Anton Novikov

DevOps Engineer & SRE

7+ yrs · Kubernetes · GitOps · Observability · Security

● available for hire

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About

DevOps Engineer with 7+ years in infrastructure — from Linux sysadmin to owning cloud platforms end-to-end. Worked in enterprise environments (mission-critical GDS, 500+ VMs, 24/7) and greenfield startups. Currently managing a FluxCD v2 GitOps platform across 6 Kubernetes clusters out of a single git repo. I write the tooling I need — FastAPI dashboards, custom Alertmanager integrations, CI/CD libraries — and treat it like production code. Use n8n to automate the repetitive ops work: alert routing, IaC generation from tickets, doc sync, first-line queries.

Armenia (UTC+4) Remote-ready RU / EN

                    7+
                    years in infra
                

                    6
                    k8s clusters managed
                

                    500+
                    VMs migrated
                

                    99.9%
                    uptime SLA
                

Stack

Orchestration

Kubernetes k3s Docker Helm Kustomize FluxCD Argo CD Cilium

IaC & Config

Terraform OpenTofu Ansible SOPS Vault cert-manager

CI/CD & Quality

GitLab CI/CD Jenkins GitOps SonarQube Artifactory Trivy

Observability

Prometheus Grafana VictoriaMetrics VictoriaLogs OpenTelemetry Vector ELK Loki Sentry Zabbix

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL MySQL ClickHouse MongoDB Cassandra Redis Kafka RabbitMQ MinIO S3

Network & Ingress

APISIX Nginx HAProxy Traefik WireGuard MetalLB DNS SSL/TLS

Cloud & Code

Yandex Cloud AWS Selectel Python Go Bash Linux

Automation

n8n Jsonnet GitHub Actions

Experience

Red Rose Traveltech

Mar 2026 – Present

DevOps Engineer

B2B corporate travel platform, MixVel's subsidiary for the European market. All cloud infrastructure on Yandex Cloud via Terraform — VPCs, managed PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, DNS, CDN. GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multiple microservices: tests, Docker build, Helm deploy, commit to prod in under 5 minutes. Prometheus + Grafana aligned to SLO targets — 99.9%+ uptime on core booking APIs. n8n for ops automation: partner onboarding notifications, SLA breach escalations, Terraform drift alerts.

KubernetesTerraformGitLab CI/CDYandex CloudPrometheusGrafanan8n

MixVel

Aug 2025 – Present

DevOps Engineer

Built a FluxCD v2 hub-and-spoke GitOps platform: 1 hub cluster managing 5 spoke environments from a single git repository, zero configuration drift. Full data platform deployed via HelmReleases: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, MinIO. On-prem k3s + Cilium and Yandex Cloud Managed Kubernetes. APISIX ingress, Vault for secrets, Trivy Operator for security scanning. New cluster up from scratch in under 30 minutes via Ansible. n8n for ops automation: alert-to-Jira, FluxCD reconciliation digests, Slack deployment notifications.

FluxCDk3sCiliumAPISIXVaultKafkaGitLab CIn8n

Sirena-Travel

Aug 2022 – Sep 2025

DevOps Engineer

Migrated 500+ legacy VMs to Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, improving utilisation by 40%. Built GitLab CI/CD from scratch for Java/Python/PHP/.NET/C++ apps — deploy time from several hours to under 10 minutes. Unified monitoring with Prometheus (500+ nodes) and Grafana. Ansible automation for 500+ servers, zero configuration drift. MTTR: 120 min → 20 min.

KubernetesGitLab CIPrometheusAnsibleDocker

ADV/web-engineering

Feb 2021 – Aug 2022

DevOps Engineer

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.

ProxmoxKubernetesNginxPrometheusAnsible

TenderTech, ITkey

2017 – 2021

System Administrator

Linux/Windows system administration. Maintained on-premise servers, VMware/Hyper-V virtualization, networking (VLANs, VPN, firewalls). User support, backup management, Zabbix monitoring.

LinuxVMwareNetworkingZabbix

Projects

antonnovikov.com

2023 – Present

Personal site & homelab

Personal portfolio site running on a self-hosted k0s cluster (single VPS). FastAPI + Jinja2 backend, Traefik ingress, cert-manager for Let's Encrypt, private Docker registry, WireGuard VPN, IKEv2/IPsec, HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy with health checks, CI/CD via GitHub Actions.

k0sFastAPITraefikDockerWireGuardGitHub Actions

Flowerave contract

Jun 2024 – Oct 2025

Sole DevOps — greenfield infra from zero

Sole DevOps at a ticketing startup — built all infrastructure from zero. Terraform IaC on Yandex Cloud, Kubernetes, self-hosted GitLab CE with CI/CD pipelines, Sentry + Prometheus + ELK observability, PostgreSQL backups to S3 with WAL archiving (RPO <1 hr). Zero production data loss across 15 months.

TerraformKubernetesGitLab CIYandex CloudSentryELKPostgreSQL

MTS part-time

Jan 2026 – Apr 2026

Blockchain infra — 8 environments, ArgoCD GitOps

Crypto / fintech division — blockchain settlement platform VED and B2C exchange products (neobridge.ru, cloud-crypto.ru). Provisioned infrastructure on MWS (MTS cloud) via Terraform; kubeadm Kubernetes clusters across 8 environments; ArgoCD GitOps with GitLab CI pipeline library (Kaniko, Trivy + OPA, SonarQube, Semgrep); Jsonnet-based pipeline generation; Ansible roles for full cluster lifecycle.

ArgoCDKubernetesTerraformGitLab CIAnsibleKafkaVaultJsonnet