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Artem Chechko

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Building reliable infrastructure, automating everything, shipping with confidence.

10+ Years in IT
7 Certifications
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 — Intermediate (B1+)

Experience

EPAM Systems

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Nov 2025 — Present
  • Provisioned and maintained AWS infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation across multiple environments: VPCs, EC2, EBS, load balancers, IAM
  • Automated infrastructure operations with Python (boto3) and Bash: resource inventory, environment validation and routine operational tasks, reducing manual work
  • Contributed to the CI/CD migration from GitLab CI to GitHub Actions: analysed existing pipelines and templates, planned the migration and converted pipelines to GitHub Actions workflows
  • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and Jenkins for infrastructure validation, testing and deployment
  • Developed and supported AWS Lambda functions and Amazon EventBridge rules for event-driven operational automation
  • Used AWS Systems Manager for fleet operations: Session Manager for access without SSH, Run Command for remote tasks, Parameter Store for configuration
  • Implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD (App of Apps pattern) for declarative, Git-driven delivery to Kubernetes (EKS) across multiple environments
  • Managed and troubleshot Helm charts, inter-repository dependencies and Kubernetes workloads, resolving deployment and configuration issues
  • Configured Istio service mesh on EKS: traffic management, TLS policies and Gateway API routing
  • Designed and troubleshot AWS networking for EKS environments: subnets, routing, security groups/NACLs, NAT, DNS and TLS
  • Monitored infrastructure and application health with Datadog and Dynatrace (dashboards, alerts, APM traces) to detect and troubleshoot incidents
  • Containerized tooling with Docker; worked with Git feature branching, merge requests and code reviews for infrastructure codebases

Career Transition — Cloud Engineering

Self-directed retraining for a cloud engineering role

Aug 2021 — Oct 2025
  • Studied AWS, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Linux
  • Built hands-on labs and portfolio projects (caa-it.com)
  • Prepared for AWS and Microsoft Azure certifications

JSC State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank)

IT Software Engineer

Sep 2014 — Jul 2021
  • Maintained LAN infrastructure: active network equipment and structured cabling (SCS)
  • Operational support of PCs, peripheral equipment and POS terminals
  • Administered Windows workstations
  • Developed automation scripts (cmd, Bash)
  • Tested and implemented new banking hardware and software solutions

Center of Postgraduate Education, PJSC "Ukrtelecom"

System Administrator, Technical Support

Feb 2013 — Dec 2013
  • Installed, configured and maintained Windows Server 2003–2008 R2: AD, GPO, file services, DNS, DHCP, firewall
  • Installed, configured and maintained workstations, network equipment and telephony
  • Wrote technical documentation and provided user technical support

LUKOIL Technology Services Ukraine LLC

Head of Technical Support for CACS Gas Stations

Mar 2010 — Jul 2011
  • 24/7 technical support of software and hardware for ~300 gas stations across Ukraine
  • Implementation and support of software/hardware across the gas station network
  • Coordination with service and equipment vendors

Ukrtelecom OJSC

Subscriber Connection Engineer

Sep 2009 — Feb 2010
  • Connected customers to the Internet, including physical line installation
  • Installed and configured ADSL modems and Wi-Fi routers
  • Installed and configured Windows 2000/XP/7 and antivirus software

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Terraform Kubernetes Helm Docker Ansible

CI/CD, GitOps & Automation

GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI Git GitLab ArgoCD

Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana Datadog Dynatrace

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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