May 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Herzliyya, Tel Aviv, Israel · On-site

• In my role as DevOps and SRE Engineering Manager, I've had the privilege of guiding a team of 5 dedicated engineers, working to meet our company's infrastructure and developer experience needs. My journey has been one of continuous learning as much as leading, and I'm grateful to have grown with my team every step of the way.
• I'm particularly proud of our efforts to refine and streamline our operational processes, from automation pipelines to CI/CD processes. While I've contributed to these improvements, the credit truly belongs to the entire team who've worked hard to enhance our company's tech infrastructure.
• One of the highlights of my role has been fostering a team culture that values open communication, continuous learning, and mutual support. My team has shown time and again that when we combine our skills and knowledge, we can solve complex technical issues and contribute to a more productive work environment.
• An important part of my work has also involved facilitating a better developer experience, ensuring workflows run smoothly and problems are resolved promptly in a self-service approach using portals.
• These improvements are the result of collective efforts and I am thankful to be part of a team that values positive change.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Personal Blog

Dec 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs · Remote

• Participating in on-call schedules
• Extending and improving our Infrastructure as Code framework using technologies like Terraform and Ansible
• Achieving personal, team and business goals related to regional builds including focused delivery dates, inter-team handoffs, and completion of assigned tasks in a timely manner
• Contributing to our automation tooling and be adaptable to various frameworks and languages
• Designing and writing PSIs (Problem, Solution, Implementation) documents toward SaaS growth.

Feb 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Herzliya Area, Israel

• Consult, lead, execute & deliver DevOps assessments, strategies & transformation
• Working primarily within an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodology.
• Leading & driving a cultural transformation initiative for large enterprise.
• Strong understanding of the continuous delivery pipeline & the pillars of DevOps to include CI, SCM, Continuous Testing, Release Engineering, CD & Continuous Monitoring.
• Strong client facing & interpersonal skills to effectively interact with executives & dev teams.
• 100% Hands On
• Understand fundamental principles of Distributed Systems, Networking, Virtualization, Storage, Database, Fault Tolerance and DR.
• Experience with container platforms tools (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Rancher, Openshift).
• Experience in provisioning tools (Terraform).
• Extensive experience in Linux/Unix (Ubuntu, RHEL)
• Extensive experience in Windows Servers (2012 / 2016).
• Experience in working and troubleshooting network infrastructure and systems (TCP/IP networking, DNS, SMTP, DHCP, Dumps, Wireshark).
• Experience with Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware).
• Experience in scripting languages (Bash)
• Some experience in distributed applications (HDFS, Hadoop, Cloudera, ElasticSearch).
• Extensive experience in logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Zabbix, Greylog, ElasticSearch, Grafana).
• Experience in Ansible configuration management tool.
• Have some experience in development (Golang).
• Working on mission critical systems in production
• Building and maintaining proxy and hosted artifact repository (Sonatype Nexus)
• Working with graph databases (Neo4j, ArangoDB)
• Experience with build tools (Maven, SBT, NPM)
• Experience with data virtualization (Denodo)
• Experience with spark clusters
• Working in both airgap and internet networks

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Herzliya Area, Israel

• Intensive OPS work in the cloud (AWS, Azure) including planning, building and maintaining from zero to hero.
• Planning and building the CI/CD pipline (GIT > Jenkins > Docker > Deployment)
• Building and maintaining the company's nexus repositories
• Dockerizing everything in containers
• Building the company's microservices constellation in Kubernetes
• Day to day work on infrastructure elements: Elasticsearch,RabbitMQ and Consul
• Day to day work on databases : MongoDB, ArangoDB, Redis, EventStore, Cassandra, MySQL, Postgres
• Writing automation scripts for daily tasks and deployment Python, Bash and NodeJS
• Providing support to the development teams.
• Providing support to the deployment team abroad.
• Building the monitoring and alerting system (zabbix)
• Managing and troubleshooting Linux based environment (production and development)
• Working with target process
• Installing configuring and managing Gitlab
• Installing configuring and managing Kong routing API
• Installing configuring and managing Openvpn servers
• Installing configuring and managing Debian & RHEL systems
• Installing configuring and managing : NFS, SAMBA (CIFS) and GlusterFS cluster servers
• Central log management with fluentd and kibana
• Working with maven and npm
• Familiar with Ansible

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Lod, Israel

• Leading a team of professional network and system engineers to excellence.
• Managing a NOC team of network and system personnel
• Managing the CS constellation that operates under constant pressure while maintaining SLA and KPI metrics.
• Monitoring big networks
• Working with various monitoring tools: Nagios, Centreon, PRTG, NewRelic, Zabbix and more...
• Writing automation scripts (Python)
• Building servers from Zero (OpenSource mostly)
• Installing configuring and managing bind servers
• Executing System Linux and monitoring projects to the company's clients
• Working on the company's ESX constellation as HA configuration, deploying new servers and maintaining the existing ones (mostly on Linux [RHEL] based servers).
• Working on Hyperconverge systems (simplivity)
• Extreme service oriented – taking personally each and every incident
• Handling new employees recruiting (Interviews, filtering and tests)
• Managing the knowledge base, technical writing and building the DR
• Periodic meetings with clients for NOC pre-sale and characterization of processes based on client’s demands and needs
• Training the employees on regular basis and acting as the team’s guru
• Managing the logistic operation with Priority (ERP)

Jan 2005 – Jan 2014 · 9 yrs · Hefer Valley

• Handling heavy customer accounts (Telcos, M.O.D, GOV, etc…)
• Managing sub-contractors
• Building and implementing the CRM system in the company
• PMO: IPTV, Networks and Tactical VSATs
• Executing ISO 9001 process and routing validations
• Managing all the company's IT requirements
• Designing and leading the implementation of our clients (broadband IP networks)
• Lead the system team in-house (IPTV section - Proxies, Caching)

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · Poleg, Netanya

• Intensive work abroad on cruise liners, cargo vessels, yachts and other maritime platform.
• Site surveys, preventive maintenance, support and installation on site.
• Covered VSATs and TVROs from 60cm up to 3.7m
• Network design
• Deployed both Cooper and Fiber optics
• Configured Switches and Routers
• IT Debugging on challenging environments