Sepehr Lorestani — SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

There was a time I studied physics at university, but I soon discovered my true passion lay in the world of computers. What fascinated me the most was how technology could tackle problems previously considered too complex or impossible to solve. I embarked on a journey of self-study to bridge the gaps in my computer science education. My first role as an Oracle DBA intern was a surprise entry into the field (and I'm still not sure why I was chosen!), but it introduced me to the wonders of Linux—thanks, Linus Torvalds! This experience led me to a career as a Linux system administrator. I then ventured into everything related to infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, automation, high availability, and fault-tolerant design. Leading the infrastructure team at an e-commerce startup in Iran involved long days, nights, and even holidays, but those were some of the best days of my career, filled with growth and team education. In February 2018, my career path brought me to the Netherlands and Lunatech Labs. There, I began automating infrastructure and implementing SRE best practices for clients like Audi and ING. April 2020 marked another career highlight when I joined Schuberg Philis. Here, I work within self-steering teams, harness cutting-edge solutions, and solve business problems through technology. This role has reminded me how much I love what I do and I truly admire Schuberg Philis for its ethos. Technical Skills/Interests: Over the years, I've honed a robust portfolio of technical skills, including: Cloud Management with AWS Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Container Orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker High Availability and Fault Tolerant System Design Disaster Recovery Networking with Cilium Monitoring and Observability with Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana Cloud Cost Optimization strategies for financial efficiency Programming proficiency in Python and Golang to support and enhance infrastructure tasks Soft Skills: My technical prowess is complemented by a suite of soft skills that are essential in today's collaborative work environments: Commitment and Drive: I bring a 100% mindset to every project, driving excellence and innovation. Mentoring and Leadership: I am dedicated to nurturing talent and leading teams, empowering colleagues to excel and achieve collective success. Stakeholder Communication: I excel in translating complex technical details into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer with expertise in Infrastructure and Cloud Management.

Location: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Experience: 13 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Cloud Management
Infrastructure As Code
Devops Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering
System Administration
Database Administration

Career Highlights

Led infrastructure team at a high-growth e-commerce startup.
Implemented SRE best practices for major clients like Audi and ING.
Achieved 97% uptime during peak traffic events.

Work Experience

Schuberg Philis

Mission Critical Engineer (5 yrs 11 mos)

Lunatech Labs

DevOps engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)

www.bamilo.com

System Administrator Team Lead (2 yrs 3 mos)

Solico Group

Linux System Administrator (11 mos)

Modern Informatics Services Corporation (MISC)

Junior Oracle DBA (2 yrs)

Education

Associate's degree at University of Tehran

Diploma at Hatef high school

Sepehr Lorestani

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands13 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led infrastructure team at a high-growth e-commerce startup.
Implemented SRE best practices for major clients like Audi and ING.
Achieved 97% uptime during peak traffic events.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps Engineer with expertise in Infrastructure and Cloud Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ManagementInfrastructure As CodeDevops EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringSystem AdministrationDatabase Administration

Other Skills

AWSAmazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleAutomationCentosCloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureCloud Management with AWSContainer OrchestrationDataDogDatabasesDatadogDebianDocker

About

Experience

Schuberg philis

Mission Critical Engineer

Apr 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Netherlands

Schuberg Philis aims to make a genuine difference to business and society by providing 100% IT services, with self-steering teams of experts in the lead. Schuberg Philis helps customers achieve their digital transformation by creating sustainable velocity in their business. As the premium auditable IT outsourcing company, Schuberg Philis believes in complete transparency and ensure adherence to regulatory controls, while being flexible in helping customers realize their business ambitions.
Schuberg Philis customers include Jumbo, BKWI, Enexis, PostNL, Air France-KLM, Loodswezen, Eneco Energy Trade, Hartwig Medical Foundation, Business Lease Group, Heineken, Prospery, Argenta, MoneYou, LeasePlan Bank, Franx, ASR Nederland, Geldmaat, Achmea Investment Management and BNP Paribas

Cloud Management with AWSInfrastructure as Code using TerraformMonitoring and Observability with Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, and GrafanaCloud ManagementInfrastructure as Code

Lunatech labs

DevOps engineer

Feb 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · The Randstad, Netherlands

Lunatech was founded in 1993 as an IT consulting, product research and development team. As a team of adept self-managing programmers, working with a very experienced commercial team, Lunatech has a successful track record of implementing medium-sized to large systems. In Lunatech, skills are best applied in designing and building back office systems whereby a web interface is just one of many external user- interfaces.
Ever since joining Lunatech Labs, I have had the privilege to be part of two projects for two different clients and I have been happy to be part of many high tech challenges during my stay (Because of confidentiality reasons I'm not willing and allowed to disclose the name of the client and nature of the project):
Audi :
Being part of Site Reliability Engineering team for 7 months with the purpose of implementing best monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting practices along with defining precise SLIs, proper SLOs to meet the SLAs and build the foundation of efficient incident management system.
Being part of Cloud Platform team for 6 months with the purpose of implementing top Cloud solutions along with maintaining the whole platform with the help of IaC (Infrastructure as Code), Containers, Configuration managements tools and Orchestration tools.
ING :
Working as a DevOps Engineer for a backend API team with the purpose of helping the Operations team automate all the manual processes and deploy more up-to-date architectures in order to handle the load of transactions efficiently and make the platform more scalable and hence highly available.
I've been working with these technologies since I've joined Lunatech Labs:
Terraform
AWS
Ansible
DataDog, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana
DC/OS
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes

TerraformAWSAnsibleDataDogPrometheusGrafana+4

Www.bamilo.com

System Administrator Team Lead

Nov 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Bamilo has grown to become Iran’s leading online marketplace, offering ecommerce services for fashion, electronics and general merchandise.
Ever since joining Bamilo, I have had the privilege to take lead of one of the most mission critical departments (System Administration) and have been happy to take over and succeed in many high tech challenges during my stay.
Key achievements:
Leading Bamilo's service transition process and taking care of:
Studying and educating the team about different high tech technologies used within the new software
Creating strong ties between the development and system administration teams which led to effective DevOps processes (The software can now auto scale due to the amount of active requests which means great performance for users and money well spent on resources acquired from Cloud services)
Developing strong log processing and debugging skills which led to no down time for the whole website after software transition
Leading the Bamilo sysadmin team for handling the biggest campaign of the year for two years in a row (Black Friday 2016 and 2017) with 97% uptime under a huge traffic (50k and 300k rpm).
Forming a team of sysadmins from scratch which consisted of 6 professionals(I have been involved in: interview, recruitment, selection, induction and training phases)
I also have been enjoying working with following technologies:
Cloud Infrastructure (Provisioning,Build and Deployment) -- AliCloud
Saltstack (Provisioning, Autoscaling, Configuration management )
Ansible (Configuration management)
MySQL (Querying, Optimization and Replication)
Nginx (Serving, Configuration Tweaking, Optimization, Load balancing)
PHP-FPM (Setup, Configuration Tweaking, Optimization)
InfluxDB, Kapacitor, Telegraf and Grafana (Used for monitoring and alerting)
Newrelic (Used for monitoring and alerting)
RabbitMQ (Queue System)
memcached (Caching platform)

Cloud InfrastructureSaltstackAnsibleMySQLNginxInfluxDB+3

Solico group

Linux System Administrator

Dec 2014 – Nov 2015 · 11 mos · Tehran Province, Iran

As an alliance of over 30 subsidiaries with around 14,000 employees, Solico Group’s business includes dairy, meat, snacks, beverages, ice-cream, and other food solutions. Our house of brands includes well established names such as Kalleh, Solico, Pemina, Shams and Castle, to name a few.
As the leading privately owned food processing and distribution business in Iran, Solico has tapped into the global markets by establishing its presence in the GCC, CIS and other neighboring countries as well as Europe & North America.
Key achievements:
Build virtual Linux server and Windows server using VMWare
Managed daily activities to include user support and system administration tasks
Monitored system performance and prevented resource exhaustion using sar, vmstat, iostat, netstat, bmon and zabbix
Wrote custom scripts and automated tasks
Configured and maintained all web servers
Maintained security threats
Worked extensively with security engineers to research cybersecurity issues.

VMWareLinux AdministrationShell ScriptingSystem Administration

Modern informatics services corporation (misc)

Junior Oracle DBA

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Tehran Province, Iran

Informatics Services Corporation (ISC) was established in 1994 due to central bank of Iran policies in order to create and launch a comprehensive system of banking automation.
As ISC was about to carry out both local and national mission critical banking projects, it began planning to build the required infrastructure and technical companies and centers in order to provide high tech administrative needs from 1995.
MISC on the other hand has been one of the most powerful executive arm of ISC since 2011 with over 100 technical employees working on various projects of ISC (mostly local banking projects), serving both core banking softwares and BI reports for banks and other financial institutions.
Key achievements :
Act as project control officer
Setting big scale project milestones and act as project control officer with huge interaction with the whole technical team and project technical managers.
Getting familiar and hands on with Oracle Technologies (Database,Golden Gate,RAC,ETL,BI)
Day to day learning to administrate Oracle database as a junior DBA and troubleshoot almost every incident which happened in real time services.
Day to day learning and working on Oracle Warehouse Builder in order to create data needed by BI
Getting hands on setup and maintaining real time production services (mostly banking services)
Getting familiar with tuning Linux kernel parameters for oracle database servers
Writing shell scripts
I dived into writing shell scripts with no previous experience and after two months I succeeded to write 1500 lines of shell scripts in order to automate so many system jobs, backup schedules and implement a central and easy to maintain monitoring system to satisfy several needs including : OS monitoring, Database monitoring, Auditing and finally establish alerting system for it.
R&D on single sign on and directory services concepts