Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Andrea Trendafilov

Azure | AKS | CI/CD | Terraform | Kubernetes | AI Platform Infrastructure

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and automating infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform environments across cloud, Kubernetes, VM, and bare-metal systems. Hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, ACR, infrastructure automation, and AI-supporting workloads, including benchmark automation for performance and latency validation. Focused on secure delivery, operational reliability, and enabling engineering teams to deploy services efficiently at scale.

Professional Experience

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Living Homes

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  • Design and maintain Azure-based infrastructure for smart home and AI-enabled workloads.
  • Work with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Registry (ACR), and image-building workflows for reliable application delivery.
  • Support IoT-focused platform components for smart home solutions with AI capabilities.
  • Develop automated benchmark tests to measure AI workload performance, latency, and deployment quality.
  • Work with AI inference runtimes and deployment workflows using Ollama and llama.cpp.
  • Improve deployment consistency, automation, and operational readiness across cloud-native environments.
  • Manage and operate MongoDB Atlas clusters and Azure Database for PostgreSQL for application data services.
  • Collaborate on infrastructure and delivery processes for AI-related services and experiments.

DevOps Engineer

SUSE

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  • Worked across partner integrations, system boot and init, and edge validation initiatives.
  • Supported partner solution integration with Rancher to improve compatibility within the Rancher ecosystem.
  • Contributed to stack validation for edge computing environments using SL Micro, RKE2, and K3s.
  • Automated deployments for both virtual machine and bare-metal environments.
  • Developed and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Edge Image Builder.
  • Built automated validation using BATS and Detik-based test workflows.

DevOps Engineer

VMware

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  • Optimized and supported data analytics services in virtualized and Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Worked with VMware ESXi, Tanzu, Horizon, Apache Impala, Hadoop, and Kubernetes.
  • Automated VM deployment and configuration using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Wrote Python and Bash automation for infrastructure and operational tasks.

DevOps Engineer

Sensika Technologies

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  • Automated Linux virtual machine deployment and configuration.
  • Performed server configuration and proactive monitoring.
  • Managed users and access through Active Directory.

System Administrator

DGM

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  • Improved server performance and troubleshooting processes.
  • Maintained information systems and supported application reliability.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Platform

Azure • AKS • ACR • Kubernetes • K3s • Rancher • OpenShift

Automation & IaC

Terraform • Ansible • Azure DevOps • GitLab CI/CD • Jenkins • Python • Bash

AI Platform Support

Ollama • llama.cpp • AI benchmarking • Latency testing • Image building

Infrastructure

Linux • VMware • KVM • Hyper-V • Bare metal • Docker • Docker Compose • IoT-connected environments

Projects

Tikvite Portal

2016 – Ongoing

  • Privacy-focused communication platform.
  • Built on Kubernetes using an ARM-based Raspberry Pi 4 platform.
  • Uses Rocket.Chat, Node.js, MongoDB, Nextcloud, and Collabora.

Education

B.S. Biological Science

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

2009 – 2015

Radiology Technician Internship

Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH, Dortmund, Germany

2016 – 2017

Languages

  • English — Fluent
  • German — Advanced (B2)