Anton Novikov

DevOps Engineer & SRE

Kubernetes | CI/CD | Observability | Reliability

Anton Novikov — DevOps Engineer

About

DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with 3+ years of experience in high-load production environments. Specializing in Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation, observability, incident management, building reliable distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. Available for remote work.


Stack

Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Argo CD

Cloud: Yandex Cloud, AWS, Selectel

CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins · Git, GitOps

IaC: Terraform, Ansible

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix · ELK, Loki, Sentry

Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis · Kafka, RabbitMQ · S3

Network: Nginx, HAProxy, Traefik · DNS, SSL/TLS, WireGuard

Code: Python, Bash, Go

Process: Jira, Confluence · Agile · On-Call, Incident Management


Experience

MixVel Aug 2025 – Present

Kubernetes on Yandex Cloud. Migrating services to K8s, upgrading infrastructure. GitLab CI/CD with Helm. Cross-team collaboration.

Flowerave Jun 2024 – Oct 2025 own project

Built startup infrastructure from zero on Yandex Cloud. Terraform IaC, Kubernetes clusters, self-hosted GitLab with CI/CD pipelines, ELK logging, Sentry monitoring, automated S3 backups.

Sirena-Travel Aug 2022 – Sep 2025

Migrated 500+ legacy VMs to Docker/Kubernetes, improving utilization by 40%. Built GitLab CI/CD from scratch for Java/Python/PHP/.NET apps. Unified monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix. Ansible automation for 500+ servers.

ADV/web-engineering Feb 2021 – Aug 2022

Managed hybrid infrastructure (on-premise + cloud) for web applications. Administered Proxmox/VMware clusters (50+ VMs), introduced Kubernetes for staging. Configured Nginx, HAProxy, PHP-FPM stacks. Upgraded monitoring from Zabbix to Prometheus/Grafana. Ansible automation, Python/Bash scripting.