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Gulzat Turdali

Des Plaines,IL

Summary

Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive years of hands-on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS, knowledge in CI/ CD process using Ansible , Jenkins and Kubernetes to deploy quicker and efficient production. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Delta Air Lines, Inc
Chicago, IL
03.2020 - Current
  • Write custom helm charts for Kubernetes deployments.
  • Deployed Hashicorp Vault into Kubernetes with Github Actions.
  • Deployed Datadog on Kubernetes to manage application logs.
  • Experienced automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments of a web-based application with tools like Terraform, Jenkins and Docker.
  • Configured Elastic Load Balancer with AWS Autoscaling service to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
  • Created monitors,alarms for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.
  • Created custom AMIs using Hashicorp tool Packer.
  • Upgraded Kubernetes Dev/QA/Prod environment to newer version.
  • Built 3-tier application on AWS using Terraform to deploy into multiple environments.
  • Provisioned compute instances ,networking and storages like: VPC, Subnets, Route53, NatGateway, S3- buckets, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling Group through Terraform on AWS and GCP cloud providers.
  • Refactored the sizes of Vault, Nexus,Sonarqube,External DNS,Cert Manager
  • Implemented a Sonarqube to test each application and to secure Terraform modules.

Cloud Engineer

Home Depot
01.2019 - 02.2020
  • Have great working knowledge of build automation and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.
  • Experienced in Ansible automation including writing playbooks for development environment.
  • Responsible for creating , modifying, and deleting users, groups and assigning permissions to users and groups.
  • Deployed Ansible Tower for automation on AWS.
  • Configured and monitored failed deployments in various Namespaces on Kubernetes cluster.
  • Deployed external DNS and Metrics Server into Kubernetes.
  • Domain migration from AWS to GCP.

Skills

Cloud Platforms:

  • AWS
  • GCP

Automation Tools:

  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • Packer

Containerization:

  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • Kubernetes

Monitoring Tools:

  • Grafana
  • Prometheus

Projects

  • Deployed Grafana and Prometheus to collect metrics from Kubernetes.
  • Built and released Python/Java applications with Terraform.
  • Deployed and configured Hashicorp Vault on Kubernetes cluster for secret and token management.
  • Deployed Nodejs application with Terraform and automated this process by modularizing the Terraform code with customizable variables.
  • Deployed Nginx Ingress Controller on Kubernetes clusters.

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Delta Air Lines, Inc
03.2020 - Current

Cloud Engineer

Home Depot
01.2019 - 02.2020
Gulzat Turdali