Vahid Gojayev
Baku
Summary
Collaborative Dev Operations Engineer with 8+ years of experience working with cross-functional teams to build and automate various processes. Dedicated designer with creativity in leveraging individual strengths for product benefit. Determined facilitator setting rigid timelines and contributing to larger project goals.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
10
10
Certificate
Work History
SRE/Senior DevOps Engineer
Mina Group
Baku
06.2022 - Current
- Drove the implementation of CI/CD pipelines resulting in a 30% increase in deployment efficiency
- Managed cloud infrastructure, reducing costs by 20% through optimization
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to automate manual processes, saving 50 hours per month
- Implemented monitoring and alerting systems, reducing incident response time by 40%
- Led a successful migration to containerization, improving scalability and reducing resource usage
- Developed and maintained infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Ensured high availability of applications through effective configuration management
- Improved security by implementing robust authentication and authorization mechanisms
- Troubleshot and resolved complex production issues, minimizing downtime
- Performed regular performance tuning and optimization to enhance system efficiency
- Collaborated with development teams to streamline the software delivery process
- Conducted risk assessments and implemented disaster recovery plans
- Provided technical guidance and mentoring to junior team members
- Stayed up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies
- Contributed to the DevOps community through blog posts and conference presentations
SRE/Senior DevOps Engineer
Xalq Bank
Baku
04.2020 - 05.2022
- AWS cloud services
- Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Configuration management tools (Ansible)
- Scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Continuous integration and deployment tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, ELK stack)
- Networking and security concepts
- Version control systems (Git, SVN)
- Database administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
DevOps Engineer
Azerconnect
Baku
08.2018 - 02.2020
- Developed automated deployment processes and scripts to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.
- Implemented systems automation using scripting languages like Python and Bash.
- Analyzed existing applications for performance bottlenecks and implemented solutions to improve scalability.
- Created CI and CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker to automate the build process of applications.
- Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
- Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.
- Achieved cost-savings by developing functional solutions to problems.
Senior Linux Administrator
Azerfone
Baku
01.2016 - 07.2018
- Installed, configured and maintained Linux operating systems in a variety of environments.
- Ensured security and integrity of the server through regular patching and system updates.
- Provided technical support to users with varying levels of experience.
- Monitored performance metrics such as disk space utilization, memory usage, CPU load.
- Maintained user accounts, assigned privileges and monitored user access rights.
- Implemented backup strategies for the Linux servers using technologies such as Rsync or tar archives.
- Configured and managed software packages like Apache web server, MySQL database server and FTP services.
- Troubleshot network connectivity issues between multiple systems within the environment.
- Set up firewalls to secure the network from malicious attacks and unauthorized access attempts.
- Planned, tested and supported high-availability infrastructures.
- Increased system security and performance with proactive changes.
- Assisted in developing disaster recovery plans to minimize downtime during system failures or outages.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Associate's Degree, Computer Systems Networking An
Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia
Georgia Skills
- Software testing
- Network operations
- API Development
- Version control systems
- Performance Tuning
- Incident Management
- Containerization Technologies
- Continuous deployment
- Continuous integration
- System Design
- Disaster Recovery
- Service-Level Objective (SLO)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Service-Level Indicator (SLI)
- Scripting Languages
- Virtualization Technologies
- Continuous Improvement
- Software Development
- AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc)
- CI/CD pipeline implementation
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)
- Configuration management tools (Ansible)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
- Scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc)
- Version control systems (Git, SVN, etc)
- Monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, ELK Stack, etc)
Certification
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tuning
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Best Practices
* Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
* Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
* Redhat Certied Engineer (Issued 2017)
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator
* Introduction to Programming Using Python
* Certified-Kubernetes-Administrator
Languages
Turkish
First Language
Russian
Intermediate (B1)
B1
English
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Timeline
SRE/Senior DevOps Engineer
Mina Group
06.2022 - Current
SRE/Senior DevOps Engineer
Xalq Bank
04.2020 - 05.2022
DevOps Engineer
Azerconnect
08.2018 - 02.2020
Senior Linux Administrator
Azerfone
01.2016 - 07.2018
Some College (No Degree) - Associate's Degree, Computer Systems Networking An
Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tuning
* Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Best Practices
* Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
* Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
* Redhat Certied Engineer (Issued 2017)
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator
* Introduction to Programming Using Python
* Certified-Kubernetes-Administrator
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