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Klevin Kona

@klevinkona
4.7(5)

Senior DevOps and Linux Engineer for AWS, Kubernetes, CICD and security

Albania
English, Italian, Albanian
About me
Senior DevOps & Linux Engineer with 15+ years of experience, currently managing global infrastructure at the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC). I design, automate, and secure production systems end to end: AWS & Azure, Kubernetes & Docker, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, HAProxy/Nginx load balancing, Prometheus & Grafana monitoring. Certified in offensive security (eCPPT, eWPTX, eJPT), so everything I build is hardened by default. MSc in Computer Engineering. Clear communication, on-time delivery, and full documentation with every project.... Read more

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I will audit and harden your linux server against attacks
5.0(2)
Support & IT
I will do vulnerability assessment and penetration testing with a full report
5.0(1)

Work experience

UNICC

Linux Web Administrator

UNICC

Mar 2024 - Present2 yrs 6 mos

Managing hybrid Linux/Windows infrastructure supporting global United Nations systems: web migrations (Drupal, WordPress) with hardened configurations, SSL/TLS lifecycle management, load balancing (HAProxy, Nginx, Apache, F5), clusters and monitoring. Automation with Ansible and Terraform integrated into GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Infrastructure on AWS and Azure.

NXLog

Senior Technical Engineer

NXLog

Apr 2021 - Mar 20242 yrs 11 mos

Engineered scalable, secure log collection infrastructures for enterprise SIEM platforms. Led client proof-of-concept deployments, automated provisioning with Ansible, built monitoring dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana, delivered training and mentored junior engineers.

REBEL_Internet BV

Linux System Administrator

REBEL Internet BV

Mar 2020 - Apr 20211 yr 1 mo

Managed and secured 100+ production Linux servers with high availability and disaster recovery. Led a zero-downtime CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 migration of the entire infrastructure. Built CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, automated with Ansible and Terraform, and ran monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. Implemented Keycloak SSO for internal applications.

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    5
  • Recommend to a friend
    5
  • Service as described
    4
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    banago

    AL

    Albania

    5

    Kleven knows his craft. Thank you for hardening the security of my site. Great job!

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    ravionweb

    IN

    India

    Ongoing collaboration
    5

    Solved the malware issue on the website extremely patiently. Very responsive and good to work.

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    ravionweb

    IN

    India

    Ongoing collaboration
    5

    Excellent response. Migrated my portal out of Godaddy to a dedicated server on AWS fast and with accuracy.

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    dxbguru

    AE

    United Arab Emirates

    3.7

    in terms of communication hes perfect! in terms of the service wasn't as expected. but he is a good person :)

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    yuften

    CA

    Canada

    5

    The best of the best. If you want a reliable guy who you know 100% will do the work all the way, this is your man. I would recommend to anyone to trust this seller with their bulk emailing, he definitely knows what he's doing! 5/5

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