
    DevOps Engineer
    October 2023 - May 2025 (1 year and 7 months)
    • Managed GCP and AWS resources using Terraform.
    • Migrated container-based applications from Google Cloud Run to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
    • Migrated applications from AWS EC2 auto-scaling groups to Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
    • Managed Kubernetes clusters in GCP and AWS. Used Helm charts to deploy applications to Kubernetes.
    • Configured CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Workflows.
    • Migrated PostgreSQL database from Google Cloud SQL to AlloyDB.
    • Configured custom metrics, alerts, and dashboards in Datadog.
    • GCP services used: Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Certificate Manager, Cloud Deploy, Load Balancers, Cloud Armor, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Security Command Center.
    • AWS services used: EC2, ECS, ELB, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, Cloud Build, Global Accelerator, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Security Hub.
    • Other tools and technologies used: Ubuntu and Amazon Linux, Bash, Datadog, Docker, Github, Helm, PostgreSQL, Prisma.io, Sentry.io, Terraform Cloud.
  • Web Software House:
    DevOps Engineer
    September 2022 - May 2023 (8 months)
    • Migrated PHP web applications running on AWS EC2 instances to Docker containers running in AWS ECS.
    • Configured GitLab CI/CD pipelines for building the Docker containers and deploying the applications.
    • Configured AWS ECS/Fargate and ALB for running the applications.
    • Configured AWS RDS MySQL database and Flyway for database schema management.
    • Managed the AWS resources with Terraform.
    • AWS services used: EC2, ECS, EFS, ELB, RDS, CloudFront.
    • Other tools and technologies used: Ubuntu Linux, Docker, Flyway, Gitlab, Terraform.
  • eSignature service provider:
    IT and Security Lead
    February 2017 - February 2022 (5 years)
    • Responsible for IT infrastructure and information security of the SaaS eSignature service with over 1M registered users.
    • Led the migration of the entire IT infrastructure from a local data center and on-premises VMware environment to Google Cloud.
    • Managed the GCP cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
    • Migrated Java-based web application workloads to Docker containers running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
    • Administered Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and built automation with Ansible and Bash scripting.
    • Led a project to acquire ISO 27001 information security certification for the company.
    • Worked as an administrator of Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 tenants.
    • Set up an OpenVPN server for internal users and an X.509 public key infrastructure to authenticate the users connecting to the OpenVPN server.
    • Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Concourse CI. GCP services used: Load Kubernetes Cloud BigQuery, Cloud Cloud Cloud Container Registry. AWS services used: Other tools and technologies used: MySQL

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Education

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (link)
    2021
    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (link)
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect (link)
    2020
    Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect (link)

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