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STEPAN MATULA
DevOps Engineer | AWS | Terraform | Kubernetes | CI/CD Automation

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Results-driven, certified DevOps Engineer with 4 years of experience building LinkedIn
and managing scalable, high-performance cloud infrastructure. Skilled in [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation and monitoring for SaaS
platforms using Security best practices. Experienced in collaborating within
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multicultural Agile teams, with a proactive mindset and strong analytical skills.
@StepanMatula

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
CERTIFICATIONS
Terraform Module Development
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Developed reusable Terraform modules managing AWS components for 20+
Amazon Web Services
environments.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Optimized Deployment Process
Amazon Web Services
Increased release efficiency by 40% using CI/CD pipelines and automation.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Cost-efficient Infrastructure Management
Amazon Web Services
Reduced infrastructure costs by 25-35% per environment using correct
Terraform configuration.
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp
EXPERIENCE

Container & Kubernetes Essentials V2
Platform DevOps Engineer
SoftServe (Cybersecurity Project, NDA) 05/2025 - Present IBM
United States
Internal cybersecurity cloud platform for managing infrastructure and releases of
their product across multiple AWS environments. The platform standardizes SKILLS
infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, enables controlled Kubernetes
Cloud: AWS, GCP
deployments via GitOps, and provides centralized release, observability, and
security processes for product teams.
• Designed, developed, and maintained reusable Terraform modules to IaC & Configuration: Terraform, Ansible
provision and manage AWS infrastructure, including core components: RDS,
MSK, Redshift, OpenSearch, Bedrock, EMR, EKS clusters, IAM roles, S3 Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
buckets, and shared platform components.
• Maintained more than 20 organization environments in the 10 AWS accounts.
CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Built and maintained custom CI/CD pipelines to automate build, validation, and
deployment processes, ensuring predictable and low-risk releases.
Observability & Monitoring: ELK Stack
• Implemented custom Disaster-Recovery for each component.
(Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Grafana,
• Ensured consistent environments across the whole project.
Prometheus, Loki, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, New
• Supported AWS EKS as a core platform service, enabling application Relic
deployments through GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
• Maintained Kubernetes base configurations and deployment standards to
Scripting: Python, Bash
support scalable and reliable workloads.
• Acted as Release Engineer, coordinating and executing infrastructure releases
across multiple environments. Operating Systems: macOS, Linux (Unix)
• Implemented and supported centralized logging and observability for platform
with New Relic, CloudWatch, OpenSearch. Methodologies & Tools: Agile, GitOps (ArgoCD),
• Developed huge custom Python Lambda functions. Jira, Confluence
• Implemented code and infrastructure security scanning to prevent data leaks.
• Worked as part of a 15-person multinational DevOps team, and participated in
Other: AI Enthusiast, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Nginx,
daily on-call rotation. Kong, Cloudflare
• Contributed to SOC 2 compliance by implementing security and infrastructure
best practices.
EXPERIENCE TRAINING / COURSES

DevOps Engineer EPAM DevOps Course
Perfsol (Education Platform Project, NDA) 05/2023 - 05/2025 EPAM Systems
United States
The Education Platform is a cloud-native solution designed to streamline and
DevOps Course
enhance the delivery of online learning services for U.S. higher-education
Hillel IT School
institutions. Its primary business purpose is to centralize course management,
student engagement, and analytics into a single environment.
• Designed and implemented Terraform modules to provision VPCs, EKS
LANGUAGES
clusters, RDS instances, and S3 buckets; built GitLab CI pipelines for
automated build, test, and deployment across development, staging, and English B2
production environments.
• Containerized microservices with Docker, optimized Kubernetes manifests for
Ukrainian Native
auto-scaling, and configured Helm charts to manage releases.
• Deployed Prometheus exporters and Grafana dashboards for service-level
metrics; implemented health-check and auto-healing policies to ensure high
EDUCATION
availability of environment
• Integrated AWS IAM roles and policies, implemented network protection, and Associate Degree
automated certificate provisioning via AWS Certificate Manager to enforce Lviv College of Transport Infrastructure of
HTTPS across all endpoints. Dnipropetrovsk National University of
• Led knowledge-sharing sessions with cross-functional teams, authored Railway Transport Named After Academician
runbooks and architecture diagrams, and coordinated release ceremonies V. Lazaryan
under Agile/Scrum practices. 2013 - 2017 Lviv, Ukraine

Internship
EPAM Systems 06/2022 - 11/2022 Lviv, Ukraine

Worked as a DevOps Engineer at EPAM Systems, focusing on developing and
automating cloud infrastructures to support scalable applications. Utilized AWS
for cloud deployments and Docker for container management. Implemented
Kubernetes for orchestrating containerized services, ensuring high availability
and reliability. Employed Infrastructure as Code with Terraform to streamline and
automate deployments. Managed CI/CD pipelines, enhancing deployment
efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
• Implemented cloud-based solutions using AWS, improving application
scalability and performance.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing setup time by
30%.
• Orchestrated containerized applications using Kubernetes, enhancing
reliability and uptime.
• Developed CI/CD pipelines, decreasing deployment time by 25%.
• Monitored systems using Prometheus and Grafana, increasing issue detection
speed.