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Hi, I am Ihor

Ihor Surkov

SRE / DevOps Lead at

I have wide experience with projects in fintech, blockchain, streaming, and telecom. I don’t give up, I look for alternatives, think broadly, stay optimistic, and stay focused on results and growth.

Team Leadership
Problem Solving
Ukrainian
English

Skills

Experiences

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NDA (Stealth)

Sep 2024 - Jul 2025

Kyiv Metropolitan Area

DevOps Consultant

Sep 2024 - Jul 2025

Responsibilities:
  • Delivered AWS EKS/EC2 and GCP GKE infrastructure via Terraform
  • Maintained Helm charts for complex services
  • Built GitLab/GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
  • Set up Prometheus monitoring, HashiCorp Vault/Consul, and dedicated bare-metal environments
Tango

Jan 2024 - Sep 2024

Kyiv Metropolitan Area

Team Lead SRE

Jan 2024 - Sep 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Led the SRE team responsible for GCP (GKE, CloudSQL, CloudDNS, Pub/Sub, BigTable, BigQuery, CDN) and DigitalOcean (Droplets, Kubernetes, object storage) platforms
  • Managed tooling around Terraform, Helm, GitLab, Unleash, KEDA, Vault
  • Ran observability via ELK, DataDog, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics
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Hiveon

Jul 2022 - Jan 2024

Kyiv Metropolitan Area

DevOps Engineer

Jul 2022 - Jan 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Owned GCP GKE environments and Helm packaging
  • Built GitLab CI pipelines and Prometheus-based monitoring
  • Managed HashiCorp Vault/Nomad and hybrid dedicated servers
1648 Factory

Apr 2021 - Aug 2022

Kyiv Metropolitan Area

DevOps Engineer

Apr 2021 - Aug 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Managed AWS EKS/ECS and GCP GKE estates with Terraform
  • Built Helm charts, GitLab CI pipelines, and Prometheus monitoring
  • Provided customer environment support
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5
CodeIT LLC

Oct 2018 - Jul 2022

Kyiv / Kharkiv, Ukraine

Team Lead DevOps

Nov 2019 - Jul 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Built DevOps culture and managed a five-person DevOps team
  • Delivered AWS and GCP Kubernetes platforms with Helm
  • Set up CircleCI/GitLab CI, SSO via FreeIPA/Keycloak
  • Implemented observability with Prometheus, ELK, and Nagios
DevOps Engineer

Oct 2018 - May 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Maintained development environments and KVM virtualization
  • Managed AWS/GCE/Azure cloud infrastructure
  • Operated Docker Swarm/Kubernetes clusters, FreeIPA, GitLab/Jenkins CI/CD
  • Monitored with Nagios and Prometheus
GeoGuard

Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

Ukraine

DevOps Engineer

Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Planned and deployed AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters
  • Built Jenkins pipelines
  • Set up MariaDB multi-master setups for location fraud prevention services
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Oracle

Oct 2016 - Sep 2018

Kharkiv Region, Ukraine

Senior System Administrator, Cloud Operations

Oct 2016 - Sep 2018

Responsibilities:
  • Ran Oracle cloud infrastructure (Oracle Virtual Servers/Manager)
  • Automated base images via Ansible
  • Handled hypervisor and guest OS troubleshooting, LDAP/SSSD integration
  • Managed Spacewalk, GitLab HA, security patch pipelines, disaster recovery
  • Operated F5 BigIP LTM and Terraform for OCI
DynaBoot, Inc

Jan 2015 - Sep 2016

Kharkiv Region, Ukraine

CTI / CTO

Jan 2015 - Sep 2016

Responsibilities:
  • Directed hosting products and networking infrastructure
  • Led sales and sysadmin teams
  • Defined growth plans and evolved VPS/cloud/shared hosting offerings
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Data-Craft

Sep 2010 - Sep 2016

Kharkiv Region, Ukraine

Senior System Administrator / Team Lead

Sep 2010 - Sep 2016

Responsibilities:
  • Delivered network monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Automated backup and failover processes
  • Optimized large-scale infrastructure
  • Cross-DC monitoring (Nagios/Zabbix/Cacti), large server fleets
  • Contributed to PCI DSS workstreams and bare-metal-to-VM migrations
Earlier Roles (ISP Teneta, Quadecco, ISP Vilcom)

May 2002 - Aug 2010

Kharkiv Region, Ukraine

Lead Network & Systems Engineer

May 2002 - Aug 2010

Responsibilities:
  • Managed ISP transport networks and L2/L3 equipment
  • Operated DSLAM hubs and developer infrastructure
  • Ran VPN/firewall services, MS Exchange, Hyper-V, and Active Directory across multiple service providers
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Education

National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
2002-2004
Systems of Information, Telecommunication Systems and Networks
Note:
Incomplete degree

Projects

Multi-cloud SRE Leadership
SRE Team Lead 2024

Stood up Tango’s hybrid GCP + DigitalOcean platform with Terraform, Helm, Vault, and modern observability.

professional sre cloud
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High-scale Web3 Infrastructure
DevOps Engineer 2023

Engineered Hiveon’s mining and staking environments on GCP GKE with GitLab CI, Prometheus, and Vault/Nomad.

professional web3 cloud
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