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Marat Salakhutdinov

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Marat is highly skilled IT specialist with over 15 years of experience in design, implementation, deployment and managing multi-vendor IT infrastructure. Skilled in various cloud vendors and Kubernetes flavors. He loves to learn cutting-edge technologies and efficient in resolving complex technical issues.

Credentials

  • Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Data Foundation
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
  • HashiCorp Vault Associate
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate
  • CKS – Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
  • CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • CKAD – Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
  • RHCE – Red Hat Certified Engineer
  • PCA – Portworx Certified Admin

Experience

DevOps Consultant - Arctiq (Augut 2021 - Present)

  • Lead, architect, and deliver services to international clients
  • Architect and build Anthos clusters
  • Utilize Anthos Config Management for GitOps-based configs/policies
  • Utilize Anthos Service Mesh (Istio) across clusters in various clouds
  • Maintain GKE (private), Shared VPCs, and IAM using Project Factory
  • Evaluate cluster usage/allocation and prescribe ResourceQuota sizes
  • Create custom dashboards and alerts using Prometheus and Grafana
  • Provision/configure OpenShift
  • Provision infra in GCP, AWS, and Azure using Terraform and Ansible
  • Build and deploy apps using Cloud Build, Tekton, and Jenkins
  • Integrate Portworx, NetApp, Velero with K8s
  • Present at workshops, partner events, and meetups

Site Reliability Engineer - Bell Canada (March 2020 - July 2021)

  • Provide support, development, administration and availability of ONAP platform
  • Manage Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Automate deployment and testing with Ansible, Gitlab CI, Robot framework
  • Implement different monitoring tools, analyze trends and troubleshoot issues
  • Create and maintain automation scripts in Bash and Python.

Cloud System Administrator - cloud.ca (August 2018 - February 2020)

  • Provide support, administration and design of backend of cloud.ca
  • Manage Xen Server, network and storage infrastructure
  • Evaluate, adapt and integrate new technologies and tools: GPU, Rackn, MaaS, Packer
  • Automate with Chef, Ansible, Gitlab CI, Jenkins and Terraform
  • Automate creation of OS templates
  • Create and maintain automation scripts in Bash and Python.

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Competencies

Tools:

Git, Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python, Google GCP, Google Anthos, Kubernetes, RedHat Openshift, Rancher, NetApp, Dell-EMC, Datera, Solidfire, Portworx, Velero

Skills:

Anthos/OpenShift/K8s design and implementation. CICD pipeline development. Storage, monitoring, and logging integrations. Infrastructure build-out in GCP, AWS, and Azure.

Value-added leadership

Design, architecture, implementation, workshop/event presentations, client communication, problem solving

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