MEET
MICHAL

PASSIONATE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR, DEVOPS AND WRITER

DEVOPS/AWS/APRIBLE SPECIALISTS
2019 - PRESENT Remote

  • Support of development team

  • Configuration of VPN with the office network

  • Configuration of Jenkins to meet the development team requirements

  • Migrating applications from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to EKS

  • Rewriting the infrastructure into Terraform code

  • Preparation of helm charts for products

  • Monitoring health and performance with Prometheus and Grafana

  • Implementing security best practices

  • Technos:Aptible Stack, AWS Stack, Terraform, Helm, Bash, Python

LINUX/CLOUD ENGINEER
2019 - 2019 Remote

  • Server administration

  • Provisioning new servers, imaging, monitoring

  • Monitoring and maintenance of servers, applications and containers - test and apply new software and patches

  • Perform backup, file replication and script management for servers

  • Collaboration with developers (support and guidance)

  • Identifying and solving architectural problems of infrastructure

  • Supported integration of internal applications with GCP

  • Design and support Gitlab pipelines (build, deploy, tests)

  • Technos: Kubernetes, GCP, Docker, Linux, Puppet, Gitlab, Terraform, Grafana, Python, Bash

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR/DEVOPS/WRITER
2017 - PRESENT Remote

  • Providing IT consulting services for direct and indirect clients

TECHNICAL REVIEWER
2018 - PRESENT Remote

  • Quality reviews of IT books content

DEVELOPMENT TOOL ADMINISTRATOR
2015 - 2017 In Gdansk (PL)

  • Data center migration and OS change from Windows to Linux

  • Implementation of Puppet-based provisioning together with Vagrant baseboxes

  • Migration from embedded to external databases

  • Adding SSL and HA provies in front of application servers

  • Establishing self-service web portal

  • Developing infra status page with service availability overview, outage notices etc

  • Supporting development process

  • Creating project, build plan and CI environment examples

  • OS level monitoring, service usage statistics

  • Preparation of migratoin and deployment plans, guides

  • Support of local and remote group of users

SOLUTION INTEGRATION ENGINEER
2013 - 2015 In Gdansk (PL)

  • Creating detailed solution integration guides (complete hardware solution - servers, racks, firewall…)

  • Installing and deploying solution on hardware

  • Creating customer acceptance plans in co-operation with validation team

  • Integration and deployment of the solution at the customer site, on customer infrastructure

  • Connecting the solution to external flows (SMS center, billing module…)

  • Providing visability on project progress to stakeholders

  • Preparation of operation and maintenance guide before transitioning the project to support phase

  • Support of local group of developers and qa engineers

TECHNICAL CONSULTING ENGINEER
2012 - 2013 In Gdansk (PL)

  • Maintaining the IT infrastructure

  • Supporting sales department and analysis of customer requirements

  • Test environment preparation and its technical presentation

  • Implementation and integration of new solutions

  • Writing technical documentation

  • Internal and external customer support

  • Building good relationships with partners and suppliers

SYSTEMS ENGINEER
2011 - 2013 In Gdansk (PL)

  • Maintaining the IT infrastructure at the HQ

  • Customer support with deployment of new systems and services

  • Customer offers preparation

COURSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:

  • Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

  • vSphere 5 Design Workshop, vShpere 5 Install, Configure, Manage

  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP-5), VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP-5)

  • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP): Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Lync

  • Oracle WebLogic server

  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator

SKILLS:

  • Cloud environment:

    AWS, Aptible, GCP environments, Kubernetes environments + EKS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, terraform, helm

  • System:

    - Linux: Gentoo, Arch, CentOS, Red Hat, Debian
    - Unix: OpenBSD, Solaris 9 & 10
    - Windows: server & desktop editions

  • Services:

    - www: apache, tomcat, lighttpd, nginx, iss, oracle weblogic
    - dns: bind, pdns, windows dns service
    - ftp: proftpd, vsftpd
    - mail: postfix, spamassassin, amavis, clamav, dovecot, qmail
    - monitoring: snmp, grafana, icinga, graphite, prometheus
    - HA: HAproxy, Veritas Cluster Server, vShpere HA, vSphere FT
    - nfs, zfs
    - oracle, mysql, postresql, ldap
    - Atlassian software: Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Stash
    - SonarQube, Artifactory
    - Provisioning: puppet
    - Continuous integration, continuous deployment, build-plans

  • Programming Languages:

    - Bash, Powershell
    - basic to intermediate: C, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby

  • Virtualization:

    - VMware Vsphere environment, docker ecosystem, coreos, vagrant, qemu-kvm, openstack / proxmox, ovirt, iocage