Maxim M.

## Professional Experience ### DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer Yeesshh 2018 – Present Sole DevOps/SRE responsible for full production infrastructure of ~50 web services and internal systems in digital advertising environment. **Infrastructure:** * 6 dedicated bare-metal servers hosted in OVHcloud * Proxmox single nodes and Proxmox cluster, altogether with ~30 virtual machines * Proxmox Backup Server, Custom NFS-based backup storage * Multi-region deployment (EU + Canada) * Internal VPN via Pritunl * Docker-based service deployments **Reliability & Operations:** * 24/7 on-call (30-minute critical SLA response) * ~99%+ uptime across production systems * Full Proxmox node disaster recovery (including restoration from backups) * Centralized monitoring via Zabbix * Centralized logging via Graylog * Security monitoring via Wazuh * Incident management via PagerDuty * Post-incident reporting and preventive improvements **Security & Compliance:** * DNS management (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) * DDoS mitigation using CSF/LFD, ModSecurity, mod_evasive * PCI compliance validation via Qualys (minimal adjustments required) * Regular patching & monthly backup validation **CI/CD & Automation:** * GitHub repositories * Jenkins pipelines for controlled deployments * Staging → testing → manual production release workflow * Limited Ansible automation (update & small maintenance scripts) **Modernization:** * Legacy OS upgrades * Partial containerization of services * Kubernetes - self-hosted proof-of-concept deployment (non-production) --- ### CloudOps / SysOps Engineer LCloud 2021 – 2023 Worked in AWS Partner environment supporting global enterprise and mid-size clients as L1 support. Environment: Amazon Web Services Responsibilities: * 24/7 production support (L1) * EC2, RDS, S3, IAM troubleshooting * Backup & restore procedures * Log analysis & incident escalation * Execution of infrastructure changes according to documentation * Exposure to IaC-managed environments --- ### Independent Linux Infrastructure Consultant 2012 – 2021 Provided infrastructure and system administration services for up to 100 international clients including web hosting providers. Experience includes: * Web hosting environments (Canada & Italy) * Email servers (Postfix/Exim) * DNS management * CMS deployments (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla) * Monitoring (Nagios, Zabbix) * Virtualization (Proxmox) * Security cleanup & WordPress malware removal * Redmine & GitLab environments --- ### Early Career (Condensed) Senior Linux Administrator – Retail network (250 employees) Network design, Linux desktop environment (60+ machines), POS equipment support, server infrastructure management. Additional system & network administration roles (2007–2012). --- ## Personal Technical Projects * Self-hosted AI workflow automation using n8n * Local LLM experimentation (LLaMA-based models compiled via llama.cpp) * Raspberry Pi lab (media server, backup storage, surveillance systems) * Mobile app development(dart) and backend infrastructure (Dockerized Node.js backend) --- ## Languages Ukrainian – Native Russian – Native English – Professional working Polish – Limited working Spanish - Learning