DEVOPS ENGINEER
Boiken Simixhiu
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About Me
Boiken has spent more than a decade in infrastructure, from data-centre and Hyper-V administration to Kubernetes on AWS. Today that means infrastructure as code with Terraform and AWS CDK, CI/CD pipelines, and automating the recurring work that slows teams down. Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Experience
DevOps13
DevOps Engineer
- Creates infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Runs AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2, ALB, EKS, DynamoDB, SSM, Route 53, CloudFront and S3.
- Works with Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines and tasks.
- Automates infrastructure and service deployments with Ansible and HashiCorp Packer.
- Monitors with OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana and Uptime Kuma.
- Writes Python scripts for automation.
2023 – Present
IntelyCare
DevOps Engineer
- Developed and supported cloud infrastructure in AWS with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK).
- Developed and operated CI/CD pipelines.
- Worked closely with software and QA engineers so builds and deployments ran uninterrupted.
- Identified infrastructure problems and developed solutions to overcome them.
- Automated recurring tasks.
2022 – 2023
Sisal Albania
DevOps Engineer
- Provided CI/CD with Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins.
- Worked with Flux, GitLab and GitLab CI, shared libraries and Kustomize.
2019 – 2022
National Agency of Information Society
Head of Infrastructure Sector
- Managed Hyper-V and created and configured virtual machines in the private and public cloud on institutions' requests.
- Managed shared hosting with cPanel and configured virtual machine services.
- Ran HAProxy, the Cloudflare CDN and DNS management.
- Worked with Microsoft Azure: virtual networks, load balancers, VMs and Web Apps.
- Used Docker, Portainer and Ansible to configure infrastructure.
2018 – 2019
National Agency of Information Society
Specialist, Infrastructure Sector
- Provided infrastructure support and administered and configured VMs on Hyper-V.
- Managed DNS and handled server administration tasks.
- Monitored data-centre health and analysed system logs to identify potential issues.
- Responded to and resolved help-desk requests, and managed user accounts and passwords.
2017 – 2018
Telecontact SHPK
System Administrator
- Administered Linux, Asterisk, MySQL and web servers.
- Administered the network (routers and switches) and NAS storage.
- Developed BSDev Data Entry, a web app for agents to record contracts and calculate working time.
- Worked with Vicidial, Git, GitHub and GitLab.
2014 – 2017
Unicom sha / Unioni Financiar Tiranë
IT Support and Security Officer
- Worked as IT technician and web designer.
- Maintained computers and network devices.
- Maintained the security systems for all UNIONBANK agencies: Guardall alarms, Hikvision, Bosch and Samsung DVRs, Esser fire alarms, and their sensors and sirens.
2012 – 2014
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