Vasyl Gnatiuk

Lead AWS Cloud Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, automating, and securing large-scale cloud platforms across enterprise environments. Specialized in building multi-region, highly available architectures, modernizing infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code, and driving DevOps transformation with automation-first principles. Proven track record in cloud migrations, cost optimization, and operational excellence, with deep hands-on expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud security frameworks (CIS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR). Strong advocate for reliability, observability, and scalable platform design. Comfortable operating at both hands-on engineering and technical leadership levels — from designing reference architectures to mentoring teams and owning production systems end-to-end. Core Focus Areas - Cloud Architecture & Automation - AWS & Multi-Region High Availability - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) - Kubernetes & Container Platforms (EKS, ECS) - CI/CD & Release Engineering - Cloud Security & Compliance - Production Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis - Monitoring, Logging & Observability - Cost Optimization & FinOps Key Skills & Technologies Cloud Platforms: - AWS: EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Lambda, ECS, EKS, ECR, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, Route53, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, Amplify - GCP (working knowledge) Infrastructure as Code & Automation - Terraform (enterprise-scale, multi-account) - AWS CloudFormation - Ansible - Python & Shell scripting (automation, tooling) CI/CD & DevOps - GitHub Actions - Jenkins - GitLab CI/CD - AWS CodeBuild & CodeDeploy - Artifact versioning & rollback strategies Containers & Orchestration - Kubernetes (production EKS) - Docker - ECS / Fargate Observability & Reliability - CloudWatch - ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) - Prometheus & Grafana - Datadog, New Relic, Nagios - Alerting, SLOs, incident response Databases & Messaging - MySQL, MSSQL - Redis, RabbitMQ Systems & Tools - Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Red Hat - Windows Server (2012-2022) - Git, Jira, Confluence, Slack Certifications - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional - AWS Certified Security – Specialty - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate - AWS Certified Developer – Associate - HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002) Testing & Tooling - AWS SDK (Boto3) - Data formats: JSON, YAML, XML, MQTT - Bash-based sanity and validation scripts - Chrome DevTools for troubleshooting