Summary Link to heading

  • Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Skilled in working with different teams, mentoring others, and leading changes to improve productivity and reliability.
  • A proactive communicator with a strong focus on delivering value through technical excellence and teamwork.

Experience Link to heading

Senior DevOps Engineer | NCR Retail Engineering | 2020 - Present Link to heading

Member of a team of Solution Architects and DevOps Engineers responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining scalable, reliable and secure software solutions in multi-cloud environments. This involves continuous deployment and monitoring, hardware and software troubleshooting, automating operational processes, and working closely with developers and stakeholders to ensure optimal performance and efficiency.

  • Played a key role in the design and implementation of the modernization and transformation of a legacy retail enterprise application. This transition took us from an in-house Windows VM-based architecture to a Linux container app, establishing Kubernetes as a first-class citizen. This setup comprises an enterprise API running in the cloud and a client component operating on kubernetes clusters inside the stores.
  • Successfully designed and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines for integration, testing, and release of various components, facilitating daily releases and enabled the confident deployment of urgent hotfixes.
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained GitOps-based development, staging, and production environments on GCP and Azure for diverse stakeholders. This infrastructure served a variety of needs including customer applications, development team workflows, and partner integrations, resulting in streamlined operations and improved collaborations."
  • Responsible for the development and release of versioned application Helm charts, which form a critical part of our innovative solution: a control plane designed for centralized management of the retail applications running on bare-metal Kubernetes clusters inside the retailer stores.

DevOps Team Leader | NCR Retail Professional Services | 2016 - 2020 Link to heading

  • Pioneered DevOps practices as the first in-house engineer, transforming complex, undocumented deployment processes into a streamlined, automated pipelines, configuration code, and deployment scripts managed in git.
  • Mentored and developed a team of DevOps engineers, transitioning from manual VMware-based systems to modern, automated solutions utilizing Azure, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and GitHub Actions.
  • Established a collaborative DevOps culture, promoting shared responsibility and continuous improvement across development and operations teams.
  • Led to reduced team size and onboarding time by enabling self-service deployments, significantly decreasing release and deployment times while improving quality due to automation

Application Configuration Engineer | NCR Retail Professional Services | 2013 - 2016 Link to heading

  • Member of several customer oriented development teams.
  • serve as the Subject Matter Expert for application configuration (in-house config DSL managed and delvered as code)
  • Provide effort estimations and commitments for project deliverables.
  • Triage customer defects.

IT Systems Analyst | Snap Australia | 2008 - 2012 Link to heading

  • Serve as Subject Matter Expert of an E-Commerce solution serving an entire digital printing franchise network.
  • Implement and utilize ITIL best practices to Manage and run the solution.

Tier 3 Application Support Engineer | Pre-Sense (Acquired by Pageflex) | 2006-2007 Link to heading

  • Handle customers incidents and problems throughout their lifecycle.
  • Work closely with DEV and Product teams to address customers issues and requests for change.
  • Conduct training workshops for new customers and business partners.

Education Link to heading

  • Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (Ruppin Academic Center, 2006)