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Artem Chechko

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Building reliable infrastructure, automating everything, shipping with confidence.

10+ Years in IT
5 Certifications
4 AWS Badges
15+ Technologies

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Personal Qualities

Growth mindset, self-education, logical thinking, proactive approach, strong problem-solving skills. Passionate about cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps culture.

Languages

  • Ukrainian — Native
  • English — Upper-Intermediate

Experience

EPAM Systems

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Nov 2025 — Present
  • Provisioned and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation across multiple environments
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning, resource management, and environment validation via AWS CLI and Python scripting, reducing manual operations
  • Applied AWS best practices to optimize architecture, improve security posture (IAM, VPC, security policies), and ensure efficient resource utilization
  • Diagnosed and resolved infrastructure, networking, and IAM-related issues, implementing long-term fixes to improve platform stability
  • Developed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate task execution, infrastructure validation, and continuous testing
  • Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD (App of Apps pattern) for declarative, Git-driven application delivery on Kubernetes across multiple environments
  • Managed and troubleshot Helm charts, inter-repository dependencies, and Kubernetes workloads, resolving deployment and configuration issues
  • Worked with Istio service mesh — configured traffic management, TLS policies, and Gateway API routing on EKS clusters
  • Containerized tooling and services using Docker to ensure consistent execution across local and CI environments
  • Managed Git workflows including feature branching, merge requests, and code reviews for infrastructure and application codebases

JSC State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank)

IT Software Engineer

Sep 2014 — Jul 2021
  • Supported PCs, peripheral equipment, POS terminals
  • Administered workstations (Windows OS family)
  • Developed automation scripts (cmd, bash)
  • Tested and implemented banking software and hardware solutions

Center of Postgraduate Education, PJSC "Ukrtelecom"

System Administrator, Technical Support

Feb 2013 — Dec 2013
  • Installed and maintained Windows servers (2003–2008R2): AD, GPO, DNS, DHCP, Firewall
  • Set up workstations, network equipment, and telephony systems
  • Authored technical documentation and provided user support

LUKOIL Technology Services Ukraine LLC

Head of Technical Support for CACS Gas Stations

Mar 2010 — Jul 2011
  • Provided 24/7 support for software/hardware across ~300 gas stations in Ukraine
  • Implemented and supported automated control systems in the gas station network
  • Collaborated with service and equipment providers

Ukrtelecom OJSC

Subscriber Connection Engineer

Sep 2009 — Feb 2010
  • Connecting customers to the Internet; ADSL modem and Wi-Fi router setup
  • Installation and configuration of Windows OS (2000/XP/7) and antivirus software
  • Conducted construction works for network infrastructure setup

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Terraform Kubernetes Helm Docker Ansible

CI/CD, GitOps & Automation

GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI Git GitLab ArgoCD

Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana

Scripting & Dev

Bash Python SQL HTML CSS JavaScript

OS & Networking

Linux Windows Apache / Nginx SSL / TLS

Projects

This CV Website

Personal CV/portfolio site hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront CDN, Route53 DNS, and ACM certificate. Deployed automatically via GitHub Actions on every push to main.

AWS S3 CloudFront GitHub Actions Route53 HTML/CSS/JS
Live Site

Education

State University of Telecommunications

Master's degree — Telecommunications Systems and Networks

Sep 2004 — Jun 2009

State University of Telecommunications, Institute of Postgraduate Education

Engineer — Information Security

Sep 2008 — May 2009

Certifications

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