Summary
Vladimir Kotsev is a Senior System Administrator with 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, automating and operating hybrid Windows/Linux infrastructure across on-prem and AWS environments. He combines deep Microsoft stack expertise—Active Directory, Exchange, SCOM/SCCM, Hyper-V—with cloud-native skills in AWS (EKS, ECS/Fargate, CloudFormation, CI/CD) and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. Vladimir has led migrations to Office365, managed ElasticSearch/Kibana observability stacks, and implemented disaster recovery and enterprise security tooling including Forcepoint and Kaspersky for virtualized environments. Comfortable across virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V) and storage/backup systems (NetApp, SnapManager), he focuses on reliable, automated operations and measurable performance monitoring. Based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, he pairs a Master’s in Informatics with practical engineering discipline and a knack for translating complex infrastructure requirements into repeatable automation.
8 years of coding experience
High School of Mathematics "Geo Milev", Pleven
Master’s Degree, Informatics, Master’s Degree, Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Engineering in English Language, Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Engineering in English Language at Technical University of Sofia