Mikhail Goltsov

Background

About Mikhail Goltsov

Experienced and results-driven professional with 15+ years of designing, deploying, and supporting robust server and network infrastructures. Certified engineer with proven expertise in managing full project life cycles—from inception and documentation to procurement, deployment, and monitoring. Adept at bridging technical and business requirements, consistently delivering critical initiatives under pressure. Strong in both team collaboration and independent project management, with advanced analytical and problem-solving skills. Technical Skill set Summary Infrastructure as Code & Automation: • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Hetzner, Yandex, other cloud providers • Tools: Ansible, Terraform, QBEC, Jsonnet, IaC • Scripting & Programming: Bash, Python, Golang CI/CD & Containerization: • Tools: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions • Platforms: Kubernetes, k3s, Docker, containerd, cri-o • Ecosystem: CNI (Calico, Cilium, multus, etc), CSI, Helm, NGINX Operating Systems & Virtualization: • Performance optimization across diverse environments • In-depth knowledge of network subsytem and isolation mechanisms within Linux kernel • Expertise with major Linux distributions (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu) • Main virtualization systems (VMware ESXi/VCenter, KVM, Ovirt, Proxmox) Monitoring & Observability: • Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Zabbix, Opentelemetry • ELK Stack, Opendistro, Fluentd, Loki • Tempo, Jaeger • Tcpdump, WireShark, Netflow, sflow Networking & Security: • Extensive experience with Cisco(ASR,ISR,C65,C72,ASA series), Juniper(MX,SRX,EX series), Arista, Huawei, and Mikrotik equipment in enterprise and data center environments • Routing: OSPF, FHRP, BGP, MP-BGP, Route Redistribution, PBR, NAT, VRF-Lite • Switching: VLAN, VTP, STP, EtherChannel, QoS, MPLS • VPN Technologies: GRE, mGRE, L2TP, IPSec, DMVPN, L2VPN, L3VPN, VXLAN, EVPN • Security: ACLs, Port Security, Radius, TACACS+ • VoIP: CUCM, SIP, H.323 • Software-Defined Networking: Supermicro SDN, Cumulus Linux Distributed Systems & Storage: • Storage: GlusterFS, MinIO, Ceph, NVMe over TCP (NVMe-oF), Fibre Channel • Databases: PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Redis, KeyDB, Zookeeper, etcd, Clickhouse • Messaging: Apache Kafka, NSQ, NATS • Orchestration: Apache Mesos, Spark Passionate about leveraging automation to streamline processes and drive efficiency across infrastructure and network operations.