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Hi, I am Ovidiu

Ovidiu Ionescu

Infrastructure - Cloud / DevOps / GitOps Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, specialized in enterprise-level Kubernetes, AWS and Azure cloud projects with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code with over 12 years of IT experience. During this time I have been working with automation and specific tasks on Windows and Linux systems, on different platforms.

Skills

Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Deploying, managing applications on Kubernetes. Experience with cloud managed and hosted Kubernetes clusters.
ArgoCD
ArgoCD

Deploying ArgoCD, configuring projects and applications. Writing custom application healthchecks. Experience working with Argo Rollouts, Argo Workflows and Argo Events.
Docker
Docker

Configure and run applications inside Docker containers. Deploying cloud managed and hosted container registries.
Traefik
Traefik

Deploy, configure and fine tune Traefik as an ingress controller inside Kubernetes clusters.
Helm
Helm

Configuring, creating and deploying Helm charts.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services

Building, migrating and running solutions in AWS, using infrastructure as code to deploy the components.
Azure
Azure

Building, migrating and running solutions in Azure, using infrastructure as code to deploy the components.
VMware
VMware

Server automated deployment in VMware, creating and managing virtual machines, working with PowerCLI to achieve automation.
Git
Git

Experience with git-based development on Github, Gitlab, AWS CodeCommit and Atlassian BitBucket.
CI/CD pipelines.
CI/CD pipelines.

Setting up CI/CD pipelines for different environments using GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI/CD, Argo Workflows, Jenkins pipelines.
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code

My first option when I’m writing code. It’s simple and provides comprehensive code editing, navigation and Git support.
Jenkins
Jenkins

Installing, configuring and managing Jenkins master and worker nodes (on Linux and Windows), deployment pipelines.
Terraform
Terraform

Creating and updating existing infrastructure using Terraform. Working with different providers, modules, pipelines.
Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy

Configuring and managing Octopus Deploy projects using related components like Runbooks, Deployments, Packages, Releases, Infrastructure, Worker Pools.
Ansible
Ansible

Managing mutable infrastructure using Ansible playbooks, working with different modules and inventories, performing zero-downtime multi-server deployments, automation with Ansible Tower and CI/CD.
Linux
Linux

I’m using Linux as my main Desktop OS for more than 5 years. Experience with Ubuntu Server and CentOS distributions.
Windows
Windows

MCSA and MCSE certified professional, I have experience working with Microsoft Windows Server OS starting with 2008R2.
Bash
Bash

Writing scripts used for different automation tasks and also to produce the Linux based application containers.
Powershell
Powershell

Writing scripts used for different automation tasks.
MongoDB
MongoDB

Deploying and configuring MongoDB clusters and collections both on cloud managed and on-premise.
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server

Deploying and configuring Microsoft SQL Servers 2012, 2016, 2019, backup and restoring databases, monitoring.
Oracle Database
Oracle Database

Deploying and configuring Oracle Database Server 12c, 18c, 19c, backup and restoring databases, monitoring.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL

Deploying, configuring and maintaining PostgreSQL clusters, instances and databases in AWS RDS Aurora, backup and restoring databases, monitoring.
Datadog
Datadog

Configuring and managing the monitoring of entire solutions using Datadog.
Telegraf
Telegraf

Configuring the monitoring agent and different integrations.
Confluence
Confluence

Working with Atlassian Confluence to store documentation and project related pages.
Jira
Jira

Working with Atlassian Jira on Scrum and Kanban methodologies to manage projects and related cases.

Experience

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Infrastructure - Cloud / DevOps / GitOps Engineer
IT&C Consultancy

Mar 2015 - Present, Remote

Providing IT&C Consultancy services, delivering different solutions for various projects with a focus on cloud infrastructure and automation, working with micro-services architectures.

Responsibilities:
  • Establishing and maintaining technical environments in cloud/on-premise;
  • Working with infrastructure as code (IaC), Terraform, Ansible, deployment pipelines and micro-services solutions;
  • Configuring and tuning the environments for optimal performance, cost and dynamic scaling;
  • Designing and implementing monitoring and logging solutions;
  • Writing documentation;
  • Migrating applications from the private to the public cloud (AWS, Azure) and monolithical to micro-services (Docker, Kubernetes);
  • Planning and implementing according to the security best practices;
  • Participate in an agile oriented distributed development teams and creating automated tools to process existing workloads;
  • Work according to modern quality standards when it comes to high performing enterprise software, where continuous testing and testability is a natural part of the daily work;
  • Participate in 3rd line investigations and provide solutions.
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Visma Enterprise AS

May 2018 - Present, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Establishing and maintain the technical environments and helping the teams increase the required quality and speed;
  • Tuning the environments for optimal performance, cost and dynamic scaling;
  • Designing and implementing a monitoring and a logging solution;
  • Writing documentation;
  • Participate in an agile oriented distributed development teams and creating automated tools to process existing workloads;
  • Work according to modern quality standards when it comes to high performing enterprise software, where continuous testing and testability is a natural part of the daily work;
  • Participate in 3rd line investigations and provide solutions.
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Infrastructure Specialist
Maurer Imobiliare Sibiu SRL

February 2018 - April 2022, Sibiu

Providing IT&C Consultancy services, managing all the infrastructure and all the specific software solutions for the Sibiu office.

Responsibilities:
  • Providing regular maintenance for the IT infrastructure;
  • Providing consultancy for the acquisition of new IT equipment/tools (software/hardware);
  • Configuring the firewall and security groups according to the business needs;
  • Assisting the employees at the location with all the IT tasks with immediate response time;
  • Installing the Security Updates on the operating systems according to the patching standards;
  • Configuring the network infrastructure and implement security protocols;
  • Troubleshooting network issues;
  • Improving the overall performance of the infrastructure;
  • Working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, to configure and manage CI/CD pipelines.
Infrastructure Administrator
Visma IT & Communications

November 2016 - May 2018, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Install, configure, test and patch operating system and middleware, including security packages;
  • Configuring and managing CI/CD pipelines through Ansible playbooks;
  • Working with different internal teams to understand product domains and address documentation/training needs;
  • Maintain and grow a production environment in a way that makes the system increasingly maintainable
  • Participate in 24/7/365 support for production issues and upgrade and pre-production installations at varying levels;
  • Monitoring the services provided to customers;
  • Work to resolve a running queue of application support tickets and debug complex problems as they arise.
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Team Manager - Operations Center dept. / Service Desk dept.
Visma IT & Communications

November 2016 - May 2018, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Manage the performance of services to customers, ensure that service levels are achieved in line with contracts and that customers expectations are met or exceeded;
  • Ensure that the Operations Center/Service Desk departments are fully using appropriate knowledge management tools and practices to provide an effective/efficient service to customers;
  • Onboard solutions, tools and applications, new employees;
  • Contribute to the success of the business and assist in improving the overall customers experience within the team;
  • Manage staff on the basis of performance reports and observed problem areas, vacation planning;
  • Ensure that problems and solutions are properly recorded and determines priorities in the handling of incoming cases;
  • Has responsibility for day-to-day management of the Service Desk team and for appropriate capacity planning;
  • Ensure that the Visma strategy and business plan are applied;
  • Review aspects for improvement with own practices and processes and ensure that communication takes place across the whole area of responsibility;
  • Responsible for implementing and continuously improving the quality systems of the team;
  • Provide management, performance and team results reports.
Support Consultant
Visma IT & Communications

June 2013 - November 2016, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide technical assistance and support related to computer systems and software;
  • Respond to queries, determine and implement solutions;
  • Creating / Modifying users, Managing users access in Active Directory and internal software;
  • Manage and troubleshoot users / servers / applications / printers in Citrix AppCenter;
  • Create / Modify / Backup and Restore operations for databases/files;
  • Create / Modify user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, distribution groups, address lists;
  • Run diagnostic programs and troubleshoot problems.
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Projects

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor March 2020 - Present

Deploying and managing EKS together with a complex suite of enterprise grade applications in a large EKS cluster with over 100 worker nodes and 10000 pods.

professional kubernetes cloud aws ingress-controller helm lens auto-scaling prometheus
AWS
AWS
Contributor November 2019 - Present

Migrating an enterprise grade application from on-premise to the public cloud, implementing infrastructure-as-code and process automation.

professional aws kubernetes docker application-virtualization
Terraform
Terraform
Contributor January 2023 - July 2023

Working with Infrastructure as Code as part of a platform team to build an AWS Landing Zone on an environment having +20 AWS accounts.

professional terraform cloud aws gitlab
Azure
Azure
Contributor June 2022 - December 2022

Deploying and managing an Azure VDI solution with a legacy enterprise grade application and allowing external users to access it.

professional cloud azure
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor February 2020 - May 2020

Linux server configuration and redeployment of a single master/worker node cluster with kubeadm hosting a website with microservices.

hobby kubernetes docker postgresql mongodb rabbitmq nginx ssl-certificates-renewal
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor February 2020 - Present

Linux desktop configuration, deploying and managing a sandbox environment with a single master/worker node cluster with k3s / Rancher Desktop.

hobby kubernetes docker helm traefik lens sandbox

Achievements

Certified Argo Project Associate (CAPA)

DevOps and Workflow Management with Argo (LFS256)

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Kubernetes Security Essentials (LFS260)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Kubernetes Fundamentals (LFS258)

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate

Microsoft Specialist

Microsoft Certified Professional