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Damir Dulic, Systems Engineering Lead

Comprehensive technical knowledge and hands-on experience in the design and implementation of fully automated systems
Passionate, responsible and committed Engineer, with a growth mindset and a get-it-done, on-time spirit
Highly adaptable in the ever-changing technical landscape with strong organizational and analytical skills
Firm believer in customer-centric approaches and adhere to the principles of Behaviour-Driven Development and Agile software development
Self-motivated and hard-working with the ability to work under minimal supervision and guidance

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Experience

Systems Engineering Lead - Feb 2024 - Present

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Sep 2022 - Dec 2023

Established secure multi-account AWS environment with Control Tower guardrails for governance and compliance
Architected and implemented reusable Terraform modules to streamline provisioning of Kubernetes EKS clusters across environments
Automated infrastructure testing and validation using custom CircleCI Orbs integrated with Terraform Cloud, reducing deployment failures by 60%
Managed and optimized AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing VPC, Route53, Postgres RDS, ECS, S3 and other services, resulting in 25% cost reduction and 35% improvement in reliability and uptime
Drove technology decisions and engineering alignment through guilds focused on security, reliability and rapid iteration

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Jan 2022 - Sep 2022

Implemented Cloudflare CDN with zero downtime, improving site performance by 30%
Led migration from CloudFormation to Terraform, enhancing infrastructure automation and reducing costs by 20%
Designed and implemented micro-frontend architecture using CloudFront and Cloudflare, enabling feature teams to independently develop and deploy
Partnered with management to develop the SRE Team and establish strategic direction

Senior DevOps Engineer - Mar 2021 - Dec 2021

Designed and implemented AWS EKS clusters using Terraform to enable scalable container orchestration
Led migration of services from AKS to EKS and Jenkins to optimize infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
Architected reliable solutions using EKS, EC2, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, and other AWS services
Deployed and configured Istio service mesh for microservices observability and traffic management

DevOps Engineer - Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

Designed and implemented Kong API Gateway in Kubernetes to enable secure and scalable API management
Developed custom Terraform provider for istioctl to enable GitOps-based Istio deployments with Kubernetes native tooling
Optimized Fluentd EKS logging architecture and queries to improve observability and reduce costs by 55%

Systems Engineer III - Mar 2019 - Apr 2020

Led the adoption and migration of New Relic for ScienceDirect
Assisted in developing a process for migrating to Amazon Linux 2 using Packer
Automated Cloudflare resources with Terraform
Possessed extensive working knowledge on the configuration and deployment of Nginx

Systems Engineer II - Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

Actively developed, managed, improved, and monitored cloud infrastructure on AWS
Developed Ansible Playbooks and pipelines for supporting RDS workloads
Participated in platform performance analysis, software optimization and tuning
Maintained and developed tools and pipelines using Ansible, Docker, GoCD, GitHub, and New Relic

DevOps Engineer - Aug 2017 - May 2018

Developed scripts for building, deploying, backing up, maintaining, and handling related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Python, and Bash
Implemented monitoring and reporting solutions across a range of environments and platforms
Created and maintained ongoing changes to configurations in Chef

DevOps Engineer - Nov 2016 - Aug 2017

Served as the primary DevOps Engineer
Developed Python and Bash scripts to maintain systems and local environment solutions using Docker and Vagrant
Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, and Selenium
Compiled custom Raspberry Pi images with Buildroot

Tech-College of Applied Sciences | Engineer's Degree, Field of Study: Informatics

Graduated in 2016

Final Exam: Development of a Multiplatform Web Application With The Usage of the Django Framework