Stefanita Rares D.

Senior Linux System Administrator

Senior Linux Admin & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | GKE, Terraform, Kafka, DevOps Overview: I am an IT Professional with over 19 years of experience specializing in Linux systems administration, security, and cloud infrastructure. I focus on building reliable, redundant, and automated environments that scale. Core Expertise: Linux Administration: CentOS, RHEL, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian. Cloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud SQL, Load Balancers, VPC, Gateways). Automation & IaC: Terraform (single source of truth), GitLab CI/CD pipelines, self-hosted instances. Messaging & Data: Kafka clusters (GKE-backed, Confluent Cloud), private connections, cross-VPC connectivity. Security & Reliability: High Availability Architecture, Network Security, Data Backup strategies. What I Offer: Infrastructure guidance and architecture reviews. Debugging urgent issues and performance optimization. Implementation of best practices for redundancy and automation. I am available for both long-term projects and urgent debugging support. Let's discuss how I can stabilize and optimize your infrastructure.