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Barry Burton

@barryburton

Senior DevOps/SRE Tech Lead at Safe Room Games who cut CI/CD build and deployment time by over 65%.

At Safe Room Games, I design and maintain production infrastructure for live projects across on-premises data centers and AWS. I led the transition of around 30 legacy services to containerized workloads and streamlined CI/CD pipelines, reducing build and deployment time by over 65%.

At Marketplace «Activizm», I built the operational foundation from zero and grew a team of system administrators and DevOps engineers. I introduced automated CI/CD pipelines and a monitoring solution based on Zabbix and ELK, reducing deployment windows by 70%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

SG

Current

Senior DevOps/SRE Tech Lead

Current

Safe Room Games

Jan 2016 - Present (10 years 10 months)

Design and maintain production infrastructure for live projects and services across on-premises data centers and AWS, focused on availability, performance, and fault tolerance. Lead the transition of ~30 monolithic legacy services to containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, improving scalability and reducing MTTR for production incidents.

AWS Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Docker Swarm Helm Linux FreeBSD OpenVZ LXC Jail Jenkins Gitlab CI ArgoCD Git SVN ELK Prometheus Grafana Zabbix Cloudwatch BASH Python Groovy

MA

Head of IT Engineering

Marketplace «Activizm»

Jan 2011 - Dec 2016 (5 years 11 months)

Built and scaled the entire operational foundation from zero, enabling rapid product iteration and supporting the company’s transition from early-stage to a scalable business. Architected, secured, and maintained the core on-premise infrastructure based on Docker Swarm and OpenVZ, implementing stringent controls for access, data protection, and predictable disaster recovery.

Linux FreeBSD Ansible Docker Swarm OpenVZ KVM Jenkins Gitlab DRBD Heartbeat MySQL PostgreSQL Apache SOLR RabbitMQ Redmine Fabricator Zabbix RRDtool BASH Python Groovy Ant Phing

SA

Head of Systems Administration and Technical Operations Dept.

StreamLine OPS Airlines

Jan 2005 - Dec 2010 (5 years 11 months)

Led the systems administration and technical operations department, overseeing infrastructure and technical support.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

SI

State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics

Master, Telecommunications Systems and Computer Networks

2002 - 2005

Master's degree in Telecommunications Systems and Computer Networks from 2002 to 2005.

SI

State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics

Bachelor, International Economics

1998 - 2002

Bachelor's degree in International Economics from 1998 to 2002.

SU

Specialist Training Center at Bauman State Technical University

Fundamentals of Networking, Network Operating Systems, and Wi-Fi Practice, Networking

Completed training in Fundamentals of Networking, Network Operating Systems, and Wi-Fi Practice.

SU

Specialist Training Center at Bauman State Technical University

Linux (CentOS/Debian/Gentoo) Level 1: System Administration and Security Fundamentals, Linux System Administration

Completed Linux Level 1 training covering system administration and security fundamentals.

SU

Specialist Training Center at Bauman State Technical University

Linux Level 2: Service and Network Administration, Linux Administration

Completed Linux Level 2 training in service and network administration.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

Availability

Looking for a job

Location

Germany

Authorized to work in

Salary expectations

90k+ USD

Job categories

DevOps Engineer Site Reliability Engineer

Skills

DevOps Site Reliability Engineering AWS Infrastructure as Code Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Docker Swarm CI CD Infrastructure Monitoring Prometheus Grafana Zabbix GitOps ArgoCD

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