# Gene Kotlyar

Gene Kotlyar is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Mindlance Inc., based in United States.

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

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Mindlance, who cut weekly tier-1 incidents from 30 to 1 on Evernorth’s SAS batch platform.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 160k+ USD |
| Job categories | Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Engineer |
| Skills | Site Reliability Engineering, Incident Response, SLOs, SLIs SLO SLAs, Error Budgets, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Linux, Aix, RHEL, Solaris, Python, BASH, Terraform, Ansible |

## About

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At Mindlance Inc., supporting Evernorth / Cigna, I owned reliability for the 24x7 SAS batch platform and supervised a team of 20+ Linux/AIX system administrators. I managed its error budget policy, helping reduce weekly tier-1 incidents from 30 to 1 over six months.

I led optimization of the 1PB SAS GPFS cluster, cutting batch completion time from 48 hours to about two hours and delivering approximately $1M in infrastructure cost savings. I also reduced tier-1 incident MTTR from 120 minutes to 20 by writing runbooks based on prior failure patterns and root causes.

At Pyramid Consulting Inc., supporting Verizon, I worked across a multi-tenant environment of more than 50,000 RHEL/CentOS hosts, alongside Solaris, AIX, and Windows systems. I helped modernize patching with Python automation, reducing weekly incidents from 600 to under 150 over the engagement.

Across my infrastructure work, I’ve delivered cloud migrations, high-availability and disaster-recovery improvements, and zero-downtime SAN migrations. My experience includes AWS, Terraform, Ansible, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and observability with Prometheus and Grafana.
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## Experience

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Mindlance Inc.. Oct 2023 - May 2026

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Supervised a team of 20+ Linux/AIX administrators, owning SLA adherence and delivery. Reduced weekly tier-1 incidents from 30 to 1 and cut batch completion time from 48 hours to ~2 hours, delivering ~$1M in cost savings.
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Skills: Linux, Aix, RHEL, PowerHA, HACMP, GPFS, Terraform, Ansible, Python, BASH, IBM-Tivoli-Monitoring, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, CI-CD, Helm, SAN-Migration, Incident-Response, SLOs, SLIs-SLO-SLAs, Error-Budgets

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Pyramid Consulting Inc.. Aug 2021 - Oct 2023

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Acted as Operations SA Lead managing a multi-tenant runtime environment of 50,000+ hosts. Reduced weekly incidents from 600 to under 150 and cut per-system patch time from 3-4 hours to ~20 minutes.
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Skills: Linux, Aix, Solaris, RHEL, CentOS, Windows-Server, BigFix, PowerHA, HACMP, GPFS, Spectrum-Scale, Pacemaker, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, BASH, SAN-Migration, SLOs, SLIs-SLO-SLAs, Error-Budgets, Incident-Response

### AIX/Linux/Solaris Cloud Engineer

Congruity360. Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

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Led complex storage migration initiatives to all-flash PURE storage within live clusters. Authored automated migration scripts in Bash and implemented optimized storage profiles to maximize I/O performance.
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Skills: Aix, Linux, Solaris, Pure-Storage, Pacemaker, GFS, HACMP, GPFS, BASH, Storage-Migration, I-O-Optimization, AutoScaling

### AIX/Linux Systems Engineer

Citigroup Inc.. Apr 2018 - May 2019

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Administered AIX LPARs and VIO servers while spearheading cloud migration roadmaps. Containerized legacy workloads into AWS using Fargate and architected secure cloud networking.
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Skills: Aix, Linux, Power-Systems, AWS, Fargate, VPC, Security-Groups, Transit-Gateway, Systems-Manager, Amazon-Cloudfront, Containerization

### AIX/Linux Systems Engineer

[JPMorgan Chase & Co.](https://himalayas.app/companies/jpmorgan-chase-co). Jan 2015 - Apr 2018

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Managed large-scale infrastructure operations on RHEL and Power 7/8 frames. Orchestrated a physical data center migration of a 55-node AIX GPFS cluster and led an AIX modernization project yielding over $9M in savings.
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Skills: Aix, Linux, RHEL, Power-Systems, GPFS, IBM-Tivoli-Monitoring, Red-Hat-Satellite, Configuration-Management, Patching, Performance-Optimization

### UNIX Systems Engineer

PG&E. Dec 2013 - Dec 2014

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Administered 1,300+ AIX LPARs and maintained RHEL, GPFS, and HACMP clusters. Led OS upgrade and performance tuning initiatives.
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Skills: Aix, Linux, RHEL, GPFS, HACMP, Power-Systems, OS-Upgrades, Performance-Optimization

### AIX Systems Administrator

Citigroup Inc.. Jun 2011 - Dec 2013

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Administered 1,600+ AIX LPARs across Power 5/6/7 systems. Managed DNS, NFS, NIM, backups, patching, capacity planning, and Solaris-to-AIX migrations.
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Skills: Aix, Power-Systems, DNS, NFS, Nim, Backup, Patching, Capacity-Planning, Solaris-to-AIX-Migration

## Education

### Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business

Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing Management

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Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing Management with a minor in History.
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## Tech stack

- Splunk
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform
- Python
- Go
- Nim
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Linux
- New Relic
- Ansible
- Git
- Docker
- Dynatrace
- Bash
- AWS

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