Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria
Experienced Leader, Solution Architect / DevOps engineer, and Trainer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Essential technical skills - Public Cloud Services (AWS), CI/CD, DevSecOps. Ivaylo is well versed in the complete technology life cycle from design and implementation to maintenance and enhancement. He is also, experienced in managing and growing teams to overcome challenges and work together to beat targets.
Establishing & managing the global AWS Center of Excellence Identifying and architecting solutions used as building blocks by the PS and MS teams in EMEA/NORAM/LATAM/APAC. Collaborating with AWS teams to adopt and influence new services and features Acting as a mentor and public speaker for the AWS Service Line
Providing top-notch architecture and engineering services for the AWS cloud platform. Developing the CCoE disciplines to increase the standardisation and best practices adoption. Overseeing the delivery of professional services to customers. Being accountable for R&D projects within the company. Developing and implementing process improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the professional services and other teams within the company. P.S. SoftwareONE acquired HeleCloud in 2021; I stepped into the Global AWS Lead Architect role as part of the integration.
As an AWS consultant(Solution Architect) at HeleCloud, I help companies during their cloud adoption journey to understand how to transform their IT infrastructure, operations & applications to make the most of the scalability, innovation & cost efficiency of the AWS platform. Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS. Selecting appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements. Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on AWS. Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS. Implementing cost control strategies. Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation. Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS. Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform. Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes. As a Team Leader at HeleCloud, I’m involved in various activities. Hiring & managing onboarding processes for new candidates/employees. Train, inspire and preach company culture. Develop and implement processes which help us to deliver on time with higher industry standards in place. Frequently used tools: Terraform, Packer, Ansible, AWS Lambda functions written on Python, AWS Code*, Git, Lucidchart, Atlassian Product Family.
As an AWS consultant(Solution Architect) at HeleCloud, I help companies during their cloud adoption journey to understand how to transform their IT infrastructure, operations & applications to make the most of the scalability, innovation & cost efficiency of the AWS platform. Migrate key systems from on-prem hosting to Amazon Web Services. Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation. Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS. Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform. Design, manage and maintain tools to automate operational processes. Frequently used tools: Terraform, Packer, Ansible, AWS Lambda functions written on Python, AWS Code*, Git, Lucidchart, Atlassian Product Family.
Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures. Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities. Maintains the organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies. Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects. Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center. Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
Responsibilities and Contribution: Manages the day-to-day operations of the PCC host computers by monitoring system performance, configuration, maintenance and repair. Ensures that records of system downtime and equipment inventory are properly maintained. Applies revisions to host system firmware and software. Works with vendors to assist support activities. Develops procedures to maintain security and protect systems from unauthorized use, acts of nature and user abuse. Created project management workflow, and supported company internal and remote servers. Provided remote customer support and problem resolution. Also supported English language marketing efforts. Configure stress test plans per each project based on his features to find proper system configuration for the expected consumption. Communicate with clients and organize the project scope with them. Coordinate deployment procedure for the clients on hosting providers like Azure, AWS, Rakspace etc. Technologies: Windows Server 2008R2/2012, MSSQL, SCOM DPM, Networking, Messaging, IIS/Apache, HA configurations, Stress test
- Meeting with customers to determine the requirements and then define the scope of the project - Defining hardware, network and software requirements - Implementing the agreed solution following the initial scope & industry best practices - Documenting and presenting the completed solution - On-boarding the customer