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I’m Alexander Shitikov, a results-driven DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud platforms. I specialize in automating CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, and migrating on-prem workloads to AWS to improve scalability and cut costs. I’m proficient in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and security best practices. As an AWS Solutions Architect certified professional, I’m passionate about streamlining delivery and driving continuous improvement across teams.…I’m Alexander Shitikov, a results-driven DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud platforms. I specialize in automating CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, and migrating on-prem workloads to AWS to improve scalability and cut costs. I’m proficient in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and security best practices. As an AWS Solutions Architect certified professional, I’m passionate about streamlining delivery and driving continuous improvement across teams.

Alexander Shitikov

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I’m Alexander Shitikov, a results-driven DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud platforms. I specialize in automating CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, and migrating on-prem workloads to AWS to improve scalability and cut costs. I’m proficient in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and security best practices. As an AWS Solutions Architect certified professional, I’m passionate about streamlining delivery and driving continuous improvement across teams.…I’m Alexander Shitikov, a results-driven DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud platforms. I specialize in automating CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, and migrating on-prem workloads to AWS to improve scalability and cut costs. I’m proficient in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and security best practices. As an AWS Solutions Architect certified professional, I’m passionate about streamlining delivery and driving continuous improvement across teams.

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I’m Alexander Shitikov, a results-driven DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud platforms. I specialize in automating CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, and migrating on-prem workloads to AWS to improve scalability and cut costs.

I’m proficient in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and security best practices. As an AWS Solutions Architect certified professional, I’m passionate about streamlining delivery and driving continuous improvement across teams.

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Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer at Opsfleet

February 1, 2023 - Present

Designed reusable GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes workloads using Argo CD and Argo Rollouts, enabling canary releases and reducing deployment risk. Created and maintained a shared Helm chart to standardise service deployment across the organisation, streamlining roll-outs and ensuring consistency. Migrated on-prem MySQL databases to AWS Aurora, improving performance and scalability while reducing operational overhead. Led the migration of 70% of workloads to ARM-based Graviton instances, achieving notable cost savings and performance improvements. Conducted AWS infrastructure security reviews and implemented cost-optimisation strategies. Built custom Datadog and Grafana dashboards to enhance observability and incident response.

Senior DevOps Engineer at EPAM Systems

August 1, 2020 - February 1, 2023

Standardised AWS OpenSearch and Elasticsearch deployments across the organisation using Terraform, including state migrations and automation improvements. Contributed enhancements to a public Terraform provider to support advanced automation features. Developed internal OpenSearch tooling and custom analyzers to improve search performance and insights. Unified Redshift provisioning and migrated legacy environments to Infrastructure as Code, reducing deployment times and improving reliability. Ensured security compliance and provided daily operational support for production clusters. Delivered large-scale Exasol-to-Redshift migration programs and implemented Redshift DataShares for cross-cluster data access. Designed federated SAML authentication for analytics teams and built CI/CD pipelines with custom monitoring for Redshift environments.

DevOps Engineer at Sentrium S.L.

November 1, 2017 - August 1, 2020

Maintained customer-facing build infrastructure and CI pipelines, automated AWS AMI creation with Ansible and Packer, speeding provisioning of environments. Supported Jenkins-based delivery systems and on-prem VMware environments; migrated workloads to AWS to improve scalability. Developed Ansible automation for database provisioning and replication; implemented Molecule testing frameworks to validate infrastructure. Automated PBX provisioning on VMware and built Helm charts to deploy centralised ELK logging stacks. Migrated microservices from vSphere containers to Kubernetes using Rancher, modernising the delivery platform.

Field Support Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

August 1, 2011 - August 1, 2017

Delivered enterprise-scale on-site infrastructure services and provided technical support to customers. Designed SAN environments and supported mission-critical databases across diverse industries. Administered VMware clusters and Windows/Linux systems, ensuring high availability and performance. Led deployment and remediation projects for hardware and software platforms, collaborating closely with client teams.