Szymon Sawulski

Senior DevOps Engineer | Infrastructure Automation

Salary / Daily rate

Warsaw, Poland

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

TerraformDevOpsOracle CloudKubernetes

Languages

EnglishPolish

About me

Intro

Visit my website https://ssawulski.com for more info and chat with my self-hosted AI assistant about my experience ! Senior DevOps consultant with 13+ years experience in infrastructure automation and cloud architecture. Reduced Fortune 500 process times from weeks to minutes and cut infrastructure costs by 70% through strategic automation. Specialized in multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms, Terraform/Ansible implementations, and global-scale deployments.

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Work experience

Self Employed

Szymon Sawulski ConsultingFreelance

Aug 2020 - Present

6 years 3 months

Poland, ME 04274, USA

Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Automation Consultant Delivering strategic DevOps and infrastructure automation to Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups across financial services, cybersecurity, and enterprise technology sectors. Key Achievements: Award-Winning Automation : Reduced critical process times from weeks to minutes, earning engineering recognition and industry presentation opportunities Enterprise Scale Built platforms serving 40,000+ devices with multi-protocol support and global distribution International Market Enablement: Led cloud migrations enabling rapid market expansion with full regulatory compliance Cost Optimization: Implemented automation reducing infrastructure costs by 70% through intelligent resource management Service Delivery: Infrastructure as Code: Terraform/Ansible implementations across multi-cloud environments Kubernetes & Containerization: Complete platform engineering from strategy to production CI/CD Pipeline Development: GitLab CI, Jenkins automation with integrated security Cloud Migration & Optimization: Multi-cloud strategies with compliance and cost focus Process Automation: Self-service platforms eliminating operational bottlenecks Global Delivery: 8+ years remote-first: expertise across US, European, and APAC time zones International deployment: experience across US,EMEA, APAC regions Flexible engagement models: Project delivery, assessments, fractional DevOps leadership Technology Stack: AWS, Azure, Hetzner, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Grafana Focused on delivering measurable business outcomes through sustainable automation that builds internal team capabilities for long-term success.

Groupon

Mar 2016 - Oct 2020

4 years 8 months

Warsaw, Poland

Senior Network Automation Engineer / Cloud / DevOps

Jul 2017 - Oct 2020

3 years 4 months

Warsaw, Poland

• Designed and maintained AWS Cloud infrastructure utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt, enhancing scalability and reliability. • Developed automation tools for network tasks using Python, Django, and Ansible, streamlining operations and reducing manual errors. • Conducted code reviews and provided mentoring on automation best practices, fostering team growth and knowledge sharing.

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Customer Support: Assisting with customers in the design and implementation of customer architectures and in the physical layout and installation of their equipment.Ensuring customer installations are in accordance with standard procedures and SLA. Providing 1 level support to managed hosting and field services customers. Developing , maintaining and managing relationships with customers. Operational Support : Responsible for monitoring customers applications and internal operational architecture through Network Operations Centre. Responding to alarms in accordance to procedures. Managing of all aspects of datacentre facility support systems (HVAC, Inergen, UPS, Generators). Network Equipment and Infrastucture : Overseeing the operational integrity of both customers and integral owned production and pre-production computing enviroments. Installing and maintaining various Layer 1 infrastucture (Cat5/6 , Coax ,Fibre , Patch panels etc) ; Layer 2 and 3 Cisco equipment

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