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Nurgissa Nazar

Aurora,IL

Summary

Pragmatic and dynamic problem-solving DevOps Engineer with expertise in all aspects of the software development lifecycle with strong DevOps, CI/CD, and Agile principles and expert in cloud, microservices, and containerization. Analytical, committed, persistent individual, and reliable team member. Continuously learning and acquiring new knowledge and skills.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Pangea Money Transfer
05.2021 - 09.2023
  • Involved in the management of AWS Organization with multiple AWS accounts for both production and non-production (dev, staging) where primary objectives included automation, build-out integration, and cost control.
  • Implemented CI/CD using Jenkins and GitHub, used GIT source control systems to manage code
  • Worked with highly available and scalable infrastructure in the AWS cloud by using various AWS services like EC2, VPC, Auto scaling, ELB, RDS, Route53, and EKS.
  • Configured and administered Jenkins pipelines for automated builds and was responsible for installing Jenkins master and slave nodes and managing plugins.
  • Created and managed AWS resources such as EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, and Auto scaling with the IaaC tool Terraform.
  • Worked on monitoring tools such as Prometheus to collect the metrics within the Kubernetes environment, then visualized and analyzed metrics with Grafana.
  • Managed and maintained Kubernetes clusters with EKS, including Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSet, ConfigMaps, and other Kubernetes objects for exposing applications.

Cloud Engineer

Mindsight
03.2019 - 05.2021
  • Implemented multi-tier application provisioning in Amazon cloud services.
  • Created S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
  • Designed roles and groups for users and resources using the Security, Identity and Compliance group service AWS Identify Access Management (IAM).
  • Configured Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with the networking of subnets containing servers.
  • Created detailed AWS Security groups that behaved as virtual firewalls controlling traffic.
  • Leveraged AWS Console and AWS CLI for deploying and operating AWS services.
  • Worked with DNS, routed traffic to Route53, and configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 auto-scaling groups.
  • Automated the cloud deployments using Makefile and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Natural Sciences

Eurasian National University
Astana, Kazakhstan
05.2018

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Git/GitHub
  • Jenkins
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Shell Script (Bash)

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

AWS Solution Architect Associate

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Pangea Money Transfer
05.2021 - 09.2023

Cloud Engineer

Mindsight
03.2019 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Science - Natural Sciences

Eurasian National University
Nurgissa Nazar