Artem Chechko — Cloud & DevOps Engineer

About

Contact

chechkoartem87@gmail.com
+38 (093) 000-40-99 — Viber / Telegram
LinkedIn Profile
github.com/ArtemChechko

Personal Qualities

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

Languages

Experience

EPAM Systems

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Nov 2025 — Present

Designed and maintained AWS network infrastructure with Terraform: VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NAT, load balancers across multiple environments
Diagnosed and resolved networking issues (routing, security group/NACL rules, DNS, TLS) in EKS-based environments
Worked with Istio service mesh — configured traffic management, TLS policies, and Gateway API routing on EKS clusters
Monitored infrastructure and application health with Datadog and Dynatrace (dashboards, alerts, APM traces) to detect and troubleshoot incidents
Provisioned and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation across multiple environments
Applied AWS best practices to optimize architecture, improve security posture (IAM, VPC, security policies), and ensure efficient resource utilization
Automated infrastructure provisioning, resource management, and environment validation via AWS CLI and Python scripting, reducing manual operations
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
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

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