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Nurkyz Zhakshylykova

Brooklyn,NY

Summary

DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing secure cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP. Skilled in Snowflake, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Linux system administration. Proven track record of reducing downtime, optimizing deployments, and strengthening cloud security policies in highly regulated enterprise environments.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Walgreens
Remote
01.2020 - Current
  • Designed and maintained Snowflake and Databricks pipelines for large-scale analytics, integrating with AWS S3, and Terraform to optimize performance and costs.
  • Built and managed CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for cloud services and ML schema migrations, reducing deployment time by 40%.
  • Configured Snowflake security roles, warehouses, and data-sharing policies, strengthening compliance and access control.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform Enterprise and Sentinel policies, ensuring scalability and governance.
  • Developed monitoring dashboards in Grafana, Datadog, and Snowflake Resource Monitors to track ML pipeline performance and costs.
  • Collaborated with data engineering teams to support real-time analytics and ML workflows, ensuring high availability of mission-critical pipelines.

Site Reliability Engineer

Fidelity Investments
Chicago, USA
11.2018 - 11.2019
  • Led migration of legacy systems to AWS, reducing costs by 30% while improving scalability and availability.
  • Designed AWS solutions with VPC, EC2, S3, and Route 53, improving reliability and compliance.
  • Implemented Auto Scaling and RDS management with CloudFormation, reducing manual intervention.
  • Adopted OPA with Rego for Kubernetes, enforcing security and compliance policies.
  • Supported CI/CD pipelines, Git repo management, and on-call rotations with PagerDuty.

Site Reliability Engineer

State Farm
Chicago, USA
11.2016 - 10.2018
  • Built AWS-based cloud infrastructure ensuring scalability and high availability for enterprise systems.
  • Developed proactive monitoring systems, reducing MTTR by 40%.
  • Designed and maintained Jenkins pipelines, streamlining deployments.
  • Resolved complex networking issues (DNS, load balancing, firewall, TCP/IP).
  • Optimized Amazon RDS usage for critical applications.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree -

International University of Kyrgyzstan
05-2013

Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
Data & Analytics: Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL
Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation
CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash
Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm
Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch
Networking & Security: VPC, IAM, Security Groups, OPA, TCP/IP
Version Control: Git

Websites

Timeline

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Walgreens
01.2020 - Current

Site Reliability Engineer

Fidelity Investments
11.2018 - 11.2019

Site Reliability Engineer

State Farm
11.2016 - 10.2018

Bachelor’s Degree -

International University of Kyrgyzstan

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