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Valeriy Solya
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Seeking a senior level position in DevOps/IT Infrastructure management with an
organisation of repute

Technical Expertise in Clouds and DevOps technologies
An Overview
EXCELLENCE SPHERE  VMware, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, EMC Certified Professional with 18 years of rich
experience in effective management of complex IT Infrastructure projects for new and
Design and
existing facilities, Data Center Implementation, Cloud solution design, DevOps, hardware
Implementation and software support and troubleshooting, Microsoft Technologies, VMware
Cloud Architecture Virtualization, Enterprise Storage Design and implementation, Storage Area Networks, IT
Asset Management and Network Security, Backup and Recovery administration
AWS and Azure
Administration  Experienced in IT industry comprising of Systems Administration and Software
Virtualization & Configuration Management (SCM), Build/Release Management, and Change/Incident
Management.
Enterprise Storage
Continuous Integration  Experienced in Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC) and Agile Programming
& Continuous Delivery Methodologies
Data Center
 Expertise in Cloud services Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services. Design,
Operations
configure, implement, integrate and support Cloud services on Microsoft Azure, Amazon
Service Delivery AWS.

Incident & Change  Proficiency in automating, configuring and deploying instances in the areas of Data
Management Center Operations, Systems Administration, Cloud computing, Software Configuration
DevOps Practices Management (SCM)

Storage Systems  Deep technical expertise in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a
Administration Service (Paas)
Windows & Active
Directory  Demonstrated expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Azure
Resource Manager
Administration
VMWare  Adept at maintaining complete IT infrastructure including Server Hardware, Data
Administration Storage, VMware Environment, Switching & Routing, Backups, E-Mail, Firewall, , VPN,
Network Monitoring and Microsoft Technologies.

 Expertise in Continuous integration (CI) & Continuous deployment (CD) Pipelines

 Experienced in Atlassian products Jira, Stash, Confluence, Bamboo, Service Desk

 Strong Customer Centric Approach with excellent analytical, coordination,
presentation and leadership skills, skilled in grasping the big picture and conceptualizing
solutions.

 Excellence in building IT processes with ITIL by establishing Change, Incident and
Problem Management
 Technical Skills Summary

Cloud Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud Director, EMC Unified Infrastructure
technology Manager, Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
Server VMware Infrastructure, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine
virtualization Manager, OpenStack
technology
Desktop VMware View/ Horizon View, VMware ThinApp, Microsoft VDI, Citrix Xenapp, Citrix
virtualization Xendesktop
technology
Containerization Docker, Kubernetes
Machine Databricks, Azure Data Factory
Learning
Microsoft Active Directory, Active Directory Group Policy Objects, LDAP, SharePoint Server, DNS, DHCP,
technology RRAS, Terminal services, App-v, Application compatibility toolkit, Windows Deployment
Services
Databases PostgreSQL, SQL, MongoDB
Monitoring Zabbix, PRTG, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Cacti, Storage Resource
Monitor, Dynatrace, DataDog, Prometheus
Configuration Ansible
Management
Continuous
Integration & Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab, Bamboo, Argo CD
Continuous
Deployment
Infrastructure as Terraform, ARM
Code
Systems Altiris IT Management Suite, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Dell
Management Enterprise Manager
Scripting PowerShell, bash, PowerCLI
Storage systems IBM Storwize series, EMC Clariion series; EMC VNX series, EMC Celerra ; EqualLogic PS series;
Dell Compellent, Dell PowerVault series; EMC Data Domain
Disaster Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS), Veritas Cluster Server; VMware Site Recovery Manager
Recovery and
cluster
technology
Backup VERITAS Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec; Veritas NetBackup; Symantec, NetBackup; EMC
Technology Networker; HP Data Protector, vSphere Data Protection, Microsoft DPM

Career Record
GlobalLogic, Ukraine Mar. 2023 - Mar. 2025
Lead DevOps engineer
- Deployed and managed AWS services including EC2, ELB, RDS, ECS, Lambda, Route53, S3, VPC, VPN, TGW
- Configured and optimized VPC configurations, NACLs, and Security Groups to enforce network segmentation, access
control, and security policies
- Implemented and maintained Kubernetes clusters to orchestrate and scale containerized applications. Set up auto-
scaling and high availability for critical micro services.
- Designed and implemented scalable Azure server-less infrastructure for multiple applications, using services such as
Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid, resulting in improved performance, reduced costs, and increased
flexibility
- Designed, deployed, and managed secure and scalable cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure using Azure Bicep and
Terraform
- Deployed and managed resources across multiple Azure regions. Implemented disaster recovery strategies and
performed routine cloud operations management.
- Managed Azure Active Directory to create users, groups, service principal names and multiple custom roles. Used AAD
for Single Sign on, Authentication, Authorizations and Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) by using PowerShell
Scripts
 - Implemented SSO with SAML 2.0 and Azure Active Directory / Entra ID
- Created and managed Azure Active Directory (AAD) tenants manage users and groups and configure application
integration with Azure Active Directory (AAD). Integrated on-premises Windows Active Directory with Azure Active
Directory, configure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and federated Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps for automated deployment and monitoring
of applications across multiple environments
- Implemented GitOps practices using Argo CD, integrating with Git to manage application configuration and
deployment
- - Maintaining and improving continuous integration and continuous delivery processes, enabling the efficient and
reliable deployment of applications
- Utilized Postman extensively for API testing and development, ensuring the seamless integration of various services
and maintaining high standards of API functionality.
- Designed and maintained Kubernetes environments, deploying and supporting mission-critical applications
- Provisioned and automated cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform
- Creating and managing Databricks and Data Factory
- Designing and implementing data ingestion solutions using Azure Data Factory to move data from various sources to
Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake
- Used Data Factory to create data pipelines that move data from different sources and transform it into the desired
format
- Developed Ansible playbooks and roles to automate configuration management and system maintenance tasks.
- Creation and maintenance of fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Octopus Deploy.
- Implemented a production-ready, load-balanced, highly available, fault-tolerant, auto-scaling, Kubernetes Azure
infrastructure, and micro service container orchestration.
- Created and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure, leveraging EKS, ECS, and Terraform for scalable deployments.
- Monitored infrastructure performance using Grafana and Prometheus, proactively resolving issues

EPAM, Kyiv, Ukraine Feb. 2020 – Mar. 2023
Senior DevOps engineer
- Led the implementation of Cloud Infrastructure automation, optimizing resource utilization
- Maintained and improved continuous integration and continuous delivery processes, enabling the efficient and
reliable deployment of applications.
- Architected, designed, implemented and managed mission-critical cross-functional CI/CD system centered on DevOps
tools
- Implemented Azure solutions such as Azure storage, Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Databricks, Azure DataFactory,
Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Storage, Azure, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Azure VMs, SQL Database, Azure
Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Bus
- Managed Office 365, Cloud Exchange, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
- Managed Active Directory, Entra ID, Intune, and M365, enforcing security policies and ensuring optimal system
performance
- Integrated Active Directory (AD) and Azure Entra ID into data engineering solutions, ensuring secure user
authentication and access management across on-premises and cloud environments
- Designing, configuring, and deploying Amazon Web Services for multiple applications using the AWS stack (Cloud
Formation, Cloud Watch, SQS, IAM, EC2, Route53, VPC, S3, RDS) with a focus on high-availability, fault tolerance, and
auto-scaling
- Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto scaling groups. Created monitors, alarms, and notifications for
EC2 hosts using CloudWatch Functions
- Responsible for configuring and deploying web applications and function applications in Azure
- Implementing infrastructure automation and Jenkins pipelines, enabling faster and more efficient deployments of
Azure resources and applications
- Developing automation system using PowerShell scripts and JSON templates to remediate the Azure services
- Wrote Powershell scripting for task automation and to schedule tasks.
- Configured build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Created and managed Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory
- Designed and implemented data ingestion solutions using Azure Data Factory to move data from various sources to
Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake
 - Used Azure Data Factory to create data pipelines that move data from different sources and transform it into the
desired format
- Provisioning and maintaining Azure cloud Infrastructure using Terraform and Azure Devops pipelines
- Built and provisioned Azure resources using ARM templates following infrastructure-as-code principles
- Designed and implemented Kubernetes clusters to manage containerized applications at scale
- Deployed containerized applications in Azure Kubernetes cluster, built and created containers using Docker images,
and deployed the applications
- Configured monitoring tools like Azure monitor and Dynatrace to set up desired alerts and prevent disruptions
- Managing Active Directory components, including Domain controller's installation, Global catalog servers, Trusts, and
Sites
- Implemented logging and monitoring solutions (Prometheus + Grafana) for system observability

Trinetix, Kyiv, Ukraine Dec. 2018 – Mar. 2020
DevOps Tech Lead
- Provided expert technical architectural support and guidance for solution opportunities that involve virtualization,
cloud infrastructure, management and security, including servers and storage products.
- Designed, developed and tested innovation POCs utilizing DevOps concepts;
- Created and supported Azure VSTS CI/CD pipelines.
- Managed and maintained builds, packaging, deployment and releases for mobile and web application
- Provisioned Azure cloud environments and resources using ARM Templates and Terraform automated scripts
- Created and supported application deployment pipelines that are automated, reliable and can scale with a growing
technology department
- Managed and maintained builds, packaging, deployment and releases for Mobile Application. Using applications and
utilities (Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio .Net, Microsoft DevOps, TFS) ensure that every build is repeatable and reliable
using exceptionally well-documented processes
- Managed Active Directory, Intune, and M365, enforcing security policies and ensuring optimal system performance
- Created software scripts to automate test, staging and production service deployments
- Reviewed and Implemented DevOps project standards, including administration, security, and CI/CD governance, best
practices, principles, and processes
- Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS
in Cloud Formation JSON templates
- Deployed Infrastructure into Azure using PowerShell, Azure CLI and ARM
- Configured build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Utilized Kubernetes service to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure and created an AKS cluster in the Azure
portal.
- Configured and managed Ansible for creation of Role, Task, Inventory and playbook and Job template
- Automated the deployments to environments by picking up builds from Jenkins using ansible.
- Created Terraform modules to create instances in Azure and automated process of creation of resources in Azure
using Terraform
- Implemented Kubernetes cluster using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) into Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline by
configuring Service connection using Azure Container Registry(ACR) credentials
- Created Docker images from scratch and customized and modified base images from existing environment
configurations and maintaining the image repo for development teams

DAXX, Kyiv, Ukraine Jan. 2018 - Nov. 2018
Senior DevOps engineer
- Drove DevOps adoption by recommending and implementing tool sets and best practices for automation,
configuration and release management
- Actively participated in high level team activities such as suggesting architecture improvements, recommending
process improvements
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, and Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups and EC2 instances
- Created and managed a Docker deployment pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins
- Running Ansible playbooks and created various roles for applications, then deployed the Applications/Services on
virtual machines
- Configuring build and release pipelines in Azure VSTS (DevOps)
 - Deployed Azure services App Services, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Traffic
Manager, Databases like Azure SQL, Azure Storage accounts, Blob storage, File share, Azure Active Directory, Azure
Key Vault, Service Bus, Azure App Insights etc.
- Leveraged the capabilities of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to orchestrate deployments, updates and
resource management in Azure
- As the hands-on technical subject matter expert was responsible for solutions and services engineering activities like
proof-of concepts, pilots, use case development, solution validation, workshops, and enablement
- Providing support and involvement in performance monitoring and reporting, problem identification, management,
and resolution
- Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, and Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups and EC2 instances
Wrote templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments
- Utilized Kubernetes as a platform to provide a platform for automating deployments, scaling and operation of
application containers across a cluster of hosts.
- Used Azure Kubernetes Service to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure and created an AKS cluster in the
Azure portal with the Terraform
- Implemented a sophisticated CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins for dev/staging/prod environments.
- Created and configured build configurations and projects in TeamCity

Selerant, Kyiv, Ukraine Jan. 2017- Jan. 2018
Cloud operations/DevOps Team Lead
- Led a DevOps team, driving best practices in automation, monitoring, and infrastructure management
- Developed and managed DevOps processes and practices to support software development, testing, builds and
deployment
- Architected, designed, implemented and managed mission-critical cross-functional CI/CD system centered on DevOps
tools
- Configuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline using GitLab and Jenkins
- Maintained accountability for resolving service problems and for prioritizing work requests;
- Designed and deployed AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), EBS, Elastic Container Service (ECS),
RDS and Auto Scaling groups
- Designed, built and automated the AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Networking, EMR, RDS, S3, etc.) using
Terraform/Cloud Formation
- Implemented and supported CI process via GitLab for several Java applications including setting up pipeline jobs
- Maintained Jenkins continuous integration infrastructure and automated releases to DEV/TEST/STG/PROD
environments.
- Designed, implemented and supported cloud infrastructure based on latest technologies such as Docker, AWS EC2
container Services and VMWare to improve the availability, scalability, latency
- Connected and configured SAN and NAS storages into the ESXi and Hyper-V servers
- Developed Docker based micro services, deployment modules with Jenkins, Kubernetes and Ansible based pipelines
- Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks and YAML
- Used terraform to create custom size VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of web application and
database template.
- Managed Terraform State files and worked on terraform issues through terraform troubleshooting
- Configured Docker containers and creating Docker files for different environments
- Monitored of the infrastructure with New Relic and DataDog.

Ciklum, Kyiv, Ukraine Dec. 2015 – Jan. 2017
Team Lead
- Actively participated in high level team activities such as suggesting architecture improvements, recommending
process improvements and conducting tool evaluations
- Administrated Active Directory, GPO, Audit, logging, DNS infrastructure, and other network services VPN, DHCP, IIS,
Terminal Servers, File servers.
- Daily Active Directory maintenance, account creations, terminations, distribution/security groups, Exchange Mailbox
creations and archiving. Administered the SharePoint Servers (Production, Development and Testing). Managed user
permission in SharePoint based on Active Directory role and responsibilities
- Created JIRA projects, Storyboard, Sprints, workflows, screens, fields and other administrative activities
 - Planned and configured new internal & external websites. Creating, deploying, renewing and Import & export of the
SSL certificates
- Installed and configured VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6, vSphere Server and VMware vCenter server
- Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services
- Implemented AWS solutions using E2C, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes
and EC2 instances
- Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment using Jenkins and Stash tools
- Maintained Git repositories using Stash and handling build and release deployments
- Designed, built and deployed a multitude applications utilizing almost all the AWS services (Including EC2, S3, Elastic
Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, RDS, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch and IAM), focusing on high-
availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling with Cloud watch monitoring.
- Created S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and
backup on AWS
- Created Ansible playbooks for various automation purpose, file copy, permission changes, configuration changes,
path specific folder creation, etc.
- Created the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle
- Maintained Docker Images and containers. Collaborated with development support teams to setup a continuous
delivery environment with the use of Docker
- Managed VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion & High Availability (HA) clusters
- Created and managed site-to-site IPsec VPN and site-to-client VPN on Windows 2012 server, on FortiGate . Handled
all requests globally for new account creation, configuration, changes, deletions for VPN

Onvoy (Broadvox), Cleveland, OH, US Mar. 2014 – Nov. 2015
Virtualization Architect
- Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on virtualization solutions
- Architected, designed, implemented and managed CI/CD solutions centered on DevOps tools
- Defined and designed technical requirements to support business requirements, participate in detailed design, review
system performance and consumption issues, review test plans, and provide technical guidance and support to others
- Designed, configured, implemented Virtualization based on VMware vSphere & Horizon View, Microsoft Hyper-V and
VDI
- Designed, deployed, and maintained of a broad range of Microsoft Technologies, including Active Directory, DNS,
WINS, DHCP MS SQL, Sharepoint, IIS, DFS, WSUS, SCOM.
- Created complex JIRA workflows including project workflows, field configurations, screen schemes, permission
schemes and notification schemes
- Monitored servers infrastructure and network with Cacti, Zabbix
- Daily Active Directory maintenance, account creations, terminations, distribution/security groups, Exchange Mailbox
creations and archiving. Administered the SharePoint Servers (Production, Development and Testing). Managed user
permission in SharePoint based on Active Directory role and responsibilities
- Developed build and deployment scripts using Maven build tools in Jenkins/Hudson to move from one environment
to other environments
- Configured Jenkins as a common build engine to build and deploy applications to DEV, QA, UAT and PROD
environments
- Wrote various custom Ansible Playbooks and modules for Deployment Orchestration
- Assigned Roles, manage Users and groups and assign policies using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Implemented SCVMM 2012 and use it to manage all of our Hyper-V environments
- Designed, planning and implementation for existing On-Prem applications to Azure Cloud
- Deployed and managing/installing applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud environment
- Monitored of all the Linux Servers on Zabbix server, Cacti and NMS Alert
- Created IAM policies, Roles and user management for delegated administration within AWS
- Created Highly Available environments using Auto-Scaling, Load Balancers

S&T Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Feb. 2011 – Dec. 2013
Senior Systems Engineer
- Installed, configured, managed Virtual environments based on VMware vSphere & Horizon View products.
Implemented and configured storage systems and servers.
 - Designed appropriate technical solutions to meet the customer's business requirements.
- Prepared architecture datacenter solutions based on virtualization technologies, storage systems and servers
platforms
- Designed Datacenter, high availability and disaster recovery solutions based on VMware, Microsoft, EMC, IBM, DELL
solutions for customers.
- Installed, configured, managed Virtual environments based on VMware vSphere & Horizon View, Microsoft Hyper-V
& VDI. Implemented, configure and supported storage systems and servers.
- Generated reports using SQL Server Reporting Services integrated and deploying them using web applications onto
the web servers.
- Administered and created user accounts, exchange mailboxes, and shared workgroup folders on servers using Active
Directory and batch files. Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, and SharePoint administration changes.
- Implemented Infrastructure automation through Chef, for auto provisioning, code deployments, software installation
and configuration updates.
- Set up Jenkins server and build jobs to provide continuous automated builds based on polling the Git source control
system during the day and periodic scheduled builds to support development needs using Jenkins, Git
- SCOM engineering - designing new Management groups, expanding existing Management Groups, creating custom
rules/monitors, overrides, installing Update Rollups, troubleshooting, creating custom reports
- Administered, maintained and supported SCOM platform.
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining SharePoint 2010 environments. Involved in monitoring and
troubleshooting issues on multiple SharePoint Farms
- Allocated CIFS shares and NFS mounts from EMC, NetApp Arrays to windows Active Directory accounts and UNIX
servers respectively
- Responsible for design and maintenance of the Stash Repositories
- Installed and configured EMC Networker and Data Domain systems

ULYS Systems, Kyiv, Ukraine Apr. 2003 – Dec. 2011
Engineering Team Lead
- Designed Datacenter, high availability and disast…