Martin Pravica
Zürich
Summary
Expert in configuration management and automation. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior System Engineer
EPAM Systems Inc.
04.2022 - Current
- Improving deployment process by writing Ansible playbooks for on-prem and AKS solution
- Scripting and automating with Bash
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating build creation and deployment process with Gitlab CI/CD
- Planned, coordinated and integrated Thales HSM with Apache to combat security compliance requirements
- Closely working with solution architect to determine requirements for Kubernetes migration
- Full AKS setup utilizing internally developed blueprints
- Closely collaborating with developers to faster migrate applications to Kubernetes
- Leading production deployments
DevOps Engineer
RealNetworks Inc.
07.2019 - 04.2022
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
- Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing monitoring and alerting tools (Alertmanager, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Improved configuration management and application deployments by redesigning existing Ansible code following best practices
- Assisted in cost-optimizing AWS bill ultimately reducing cost from 65k$/m to 18k$/m over course of 1 year
- Worked on Kubernetes migration in scope of writing manifests and deploying existing applications and services to cluster
- Implemented Elastic Stack for log aggregation and enterprise-level data analysis and visualization
- Writing Airflow workflows for automating Spark jobs, Machine Learning model deployments
- Minor work modifying Terraform scripts to provision new infrastructure
- Automated manual tasks with Python and Bash
- Capacity planning for production environments
- Provided 24/7 on-call support
- Led and coordinated production deployments with clients
Linux Tier 2 Support Technician (Junior - Senior)
TouchSupport Inc.
12.2017 - 07.2019
- Conducted root cause analysis on recurring issues, leading to long-term improvements in product quality and user experience.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by promptly addressing and resolving complex technical issues.
- Day-to-day technical activities consisted of hosting related service configuration and optimization, file system management and configuration and maintenance of CentOS/ Ubuntu systems, Apache, Nginx, Exim, MySQL and other services related to Linux hosting
- Dedicated end user support via tickets and live chat
- Served as mentor to junior technicians, sharing best practices and fostering professional development.
Linux Tier 1 Support Technician
TouchSupport Inc.
05.2017 - 11.2017
- End user support for multiple hosting companies via tickets and chats
- Provided remote support for end users, resolving software installation and configuration issues efficiently.
- Basic troubleshooting and system administration of CentOS and Ubuntu systems
- Updating DNS and webserver (Nginx, Apache) configuration to provision new public endpoints for clients
Database Administrator
Implantology Center d.o.o.
11.2016 - 05.2017
- Managing WordPress site/store
- Creating and editing web store
- Creating and submitting promotional material via mailing
- Updating customer and vendor information
- Processing and archiving of business documentation
Education
Polytechnic of Međimurje in Čakovec (Programming)
High School Diploma -
High School Zlatar (Computing)
Zlatar05.2015
Skills
- Linux & Bash
- Configuration Management (Ansible)
- Alerting & Monitoring (Alertmanager, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Containerization and Orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Log Aggregation (Elastic Stack)
- Workflow management (Apache Airflow)
- CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins)
Languages
English
Croatian
Timeline
Senior System Engineer
EPAM Systems Inc.
04.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
RealNetworks Inc.
07.2019 - 04.2022
Linux Tier 2 Support Technician (Junior - Senior)
TouchSupport Inc.
12.2017 - 07.2019
Linux Tier 1 Support Technician
TouchSupport Inc.
05.2017 - 11.2017
Database Administrator
Implantology Center d.o.o.
11.2016 - 05.2017
Polytechnic of Međimurje in Čakovec (Programming)
High School Diploma -
High School Zlatar (Computing)
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