Artem Babkin

Artem Babkin

Senior Platform Engineer
Russia
English, Russian
Full-time Remote

About Me

Senior Platform Engineer with 8+ years of infrastructure experience, focused on production Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure as Code, automation, observability, and reliability.

Designed and operated production infra…

Experience

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

ROSTELECOM · Moscow, Russia
Apr 2025 - Present · 1 year 7 months

<p>Designed and deployed a production Kubernetes platform from scratch using RKE2, including HA control plane, dedicated external etcd, Cilium, Ceph CSI, Vault, ingress/load balancing, resource management, and GitOps.</p><p> Led a zero-downtime migration of 100+ production services from a legacy Kubernetes 1.20 environment to the new platform.</p><p> Designed cluster topology, node roles, capacity requirements, workload placement, and failure-recovery procedures.</p><p> Built and operated VictoriaMetrics monitoring with separate production/non-production environments, VmAgent/VmAuth, and custom Bash, Python, and Go exporters.</p><p> Redesigned alerting and reduced noisy/warning alerts by approximately 70%.</p><p> Reworked logging and observability from ELK/Fluent Bit toward Grafana, Loki, Alloy, and Pyroscope.</p><p> Implemented Grafana OnCall escalation workflows and acted as primary on-call engineer.</p><p> Technical lead for a two-engineer team: task allocation, mentoring, on-call scheduling, incident coordination, technical decisions, and hiring interviews.</p>

Infrastructure Engineer

ROSTELECOM · Moscow, Russia
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025 · 10 months

<p>Designed and operated a dedicated Kubernetes environment for infrastructure services and migrated approximately 70% of eligible services from VMs to Kubernetes, freeing 40–50% of compute capacity.</p><p> Implemented GitOps with Argo CD and automated multi-environment deployments using ApplicationSets, Helm, and Kustomize.</p><p> Built Terraform and Ansible workflows for VMware Cloud Director, VM provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management.</p><p> Developed reusable Terraform modules and Ansible roles with typed configuration, Vault integration, linting, validation, dry-runs, and pre-production testing.</p><p> Introduced configuration and deployment validation that eliminated configuration-drift and human-error incidents in managed workflows.</p><p> Integrated HashiCorp Vault with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes for centralized secret management and dynamic database credentials.</p><p> Worked with Information Security on critical CVE remediation across operating systems, infrastructure software, and containers.</p><p> Designed and operated HA PostgreSQL using Patroni and HAProxy, plus replicated FreeIPA infrastructure.</p>

Infrastructure Engineer

KRAFTWAY · Moscow, Russia
Feb 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 years 4 months

<p>Migrated 30+ bare-metal servers and 100+ VMs to infrastructure managed through Terraform and Ansible.</p><p> Designed and deployed production Kubernetes clusters for application and infrastructure workloads.</p><p> Built GitLab CI/CD and Helm-based deployment workflows.</p><p> Implemented HA infrastructure using Ceph, Corosync/Pacemaker, and database replication.</p><p> Administered load balancing and network infrastructure using HAProxy, Cisco, and pfSense.</p>

System Administrator

MPO-RUMYANTSEV JSC · Moscow, Russia
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 year 2 months

<p>Administered VMware ESXi, Windows/AD, Exchange, file services, VPN, and backup infrastructure.</p><p> Built Zabbix monitoring and automated administration with Bash, PowerShell, and batch scripting.</p><p> Developed internal automation tools in PHP and supported Cisco ASA VPN infrastructure.</p>

Technical Support

RUSSIAN PROJECT · Altuf’yevskiy , Moscow , Russia
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 year

<p>Supported users, servers, network infrastructure, and video-surveillance systems.</p><p> Automated routine support operations and notifications with Bash.</p><p> Automated approximately 60% of repetitive support tasks.</p>

Skills

Kubernetes RKE2 Linux High availability Cluster architecture Capacity planning Workload placement Disaster recovery Terraform Ansible Configuration validation Infrastructure lifecycle management Bash Python Go Argo CD ApplicationSets Helm Kustomize GitLab CI/CD Automated deployments Configuration management Yandex Cloud Virtual machines VPC networking Network load balancers Disks Backups IAM Object storage Cilium Calico Ceph CSI Ingress Load balancing RBAC NetworkPolicy VictoriaMetrics Prometheus Grafana Loki Grafana Alloy ELK Alerting Logging Profiling On-call Incident response PostgreSQL
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