Looking for Head of DevOps / VP of Engineering roles
Mikhail Protsenko
Head of DevOps/SRE · Teams up to 10 · Kubernetes at scale
I build DevOps/SRE functions from the ground up — from first hire to production-ready platform. Infrastructure, pipelines, team processes, and the culture that makes them work.
25+
Years in IT
10+
Leading teams
100+
Deploys / week
99.91%
Uptime SLA
Technology Stack
Kubernetes
Helm
Docker
OpenShift
Cloud (AWS, Hetzner)
Terraform
Ansible
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Argo CD
Grafana
Prometheus
VictoriaMetrics
ELK
Vault
Nginx / HAProxy
Linux
PostgreSQL / MySQL
Bash / Python
Career Track
Oct 2025 — Now
Head of DevOps/SRE
Major Retail Company (NDA)
Team of 6 · Reporting to CTO · Sole function owner
- Built internal CI/CD platform (GitLab, Harbor, Vault, Grafana) to eliminate external provider dependency
- Defined quarterly roadmap across 7 areas — from TimeToMarket reduction to fault tolerance
- Designed junior+senior on-call rotation that reduced MTTR and grew junior engineers
- Established SLA framework with 99.91% uptime baseline and team KPIs tied to it
Feb 2021 — Jan 2025
DevOps Team Lead
Banking Sector (NDA) · Moscow
Team of 8 · 10 mission-critical projects · 40+ containers/env
- Orchestrated 80–100 weekly deployments including bank-wide API integration platform
- Eliminated hardcoded credentials → zero security incidents over 4 years
- Standardized Helm-based deploys → 90% fewer configuration errors
- Reduced deployment-related incidents from weekly to monthly
Earlier
Lead Systems Engineer at Arrival (2020–2021) — built AWS infrastructure from scratch for EV startup: 12+ EKS clusters, 30 microservices across EU and US, 6 dev teams.
Lead Systems Engineer at EPAM Systems (2016–2020) — migrated 20+ legacy apps from bare metal to AWS, achieved 2–3x cost reduction. Led DevOps teams for pharma genomics workloads.
2001–2016 — systems engineering across e-commerce (Detsky Mir, Eldorado, Nokian Tyres), banking (Sberbank, Home Credit), government sector.