Roman Syrtsev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Developer
Roman is a cloud architect with a developer background. He specializes in deploying and running large-scale fault-tolerant and highly available complex cloud platforms, architecting and designing systems, integrating networks, automating infrastructure, and implementing CI/CD. Having vast experience working in an Agile environment and leading different teams, Roman can present complex technical information clearly to various audiences.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Networking
The most amazing...
...thing I've contributed to is Expo 2020 Dubai by performing AWS operations.
Work Experience
AWS Operations Lead
Etisalat
- Contributed to Expo 2020 by architecting AWS Landing Zone and running day-to-day operations, RCA, troubleshooting, infrastructure as code, and applications onboarding.
- Built the infrastructure for reporting to the management, security, and operations teams.
- Developed and deployed a centralized logging solution.
- Cleaned and tweaked the monitoring and alerting system and reduced noise.
- Collaborated with stakeholders, developers, security, incident and change management, customers, and vendors.
- On-boarded applications to the landing zone and implemented the application infrastructure.
- Supported and coached team members and conducted interviews.
Principal Software Engineer and SRE Team Lead
Emirates Group
- Supervised, guided, and coached the employees on DevOps and SRE best practices and industry standards.
- Led a team of SRE and DevOps engineers to enable CI/CD across multiple applications.
- Conducted root cause analysis, solved problems, and performed post-mortems.
- Enabled a self-service CI/CD for microservices application.
- Collaborated with enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, and product teams.
- Worked with the security team to enable DevSecOps.
- Contributed to the enterprise CI\CD system (pipeline DSL, modules).
Provider of Technical DevOps Consulting Services
Cyance
- Created AWS EMR infrastructure and automated data pipeline execution.
- Designed and implemented the data analytics infrastructure using open-source Dremio.
- Led, guided, and coached on DevOps best practices and industry standards through discussions, mentoring, and training.
- Developed, documented, and handed over IaC for the whole system.
Senior DevOps Engineer and System Architect
ClearScale
- Developed custom Kubernetes cluster infrastructure on AWS in a hybrid Windows/Linux environment. Generated Terraform code, helm charts, packer images, resolved integration issues, and documented everything.
- Migrated pharm bio factory's infrastructure to AWS. Created IaC code, migrated pet servers, and migrated analytics services. Troubleshot migration issues.
- Audited AWS infrastructure and identified security issues, best practices violations, networking, autoscaling, and load balancing issues. Provided the report and possible remediation options. Provided ad-hoc fixes.
- Audited Terraform code. Identified best practices violations, security issues, and AWS infra issues. Provided report and remediation options. Provided ad-hoc fixes.
- Automated Windows AMI creation. Researched customer software and requirements, developed packer templates, created Windows DCS, and documented the process.
- Developed Logstash pipelines for logs processing and configured and deployed ELK clusters (F500, industrial).
- Audited Grafana deployment and enforced security controls.
- Designed and implemented the POC of overlay multicast full mesh for Voice Service SAAS.
- Automated CIS Benchmark for hardened AMI creation (Ansible, scripting).
DevOps Engineer
Freelance/Contractor
- Developed automation to support cloud-agnostic development environments (Docker, Ansible).
- Created Sentry.io Docker images, configurations, code samples (Java), Ansible roles, and playbooks.
- Built Prometheus+StatsD+Grafana Docker images, configurations, Ansible roles, and playbooks.
- Conceptualized PromQL alert queries and calculations according to client's requirements, provided Prometheus and AlertManager configurations.
- Set up the HA LAMP stack on AWS EC2 for SAAS, including networking, scaling, security, load balancing, caches, and databases.
- Helped a fashion shop three-time tier app handle marketing campaign traffic. Provided RCA and implemented remediation.
- Provided RCA, fixes, and automation on AWS infrastructure for multiple projects.
- Focused on courses, including "Penetration Testing Training with Kali Linux (Offensive Security)."
Experience
Marketing Campaign Traffic Handling for A Fashion Shop
The fashion shop could not handle campaign traffic, and I was tasked with fixing this issue. I provided the RCA and fixed all the issues with AWS Infrastructure resilience and recovery features. The shop was able to handle the traffic after that, and the owner had plenty of time to fix discovered issues.
Expo 2020 Dubai Cloud Infrastructure
https://www.expo2020dubai.com/• day-to-day operations,
• RCA,
• troubleshooting,
• infrastructure as code,
• development of infrastructure reporting,
• applications onboarding,
• development and deployment of a centralized logging solution,
• refinement of the alerting system, and
• noise reduction,
Develop Automation to Support Dev Process
Certifications
OffSec Certified Professional (OSCP)
OffSec
CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Linux Foundation
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Linux Foundation
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
SRE: Measuring and Managing Reliability
Coursera
AppDynamics Certified Associate Administrator
AppDynamics
AppDynamics Certified AssociatePerformance Analyst
AppDynamics
Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master
SafeAgile
AWS Certified Big Data—Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect—Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Job DSL, Jenkins Pipeline, Node.js
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Logging, Jenkins, VPN, CircleCI, Sentry, Grafana, Docker Compose, Apache, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon CloudWatch, Packer, Helm, Tableau, AppDynamics, Amazon EBS, AWS IAM, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS ELB, AWS CLI, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), HashiCorp, Logstash, ELK (Elastic Stack), Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Git, OSSEC, GitHub, Bitbucket, SonarQube
Paradigms
DevOps, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, DevSecOps, Penetration Testing
Languages
Python, Java, Go, Bash, PHP, Ruby
Platforms
Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenShift, AWS ALB, Windows, Oracle, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS NLB, Mobile, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Kali Linux
Storage
Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Aurora, MySQL
Frameworks
AWS HA, Windows PowerShell, Spring, Hadoop
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Monitoring, Networks, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Technical Leadership, CI/CD Pipelines, Networking, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Shell Scripting, Big Data, Cloud Security, Administration, Security, Cloud Infrastructure, IT Operations Management (ITOM), Cloud Migration, Prometheus, StatsD, Distributed Tracing, Amazon RDS, HTTPD, Load Balancers, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Autoscaling Groups, Autoscaling, Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshooting, Software Troubleshooting, Documentation, Routing, Multicast, Manufacturing, Audits, Auditing, IT Audits, AWS DevOps, Nomad, Consul, GitOps, PCI DSS, Payment APIs, Architecture, Scrum Master, DocumentDB, Identity & Access Management (IAM), SaaS, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Loki, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Akamai, AWS Transit Gateway, Pipelines, Antivirus Software, Logging as a Service (LaaS), Cost Reduction & Optimization, Team Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, IT Security, Containers, VAPT, Offensive Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Identification
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