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Ermal ShalaES

Ermal Shala

CLOUD & NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER · AWS

€350/day
Karlsruhe, DE
8-15 years
Cloud Infrastructure
Kubernetes
Network Engineering
automation
DevOps

Average response time: 1 hour

About Ermal

Senior Cloud & Network Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years of experience delivering enterprise-grade solutions. AWS CloudOps Engineer and CKAD certified. Proven track record designing and managing scalable AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, VPC, Terraform) and carrier-grade networks for Tier 1 US clients including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Experienced with Kubernetes, GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), and multi-vendor networking (Cisco, Juniper, Nokia). Currently based in Karlsruhe. Available for remote freelance projects in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and network engineering.

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Karlsruhe (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Nettxio L.L.C | Uniti Group (US)
    Infrastructure Engineer
    TECH
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    • • Designed, deployed, and maintained scalable AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, EKS) using Terraform, with a focus on reliability, security, and high availability
    • • Operated production Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, handling version upgrades, node pool migrations, Helm chart development, autoscaling using Karpenter, scheduled scaling with CronJobs for cost optimization, and RBAC policies
    • • Managed EKS core add-ons and deployed additional add-ons such as AWS ACK for native AWS service integrationt
    • • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD for GitOps-based continuous delivery, improving deployment efficiency and release reliability
    • • Implemented end-to-end monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for proactive issue detection
    • • Participated in on-call rotations, leading incident response and root cause analysis (RCA) for production systems
    Kubernetes DevOps Terraform Ansible AWS
  • Nettxio L.L.C
    Network Engineer
    March 2023 - December 2024 (1 year and 9 months)
    Kosovo
    • • Designed, provisioned, and automated carrier-grade network services for Tier 1 US clients (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, DISH) in a large-scale service provider environment, including redundant dual-VLAN services with full path diversity
    • • Provisioned carrier services across multi-vendor infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Ciena, Cyan, Accedian) using QinQ tagging, VLAN translation, and LSPs within MPLS frameworks to support 5G transport
    • • Provisioned and maintained carrier-grade L2/L3 transport services with dedicated SLAs, using NetBox for dynamic inventory and Ansible-based provisioning across multi-vendor infrastructure (Ciena MCP, Nokia NSP)
    • • Executed network changes through structured MOPs, developing Ansible playbooks for config and VLAN migrations with automated pre/post-checks, peer-reviewed approvals and rollback procedures
    • • Monitored service health via Grafana and NMS platforms, deploying Ethernet CFM for SLA compliance and fault detection
  • IPKO Telecommunications
    Implementation Engineer —
    June 2017 - February 2023 (5 years and 8 months)
    • • Led large-scale infrastructure migration for 5,000+ subscribers, deploying high-capacity network solutions and Cisco routing/switching infrastructure across multiple sites
    • • Managed and optimized Head-End infrastructure for 50+ nodes, overseeing CMTS (uBR), RFGW, and Edge QAM configuration for DOCSIS/FTTH delivery
    • • Configured and deployed routing and switching solutions (Cisco, Nokia) across multi-site environments, including interface setup, VLANs, and routing protocols
    • • Configured and managed multi-vendor monitoring platforms (Nagios, VIAVI, Cosighter, Trilitich, VCCE), including threshold tuning, alerting, and performance reporting for capacity planning and fault isolation
    • • Performed L2/L3 troubleshooting and technical audits, optimizing network throughput and scalability across infrastructure upgrades

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Education

  • AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
    Amazon Web Services
    2029
    AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
  • CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
    The Linux Foundation
    2027
    CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
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