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Pavel Šidla

Platform / Infrastructure

I build and run production platforms other teams can rely on.

Senior infrastructure / platform engineer working with Kubernetes, AWS and Azure – from architecture design and zero-downtime migrations to incident command and training.

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Selected work

Architecture, platforms and cross-team problems I've owned.

Make

Terraform architecture split

Authored the accepted design for splitting a monolithic Terraform stack into versioned modules, implemented most of them and set safe migration patterns for production changes.

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Edima Solution

A private instance per customer

A reusable template that provisions a dedicated AWS account per customer – VPC, EKS with Karpenter, RDS, ElastiCache and central monitoring – with CI plans scoped to the affected tenant.

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Make & Edima Solution

Zero-downtime migrations

Moved critical platform services to Argo CD–managed Helm deployments, and a whole production environment from legacy infrastructure to Terraform-managed AWS – both without downtime.

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Make

Cross-team incidents and root causes

Led a team investigating complex Kubernetes networking issues with reproducible tests and upstream source analysis, designed the cross-team remediation (rollout in progress), and serve as Incident Commander for high-severity incidents.

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About me

Platform engineer from Olomouc with 5+ years in production infrastructure – on Make's EKS platform and as the sole infrastructure engineer at Edima Solution. I care about reusable modules, safe migrations and solid observability.

Skills & technologies

Platforms
KubernetesAWS / EKSAzure / AKSLinuxCilium / eBPFKarpenter
Infrastructure
TerraformTerragruntAtlantisHelmArgo CDGitOpsAnsible
Engineering
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIIAM / OIDCDatadogGrafanaPrometheusPythonGo
Containers & edge
Dockermulti-arch builds (buildx)ECR / GHCRNginxTraefikcert-manager
Data
PostgreSQLRedisElasticsearch

Work experience

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Make
Jan 2025 – Present
Full-time employment

Owning Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, focusing on automation and reliability.

  • Authored the accepted architecture design for splitting a monolithic Terraform stack into versioned modules, implemented most of the modules and established safe migration patterns for production changes.
  • Led a team through root-cause analysis of complex Kubernetes networking issues using reproducible tests and upstream source analysis; designed the cross-team remediation and lead its ongoing rollout.
  • Own the production Cilium networking lifecycle and Karpenter compute operations on EKS, including controlled upgrades and systemic troubleshooting; trained the infrastructure team on Karpenter.
  • Served as Incident Commander for multiple high-severity production incidents, coordinating investigation, impact assessment and communication across teams.
Staff DevOps Engineer
Edima Solution
Jul 2025 – Present
Part-time consulting

Designing and owning AWS infrastructure with focus on scalability, cost-efficiency, and security.

  • Sole Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer owning the company's cloud infrastructure end to end across AWS and Azure: designed and built it independently and operate it for production reliability.
  • Designed and executed a zero-downtime production migration from legacy infrastructure to a Terraform-managed AWS environment.
  • Designed a reusable private-instance template that provisions a dedicated AWS account per customer with VPC, EKS and Karpenter, RDS, ElastiCache and central monitoring, with CI plans scoped to the affected tenant.
  • Developed reusable infrastructure and deployment patterns, including shared Helm charts and CI/CD safeguards, for repeatable environment provisioning and more predictable releases.
DevOps Engineer
Cookielab
2022 – 2025

Building and maintaining AWS + Kubernetes infrastructure for multiple projects.

  • Built reusable Helm and Terraform components, including release-recovery automation adopted by other engineers.
  • Designed and delivered a pre-production EKS environment, separating shared Terraform resources and safely migrating Terraform state without recreating live production infrastructure.
  • Carried out a major migration of production services from problematic Flux deployments to CI-driven Helm releases on shared EKS infrastructure, including the final infrastructure migration wave.
SRE / DevOps Engineer
Mallgroup
2021 – 2022

Improving observability and reliability for large-scale e-commerce infrastructure.

  • Designed reusable Ansible automation for Elastic Stack, standardizing logging platform provisioning and using it for production upgrades.
  • Migrated legacy services, including a PHP application, from VMs to the internal Kubernetes platform with Helm and GitLab CI, and built shared lint images used in other teams' pipelines.
DevOps / SRE Engineer
Freelo
Jan – Jul 2025
Part-time employment

Supporting on-prem and cloud infra, improving access, monitoring, and migration plans.

  • Implemented OIDC-based access to on-premises Kubernetes, added Prometheus/OpenTelemetry monitoring and automated operations with Ansible.

Let’s talk

Open to senior and staff platform / infrastructure roles, and to selected consulting on Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform. Drop me a line.

Frequently asked questions

What roles are you interested in?

Senior or staff platform and infrastructure roles where I own an area end to end – architecture, reliability, migrations – and work across teams.

Do you take on consulting?

Selectively, next to my current roles – mainly Kubernetes and AWS platform design, Terraform architecture and migrations.

Where are you based?

Olomouc, Czech Republic. I work remotely and occasionally commute to the office.