DEVOPS ENGINEER
Edvin Kule
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About Me
Edvin is a senior DevOps engineer with more than fifteen years in IT, eight of them in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and CI/CD. As an external consultant for enterprise clients in the US and Canada, Edvin runs production infrastructure on AWS and Google Cloud: Terraform, EKS and GKE clusters, ArgoCD GitOps, and Bitbucket and Jenkins pipelines. Before that came Kubernetes and Oracle Cloud for Sisal's lottery and betting platforms, after years supporting telecom billing systems.
Experience
Ritech (for Comply, USA)
Senior DevOps Engineer (external consultant)
- Designs, provisions and maintains production infrastructure on AWS with Terraform: EKS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, load balancers, Aurora PostgreSQL and S3.
- Manages and operates Amazon EKS clusters across Dev, UAT and Production.
- Implements GitOps deployment workflows with ArgoCD and Kustomize.
- Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins.
- Deploys and manages applications with Helm charts across environments.
- Automates configuration management across Linux and Windows servers with Ansible.
- Monitors infrastructure and application health with Grafana and AWS CloudWatch.
- Works with development teams on release management and production deployments.
- Troubleshoots Kubernetes workloads, networking and scheduling in production.
2023 – Present
Ritech (for Siemens Canada)
DevOps Engineer (external consultant)
- Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform with Terraform.
- Created and maintained Kubernetes clusters on GKE.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.
- Automated infrastructure configuration and application deployments with Ansible.
- Administered and troubleshot Linux across GCP environments.
2022 – 2023
Sisal Albania
DevOps Engineer
- Created and maintained Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads for the lottery and betting platforms.
- Automated infrastructure with Ansible, Docker and Terraform.
- Created and maintained instances and services in Oracle Cloud (OCI).
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
- Owned releases across Development, Test, Pre-production and Production.
- Installed and configured Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and Kibana in Kubernetes.
- Maintained all microservices and Java projects in GitLab.
2019 – 2022
Landmark Communications
DevOps / System Administrator
- Created and maintained Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian servers on AWS, DigitalOcean and Contabo.
- Installed and configured Nginx and Apache for WordPress, Magento, Laravel and Ruby on Rails.
- Wrote AWS auto-scaling scripts and set up cloud monitoring alerts.
- Worked with development teams to deploy software on AWS, for projects including hashtag.be, genomes.io, teachpitch.com, neptun.al, balfin.al and spar.al.
2018 – 2019
Plus Communication
CRM Senior Specialist (earlier: billing operations support)
- Implemented and tested third-party enterprise systems: Comarch, Comverse, ZIRA and cVidya.
- Analysed and implemented change requests for CRM, provisioning, order management and fraud management systems.
- Developed and tested in-house CRM modules: number portability, channel activator and credit limit.
- As Postpaid Billing Operation Support Supervisor (2014–2016), monitored and troubleshot Comarch billing, mediation, fraud management and Comverse prepaid systems, managed Jira incidents and third parties, and Linux and Windows users and storage.
- As Billing Operation Support Specialist (2012–2014), monitored and troubleshot billing, mediation, fraud management and LMDB systems, and supported patch installation, testing and third-party coordination.
2012 – 2018
T-Mobile Albania
Billing System Specialist
- Configured telecommunication services for charging and generated commercial reports.
- Configured the interconnection flow in BSCM and kept the billing systems running properly.
2010 – 2012
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