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Maksim Maskalev

@maksimmaskalev

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Senior DevOps engineer delivering secure, cost-efficient cloud-native platforms with Kubernetes and GitOps.

Russian Federation

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to help build cloud-native platforms where I can own SRE reliability, GitOps delivery, and observability—while driving cost optimization and self-service developer environments for faster, safer releases.

I’m a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating highly available cloud-native infrastructures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem Kubernetes environments. I focus on Kubernetes and SRE practices, building reliable systems with strong observability and operational discipline.

I’ve built self-service developer environments and GitOps-based delivery using Terraform, Crossplane, and ArgoCD, cutting environment provisioning time from “several days to 20 minutes.” I also drive measurable cost and performance improvements—migrating workloads from AWS EC2 to on-prem Kubernetes, standardizing Azure images with Packer, and applying FinOps to optimize resource utilization.

Across roles, I’ve owned monitoring/logging, incident response, release engineering, and developer platform enablement—supporting teams with reusable Infrastructure as Code and production-grade platforms. I bring security and reliability together using HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak/OAuth2, RBAC/IAM, and disaster recovery/backup strategies with Velero, Restic, and BareOS.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

Architecton

Jun 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Architected self-service developer environments using Terraform and Crossplane, cutting environment provisioning time from several days to 20 minutes. Implemented GitOps delivery with ArgoCD (including on-demand environments), migrated workloads from AWS EC2 to on-prem Kubernetes to reduce costs, and owned monitoring/logging, incident response, release engineering, and platform enablement.

Terraform Crossplane Kubernetes ArgoCD GitOps Helm Jenkins Packer

DevOps / SRE Engineer

Mayangindex LLC

Jun 2023 - Jun 2025 (2 years)

Ensured high availability and reliability using SRE practices across multi-cloud environments, designing resiliency, autoscaling, and disaster recovery strategies. Managed observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Alertmanager), automated operational workflows with Terraform/Helm/Ansible, administered Kubernetes across EKS/AKS/OpenShift/Rancher, and improved stability via incident response and post-m

Kubernetes OpenShift Rancher Prometheus Grafana Loki Terraform

DevOps Platform Engineer

Linnovate

Mar 2020 - Jun 2024 (4 years 3 months)

Built multi-cloud infrastructure platforms for enterprise customers on AWS, Azure, and GCP, implementing Keycloak-based authentication and access management. Automated deployments and disaster recovery, deployed and managed Kubernetes (Rancher/OpenShift/EKS/AKS), delivered CI/CD with GitLab CI and Jenkins, and published solutions to AWS and Azure marketplaces.

AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Keycloak Gitlab CI Jenkins CloudFormation

DevOps Engineer

Jetcrypto

Aug 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Implemented Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK, and built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline. Deployed and operated Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters, containerized applications with Docker/Kubernetes, and improved visibility with Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch monitoring.

AWS CloudFormation AWS CDK AWS CodePipeline Amazon EKS Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana AWS Cloudwatch CI CD

Cloud Engineer Team Lead

Wallit IT

Jan 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Led a DevOps team of 3–6 engineers, handling hiring, mentoring, and performance management. Designed AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for distributed cloud applications and led a redesign of a crypto wallet infrastructure platform.

AWS CI CD Docker Kubernetes Team Leadership TypeScript React Java

Cloud Engineer

M.Video-Eldorado

Jan 2016 - Mar 2017 (1 year 2 months)

Managed cloud infrastructure for a retail e-commerce platform and prepared Kubernetes environments for pre-production workloads. Deployed applications using Rancher and supported Linux-based operations.

Kubernetes Rancher Linux Cloud Infrastructure Deploying

DevOps Engineer

Man Truck and Bus

Jan 2015 - Nov 2016 (1 year 10 months)

Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines on AWS and managed infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation. Deployed containerized applications with Amazon ECS and Docker, and implemented monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

AWS Amazon ECS EC2 Docker AWS CloudFormation CI CD Pipelines Prometheus Grafana