Vitalijs Karklins

Riga, Latvia

My proffessional journey within IT begins in 2005 when I started to work for Latvian government institution as IT specialist. Over the years I have changed various companies and positions (some as part of acquisition) and gained new skills and knowledge in every new position I'd been. My strenghts are ability to learn new skills fast and eagerness to find solutions to problems. I'm feeling comfortable working with distributed teams, and prefer remote working.

Experience

4financeSystems engineer (2019.01 - present)

Being part of DevOps team, participate in various projects and ensuring both client facing and backend systems are running smooth.

Tecnologies used:
Linux (Centos/RHEL), AWS, Ansible, Git, Rundeck, Artifactory, Elastic stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Jenkins, Zookeeper, Spacewalk, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, PostgreSQL

Cognizant Senior systems administrator (2018.05 - 2018.12)

Oracle Siebel CRM administration
Builds deployments to development and production environments
Application and infrastructure monitoring
Tasks automation scripting

Tecnologies used:
Linux (RHEL), Windows, Siebel CRM, Oracle db, SQL, OHS, Apache, nginx, Zabbix, OP5/Nagios, Python, bash, batch, ansible, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Supervisor, REST

Tele2 Shared Service Center Systems administrator (2017.08 - 2018.04)

Oracle Siebel CRM administration
Builds deployments to development and production environments
Application and infrastructure monitoring
Tasks automation scripting

Tecnologies used:
Linux (RHEL), Windows, Siebel CRM, Oracle db, SQL, OHS, Apache, nginx, Zabbix, OP5/Nagios, Python, bash, batch, ansible, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Supervisor, REST

IBM Application specialist / systems administrator (2013.05 - 2017.08)

Servers and applications support. Servers installation and configuration, patching, monitoring
IBM internal applications (TAD4D, BFI) installation and management
Databases support and configuration
Team Lead for EMEA region application support team

Tecnologies used:
Linux (RHEL), AIX, TAD4D, BFI, DB2, IHS, WebSphere, Apache, Zabbix, Nagios, Python, bash, Ansible, Softlayer, AWS

Itella Information Application specialist (2012.11 - 2013.05)

2nd level support for multiple inhouse services
Work with application and platform issues
Applications monitoring

Tecnologies used:
Linux (RHEL), AIX, DB2, Apache, Tomcat, Nagios, bash

Latvian Prison Administration IT Specialist (2005.05 - 2012.10)

Workstations and Windows servers support
Users IT training

Education

Transport and Telecommunications Institute

Bachelor in Computer science (2009)

Lielupe Secondary School (2002)

Skills

Technologies

Linux (RHEL/Centos/Debian), AWS (ec2, rds, elb, route53, elasticache, cloudformation, cloudfront), Ansible, Git, Rundeck, Artifactory, Elastic stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Graphite, Zabbix, Nagios, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Jenkins, Zookeeper, Spacewalk, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, PostgreSQL, Python, bash, WebSphere

Languages

Latvian

English

Russian

Certifications

Linux Professional Institute - LPIC-1 (2013.05)