Farid Farajli
Baku
Summary
Results-driven DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with 7+ years of experience in designing, automating, and optimizing mission-critical infrastructure. Proven track record of reducing deployment times, enhancing availability, and leading high-impact incident responses. Proficient in Kubernetes, cloud-native tooling, infrastructure as code, and monitoring platforms.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Azerconnect LLC
04.2024 - Current
- Maintained scalable infrastructure with 99.99% uptime for FinTech and AdTech platforms.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines and environment provisioning using GitLab, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation, reducing deployment time by 40%.
- Led incident response and reduced MTTR by 30% across high-priority outages.
- Integrated KYC services on AWS (EKS + RDS + S3) and scaled platforms to support 150K+ daily users while ensuring compliance and high availability.
- Built monitoring and alerting stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and AWS CloudWatch, enabling proactive detection and reducing downtime.
DevOps Engineer
International Bank of Azerbaijan
09.2022 - 04.2024
- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines, increasing deployment frequency by 40% across retail, neobank, and mobile banking services.
- Administered and optimized Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters, ensuring 99.9% uptime for mission-critical systems.
- Migrated over 20+ legacy applications to microservices architecture, enabling faster, modular releases for mortgage and loyalty platforms.
- Built reusable Jenkins pipelines, improving build consistency and provisioning speed across AI/ML-driven fraud detection and recommendation systems.
- Supported end-to-end delivery of services across mobile banking, retail customer engagement, and AI-integrated decision-making modules.
Linux Administrator
International Bank of Azerbaijan
06.2018 - 09.2022
- Automated 80% of deployment and configuration tasks using Docker and Kubernetes, reducing manual workload and errors.
- Managed and monitored 300+ virtual machines across Azure and on-prem VMware infrastructure, ensuring high availability.
- Administered 300+ RHEL and Windows servers, optimized Active Directory policies, and maintained Microsoft Exchange services for 3,000+ users.
- Integrated automated testing into infrastructure changes, improving system reliability and reducing rollback incidents.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Systems Security
AZERBAIJAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
AZERBAIJAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Skills
- GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD
- AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Vault
- Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Helm,Kustomize
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB
- Bash, Python
- Kafka, Keycloak, Harbor, Nexus,Redis
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Azerconnect LLC
04.2024 - Current
DevOps Engineer
International Bank of Azerbaijan
09.2022 - 04.2024
Linux Administrator
International Bank of Azerbaijan
06.2018 - 09.2022
Master of Science - Computer And Information Systems Security
AZERBAIJAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
AZERBAIJAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
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