Bogdan Astăluș

DevOps Engineer

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About Me

Professional Summary

Pragmatic person with good organizational and communication skills.

I am a highly technical person with a background in the Operations side of IT, currently focusing on the DevOps methodology and tools.

Basic Information

Age:
Email: [email protected]
Languages: English, Portuguese, French, Romanian
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Professional Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (EC2, VPC, EKS, S3, Route53, IAM)
  • Aurora DB, ALB/NLB, API Gateway
  • VMware vSphere ESXi

Containers & Orchestration

  • Docker & Kubernetes
  • Multi-cluster management
  • OpenShift, Jib

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform Enterprise/Cloud
  • Ansible
  • Configuration Management

CI/CD

  • Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab
  • Artifactory, Maven
  • SonarQube

Monitoring

  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • Thanos, Splunk
  • Dynatrace, Icinga

Security & Systems

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Linux (RHEL/CentOS)
  • Windows Server

Work Experience

July 2023 - Present

DevOps Consultant

Undisclosed Company

Blockchain monitoring & observability

May 2021 - Present

DevOps Engineer

Cognizant Softvision

Key Responsibilities:

  • Management of AWS multi-account services: EC2, VPC, Aurora DB, EKS, S3, Route53, IAM, ALB/NLB, API Gateway
  • Kubernetes multi-cluster management, cluster and components updates, troubleshooting complex issues
  • Terraform Enterprise management, migration to Terraform Cloud
  • Writing and improving Terraform code and proprietary modules
  • Ansible playbooks integrated into CI/CD pipelines
  • HashiCorp Vault configuration and troubleshooting
  • Prometheus & Grafana monitoring, migration to Thanos and Grafana Enterprise
  • CloudBees Jenkins, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory management
  • Creation and improvement of multi-branch scripted pipelines
Feb 2016 - May 2021

IT Infrastructure Engineer

Uniqa Software Services

  • VMware ESXi administration and resource management
  • RedHat Linux 6/7/8, Windows Server 2008-2019 administration
  • Automation: PXE Boot with Kickstart files, Ansible configuration
  • Database Administration: PostgreSQL, MSSQL
  • Web/Application servers: Apache HTTPD, JBoss, Tomcat
  • Jenkins Enterprise, Maven, JFrog Artifactory Pro, SonarQube management
  • Source code management: Git (Bitbucket), SVN, CVS
  • Docker and OpenShift administration
  • Monitoring with Splunk, Dynatrace & Icinga
  • PEGA Application Operations
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016

Change Management and Operations Trainee

Uniqa Software Services

  • Server administration and monitoring (Windows/Linux)
  • DNS & DHCP configuration
  • VMware vSphere virtualization
  • Apache HTTPD configurations, redirects, reverse proxies
  • Build automation: Maven & Jenkins
  • Code quality tools: SonarQube
  • Version control: Subversion Edge, CVS, SVN
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019

Cyber Security Explorer

Digital Nation

National group focused on improving Cyber Security knowledge through OSCP curriculum.

  • Passive and Active Information Gathering
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Buffer Overflows and Privilege Escalation
  • Password Attacks
  • The Metasploit Framework
  • Web application vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL injection)
  • Capture the flag events
Apr 2013 - Feb 2014

System Administrator - Intern

Prodvinalco

  • Desktop systems troubleshooting and technical support
  • Analysis of company's infrastructure
  • Structured cabling

Education

2011 - 2015

Bachelor of Electronics and Telecommunications

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

2006 - 2010

Mathematics and Computer Science

Gheorghe Sincai High School Cluj-Napoca

Bilingual Romanian-English program

Certifications

2025

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

2021

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

2019

RedHat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)