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Brandon Chircop

Senior DevOps Engineer
Haz-Zebbug

Summary

Dedicated and self-driven IT professional with 9+ years experience in the IT industry. Seeking new challenges and responsibilities, with an opportunity for career development and to be involved in projects where one can use their full potential and commitment that effectively be part of the organization growth.

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

AncientGaming
10.2022 - Current
  • Led a complete rebuild of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure using Terraform, executing a seamless migration and optimizing GKE with multi-cluster node pools and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.
  • Engineered and managed robust CI/CD pipelines and automation solutions using a modern toolset including GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, Python, Bash, and n8n for workflow automation.
  • Established a comprehensive observability stack using Dash0 and OpenTelemetry, while managing incident response and on-call schedules with IncidentIO.
  • Architected and supported the data infrastructure for the Business Intelligence (BI) team on Google BigQuery and Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow).
  • Spearheaded major internal IT modernizations, including migrating from Jira/Confluence to Linear/Notion, unifying multiple Slack workspaces, and managing the company's Google Workspace transition.
  • Drove significant infrastructure and workflow improvements as part of a highly effective two-person team, providing expert-level support and training to development teams.

Infrastructure Engineer

Casumo
02.2019 - 10.2022
  • Maintaining production related hardware on-premise.
  • Salt Stack Configuration Management
  • Took part in Google Cloud migration from On-Premise.
  • Configured Google Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform.
  • ELK Stack Implementation
  • Network and Security (Google Cloud VPC, AWS VPC, PFSense, Dell/HP Switches)
  • Infrastructure Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager)
  • Creating Google Cloud VM images using Packer
  • GitHub Actions Pipelines
  • Creating and maintaining Kubernetes Helm charts
  • Implementing Istio and Anthos on GKE Cluster.
  • Scripting and automating to reduce repetitive tasks, mainly using Bash and Python languages

Systems Engineer

StreamAMG
06.2016 - 02.2019
  • Maintaining and troubleshooting production environment network, using mainly Cisco Switches and PFsense firewalls
  • Linux system administration and automation scripting using bash
  • Deployment of WordPress projects from GitHub
  • System monitoring using Nagios
  • Management of AWS resources including EC2, S3, Route53, CloudFront and CloudWatch
  • Maintaining Asterisk PBX setup
  • JIRA Admin and support
  • Support technical teams of clients, with video streaming products
  • Had an opportunity to train new joiners
  • Setup and maintaining virtualized environments provisioned using VMWare
  • Hands-on server and network hardware.
  • Administration of Windows Active Directory and IIS
  • Video Encoding and Distribution using FFMPEG, Wowza and Akamai

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Systems And Networks

MCAST
Paola
09.2011 - 06.2015

Skills

Load balancing techniques

Forward-thinking mindset

Training and mentoring

Architecture review

IT infrastructure proficiency

Prioritization

Data center operations

Containerization technologies

Cloud infrastructure management

Load balancing techniques

Work Availability

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Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Salary Range

€90000/yr - €105000/yr

Languages

Maltese
English

Interests

Motorsport

Home Automation

Stay up-to-date with latest Technologies

Gaming

AI Agent and Automation

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

AncientGaming
10.2022 - Current

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

03-2022

Infrastructure Engineer

Casumo
02.2019 - 10.2022

Systems Engineer

StreamAMG
06.2016 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Systems And Networks

MCAST
09.2011 - 06.2015

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Brandon ChircopSenior DevOps Engineer