About Me

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Hi! I'm Kirill Kazarin — an engineer and technical manager. 15+ years in IT: from sysadmin to Senior SRE/DevOps Manager. I build teams and own reliability, infrastructure and process.

I live in Valencia and work in an international distributed team. I write this blog to share experience, deep-dives and occasionally an engineer's pain.

// SKILLS
cloud: AWSEC2S3RDSEKSIAM automation: TerraformAnsiblePythonBashCI/CD operations: DockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaELKSLI/SLO data: MongoDBMySQLRedisKafka management: SOC2 / HITRUSTRCA / postmortemson-callFinOpshiring & mentoring
// EXPERIENCE
2024 — now::Valencia[active]

RingCentral España SLU Senior Manager, SRE/DevOps

SOC2 processes & audits, $150k+ saved, team scaling, metrics

2022 — 2024

JettyCloud / RingCentral Manager, SRE/DevOps

incident management, Kubernetes, cross-regional teams, −$2M costs

2017 — 2022

Nordigy / DINS DevOps → SRE Team Lead

on-call from scratch, alert-flood cleanup, patching, scaling

2016 — 2017 :: Per Aarsleff — Lead System Administrator
2013 — 2016 :: ITSK (Gazprom Neft) — Datacenter Engineer
2012 — 2013 :: STACK — System Administrator
2011 :: Data Security — Junior Admin
// EDUCATION & CERTS
SPbPU — MSc Computer Science and Engineering (2016) · Engineer's degree in Information Security (2013)
CKAAWS SysOps / DevOpsSRE & Python (Slurm)MongoDB M001/M103/M201VMware vSphereCisco CCNA / CCNP
// COMMUNITY & PERSONAL

I teach at Slurm (Linux), run internal bootcamps on Linux, networking and Docker, an engineering podcast, speak and write articles.

I love travel, history, heavy music, board games and D&D. Two dogs and two cats at home. Above all I value hands-on engineering, respect for people, and well-designed systems.