Aizirek Toktosun kyzy
Prosper,TX
Summary
I’m a highly analytical, detail-oriented, and resourceful DevOps Engineer with 5+
years of expertise in IT, cloud
infrastructure, cloud computing, and automation. I leverage knowledge in programming languages, configuration
management, CI/CD, IAAC, and DevOps processes to provide analytical and technical recommendations. I utilize different
orchestration, containerization, and cloud services and possess hands-on experience building, automating, and optimizing
mission-critical deployments in the cloud. I have decision-making, leadership, and collaboration skills and develop project
implementations, integrations, and deployments. I spearheaded projects alongside multidisciplinary teams while working
independently to meet deliverables and commitments.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
IBM
10.2021 - Current
- Design and develop a CICD framework for infrastructure provisioning and pipeline delivery.
- Automate the infrastructure using Terraform, Python Boto3.
- Develop and support Terraform Modules.
- Manage AWS account creation and Decommission Process using AWS landing zone with customized terraform script.
- Manage Cloud Governance and Security by implementing policies to protect and deny AWS SCP, Developer Roles, and S3 Buckets.
- Creating IAM users, and IAM roles, and assigning required permissions based on the principle of least privileged access.
- Designing and implementing best security solutions in AWS cloud infrastructure based on cloud security standards, governance, and control practices.
- Troubleshooting the applications and infrastructure-related issues and resolving them within SLA.
- Creating technical documentation for new developments and issues on the confluence page.
- Manage change management and incident management processes using the ServiceNow tool.
- Providing support 24
- 7 if any issues in production.
AWS DevOps Engineer
IBM
10.2021 - 03.2023
- Designed and deployed production-ready AWS EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Route53 DNS, and ACM certificates, achieving secure, high-availability configurations for customer-facing applications.
- Set up Route53 for domain routing, weighted/geolocation policies, and health checks, enhancing availability.
- Reduced resource cost by 30% in AWS Organization by providing and enforcing unique solutions by right-sizing instances, and tracking unused EC2 instances, volumes, EIPs and snapshots using CloudWatch, Lambda, and Python.
- Increased deliverable efficiency by 50% and reusability by 90% by developing AWS infrastructure for micro-services using Python as well as Terraform and deploy using CI/CD pipeline and DevOps tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
- Managed ACM SSL/TLS certificates for multiple subdomains, automating renewals and securing AWS load balancers.
- Led the containerization of legacy applications and orchestrated microservices via Kubernetes on AWS. Introduced Helm charts and custom resource definitions (CRDs) to streamline deployments.
- Pioneered a rotational 24x7 on-call SRE support program, leading to a substantial 45% reduction in P1 and P2 incidents pertaining to existing AWS infrastructure. Leveraged monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace to ensure uninterrupted service delivery and bolster customer satisfaction.
- Integrated Kafka for real-time data processing, AWS Organization and IAM for secure access control, Cognito for user authentication, and EventBridge for event-driven architectures to enhance system performance and security.
- Architected, designed, and implemented secure and scalable AWS environments, including Control Towers, Organizational Units, and Security Policies.
- Mentor junior team members on DevOps best practices, tools, and methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Site Reliability Engineer
Apple
10.2020 - 09.2021
- Designed and implemented resilient production and non-production environments in AWS. Used EC2, auto scaling, and load balancers for high availability and fault tolerance.
- Design, develop and deploy Ansible playbooks for configuring management to existing infrastructure.
- Set up and maintain EKS clusters for efficient service deployment.
- Deployed Dockerized applications on Amazon EKS-managed Kubernetes clusters.
- Managed 600+ Linux hosts, handling patching and troubleshooting.
- Monitored infrastructure using Splunk, Grafana, and ELK for proactive alerts.
DevOps Engineer
Itron, Inc.
05.2019 - 09.2020
- Monitoring applications and troubleshooting issues based on alerts.
- Providing on-call support for pre-production and production issues.
- Utilizing the Opsgenie monitoring tool for automatic alerts, notifying through mobile.
- Handling Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) through Jenkins.
- Creating labels, jobs, and nodes in Jenkins, overseeing build releases in Dev, QA, UAT, and Prod.
- Managing end-to-end DevOps responsibilities, periodically updating pipeline configurations.
- Deploying infrastructure across multiple clouds using Terraform code.
- Automating and managing configurations with Ansible.
- Monitoring ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus, overseeing CPU, memory, disk usage, and running processes.
- Administering user/group creation, deletion, and permissions for files and directories.
- Installing packages like MySQL, Apache, Web servers, and setting up Jenkins servers.
- Implementing Nagios monitoring tool for Linux and Windows servers.
- Scheduling various tasks using crontab, including regular, periodic, future, and queue tasks.
- Managing Asset, Change, and Server Management in Data Centers.
- Conducting server backups through file compression using zip, bzip2, gzip, and tar.
- Designing and deploying applications on AWS (EC2, S3, IAM Role, Cloud Watch, VPC, Route53).
- Configuring Cloud Watch and creating alarms for applications, focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
- Following the agile process and sprint model with JIRA and AZURE BOARDS.
- Deploying Ansible templates and modules, breaking playbooks into multiple files.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
Osh State University
Kyrgyzstan06-2023
Skills
- Infrastructure automation
- Linux operating system
- Monitoring and logging
- Containerization technologies
- API development
- Developer collaboration
- IBM rational clearcase
- Continuous deployment
- Amazon web services
- JIRA
- Linux environments
- GitHub collaboration
- Source and version control: git, github
- Agile
- API design and development
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
IBM
10.2021 - Current
AWS DevOps Engineer
IBM
10.2021 - 03.2023
Site Reliability Engineer
Apple
10.2020 - 09.2021
DevOps Engineer
Itron, Inc.
05.2019 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Science - Economics
Osh State University
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