Appointed to an additional company-wide leadership role while retaining full DevOps Team Lead responsibilities. Continue to lead DevOps directly while expanding into technology strategy, engineering coordination, Internal IT and executive decision support.

- Partner with the CTO and engineering leads on technology roadmaps, investment decisions, operating-model changes and risk controls.

- Coordinate cross-team technical decisions across infrastructure, product development, QA, security, data, finance and operations; lead the engineering organization when delegated by the CTO.

- Lead technology workstreams related to company separation: infrastructure ownership, Jira/Confluence transition, SSO, identity mapping, access continuity and corporate tooling.

- Build the Internal IT operating model from the ground up for a 147-user organization: support tiers, IAM, onboarding/offboarding, endpoint governance, vendors, licensing and business continuity.

- Establish governance for corporate AI and software tools, balancing security, access, cost and engineering productivity.

- Drive AI-enabled engineering through agentic SDLC workflows, reusable knowledge systems, self-service automation and platform integrations.

- Retain accountability for production infrastructure, platform reliability, delivery automation, observability, cloud costs and critical escalations.

Lead a five-person DevOps team responsible for infrastructure architecture, production availability, delivery automation and operational support across business-critical services.

- Own the DevOps technical roadmap, architecture decisions, priorities and execution planning.

- Hold end-to-end responsibility for infrastructure reliability, production operations and critical escalations.

- Develop and standardize CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, observability and incident response.

- Work with development and product teams to reduce delivery friction and improve time-to-market.

- Lead cloud cost optimization, infrastructure modernization and operational-risk reduction.

- Mentor engineers and distribute ownership across infrastructure domains.

Stack: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, Sentry, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Linux, Bash, Git.

Practices: Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering, GitOps, SRE, DevSecOps, FinOps, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, IAM and AI-assisted software delivery.

Concurrent with the additional Deputy CTO / Head of DevOps appointment since May 2026.

Contract role in an outsourcing environment, held alongside the primary position at Together Networks.

- Led and mentored a team of six DevOps engineers across client projects.

- Defined DevOps strategies, engineering practices and cloud infrastructure architecture.

- Collaborated with development and product teams to build scalable AWS infrastructure and improve delivery processes.

- Automated provisioning, configuration and deployments with Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

- Implemented reusable CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, code reviews and reliable releases across new projects.

Stack and practices: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, database infrastructure, Agile/Scrum, team leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Contract DevOps role supporting the development of a new royalty-management platform, alongside the primary position at Together Networks.

- Designed AWS infrastructure architecture covering networking, Kubernetes and microservices.

- Developed Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.

- Set up EKS clusters across environments with self-managed nodes, Helm charts and Argo CD.

- Developed GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and Ansible configuration management.

- Provisioned and supported Cassandra clusters and PostgreSQL infrastructure; worked with RabbitMQ and Kafka.

- Implemented monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, Graphite and New Relic, including distributed tracing with New Relic.

Built and operated the engineering platform supporting BI, ETL and data-intensive workloads.

- Designed CI/CD automation with Jenkins, Groovy, Docker and GitLab.

- Migrated four model-deployment workflows from Rundeck to Jenkins and standardized multibranch delivery.

- Built branch-based integration testing with isolated Vertica environments and automated tests across multiple Vertica versions.

- Automated Vertica snapshots, data transfers, scheduled pipelines and Kafka-to-S3 backups.

- Implemented Grafana observability, job metrics and proactive failure alerts.

- Contributed to AWS infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible.

Stack: AWS, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Vertica, Kafka, S3, Druid, Grafana, Graphite, Rundeck, Groovy, Linux, Bash.

Led IT infrastructure and DevOps operations, including release preparation, CI, application support and L3 operations. Supported the transition from an on-premises solution to an AWS-based SaaS platform.

Provided L3 infrastructure support and managed server rooms, enterprise storage and virtualization environments (Hyper-V, VMware, Proxmox).

Implemented and administered enterprise endpoint protection with ESET ERA and Endpoint Security. Supported physical security, biometric access control and video-surveillance systems.

Provided L2/L3 server support and enterprise infrastructure operations.

- Administered Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365 and Lotus Notes.

- Supported enterprise storage (NetApp, HP, IBM, EMC) and backup platforms (Veritas, NetBackup).

- Administered VMware and Citrix environments, including XenApp and XenServer.

- Performed monitoring, remote troubleshooting and operational support within ITIL-focused processes.

Provided L2 systems engineering and operations support for customers in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.

- Administered Windows Server and Active Directory.

- Supported Unix/Linux environments: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and FreeBSD.

- Monitored systems with Nimbus and Nagios, tracked incidents in Marval and resolved infrastructure issues.

Built and maintained the Harmonic laboratory and office infrastructure within GlobalLogic.

- Set up a 10-rack laboratory with servers, Cisco and Juniper networking, and Harmonic video-processing and storage equipment.

- Installed and configured network and lab devices, rack equipment and cabling.

- Provided IT support, maintained technical documentation and coordinated infrastructure matters with the customer team in Israel.

Supported enterprise IT infrastructure and end users across Windows, macOS and Unix environments (FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu).

- Administered workstation provisioning, Windows Deployment Services, virtualization and access-control systems.

- Managed Jira project permissions and Confluence spaces and permissions.

- Supported network equipment, office connectivity, hardware, software and conferencing systems.

- Managed onboarding and technical support requests, troubleshooting and operational documentation.

Supported IT infrastructure in the Kyiv head office (83 PCs) and six regional offices. Maintained corporate networks, Windows Server systems, virtualization, Dell storage and backup equipment, corporate email and BlackBerry services.