Árik Ostojich

Email: arikostojich20@gmail.com | Phone: (598) 93798606

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Work Experience

AWS Database Reliability Engineer - Prex

May 2025 – Present | Remote

  • Automated provisioning and management of AWS services (RDS, DMS, Lambda) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Integrated version control systems (Bitbucket, Git) with Terraform to manage and deploy AWS infrastructure.

AWS Database Administrator - Prex

May 2023 – May 2025 | Remote

  • Performed automation tasks and infrastructure deployments across all DBMS within the company, ensuring performance, security, and availability.
  • Technologies/Services: RDS(MySQL, MariaDB), Aurora (MySQL), DocumentDB, Monitoring (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS), VPC, EC2, S3, Terraform, Linux; git.

Database Administrator - Ceibal

May 2023 – Aug 2024 | Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Ceibal is a national program that provides technology and digital resources to students and teachers to promote educational inclusion.
  • Performed hundreds of DB server tasks including DBMS installation, capacity planning, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and knowledge sharing.
  • Key Results: Upgraded the backup and recovery system of DB servers to a more reliable strategy, resulting in less downtime when dumps were needed.
  • Technologies/Services: RDS(MySQL, MariaDB), On-premise (MySQL, Percona, PMM), Percona Toolkit, Linux.

Database Administrator - Nexa

Jan 2022 – May 2023 | Remote

  • Managed Linux systems and troubleshooting through alert analysis (Icinga - Nagios).
  • Learned and applied fundamental concepts on different customers’ databases such as replication and database configuration under the supervision of a team leader.

Projects

Cloud Resume Challenge. I will make a blog about it.

Certifications & Interests

English Voxy Proficiency Achievement Certificate - High Intermediate.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified.

Terraform Associate Certified.

Currently preparing AWS Solutions Architect Associate.

Interests: Football/Soccer, Language learning, Videogames, Traveling, Music, Tattoos.

Languages: English (high-intermediate), Spanish (native), Portuguese (conversational), Serbian (basic).

Education

UTU – Computer Science specialization | 2016 - 2018 (Completed)

UDELAR – Computer Science undergraduate degree | 2016 - 2018 (Not completed)