Volodymyr Rozdolsky
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
New York,NY
Summary
Site Reliability Engineer specializing in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes automation. Develops operational tooling in Go and builds infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and Bash. Strong software development background (Java, Python, Go) applied to reducing operational toil and improving system reliability. Currently supporting federal IHS applications while growing expertise in SRE practices including observability and capacity planning.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Oracle
New York, NY
05.2024 - Current
- Ensure reliability and availability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments for federal IHS applications, focusing on Kubernetes (OKE) operations, automation for mission-critical healthcare services
- Developed 'ocloud' CLI tool in Go for streamlining OCI operations, adopted by 20+ team members and reducing common operational tasks from multiple console clicks to single commands
- Automated database and application bootstrap processes using Terraform and Bash, reducing deployment time by 60% and eliminating manual configuration errors across multiple environments
- Collaborate with federal and commercial operations teams to identify and resolve operational gaps, improve service handoffs, and establish SRE practices including runbook documentation and post-incident reviews
- Conducted knowledge-sharing sessions on Kubernetes troubleshooting, OCI automation, and SRE principles, helping team members adopt reliability-focused practices
Cloud Solutions Developer
Oracle
New York, NY
05.2022 - 05.2024
- Engineered highly available ML/Analytics platform on OCI supporting 15+ SaaS services across business units, achieving 99.95% uptime through automated health checks, multi-region failover, and Kubernetes-based orchestration processing 10TB+ data daily
- Built CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and OCI DevOps that automated testing, deployment, and rollback procedures, increasing release frequency from bi-weekly to daily while reducing deployment failures by 70%
- Automated platform provisioning with Terraform, reducing environment setup from 2 days to 4 hours and enabling self-service infrastructure for 50+ developers across 8 teams
- Implemented automated disaster recovery solution with cross-region replication and infrastructure-as-code, achieving 15-minute RPO and 1-hour RTO validated through quarterly DR drills
- Developed reusable Go libraries and Terraform modules for OCI resource provisioning, adopted by 6+ teams and reducing duplicate code by 60% while standardizing security configurations
- Created comprehensive runbook documentation covering 25+ operational procedures, reducing new engineer onboarding time from 6 weeks to 3 weeks and decreasing support escalations by 40%
Cloud Engineer
IBM
New York, NY
03.2021 - 05.2022
- Led 6-person engineering team to develop automated installation framework for IBM Cloud Pak products on OpenShift, reducing deployment time from 8 hours to 45 minutes and eliminating 90% of manual configuration errors through Python-based orchestration and validation tooling
- Migrated 25+ microservices from Docker Swarm to OpenShift (OCP 4.x), refactoring Spring Cloud Netflix components to Kubernetes-native patterns and reducing infrastructure costs by 35% while improving deployment frequency from weekly to daily releases
- Architected and deployed proof-of-concept environments across IBM Cloud, GCP, and Azure for enterprise client evaluations, directly enabling a $4M contract through automated infrastructure provisioning that reduced setup time
- Resolved 50+ Kubernetes deployment and networking issues for 3 client teams adopting Cloud Pak products, creating troubleshooting runbooks and automated health checks that reduced support escalations by 60%
- Built cloud-native CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Kubernetes that automated deployment across multi-cloud environments, reducing deployment failures by 45% through automated integration testing and rollback capabilities
Java Developer /Web Developer
New Ukrainian Wave Non-propfit
New York, NY
09.2018 - 11.2021
- Developed RESTful backend APIs in Java (Spring Boot) serving 10K+ monthly visitors, implementing JWT-based multi-role authorization for content management and supporting admin, editor, and contributor workflows for 100+ community members
- Integrated Stripe and PayPal payment processing handling $50K+ in annual donations, building secure webhook handlers, transaction logging, and automated receipt generation via AWS SES
- Architected cost-effective AWS infrastructure using S3, CloudFront, SES, and Route53 that reduced hosting costs by 60% through cost optimization technologies and automated lifecycle policies while maintaining 99.9% uptime
- Deployed and managed production Kubernetes cluster on GCP (GKE) hosting 8+ microservices with Helm charts, implementing automated SSL management (cert-manager), horizontal pod autoscaling, and monitoring stack (Prometheus/Grafana)
- Created optimized Docker images using multi-stage builds that reduced image sizes by 65%, integrated security scanning (Trivy), and automated CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for zero-downtime deployments
- Built infrastructure-as-code with Terraform for automated environment provisioning across AWS and GCP, reducing development environment setup time from 2 days to 2 hours
Software Engineer
Mountain State Software Solutions, LLC
Charles Town, WV
06.2019 - 02.2021
- Developed REST APIs for multiple clients using Java and Spring Boot, integrating modern applications with legacy SOAP services and databases to enable data exchange and reporting capabilities
- Built integration solutions connecting legacy systems to modern applications, following REST API design principles and implementing proper error handling and loggingsign
- Performed performance testing of DataSonnet transformations using Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH) to validate transformation speed and reliability
- Created API documentation and worked with database design for integration projects, ensuring data consistency between multiple systems
Skills
- Cloud & Infrastructure: OCI, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
- Programming: Go (primary), Java, Python, Bash/Shell scripting
- SRE Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, monitoring platforms
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins
- Containerization: Docker, Podman, Helm
- Software Engineering: REST API Design, Microservices Architecture
Certification
- CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified DevOps Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Architect Associate
- CNCF - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- CNCF - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- PCA: Prometheus Certified Associate
- Red Hat - Certified Specialist in Containers for Kubernetes
- GitHub Foundations
- GitHub Actions
- HashiCorp - Certified Terraform Associate
- CNCF - System Administrator
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Oracle
05.2024 - Current
Cloud Solutions Developer
Oracle
05.2022 - 05.2024
Cloud Engineer
IBM
03.2021 - 05.2022
Software Engineer
Mountain State Software Solutions, LLC
06.2019 - 02.2021
Java Developer /Web Developer
New Ukrainian Wave Non-propfit
09.2018 - 11.2021