DevOps Engineer
Michael Oberlauder
Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and GitOps. Ten years of Linux experience, five of them in DevOps. I run production platforms end to end as a sole DevOps owner: infrastructure, pipelines, observability and developer support.
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The modernization at FINSIGHT
Four changes, delivered end to end. Switch between the starting point and where the platform is now.
The modernization at OCTOPOL
From standalone servers to Kubernetes, as the sole DevOps owner across AWS and GCP.
Experience
2022 – Present
DevOps Engineer
FINSIGHT (formerly T-REX, acquired 2024)
- Own cloud infrastructure for about 50 developers and 50 other staff. All production and development environments are defined as code in Terraform on AWS.
- Replaced Ansible-managed VMs and a monolithic services stack with fine-grained microservices on EKS, delivered through ArgoCD (GitOps). HPA scales each service independently under load. Started at T-REX, completed after the acquisition.
- Moved infrastructure management from Ansible to Terraform and consolidated EKS services into a shared multi-service Helm chart, standardizing deployments across teams.
- Migrated all CI/CD pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions.
- Migrated monitoring from New Relic to the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) for full-stack observability and alerting. Previously ran New Relic and PagerDuty.
- Sole DevOps owner for extended periods, covering infrastructure, CI/CD and operations. Work closely with developers and data scientists to resolve performance issues.
2021 – 2022
DevOps Engineer
OCTOPOL
- Sole DevOps owner, running the full infrastructure lifecycle across AWS and GCP.
- Provisioned EKS clusters to improve production and development workflows, and deployed Kubernetes on a private VMware-based cloud.
- Introduced Prometheus for cluster monitoring. Supported data scientists and developers in resolving system issues.
2016 – 2021
Linux System Administrator
Host&Found / SPD Hosting
- Administered Linux servers and handled direct client support for large e-commerce hosting environments, including troubleshooting and issue resolution.
Technical skills
- Cloud
- AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, OpenSearch, API Gateway, ElastiCache, EFS, FSx), GCP
- IaC and config
- Terraform, Ansible
- Containers and GitOps
- Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, Docker
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
- Observability
- Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Prometheus, New Relic, PagerDuty
- Databases
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- Languages and OS
- Python, Bash, Linux; Cloudflare; networking (CCNA coursework)
Training and languages
- RHCSA/RHCE preparation course, John Bryce College (2017)
- MSSQL 2014 DBA course, John Bryce College (2016–2017)
- CCNA course
English: proficient. Hebrew: fluent. Russian: native.