Lev Mozhaev
Lev Mozhaev

Senior Cloud Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 14 Oct 2026
Location
Liepaja, Latvia
Desired salary
77k–100k USD/yearly
Work preference
Hybrid / Full Time, Part Time, Contract, Freelance
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

An IT Professional in:
• Public and Private Multi/Hybrid Clouds
• Linux
• Heterogeneous Networking Environments
• High Available and Scalable Clusters
• Containers
• CI/CD pipelines
• Virtualization
• Observability
• Incidents Management and Root cause Analysis
• SASE and System Perimeter Protection
etc.

A Holder of expired Vendors Certificates
• Amazon AWS
• Red Hat
• Cisco Systems
• RIPE NCC
• Galaxy Network
Ready to be prepared and to pass new Certification Exam(s) if required.

You can find my CV and references shared here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pk2GLQX2HDhJsFEQCHd2GSymFqbDu4XU/view

Notice period: ASAP

Skills

35 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Experience

Career history

Virtual Environment Engineer / Hardware Engineer / Cloud Engineer / Network Engineer Self-Employed

I lead enterprise infrastructure migrations from VMware to Proxmox and design hybrid cloud migration solutions. I deploy Fortinet SASE and enterprise security solutions for hybrid environments.

I re-engineer data center infrastructure, deploy PXE boot stacks, and implement centralized logging and observability services. I also handle BAU operations, CI/CD pipelines, SOP development, and automation across infrastructure roles.

Cloud Computing Support Engineer United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC), Office of Supply Chain Management, United Nations Depa

I provided third-tier support for Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud environments used by the United Nations Global Service Centre.

My responsibilities included supporting two data center landing zones and resolving advanced cloud infrastructure and operational issues.

Senior Cloud Engineer / Consultant Freelance International

I designed, developed, and deployed well-architected, secure, scalable, highly available multi-tenant landing zones and network-core solutions for hybrid cloud environments. I used AWS services including Control Tower, IAM, RAM, Transit Gateway, and cost-control approaches for budget separation, governance, monitoring, and control.

I migrated multi-tenant microservices cluster infrastructure to GCP and GKE, developed enterprise CDN solutions with Cloudflare, GCP CDN, AWS CloudFront, and Imperva, and deployed centralized enterprise logging and observability platforms.

Senior Engineer Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Oslo

I worked as a Senior Engineer at the Centre for Bioinformatics at the University of Oslo in remote and on-site capacities.

I contributed to the UiO node of ELIXIR Norway within ELIXIR Europe and to Galaxy Norway as part of the European Galaxy Project.

Hybrid Cloud Engineer Freelance International

I migrated cost-effective enterprise multi-core infrastructure from VMware environments to AWS Cloud.

I extended and migrated bare-metal data center infrastructure to GCP and GKE, and deployed geo-aware DNS, CDN, multi-region, availability-zone, and multi-tenant policies.

DC System Engineer Hashcoins OÜ

I designed, developed, and deployed office and dual-data-center infrastructure for Hashcoins in Tallinn, Estonia.

I re-engineered infrastructure toward network multi-core and cloud environments using enterprise best practices for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.

Principal IT Systems Administrator BLRT Grupp AS

I provided 24/7 support and maintenance for a Microsoft Windows enterprise multi-core international environment.

I led network-core re-engineering, deployed standard operating procedures, carried technical team responsibility, and handled second- and third-level BAU support tasks.

Project Associate CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research

I worked as a member of the Infrastructure Control Group and Support Team in the Beams Department at CERN.

I performed second-tier operational tasks within heterogeneous Microsoft Hyper-V and scientific Linux KVM environments, supporting infrastructure operations across the department.

Education

Learning history

Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Department of Computers and Cybernetics. Qualification approved by UK NARIC in 2004.

Educational Center SAMAN-MATI, Moscow Aviation Institute

CCNA, Cisco Networking

Cisco Complex Course CCNA.

Educational Center INVENTA

RHCE, Red Hat Linux Administration

Red Hat Authorized Rapid Track RH300.

English College London

General English Advanced Level, English Language

Advanced English language studies.

RIPE NCC

Training Course, BGP Operation and Security

BGP Operation and Security training course.

Amazon AWS Educate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Cloud Computing

Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.

University of Oslo

GCC2021 Admin Training Track, Systems Administration

GCC2021 administration training track.

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