Temirlan is a Senior System Administrator with over 8 years of experience and 3 years working as a DevOps engineer. The scope of his expertise ranges from IT infrastructure support, Windows/Linux/Mac administration, and network administration to DevOps tools and practices using Ansible, Ansible Tower, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Git, Python, Jira, Bash/Shell scripting, CI/CD, and others. Temirlan's experience includes supporting Dev/QA teams and providing Linux/Windows environments (both cloud-based and on-premises) in an automated manner, but he is also passionate about learning new skills and technologies and implementing new tools and automation.
Delivering CI/CD as part of an Agile team to improve performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.
Helping build and improve infrastructure, application, and performance development, ensuring tight security such as data encryption, security groups, and environmental scanning.
Ensuring high-quality deliverables and implementing DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.
Implemented Terraform for new VMs provision and imported existing VMware resources (60+ VMs in APAC) that reduced VM provisioning time and simplified inventory.
Developed new Ansible roles using previously implemented CI/CD and created AWX templates for different regions and auto-inventory of VMs based on annotations.
Reduced manual work to a minimum and helped the globally distributed team of 5 experienced SysAdmins to support >500 developers/QA.
Reorganized the development process by implementing CI/CD for Ansible roles development and redesigning existing roles with Ansible Molecule (using Docker for playbook testing).
Improved overall stability of environments and helped prevent issues by configuring scheduled tasks (Ansible AWX) and event-driven tasks (that Zabbix execute via AWX API) for Linux environments maintenance (log rotation, patching, etc.).
Configured scheduler for AWS performance testing environments that were using on-demand pricing, reducing cost (EC2, RDS) by ~66.6%.
Implemented best practices based on experience in St. Petersburg office (Jira for tickets, Confluence as Wiki, Zabbix monitoring with notifications in Teams, automated PC preparation with MDT and Desktop Central, etc.) and led IT infrastructure preparation for ISO 27001 audit.
Upgraded and reconfigured bare-metal servers, migrated development and QA environments from AWS, resulting in AWS ~4x cost reduction.
Fixed shaky IT infrastructure by configuring disk stations for point in time DB backups and VM backups.
Implemented Zabbix monitoring for bare-metal servers with Slack notifications for critical triggers that helped to resolve potential issues before they affect mission-critical tasks.
Handled Desktop Central for PC OS patching/configuration and software installations that played a key role for company preparation for ISO 27001 audit (e.g., AD-AD migration of globally distributed laptops).
Configured exclusions (Java IDE, Maven) to avoid development efficiency drop because of AV real-time scanning (e.g., during code compilation) that helped the company to secure workstations.
Helped AxiomSL to align its policies to pass security audits such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2. In 2019, moved to Singapore and prepared APAC IT Infrastructure in 2 months, turning APAC from the least prepared region into the first to achieve certification. Later focused on automation and implemented Ansible to provision new environments on-premises and in AWS. Developed Ansible roles for deployments, configurations, and maintenance tasks so that a small, globally distributed IT team can better support Dev/QA/Support teams.
Education
CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) - Expires Mar 2026
The Linux Foundation
2023 - 2023
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Expires Feb 2025)
