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SERHII KUCHERENKO
SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER
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Location: Lviv, Ukraine

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior DevOps Engineer with 18+ years of IT experience, including 9 years in DevOps. Experienced in
designing and operating Kubernetes-based platforms, implementing Infrastructure as Code with
Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines, and supporting cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and
Alibaba Cloud. Background includes production Kubernetes environments, observability, security audits,
cloud cost optimization, third-party integrations, and technical leadership. Comfortable collaborating with
customers and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and maintainable solutions.

CORE SKILLS
Cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Alibaba Cloud
Containers & orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Helm, Argo CD
Infrastructure as Code & automation: Terraform, Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python (basic), Groovy
CI/CD & source control: Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Git
Observability & logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic Stack, Splunk, InfluxDB, TICK Stack
Networking, security & identity: Network technologies, security audits, Keycloak, Auth0, FreeIPA, Vault
Messaging & streaming: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SRT, ATSC 3.0 OTA/OTT
Databases & storage: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop, NiFi
Operating systems & servers: Linux (CentOS/RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu, CoreOS), Windows, Nginx,
Apache, IIS
Ways of working: Agile, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, team leadership and mentoring
SOFT SKILLS

Technical Leadership · Mentoring · Cross-team Collaboration · Stakeholder Management · Clear
Communication · Problem-solving

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior DevOps Engineer | GlobalLogic (Hitachi) — RAG Chat MVP | Jul 2025 – Dec 2025
RAG Chat MVP; target delivery from project start to production in five months.
●Designed high-level and low-level architectures (HLA/LLA) and prepared technical documentation.
●Coordinated technical discussions with the customer and internal engineering teams.
●Established the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and release process from scratch.
●Contributed hands-on to the initial implementation and resolved infrastructure-related issues.
●Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
●Supported engineering quality, testing strategy, and consistent delivery practices.
Technologies: Microsoft Azure (API Management, Service Bus, Blob Storage, Web PubSub, Application
Insights, Entra ID, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Speech Service, Document Intelligence),
Kubernetes, Helm, Azure DevOps, React, TypeScript

Serhii Kucherenko | Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer | GlobalLogic (Hitachi) — GenAI Platform of Platforms | Mar 2024 – May
2025
Corporate generative AI platform for internal knowledge systems.
●Contributed to the design and development of an enterprise generative AI platform using RAG and
hybrid search.
●Helped establish GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows and DevOps practices during early platform
development.
●Supported infrastructure provisioning for the platform.
●Integrated the Apache APISIX API gateway with Keycloak for centralized authentication and
authorization across microservices.
●Designed and implemented observability components using OpenTelemetry and the ELK Stack to
support distributed tracing and system monitoring.
Technologies: Azure, AKS, Argo CD, Apache APISIX, SonarCloud, Keycloak, PostgreSQL, GitHub
Actions, Java, Python, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry

Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Lead | GlobalLogic (Hitachi) — Nextgen Alerting System (ATSC
3.0) | Jul 2020 – Feb 2024
Digital content delivery management platform using ATSC 3.0 over-the-air (OTA) and over-the-top (OTT)
delivery.
●Managed 18 Kubernetes clusters, including six production clusters.
●Implemented and maintained Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management
with Ansible.
●Led a three-person DevOps team and coordinated infrastructure-related activities.
●Contributed to cloud cost optimization in multi-zone Kubernetes environments on AWS EKS.
●Managed the migration of CI/CD pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitLab.
●Developed custom monitoring solutions for SRT-based streaming systems using Prometheus and
Grafana.
●Coordinated third-party media vendor integrations and participated in security audits.
●Supported virtualization environments based on VMware and Proxmox.
Technologies: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Kafka,
Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, Splunk, Apigee, Auth0

DevOps Engineer | Luxoft (DXC) — Data Warehouse | May 2018 – May 2020
Big Data Warehouse platform.
●Managed four Kubernetes clusters in an Alibaba Cloud environment.
●Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and rolled out performance-testing environments.
●Maintained Datastax Cassandra, FreeIPA, Nexus, Apache NiFi, and Tyk API Gateway.
●Worked on cloud cost optimization and performance tuning.
●Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines.
Technologies: Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Apache NiFi, Hadoop, Cassandra, Spark, Kafka,
Jenkins, Groovy, Docker, Nexus, Prometheus, Datadog, SonarQube, PostgreSQL, ForgeRock, Keycloak,
Vault

EDUCATION
KTU — Faculty of Information Technology, Computer Systems and Networks,Master’s Degree

LANGUAGES
Ukrainian — Native | English — Upper-Intermediate (B2) | Polish — Upper-Intermediate (B2)
Serhii Kucherenko | Senior DevOps Engineer