Kimia is a global digital advertising and performance marketing company. As a Junior Systems Architect within the Operations team, I managed and evolved the infrastructure supporting the business platform — my first professional role in IT infrastructure.

My Role & Responsibilities

• Resolved incidents and maintained availability of the business platform
• Provisioned and managed bare metal servers running Debian, CentOS, and Ubuntu
• Automated server configuration and provisioning using Puppet and Foreman
• Managed log storage and application backup processes
• Administered MongoDB and MySQL production databases
• Developed and operated cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible
• Monitored platform health using Nagios, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, and Munin
• Managed source code repositories on Bitbucket and SVN
• Administered DNS servers for the business domain

Tech Stack

AWS · Puppet · Foreman · Jenkins · Ansible · MongoDB · MySQL · Nagios · CloudWatch · PagerDuty · Munin · Debian · CentOS · Ubuntu · Bitbucket · SVN

Key Outcomes

Built operational foundations in monitoring, configuration management, and cloud infrastructure for a global ad-tech platform, establishing hands-on experience across the full Linux sysadmin and DevOps toolchain.