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Gil Fliker

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Platform Engineering | Leadership | Reliability | Observability| infrastructure
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  • Narmi
    Engineering Lead - Infrastructure
    Narmi
    Jul 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)
  • Attentive
    Engineering Manager - Infrastructure - Compute & Networking
    Attentive
    Apr 2023 - Jul 2025 (2 years 4 months)
    -Managing the core Compute and Networking team. The team provides the foundation for Attentive's services running on EKS and other AWS managed services.
    Running hundreds of services across multiple regions and thousands of nodes.
    - Migration of all services to be managed via ArgoCD and Argo rollouts for progressive delivery.
    - Cross org migration to leverage self-service IaC using Terraform following GitOps pattern.
    - Hiring, mentoring and advocating a high performing team.
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    Senior Director, Platform / SRE
    EMX By Big Village
    Aug 2019 - Apr 2023 (3 years 9 months)
    - Leading the cross-engineering task group of 10 people responsible for stability and availability of EMX infrastructure.
    - Hired most of the Platform team to support the high growth across EMX. Going from one engineer to 10 in my team and other “production engineers” roles across engineering.
    - Introduced and was responsible for implementing Observability principles across the engineering group. Using various open-source tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch and Jaeger.
    - Advocated and enabled with my team the migration of all existing infrastructure automation scripts to follow Infrastructure as code methodologies leveraging Terraform, Chef and Ansible.
    - All Infrastructure changes were executed using Build, T
  • IDT Corporation
    Director of Infrastructure Engineering
    IDT Corporation
    Aug 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year)
    - Rebuilding the infrastructure team to support an agile fast-moving environment. This includes a 15 engineers team in the US and 5 engineers in Belarus.
    - Implementing best practices for configuration management across thousands of instances.
    - Rolling out infrastructure as code using Terraform across multiple cloud providers and physical data
    centers.
    - Creating standards build and deployments pipelines across all engineering teams.
    - Enabling migration to a container-based infrastructure leveraging ECS, EKS and GKE. This includes build, deployment, and testing pipelines.
    - One of the main drivers of IDT’s tech stack road map. Considering business and engineering needs.
    - Cloud costs and capacity optimiz
  • Symphony
    Senior Eng Manager, DevOps Engineering/SRE
    Symphony
    Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 (7 months)
    - Enabling engineering best practices testing, configuration management, capacity planning and
    monitoring.
    - Creating an efficient communication path between various parts of the engineering groups.
    - Played a key role in implementing infrastructure as code deployments and testing pracitces across multiple cloud providers.
  • Outbrain
    Platform, Director / Outbrain
    Outbrain
    Mar 2010 - Jan 2018 (7 years 11 months)
    - Leading the globally distributed Platform team while maintaining a production environment running 24x7.
    - Enabling and executing complex projects involving Rnd, Business and Analytics departments within the core product.
    - Overseeing a range of projects ranging from monitoring to data centers / Cloud rollouts.
    - Managing remotely 4 data centers in the US and in AWS / GCP.
    - Implementation team for the migration to Kubernetes project. Researching, intergradation and rollout.
    - Enabling a DevOps culture and practices within the Operations team and Rnd.
    - Mentoring and advocating for my team.
    - Containerization and migration to Kubernetes of hundreds of services across on-prem and cloud.
  • Outbrain
    Operations Engineer
    Outbrain
    Aug 2008 - Mar 2010 (1 year 8 months)
    - Building Outbrain’s infrastructure from 20 servers to thousands.
    - Integrating monitoring open-source projects: Prometheus , Graphite and Elasticsearch.
    - Building, scaling, and integrating big data systems, Hadoop, Cassandra.
    - Manage and maintain all Outbrain’s relational databases MySQL instance including scaling out methodologies and backup policy procedures.
    - Implemented Chef solution for configuration management.
    - Facilitating continues deployment / integration workflows for both Rnd and Operations.
  • Plasson Livestock Division
    Senior Oracle DBA
    Plasson Livestock Division
    Jan 2005 - Aug 2008 (3 years 8 months)
    - Responsible for implementing and integrating all technical aspects of an oracle ERP system.
    - Developing various Java based integrations with across the organization.
  • A
    Lead Developer And operations engineer
    Agrosafe
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2005 (4 years)
    - Developer in a team of 5 engineers developing a web application based on Microsoft’s .NET technologies.
    - Responsible of all technical aspects of the operations including Databases and deployments.
    - Evaluating new technologies for the business needs.
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    Senior NOVELL consultant
    Halamish Network Solutions
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2002 (3 years)
  • PLASSON Ltd
    Systems Administrator
    PLASSON Ltd
    Jan 1997 - Jan 2000 (3 years 1 month)
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  • Ruppin Academic Center
    Associate's degree, Computer Science
    Ruppin Academic Center
    Jan 1997 - Dec 1999 (3 years)
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