Cloud Castles

Senior DevOps / Cloud Architect

חיפה, Israel

Freelancer

077-2308671

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ABOUT

DevOps and Cloud Architect with a proven track record of designing and delivering scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Specializing in Kubernetes and Terraform, I excel at creating reliable CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, and optimizing processes. By aligning technical solutions with business objectives, I have delivered cloud-native systems that enable innovation for enterprise-level organizations.

As a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, I bring validated expertise and a commitment to delivering robust, scalable solutions.

LANGUAGES

English

Native or bilingual proficiency

Hebrew

Native or bilingual proficiency

Russian

Professional working proficiency

SKILL DETAILS

Technology

220 ₪ / hr

DevOps

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

November 2022 - Today

DevOps Engineer

Cloud Castles, Israel

• Provisioned multi‑cloud infra (AWS · GCP · Azure) via Terraform/Terragrunt & CloudFormation
• Integrated SAST and container image scanning in a zero‑trust environment; automated CIS/SCAP hardening, enforced OWASP/WAF rules and CVE‑patch workflows, resolving 95% of vulnerabilities
• Contributed to incident-response workflows and threat detection through SIEM
• Operated Kubernetes clusters across GKE · EKS · AKS; orchestrated production workloads with Helm, ArgoCD, Argo WF, and Keda autoscaling, maintaining 99.9% uptime
• Architected and optimized CI/CD pipelines in GitHub/GitLab | Azure DevOps | CodeBuild/Deploy | Jenkins, cutting release time to under 15 minutes
• Automated Traefik blue-green deploys with Ansible, enabling zero-downtime rollouts
• Leveraged cloud-native, and open-source monitoring tools including Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, for real-time dashboards and proactive alerting

January 2022 - June 2022

Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Intel

• Collaborated with the DevOps team to automate daily manual tasks using Azure DevOps pipelines, reducing manual effort by 75% and saving 5 hours per week
• Automated hardware validation processes by developing Python scripts to retrieve and manipulate data, reducing human error margin by 90%

August 2021 - January 2022

System Administrator

ONE Technologies

• Demonstrated proficiency in configuring and managing Windows Server systems, including WSUS, WDS, IIS, AD DS, iSCI, DFS, and GPO
• Configuring various networking protocols, including LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, UDP, Switches, and Routers

COURSES & CERTIFICATIONS

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

HashiCorp

ARMED FORCES

January 2014 - December 2015

Sniper Combatant

Nahal - 931

• Sniping course graduate
• Participated in Operation Protective Edge
• Provided first-line support for a wide range of technical and confidential issues
• High security clearance
• Responsible for multiple tasks, something that demanded an ability to stay calm, focused and prioritize right