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Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Toptal member since May 3, 2023
Bio
Alex is a DevOps and cloud engineer with over 15 years of experience in the cloud, DevOps, IT, and network fields, including mobile connectivity. A certified AWS DevOps Engineer, he contributes to developing platform services, including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support. Alex has vast knowledge and is experienced with software development ecosystems and various DevOps procedures and methodologies.
Portfolio
Ops Labs
DevOps Engineer, DevOps, AWS DevOps, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Kubernetes...
Pente Networks
Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS CloudFormation, Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Ansible...
Kandy Companies
AWS CLI, Jenkins, Zabbix, Nagios, SIP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)...
Experience
- Networks - 15 years
- Elasticsearch - 10 years
- AWS CloudFormation - 10 years
- DevOps - 10 years
- Couchbase - 10 years
- Kubernetes - 6 years
- Terraform - 4 years
- Helm - 3 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Linux, AWS CLI, Production, Development
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is connecting hundred of devices on the network edge for mobile IoT.
Work Experience
DevOps Consultant
2022 - PRESENT
Ops Labs
- Provided cloud infrastructure for development, QA, and production environments.
- Wrote, verified, and deployed Helm, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation.
- Collaborated with multiple teams and managed a small remote team.
- Worked on small-scale projects with Amazon ECS and GitHub Actions.
- Executed a large-scale project on RKE dark deployment.
- Deployed mobile edge core 3G/4G/LTE to edge sites.
- Implemented large-scale networking shifts on AWS for communication-based applications.
- Migrated a large-scale environment from VMware to AWS.
Technologies: DevOps Engineer, DevOps, AWS DevOps, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS
DevOps Engineer
2017 - 2022
Pente Networks
- Worked with various customers, designing and deploying public and private cloud systems.
- Applied application and infrastructure monitoring solutions and centralized logging.
- Gained experience with security enhancements and infrastructure architecture.
- Managed a NoSQL database, Couchbase, including monitoring and deployments.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for operation flows using infrastructure as code (IaC).
Technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS CloudFormation, Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Ansible, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), VMware, MikroTik, Zabbix, Apache Kafka, Docker, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Blob Storage, IPsec, Networks, Firewalls
DevOps Engineer
2014 - 2017
Kandy Companies
- Provided and managed white-labeled and Kandy platforms. Our customers were multi-regional telco companies and other iOS and Android developer teams.
- Deployed all components fast, including databases, nodes, VPNs, and third-party solutions using AWS CloudFormation.
- Delivered reliable monitoring solutions, including an application layer using collectd, Raygun, New Relic, Amazon CloudWatch, Librato, and the ELK Stalk, and an infrastructure layer.
- Used Jenkins and Rundeck to develop and deliver CI and CD infrastructure to be integrated with any environment, including Nix, and development flow, including Git.
- Created blue/green deployment plans for mission-critical components using Asgard.
- Delivered artifacts, including JAR, WAR, and TAR files, from any code, including PHP, Java, and JavaScript.
- Provided solutions with AWS APIs to make easily managed infrastructure.
Technologies: AWS CLI, Jenkins, Zabbix, Nagios, SIP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Rundeck, Networks, Firewalls, Cisco
Production System Administrator
2011 - 2014
Leverate
- Managed and maintained three different environments, staging, development, and production in Israel and abroad.
- Designed and implemented applications for the company's internal departments and customers.
- Wrote and tested disaster recovery (DR) procedures in a mixed environment.
- Provided tier 3 support for in-house products, including storage systems and web servers.
- Supported the company's server clusters, storage, such as EMC and Dell storage solutions, web servers, such as Apache, NGINX, and Internet Information Services (IIS), and application servers, such as Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, and Amazon EC2.
Technologies: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, VMware, SQL, Dell EMC, Networks, Firewalls, Cisco
Experience
Offensive and Defensive Security Attack Application on RKE
A security integration application that was built on Angular. It runs in Docker with PostgreSQL as a data store and is connected to several offensive and defensive tools with an API.
I was the one-person shop for DevOps-related issues and needs. My main tasks were:
• Creating Dockerfiles.
• Developing a stable development environment for the team that runs on AWS with Terraform and Terragrunt running on RKE.
• Building all the necessary infrastructure elements, including Istio, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, PGO, Keycloak, MinIO, Sentry, and Grafana Tempo.
• Providing Helm with Helmfile for fast stack deployment.
I was the one-person shop for DevOps-related issues and needs. My main tasks were:
• Creating Dockerfiles.
• Developing a stable development environment for the team that runs on AWS with Terraform and Terragrunt running on RKE.
• Building all the necessary infrastructure elements, including Istio, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, PGO, Keycloak, MinIO, Sentry, and Grafana Tempo.
• Providing Helm with Helmfile for fast stack deployment.
Web Application Environment for Residential Services
A Node.js-based application consisting of API services and three clients, including admin, back-end, and client interfaces. I was tasked with deploying the application on AWS. I utilized Amazon ECS services to manage Docker-based applications, incorporating GitHub Action workflows that include switches for deploying to various environments such as development, QA, and production. These deployments can be controlled using a permission matrix. Also, I supported them with content delivery network services on Amazon S3 and HA, including Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL as a data source.
Transforming Mobile Core Applications to Microservices
https://www.pentenetworks.com/Multiple Node.js and Java-based applications that provide a mobile core service. My responsibilities included:
• Creating cloud-based Kubernetes services, including Amazon EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Developing microservices using Docker for all applications and pipelines for development and deployment processes.
• Deploying and administrating infrastructure that included a database and system bus in Apache ZooKeeper and Kafka.
• Creating cloud-based Kubernetes services, including Amazon EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Developing microservices using Docker for all applications and pipelines for development and deployment processes.
• Deploying and administrating infrastructure that included a database and system bus in Apache ZooKeeper and Kafka.
Certifications
SEPTEMBER 2022 - SEPTEMBER 2024
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Tools
AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, VMware, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Helm, Amazon CloudFront CDN, GitHub, Jenkins, Zabbix, Nagios, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Rundeck, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Dell EMC
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI)
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Docker, SharePoint
Storage
Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Languages
Python, SQL
Other
Production, DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps, MikroTik, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Networks, Servers, Development, IP Networks, Firewalls, Cisco, Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), SIP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Blob Storage, IPsec
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