Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Andrea Trendafilov

Azure | AKS | Terraform | CI/CD | Observability | AI Platform Support

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and operating Azure, Kubernetes, and Linux-based infrastructure across cloud, virtualized, and bare-metal environments.

Strong hands-on background in AKS, Terraform, CI/CD, Bash, Python, and production troubleshooting.

Experienced in supporting containerized, IoT, and AI inference workloads with a focus on reliable delivery, observability, and reducing manual operational effort.

Professional Experience

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Living Homes

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  • Own Azure + AKS for a smart-home and AI-enabled platform: Helm- and GitOps-style rollouts across dev, test, and prod — three gated environments — so promotions are deliberate, not improvised.
  • Run ACR and CI/CD for a large microservice estate (20+ deployable services and shared platform components): image builds and promotions are CI-driven on merge to tracked branches — not ad-hoc rebuilds — and land in AKS without kubectl as the default change path.
  • Drive Terraform and pipeline-based provisioning for clusters, networking, and shared dependencies — infrastructure changes land as reviewed code, not mystery portal clicks.
  • Ship automated AI/IoT validation around Ollama and llama.cpp: benchmark jobs track inference latency (e.g. p95) and throughput; regressions block promotion instead of surfacing in production.
  • Harden observability and releases for that footprint — structured logging, metrics, and tracing hooks tied to deployments so on-call can answer what changed, not guess.
  • Operate alongside MongoDB Atlas and Azure Database for PostgreSQL as first-class parts of the application stack — backups, connectivity, and env alignment included.

DevOps Engineer

SUSE

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  • Worked across enterprise platform engineering initiatives spanning partner integrations, system boot and init, and edge validation.
  • Supported Kubernetes-based edge environments using SUSE Linux Micro, RKE2, and K3s.
  • Automated VM and bare-metal edge environment deployment workflows to improve repeatability and reduce manual setup effort.
  • Developed and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Edge Image Builder workflows.
  • Improved release confidence through automated validation and test coverage using BATS and Detik.
  • Worked with engineering teams to troubleshoot integration and platform issues across enterprise delivery environments.

DevOps Engineer

VMware

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  • Supported and optimized data analytics services across virtualized and Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Worked across VMware ESXi, Tanzu, Horizon, Apache Impala, Hadoop, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
  • Automated virtual machine deployment and configuration using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Developed Python and Bash automation for infrastructure operations and routine engineering tasks.

DevOps Engineer

Sensika Technologies

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  • Automated Linux virtual machine deployment and configuration.
  • Performed server configuration, monitoring, and proactive operational support.
  • Managed users and access through Active Directory.

System Administrator

DGM

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  • Maintained information systems and improved server performance and troubleshooting processes.
  • Supported system reliability and day-to-day infrastructure operations.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Containers

Azure • AKS • ACR • Kubernetes • Docker

IaC & Automation

Terraform • Azure DevOps • GitLab CI/CD • Ansible • Bash • Python

Monitoring & Operations

Azure Monitor • Prometheus • Grafana • Linux • Troubleshooting • Observability

Platforms

MongoDB Atlas • Azure Database for PostgreSQL • VMware • K3s • Rancher

Projects

Tikvite Portal

2016 – Ongoing

  • Built and currently operate a privacy-focused communication platform running on Kubernetes on ARM-based infrastructure.
  • Maintain the stack end to end, including containerized services, storage, updates, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
  • Built around Rocket.Chat, Node.js, MongoDB, Nextcloud, and Collabora, with hands-on ownership of architecture, deployment, and ongoing operations.

Education

B.S. Biological Science

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

2009 – 2015

Radiology Technician Internship

Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH, Dortmund, Germany

2016 – 2017

Languages

  • English — Fluent
  • German — Advanced (B2)