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New York, NY, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Pulumi based IAC implementation & migration.
• Optimizing existing infrastructure components and alerts.
• Cloud infrastructure, observability and tooling support.
• Cloud cost optimizations.

New York, New York, US

• DevOps and SRE team management:
• Successfully managed and mentored a team of 5 DevOps engineers.
• Refactored and aligned the SRE and DevOps processes to match the engineering group needs.
• Accelerated and promoted engineering self-serve.
• Prioritized and planned future projects.
• Infrastructure gap analysis.

New York, NY, US

• Successfully Built, grew and managed a team of 6 highly skilled DevOps & SRE engineers.
• Mentored and educated DevOps & R&D engineers on technologies(GCP, Gitlab-CI, Prometheus+thanos, Loki, IAC, Helm...), best practices,policies & troubleshooting technics.
• Successfully led the Observability and FinOps tracks leading to an impressive cloud cost savings.
• Built team roadmaps to improve reliability, and scalability.
• Provided guidance and participated in system design sessions.
• Supervised the progress of projects and led the required pivot/adjustments to make sure deliveries match the organizational needs(Terraform, Tempo, GAR, codifying resources, etc..).

New York, NY, US

• Supported R&D by providing solutions as a service(GCP IAC), CI/CD pipelines(Gitlab-CI), incident support and new initiatives.
• Designed, deployed and successfully migrated to a distributed observability stack(Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana & Loki).
• Successfully managed complex projects while coordinating tasks across multiple remote teams.
• Supervised the team and assisted with team management tasks(inc. hiring, scrum, defining goals, etc..).

New York, NY, US

• Built and supported the development of infrastructure(AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Prometheus), CI/CD pipelines(Gitlab-CI), QA environments and the service deployments(Helm).
• Built and managed customer logging system service with automation(ELK stack).
• Migrated the codebase to use artifact registry to allow sharing libraries(Nexus).
• Built and managed onsite infrastructure to support custom product needs with code signing.

New York, US

• Rebuilt and migrated our monitoring infrastructure to a fully automated system(elevating service registry labels, Prometheus & Chef).
• Integrated and expanded our monitoring systems with different cloud & orchestration solutions(like: Kubernetes, AWS & GCP).
• Built missing engineering tools using Go and Ruby.

New York, US

• Designed, depoyed and maintained Outbrain's datacenter network and security infrastructure(Switches, Shorewall, HAProxy, OpenVPN, Bind, OpenLDAP, Pacemaker, etc...).
• Automated most of the manual work that was required to build our data-ceneter gateways & load-balancers(Chef).
• Integrated the data-center infrastructure with our office networks(Shorewall, OpenVPN, OpenLDAP, Bind, etc..)

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

• Helped designing the Network and Security Infrastructure & Application architecture in the IT group.
• Evaluated and tested(POC) the relevant solutions.
• Assisted troubleshooting complex problems/issues.

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

• Assisted in the design of security and network related features.
• Performed threat analysis and help improving the security of the product.
• Built lab environments and mentored the QA team on methodologies to test the security and network aspects of the products.
• Unblocked customers implementations of the product by troubleshooting and analyzing the root cause.
• Trained R&D and QA engineers(network and information security topics).

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

• Aligned corporate network and information security roadmap to support business goals.
• Supported and maintained corporate network and information security infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented network and information security solutions for IT and other business groups.
• Researched, tested and implemented new solutions to fill in the gaps with the existing tools.
• Defined corporate IT security polices, standards and work procedures.
• Hired and mentored engineers to support the required service level.

• Planned, implemented, supported and maintained network and Information security systems.
• Supported sales team (presale + post sale).
• Managed Network and information security projects.
• Trained customers and team members.

• Planned, implemented, supported and maintained network systems.
• Provided support to the sales team (presale + post sale).
• Managed network implementation & migration projects.
• Trained customers and team members.