Senior DevOps Engineer
Building scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms and CI/CD systems.
Helping engineering teams deploy faster, scale confidently and improve reliability through automation and platform engineering.
About Me
Senior DevOps Engineer focused on reliability, scale and automation
Sergey Nikulin
Senior DevOps EngineerI am a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on building reliable, scalable and secure cloud-native platforms.
My expertise includes Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, monitoring, observability and cloud architecture on AWS and Azure.
I help organizations reduce deployment complexity, improve delivery speed and increase infrastructure reliability through modern platform engineering practices.
Skills
Technologies and tools I work with daily in production environments
Cloud
Containers
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Observability
Operating Systems
Databases
Security
Services
What I can help your team achieve
Kubernetes Platform Engineering
Design, deployment and maintenance of production-grade Kubernetes clusters with high availability, security and observability built in.
CI/CD Automation
Building automated delivery pipelines for faster and safer releases using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
Infrastructure as Code
Managing infrastructure lifecycle through Terraform and Ansible — repeatable, version-controlled and auditable.
Cloud Architecture
AWS and Azure infrastructure design and optimization — cost-effective, secure and scalable architectures.
Monitoring & Observability
Metrics, logging and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana and ELK Stack — full visibility into your systems.
Infrastructure Audit
Performance, reliability and cost optimization reviews — identify bottlenecks and reduce cloud spend.
Years Experience
Deployments Automated
Infrastructure Projects
Target Reliability
Experience
8+ years building cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps platforms
Senior DevOps Engineer
Camunda- Managing AWS and Azure infrastructure at scale
- Implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD
- Kubernetes platform operations and upgrades
- CI/CD automation reducing deployment time by 60%
- Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stack
DevOps Engineer
Meltwater- Terraform automation for cloud resource provisioning
- Ansible automation for configuration management
- Kubernetes high availability cluster operations
- HashiCorp Vault integration for secrets management
- Infrastructure as Code adoption across teams
System Administrator
Linode / Akamai- Linux server administration and hardening
- Nginx and Apache web server configuration
- PostgreSQL and MySQL database administration
- Networking, firewall and VPN configuration
- Infrastructure monitoring and alerting
Junior System Administrator
OVHcloud- Linux fundamentals and server management
- Bash scripting for automation tasks
- Networking and routing configuration
- Virtualization with KVM and VMware
- Git version control and workflows
Projects
Featured infrastructure and platform engineering work
Production Kubernetes Platform
Designed and operated a scalable Kubernetes platform supporting multiple production workloads with zero-downtime deployments and automated scaling.
GitOps Delivery Platform
Implemented GitOps workflows enabling automated infrastructure and application deployments triggered by Git events — eliminating manual operations.
Monitoring & Observability Stack
Built centralized monitoring, logging and alerting solution providing full-stack visibility and reducing mean time to resolution for production incidents.
Cloud Infrastructure Automation
Automated provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud resources across AWS and Azure, reducing provisioning time from days to minutes.
Let's Build Reliable Infrastructure
Need help with Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure or automation?
Let's discuss your project.
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