Rashid Boyko

Cloud Engineer

Cloud Platform Engineer with extensive experience of high availability

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architecture on AWS Cloud. Worked across multiple organisations from large

corporations to medium consultancies as a key team player in an Agile

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environment delivering high quality solutions in a timely manner.

Hindley, Lancashire, WN2

Experienced in implementing AWS Cloud solutions, infrastructure as code using

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Terraform, various Linux distributions administration, using systems monitoring

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and automation, websites hosting, continuous integration and deployment

with agile methodology eager to contribute to team success through hard

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Work Experience

2020-04 -

Cloud Engineer

Certificates

Current

Sinergia Solutions, Leeds

Improved existing Terraform code by successfully

2020-07

migrated existing setup from version 0.11 to 0.13 and

AWS Cloud Practitioner

moved it to utilise Terraform Cloud.

2020-06

Containerised Asp.net application and built AWS

Terraform Associate

infrastructure and deployment, using Github, AWS

CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild, all deployed with

Terraform.

Education

Delivered automated deployment process using Ansible

and Packer to help manage AWS infrastructure.

1994-09 - 1997-06

Propose / designed target architectures to achieve

HND: Engineering

business goals, reducing overall costs and speed up of

Mechanics

deployments processes by 20%, replacing legacy

Technical College Of

on-premise solution with AWS Cloud.

Mechanics - Poland

2019-11 -

DevOps Engineer

2020-04

Kodemonki, London

Skills

Developed robust AWS Cloud solution for Wordpress

website. Formulated better scalability and performance

AWS Cloud

of client's WordPress site by adopting AWS Well

Architected Framework.

Terraform IaC

To enhance client's website's security, wrote Terraform

code to help automate hosting of static website located

in S3 and AWS CloudFront with injected security headers

CI/CD Pipelines

using Lambda Edge function.

Restructured existing servers built on Linux with security

Bash Scripting

hardening and optimisation against CIS benchmarking.

2015-02 -

System Architect

Agile

2019-08

Tag Europe, London

Successfully migrated 50+ servers from Rackspace Cloud

Collaboration

to AWS Cloud in “lift-and-shift” method, cutting costs by

massive 45%. Also improved security, performance and

Troubleshooting

stability implementing AWS security standards.

Engaged with Atlassian Jira roll-out migration project.

Estimated in 3 months but completed in 2 months,

dramatically improved product delivery by 30% and

Technical Snapshot

reduced the costs by 25%, hosted on AWS Cloud.

Helped company to reach other markets by designing

aws, ec2, elb, rds, route53,

and implementing prototype solution to host Adobe

vcp, elasticbeanstalk,

Experience Manager CMS.

dynamodb, lambda, aws

Supported Front End Developers on Drupal, WordPress

landing zone, elasticache,

and a PHP framework Laravel deployments for clients like:

cloudfront, cloud migration,

Jaguar Landrover, BMS, DHL and CHI Partnership.

code deploy, code pipeline,

code commit, security hub,

2013-03 -

Director, IT Engineer

guardduty, cloudwatch,

2015-01

Boyko IT Solutions, London

cloudtrail, grafana, zabbix,

Organised and facilitated entire Windows OS and PC

nagios, newrelic, jenkins,

hardware upgrade for Greater London Authority.

ci/cd, gitlab, terraform,

Worked on various website hosting platforms, Linux and

ansible, puppet, linux,

Windows AD installation and administration.

windows, macosx, docker,

Built a hardware platform for cloud solutions based on

k8s, helm, apache, nginx,

VMware 5.5 on-premise.

mysql, postgresql, mongodb,

Provided PC and laptops repairs for small businesses,

bash scripting, yaml, jira,

individual clients, schools, colleges and charities.

confluence, bitbucket,

Made recommendations and performed upgrades,

drupal, wordpress, adobe

assisting businesses in technology planning aligned with

experience manager,

growth projections.

networking, vmware, digital

Discussed project progress with customers, collected

ocean, rackspace

feedback on different stages and directly addressed

concerns.

2012-07 -

Project Support Engineer

2013-03

Engage Works, London

Supported state-of-the-art AV/IT installation built by

Engage for a renowned global digital consultancy

Accenture, combining multi-touch video wall with several

other AV and networking technologies.

Helped Accenture client with usage of the system,

provided quick fix to problems when needed.

Maintained custom CMS and bespoke presentation

software running on Linux and Windows. Worked on other

Engage projects involving design and installation of AV/IT

server racks on client's sites.

Patched software and installed new versions to eliminate

security problems and protect data.

Assessed system hardware and software and suggested

modifications to reduce lag time and improve overall

speed.

2011-12 -

IT Engineer

2012-07

Freelance, London

Contracting for private clients, small businesses and

bigger organisations. Worked on projects required

planning, design and installation of server racks on client's

sites.

Provided various IT hardware and software upgrades and

services for individual clients, small businesses and bigger

organisations.

Performed scheduled service work, including installations,

testing and repairs. Completed minor preventative

maintenance and mechanical repairs on equipment.

2007-06 -

Team Supervisor

2011-12

OCS Ltd, London

As a Team Supervisor provided mentoring leadership to a

team of CCTV Operators. Supplied extracts from CCTV

recordings to maintain records.

Operated CCTV equipment, radios and ancillary

equipment to reduce crime, disorder and fear of crime.

CCTV crime prevention unit in Southwark Police Station in

London. Helped improve efficiency with finding criminal

activities using CCTV monitoring systems.

Involved and collaborated with third party engineering

team on the latest CCTV IT solution to client's existing

setup.

2006-09 -

Apple Hardware Engineer

2007-05

Amsys Ltd, London

Main role involved repairs and service of various Apple

products. Provided customer service and helpdesk,

arranged deliveries and post repair care on client's sites.

Participated in internal audits of quality management

system. Assisted customers in identifying issues and

explained solutions to restore service and functionality.

Patched software and installed new versions to eliminate

security problems and protect data.