OPEN TO REMOTE WORLDWIDE & RELOCATION

Reliable systems.
Better ways to
build them.

I’m Ilya, a DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer. I turn complex operations into dependable releases, faster incident response and useful automation.

DEVOPS / SRE · KUBERNETES · AUTOMATION
01 / THE SHORT VERSION

I like systems that
work under pressure.

I work at the intersection of application operations, infrastructure and development. My focus is practical: ship reliably, understand what breaks, and automate the work that should not be manual.

Today I support a banking product at SberTech: building CI/CD workflows, deploying to Kubernetes with Helm and Istio, responding to incidents, and creating AI tools that help engineers handle security and product knowledge.

CURRENT FOCUSDevOps · SRE · Platform Operations
WORK FORMATRemote worldwide · Open to relocate
50/batchVulnerability findings triaged with an AI-assisted workflow
20–30 minTest-environment update delivery, down from 2–3 hours
20–25 minFrom on-call alert to diagnosis and mitigation recommendation
02 / SELECTED WORK

Proof in the process.

A few real problems I’ve worked on — from release engineering to security automation and production reliability.

01
SECURITY AUTOMATION / AI AGENTS

Vulnerability triage,
without the busywork.

Built an agent skill for an internal AI platform that connects scanner APIs, issue tracking and source control. It creates tickets, finds matching repositories and release tags, triages findings, and closes tickets through MCP only after my explicit approval.

THE RESULT50 findings processed in ~100–120 min including human review, versus 10–180 min each manually.
Agent SkillsMCPAPIHuman-in-the-loop
02
CI/CD / RELEASE ENGINEERING

Build, deploy, repeat.
With less friction.

Designed Jenkins build and Kubernetes deployment pipelines for my product, using shared modules maintained by other teams. Configured webhooks to start builds after PR merges, maintained Helm configuration, and adapted workflows during the move to an internal CI/CD platform.

MY SCOPEApplication build and deployment automation; infrastructure issues diagnosed and handed to platform owners.
JenkinsKubernetesHelmIstio
03
SRE / INCIDENT RESPONSE

When the logs
said nothing was wrong.

During an on-call incident, request timeouts increased without application errors. Heap-dump analysis exposed an internal queue bottleneck. I coordinated with administrators in restricted environments, recommended temporary Envoy timeout and memory changes, and passed findings to developers for a permanent fix.

THE RESULTDiagnosis and mitigation recommendation within 20–25 minutes of the call — a team incident, not a solo resolution.
On-callRCAJVMEnvoy
04
AUTOMATION / BANKING SYSTEMS

Turned waiting
into self-service.

At CFT, connected a legacy update system to Jenkins so developers could run test-environment updates themselves. Used Groovy jobs, Bash and Ansible scripts for application servers, and SQL for database operations.

THE RESULTUpdate delivery fell from 2–3 hours to 20–30 minutes.
JenkinsGroovyAnsibleSQL
03 / EXPERIENCE

Where I've
made an impact.

Production operations, release engineering and hands-on troubleshooting across enterprise and banking environments.

JUL 2024 — PRESENTCURRENT

SberTech

SRE / DevOps Engineer

Supporting Platform V One Time Token: Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, security checks, on-call response and cross-team troubleshooting. Built AI-assisted vulnerability triage and a RAG-based product knowledge assistant.

AUG 2022 — JUL 2024

Center of Financial Technologies

DevOps Engineer / SRE

Operated production and test banking environments with Linux, Oracle and PostgreSQL. Automated updates and investigated database performance using execution plans, traces, locks, constraints and indexes; worked with databases up to 50 TB.

DEC 2021 — AUG 2022

Interregional TransitTelecom

Operations Engineer

Monitored and supported a VoIP platform; investigated incidents and participated in service recovery.

JAN 2021 — DEC 2021

CTI

Technical Support Engineer

Diagnosed workplace equipment, connectivity and local network issues.

04 / TOOLKIT

Tools are a means.
Reliability is the goal.

Clear about what I’ve used in production — and what I’ve only explored in labs.

PLATFORM & DELIVERY

Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · Istio · Envoy · Jenkins · Git · CI/CD

OPERATIONS & AUTOMATION

Linux · Ansible · Bash · Python · Groovy · Terraform (existing configurations)

RELIABILITY & DATA

On-call · RCA · Prometheus · ELK · JVM diagnostics · Oracle · PostgreSQL · SQL

AI & SECURITY

Agent Skills · MCP · RAG · Vulnerability triage · API integrations

LAB PRACTICE, NOT PRODUCTION

AWS · Amazon EKS

05 / GET IN TOUCH

LET'S BUILD SOMETHING RELIABLE

Your next engineering
challenge? I'm in.

Open to DevOps, SRE and platform operations roles. Remote from anywhere, or relocation for the right opportunity.

i@iteplyakov.ru
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LANGUAGESRussian (native) · English (B2)