# Barry Burton

Barry Burton is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior DevOps/SRE Tech Lead at Safe Room Games, based in Germany.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@barryburton

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Senior DevOps/SRE Tech Lead at Safe Room Games who cut CI/CD build and deployment time by over 65%.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Germany |
| Authorized to work in | Germany |
| 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 |

## About

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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%.
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## Experience

### Senior DevOps/SRE Tech Lead (current)

Safe Room Games. Jan 2016 - Present

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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.
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Skills: 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

### Head of IT Engineering

Marketplace «Activizm». Jan 2011 - Dec 2016

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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.
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Skills: 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

### Head of Systems Administration and Technical Operations Dept.

StreamLine OPS Airlines. Jan 2005 - Dec 2010

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

### State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics

Master, Telecommunications Systems and Computer Networks. 2002 - 2005

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Master's degree in Telecommunications Systems and Computer Networks from 2002 to 2005.
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### State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics

Bachelor, International Economics. 1998 - 2002

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Bachelor's degree in International Economics from 1998 to 2002.
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### Specialist Training Center at Bauman State Technical University

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

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Completed training in Fundamentals of Networking, Network Operating Systems, and Wi-Fi Practice.
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### Specialist Training Center at Bauman State Technical University

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

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Completed Linux Level 1 training covering system administration and security fundamentals.
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### Specialist Training Center at Bauman State Technical University

Linux Level 2: Service and Network Administration, Linux Administration

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Completed Linux Level 2 training in service and network administration.
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## Tech stack

- AWS IAM
- GitLab
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Docker Swarm
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon Route 53
- Terraform
- Python
- ELK
- RabbitMQ
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Zabbix
- Debian
- CentOS
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- phing
- Redmine
- Apache Solr
- Ansible
- AWS Lambda
- Git
- Docker
- LXC
- OpenVZ
- KVM
- Groovy
- Cilium
- eBPF
- ArgoCD
- Argo CD
- Bash
- AWS

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