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`Last update: 2024-08-14`

Tom Spirit

IT Cloud Engineer | DevOps | Linux, Virtualization, Networking expert

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Career profile

AWS Cloud Engineer, SRE/DevOps with 10+ years of expertise providing services to small, medium and large businesses.

Through the years I've worked with public and private cloud platforms, datacenter providers, fintech projects, VPS, Cloud, SaaS/IaaS providers, startups and even large enterprises, providing service and support of their applications, development projects, cloud, networks and services.

As an IT professional, I’ve successfully built and worked on application infrastructures, managed cloud applications, private and public clouds, application deployments, built automation mechanisms, maintained data centers and corporate networks, restored corrupted systems, provided customer support etc.

Career Highlights

Planned, built and maintained private and public cloud infrastructures;
Planned and executed hundreds of server and/or service migrations;
Implemented HA configurations for systems and applications;
Designed and built application infrastructure solutions either natively or with modern containerization technologies like Docker and Kuberentes;
Executed application deployments and upgrades;
Implemented automation for daily and repetitive tasks or monitoring;
Participated in planning, building and later maintained a datacenter from scratch;
Built networks and VPN tunnels to remote sites;
Built websites;
Provided technical customer support;
Couched team members on popular technologies and applications

Skills and Expertise

Virtualization, Cloud and Containers

Amazon AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, K3s, VMware vSphere, OpenVZ

IaaS and CI/CD

Jenkins, Terraform, AWS CodeBuild

Scripting and development

Bash, Python, PHP

Networking

TCP/IP, Cisco Routers, VPNs, Firewalls (ASA, SonicWall, PaloAlto), Routing Protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP), Vyatta, VyOS, Switching Protocols (VLANs, Spanning Tree, EtherChannel, LACP)

Databases

MySQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgres

Operating Systems

Linux (CentOS/RedHAT, Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Backtrack, Tails), HP-UX, Windows

Logging and monitoring

ELK Stack, Nagios, Zabbix, Icinga, PRTG, Graylog, VeeamOne

Email Servers

Postfix, Exim, Office365, GSuite

Hardware/Data Center

HP Servers, HP Storage (MSA, EVA), IBM Servers, IBM Storage, DELL Servers, iSCSI, FiberChannel

Miscellaneous (Linux specific)

Apache, NGINX, Ansible, ISPConfig, cPanel/WHM, BIND, PowerDNS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, NTP, SMTP, NTP, Syslog, SNMP, Dovecot, Python Flask, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Wordpress, Joomla, Git, Jenkins, Nagios, Zabbix, Icinga, Graylog, OpenSwan

Miscellaneous (Windows specific)

Active Directory, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, Spiceworks, Veeam Backup and Replication, VeeamOne, PRTG, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Certifications and Training

> AWS ANS-C01 | `March 2024` | AWS Advanced Networking - Specialty

> AWS DVA-C01 | `October 2022` | AWS Certified Developer - Associate

> AWS SAA-C01 | `April 2021` | AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

> AWS CLF-C01 | `November 2021` | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

> LPIC-1 | `June 2015`| Linux Professional Institute Certification

> CCNA | `November 2012` | Cisco Certified Network Associate

Work Experience

Scalefocus AD

DevOps Team Lead | [Skopje/Sofia] (Remote)

November 2020 - Present

Design and maintainance of application solutions on AWS;
Working on automations, implementing new or improving existing CI/CD Pipelines | Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild
Performance and cost optimizations of large AWS infrastructures | AWS CloudWatch, SignalFX
Designing application solutions with Kubernetes | K3s, Rancher, Longhorn, MetalLB, ingress-nginx
Python backend and API programming;
Kubernetes cluster recovery;
As a Team Lead, responsible of training and development of junior DevOps engineers;

Pegb Tech

DevOps Support Engineer | [Dubai] (Remote)

November 2019 - November 2020

Designing application solutions with | K3s, Rancher, Longhorn
Maintainance and support on AWS and On-Premise workloads;
Maintaining the network infrastructure and VPN tunnels;
Helping the developers, creating new and improving existing Jenkins CI/CD processes;

Aurea Software

Cloud Virtualization Engineer (Remote)

January 2018 - October 2019

Establish, maintain and support of the virtual cloud infrastructure, particularly services in AWS and IBM Softlayer private cloud:
Installation and deployment of VMware ESXi Hypervisors and vCenter Server on bare metals IBM;
Designing and implementing private cloud network topology and services | VMware NSX, VyOS, VPN, GRE Tunnels Virtual Routers
Executing application migrations and service cutovers;
Monitoring and managing AWS VPCs, EC2 instances;

Rosehosting

Linux Systems Engineer (Remote)

October 2016 - February 2017

Configuration, deployment and optimization of Linux Virtual Servers;
Installation and configuration of Linux based applications, examples include | Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, Odoo, MySQL, PBX, cPanel/WHM, Apache,Nginx, MySQL, Exim, Bind, Nagios, OpenSwan etc ... as part of the customer support;
Live chat support representative;
Troubleshooting networking, server and connection issues;

IdoxGroup

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Malta)

October 2015 - September 2016 | Formerly known as 6PM Solutions

Implementation, configuration and maintenance of the IT infrastructure:

Network infrastructure, Firewalls, Routers, Switches, VPN Tunnels | Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, PFsense;
Virtual infrastructure: | VMware, XenServer
Servers in general: | Linux, Windows
Monitoring | Nagios, VeeamONE
Backup Maintenance | Veeam Backup and Replication, UVB;
Customer technical support;
Identifying potential problems and proposing improvements;
Designing migration plans and procedures;

Net.Bit Ltd

Datacenter Services Engineer (Skopje)

October 2011 - October 2015

Technical operations needed to ensure the integrity and operability of the data center.

Network infrastructure; Firewalls; Physical Servers and Storage systems; Linux Servers and services; Virtual Infrastructure, Windows Server/Services; Web, E-Mail, DNS services;
Designing and deploying High Availability Infrastructures (Virtualization, Networking, Storage);
Establishing and monitoring IPSec connections, VPN tunnels and DLL connections;
Designing and implementing on site services and solutions;
Developing and implementing disaster recovery techniques and procedures;
Creating and executing procedures for migrations and upgrades;
Identifying potential problems and implementing solutions;
Proposing and implementing infrastructure improvements;
Maintaining backups;
Customer technical support;

Education

Faculty of Technical Sciences | University "St. Clement of Ohrid"

October 2005 - December 2009

Subject: Technical Informatics

University qualification award:

Bachelor in Computer Sciences

Miscellaneous

Interests:

Cloud technologies; Network engineering; Linux and Open Source Technologies;

Hobbies:

Linux customization; Sci-Fi; Camping, Hiking and Survival, Fishing, Motorcycles, PC Games;

Driving License:

A; B

Keywords

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