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Senad D.

Senad D.

DevOps Engineer | AWS Solutions Architect | Terraform

Your AWS infrastructure should not slow your product down. If deployments are still manual, cloud costs keep increasing, monitoring is unclear, or nobody fully owns the infrastructure; I can help you turn that into a stable, automated, production-ready AWS environment. I help startups and growing teams build, automate, and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CI/CD, containers, and modern DevOps practices. My goal is simple: ✅ make deployments faster ✅ make infrastructure easier to manage ✅ reduce operational risk ✅ improve security and visibility ✅ give your team a cloud setup they can confidently build on If you are starting from zero, I can design and implement your AWS environment from the ground up. This includes account setup, VPC networking, IAM security, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, backups, and fully automated infrastructure using Terraform. Instead of ending up with a messy cloud account that becomes harder to manage every month, you get a clean, scalable foundation built for real production use. If you already have workloads running, I can help clean up and improve what you have. I can review your AWS setup, identify weak points, reduce unnecessary costs, automate manual work, improve deployment pipelines, and make your infrastructure more reliable and maintainable. With 5+ years of hands-on DevOps and cloud engineering experience, AWS certification, and 25+ delivered infrastructure projects, I focus on practical improvements that create real value, not overcomplicated systems that only look good on paper. I work best with startups, SaaS teams, and growing businesses that need someone who can take ownership of infrastructure, communicate clearly, and deliver reliable results. If your team is dealing with: • unstable or manual deployments • unclear AWS architecture • rising cloud costs • missing monitoring or alerts • poor infrastructure documentation • security concerns • slow release cycles • infrastructure that only one person understands I can help you fix it. Available for a 30-minute DevOps consult — no obligation. Send me a message and I can review your current setup, explain what can be improved, and suggest practical next steps. ✅ Core Expertise • AWS Cloud: EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, reusable modules, multi-environment setups • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, automated build and deployment pipelines • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, containerized deployments • Security: IAM policies, secure networking, secrets management, least-privilege access • Monitoring: CloudWatch, alerting, logging, infrastructure visibility • Networking: VPC design, public/private subnets, load balancers, NAT gateways, security groups • Systems: Linux administration, shell scripting, automation • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, managed database environments ✅ What I Can Help You Build or Improve • Production-ready AWS environments • Terraform-based infrastructure automation • Staging and production environments • Secure VPC networking and IAM access • CI/CD pipelines for faster deployments • Monitoring, logging, and alerting • AWS cost optimization • Infrastructure cleanup and modernization • Migration from manual setup to Infrastructure as Code • Deployment automation and release reliability • Cloud architecture reviews and improvement plans ✅ Proven Delivery • Designed and implemented AWS environments from the ground up • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform • Built CI/CD pipelines that reduced manual deployment work • Created centralized monitoring and observability for large environments • Improved cloud reliability, maintainability, and operational visibility • Helped teams reduce infrastructure complexity and improve production readiness • Delivered 25+ DevOps, automation, and cloud infrastructure projects ✅ Certifications & Experience • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate • 5+ years of hands-on DevOps and cloud engineering experience • 25+ completed infrastructure, automation, and deployment projects ✅ How I Work I do not just “set up servers.” I build infrastructure that your development team can actually use, understand, and trust. That means clear environments, automated deployments, secure access, useful monitoring, documented infrastructure, and systems that are maintainable after the project is complete. My focus is always on practical outcomes: • fewer manual steps • fewer deployment failures • better visibility • stronger security • lower operational risk • cleaner infrastructure ownership ⚙️ Work Philosophy Build simple systems first. Automate what slows teams down. Secure what matters. Monitor what can break. Keep infrastructure clean, documented, and ready for growth. If you want your AWS environment to become more reliable, automated, and production-ready, send me a message - I’ll help you understand what needs to be improved and how to fix it.

🇭🇷Rijeka, Croatia$40/hr100% JSSSince Jul 2024

Earnings and projects

MRR
$3.4k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#10,472 / 412k
🇭🇷Country#21 / 807
Revenue, last 30 days
$3.4k

Last 6 months: $20k

World#10,446 / 412k
🇭🇷Country#21 / 807
Total earnings
$61k
World#64,684 / 412k
🇭🇷Country#174 / 807
Per project
$30k

$20k in the last 6 months

World#2,832 / 412k
🇭🇷Country#10 / 807
Projects, last 6 months
1
100% fixed0% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇭🇷Country#205 / 807
Projects in all
2
100% fixed0% hourly
World#328,886 / 412k
🇭🇷Country#689 / 807

Earnings, last 30 days

$60.6k+$3.4k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$56k$58k$60k$62kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 3% in AWS CloudFront

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  8. #98Linux3,038 freelancers · 🇭🇷 #1Top 3%