Victor Swed

Experience

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  Ivory

  Apr 2007 - Dec 2013

  Technical Team Manager
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  Bezeq

  Jan 2014 - Jul 2016

  Network Engineer

  IPVPN technical support for business communication lines - IPVPN, L2 & L3, SDH, ETHERNET, WAN, LAN, Network devices - Cisco, Juniper, CheckPoint, Alcatel, HP, RAD etc. Configuration and troubleshooting of IPVPN networks

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  Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.

  Jul 2016 - Dec 2021

  • Responsible for developing and maintaining infrastructure for SASE product, on AWS, Azure.• Infrastructure as a code using Terraform and Cloudformation.• Monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana , Sensu and Opsgenie, and Elasticsearch for logging.• Design, develop and modify automation processes for deploying large scale - Ansible, Puppet.• CI/CD pipelines for build and deploy microservices using Gitlab CI , Jenkins. • Orchestration Kubernetes, Docker-compose.• Scripting Python/Bash/PowerShell.• DB - PostgresSQL / MySQL Show less Working in COST(Customer Oriented Scenario Testing) Team - Building and simulating large scale network topologies on Physical + Virtual(VMWare) environment.Integration and testing of security solution systems(IPS/Threat Emulation/threat Extraction/AV/AB/QoS/https inspection/DLP)Configuration of firewalls, routers, switches, servers(Proxy/DNS/AD)System Testing (Complex Environments), load testing(IXIA, hping, siege)Reporting and simulation of bugs, working with R&D team and customer security administrators, implementing fixes and workarounds.Integration and simulation of new features on customer oriented environments.Working in Linux based environment(RHEL/Debian), automation of everyday tasks with bash scripting.Automation of basic sanity testing with Selenium.The position also required in high self learn ability skills Show less

  • DevOps Engineer

    Dec 2019 - Dec 2021

  • COST QA Engineer

    Jul 2016 - Dec 2019
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  Palo Alto Networks

  Dec 2021 - now

  • Developed infrastructure for a microservices SASE application utilizing Istio service mesh• Implemented a robust monitoring stack using Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.• Managed CI/CD processes and the full release cycle using GitLab.• Utilized Terraform and Helm for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).• Scaled high-demand applications using HPA and VPA.• Developed automation tools using Python to streamline operational workflows.• Managed multiple high-scale Kubernetes clusters Show less As part of a global team across multiple time zones (PST, IST), I worked on:• Developing and maintaining infrastructure for GitLab, Kubernetes, Artifactory, Vault, and Atlantis tools.• Creating reusable CI templates to streamline workflows across engineering teams, improving efficiency.• Implementing comprehensive monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Stackdriver, and CloudWatch.• Managing infrastructure and applications on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) using Helm, Terraform, and Terragrunt, optimizing scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.• Leading the development of end-to-end encrypted distribution systems for containers and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments in restricted environments, supporting multiple SaaS products. Show less

  • Principal DevOps Engineer

    May 2024 - now

  • DevOps Engineer

    Sept 2023 - May 2024

  • DevOps Engineer

    Dec 2021 - Sept 2023