Suiunbek Isaev

Technical lead for the enterprise automation platform across Development, Production and Restricted Production, spanning Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform Enterprise and AWS.

• ▸Led the end-to-end AAP 2.4 → 2.6 upgrade across multiple AWS accounts, starting with a RHEL 8 → RHEL 9 OS migration. The work covered PostgreSQL integration, SAML mapping and production cutover, with no business interruption.
• ▸Designed and built a Jenkins pipeline for EMR cluster rehydration used by multiple teams across AWS accounts. It builds Packer AMIs and provisions through Terraform Enterprise, with self-service selection of EMR version and environment.
• ▸Led a security remediation that moved AAP service accounts off direct root SSH-key access. Hundreds of job templates and playbooks were updated with zero business impact.
• ▸Built cost-optimization automation that finds idle EC2 instances and alerts owning teams through tag-based email notifications. It delivers approximately $500K in annual savings.
• ▸Drive ongoing CTR/VIT remediation and platform security improvements, and take part in on-call across AWS accounts, AAP and Terraform.

Built and operated secure, fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure for fintech applications using Terraform, containers and CI/CD.

• ▸Developed and maintained Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terraform Enterprise.
• ▸Containerized applications with Docker and managed orchestration on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• ▸Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Git, Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform.
• ▸Designed secure, fault-tolerant AWS architectures and migrated legacy systems to AWS with zero downtime.
• ▸Ran monitoring with CloudWatch and Datadog, and workflow automation with Apache Airflow. Carried out cost-optimization and security audits of cloud environments.

Automated AWS infrastructure, configuration and application deployment for a payments platform.

• ▸Deployed infrastructure on AWS with Git, Terraform and Ansible, and managed storage, monitoring and deployment automation.
• ▸Built and managed Linux servers on EC2 with EBS, Security Groups, VPC, IAM, S3, ELB and Route 53.
• ▸Rolled out Docker across QA, integration and production environments.
• ▸Wrote Bash and Python deployment utilities, including custom Prometheus checks.

Owned uptime and performance of the IPcenter PaaS platform through incident, problem and monitoring management.

• ▸Wrote standard operating procedures for platform alerts and incidents, then automated them to remediate Linux and Windows issues without human intervention.
• ▸Performed problem management and root-cause analysis on production servers.
• ▸Built and tuned Nagios monitoring, and automated daily tasks with Bash, Python and cron.

Supported client Linux estates running business applications in a large-scale environment.

• ▸Handled incident response, patching and package management across RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS.
• ▸Monitored performance with sar, vmstat, iostat and netstat, and managed configuration items in Nagios.
• ▸Automated Linux SOPs with Bash, Python and an in-house automation tool.

Installed, administered and troubleshot hardware, Linux and Windows systems, and network infrastructure.

• ▸Supported DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP, NFS, SSH and Active Directory services.
• ▸Managed RHEL storage with LVM and administered users and access in Active Directory and NIS.
• ▸Correlated events across systems to identify points of failure and recommend fixes.