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Senior Site Reliability Engineer & DevOps Engineer

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Junior IT Systems Specialist – Tallinna Polütehnikum (2017–2020)
Estland
Nur Remote
Junior IT Systems Specialist – Tallinna Polütehnikum (2017–2020)

Profilanlagen

Christofher_Kost_CV.pdf

Skills

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
5+ years of experience managing Kubernetes clusters, operators, and stateful/stateless workloads across multi-account, multi-tenant environments. Administration of 8 Kubernetes clusters with support for developers, application admins, and product managers. Tools used include Docker, Rancher, and Longhorn.

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code
Cost-efficient application design on AWS and Azure using managed and serverless solutions. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Bicep. Track record of reducing infrastructure costs by up to 60% across multiple companies.

GitOps & CI/CD
Continuous delivery via ArgoCD and Flux, following the App-of-Apps principle. CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Artifactory. Experience with Terragrunt and multi-environment delivery processes.

Observability & Monitoring
End-to-end monitoring via ELK, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Zabbix, and Azure Monitor. Built observability from scratch using NewRelic and Grafana integrated with Azure Metrics. Deep E2E monitoring from network level to frontend RUM.

Incident Management
Reduced incident response time from hours to minutes, achieving an average resolution time within 10 minutes. Built incident management using ELK Machine Learning combined with Jira integration.

Programming & Scripting
Proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Shell, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, and Rust. Contributions to open-source projects and internal tooling, including a personal terminal assistant used company-wide.

Security & Penetration Testing
Penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and security best practices. Certified in Intensive Course of Penetration Testing.

Networking
Hands-on experience with VPN, NAT, BGP, Network Segmentation, NSX-T development, and network security including inbound/outbound rules and bridging T0/T1 routers.

Message Queues & Data
Experience with RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, and Azure Service Bus. Data and authentication technologies include SQL, NoSQL, OAuth, JWT, and SSO.

Leadership & Mentorship
Led projects spanning 20+ teams and mentored junior engineers to career growth. Founded mentorship programs with a 100% career-growth success rate for 10+ mentees.

Erfahrung

Berufserfahrung5 - 10 Jahre
Freelancer seit2026

Sprachen

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Projekthistorie

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

CARIAD Estonia AS (Volkswagen Group)
Working daily with Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, Flux, ArgoCD, AWS, and Azure across multi-account, multi-tenant environments. Operating distributed systems with 100+ microservices. Led formation of 2 new teams, reduced product team costs by roughly 60%, and introduced newer technologies like KEDA and Flagger based on Istio.

Freelance Mentor

Self-Employed
Providing independent mentorship to engineers and IT students outside of the Wisepace program.

Site Reliability Engineer

CARIAD Estonia AS (Volkswagen Group)
Responsible for reliability and observability of 6 services on a microservices architecture. Built observability from scratch using NewRelic and Grafana integrated with Azure Metrics. Founded internal DevOps workshops, co-founded the Firedrilling program, and optimized service container images from gigabytes to megabytes.

Open Source Contributor

GitHub
Contributed to open-source projects including Edu01 System, the Gin Golang framework, WebCheck, Gofr, and others.

Founder

Wisepace
Delivered cost-efficient, high-performance DevOps, FinOps, and software development solutions for businesses. Provided platform analyses, custom implementations, and ongoing support. Built a mentorship program offering hands-on, project-based learning for students and junior developers.

Founder

LookinLabs
Built an IT community giving junior developers their first hands-on work experience through real-world projects. Applied best programming practices to help aspiring developers gain the knowledge and experience needed to land their first job.

Site Reliability Engineer

LHV
Owned end-to-end observability of a PHP Laravel application using native AWS resources such as AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch. Co-led the Cloud Chapter (Shopify model) across the whole LHV Group.

DevOps Engineer

LHV Insurance AS
Took ownership of LHV Insurance's entire AWS infrastructure based on serverless and event-driven architecture. Imported manually-managed infrastructure into Terraform, migrated VM-based estate to AWS Managed/Serverless, redesigned the software delivery process reducing environments from 5 to 2, and cut costs from $2,000/month per environment to $1,500/month across all environments combined.

Senior Platform Engineer

Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre (TEHIK)
Owned reliability and observability of Kubernetes clusters and platform services. Led migration of PostgreSQL clusters to fully automated E2E management using Shell and Go. Built deep E2E monitoring using ELK and Prometheus/Grafana. Migrated MariaDB instances to Galera TLS clusters. Authored a disaster-recovery plan and created JESS, a personal terminal assistant used company-wide.

Platform Engineer

Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre (TEHIK)
Administered 8 Kubernetes clusters with third-level support. Managed GitLab, SonarQube, Artifactory, and Atlassian products. Led migration of 4TB of data with zero data loss. Refactored Kubernetes architecture from manually managed CaaS to full IaC using Rancher/RKE and vSphere Terraform providers with Ansible and GitOps via GitLab pipelines and ArgoCD.

Linux System Administrator

Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre (TEHIK)
Managed X-Road servers and provided third-level support for Atlassian, MISP, and X-Road platforms. Maintained 70+ Tervisekassa servers via Ansible and Git. Built observability using Grafana, Prometheus, and Zabbix. Managed the HAProxy load balancer for the MISP cluster.

Trainee

Telia Estonia AS
Worked on NSX-T development with hands-on network engineering experience including BGP, NAT, and network security. Remotely maintained HP ProLiant Gen 9/10 nodes via ILO and configured vSphere environments, VLANs, and vCenter. Handled observability via Zabbix and administered backup media servers including RHEL setup and patching.

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