Elena Luca
Plainfield,IL
Summary
Passionate DevOps engineer with 5+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud-based solutions. Adept at combining development and operations expertise to drive efficiency, scalability, and reliability in complex technology environments. Skilled in leveraging DevOps methodologies, tools, and automation frameworks to streamline workflows, accelerate delivery cycles, and enhance overall system performance.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Gravity Payments
06.2022 - Current
- Deployed and managed production-ready Kubernetes infrastructure using Kops and Terraform, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance and load balancing.
- Orchestrated Kubernetes clusters with Terraform, optimizing cluster performance and resource utilization for enhanced scalability.
- Performed static code quality analysis using SonarQube, ensuring code integrity and adherence to best practices.
- Implemented Jenkins and GitHub CI/CD pipelines for seamless integration and deployment of applications, streamlining development cycle.
- Utilized Git and GitOps practices to manage infrastructure,configuration changes and version control.
- Managed highly available and scalable infrastructure supporting business-critical applications with zero downtime using EC2 ASG, ELB, Route53 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
- Safeguarded sensitive data using HashiCorp Vault, maintaining security and compliance with industry and business standards.
- Implemented Datadog for monitoring and analyzing performance of the application and infrastructure using Kubernetes.
- Utilized Terraform to provision S3 buckets for storing application artifacts and integrated CloudTrail to monitor access to buckets following the principle of least privilege, ensuring secure resource interactions.
DevOps Engineer
CVS HEALTH CORPORATION
02.2020 - 05.2022
- Designed and deployed highly scalable and resilient infrastructure utilizing a diverse set of AWS services (ECS, EKS, ELB, ELK, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, API Gateway).
- Used Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and Ansible to define and provision infrastructure resources as code.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions and automated building, testing, and deploying code to various environments, including staging and production.
- Leveraged Docker for containerization to create portable, isolated environments for applications and used Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Designed, deployed and managed microservices architecture using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, and AWS API Gateway.
- Implemented serverless functions for event-driven applications using AWS Lambda.
- Set up infrastructure security, vulnerability assessment, and compliance checks using tools like HashiCorp Vault, AWS Security Hub and Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.
Cloud Engineer
Peapod
02.2018 - 02.2020
- Implemented and configured AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda to create scalable and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Implemented infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to automate provisioning and management.
- Implemented security best practices by configuring identity and access management (IAM) roles and policies.
- Ensured data privacy and compliance with relevant regulations by setting up encryption, access controls, and auditing using Amazon Inspector, AWS WAF, AWS Config and AWS Shield.
- Deployed applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, ECS and Kubernetes on AWS EKS.
- Monitored application performance using CloudWatch and implement auto-scaling to handle varying loads.
- Designed and configure virtual private clouds (VPCs) with subnets, route tables, and security groups.
- Set up Amazon VPC peering, VPN connections, Direct Connect, and Elastic Load Balancing.
- Implemented data storage solutions using Amazon S3, EBS and RDS.
- Designed and implemented backup and disaster recovery strategies using AWS Backup and snapshots.
- Implemented multi-region and multi-Availability Zone (AZ) configurations for high availability.
Education
Academy of Economical Studies of Moldova
Skills
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Linux
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- GIT
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Python
- Bash
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect-Associate
Languages
English
Romanian
Russian
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Gravity Payments
06.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
CVS HEALTH CORPORATION
02.2020 - 05.2022
Cloud Engineer
Peapod
02.2018 - 02.2020
Academy of Economical Studies of Moldova
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