Giorgi M.

• Manages and maintains cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure as part of the Infra team;

• Implements and supports Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform;

• Collaborates with platform engineers to design and develop reusable Terraform template repositories for internal teams;

• Ensures infrastructure is scalable, secure, and aligned with company standards and best practices;

• Automates infrastructure provisioning and configuration to enable rapid and consistent deployments;

• Provides technical support and guidance to internal teams leveraging the Terraform templates;

• Participates in infrastructure planning and architectural discussions to improve platform reliability and performance;

• Stays up to date with emerging tools and best practices in DevOps, Azure cloud, and IaC.

• Taling active part of DRE (Development and Release Engineering) team: supporting game teams for infra and automation-related issues;

• Participated on-call rotation and dealing with real production issues;

• Worked on troubleshooting data center, vm connectivity, ansible, terraform pipeline issues, also Jenkins job failures and automation;

• Worked on enterprise-grade data and analytics solutions in a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP), alongside secure on-premises infrastructure in the U.S.
• Managed sensitive data in compliance with U.S. regulations, including data classification and secure storage of credentials, certificates, and keys.
• Collaborated with architects to design and implement highly scalable and secure solutions.
• Implemented and maintained advanced security controls beyond native cloud services, including:

OKTA authorization tokens Active Directory (AD) groups *GID-based user access management

Actively contributed to:

Data pipelines using PySpark, Splunk, and Kafka CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI Infrastructure management with Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Ansible Management of Snowflake data warehouses handling petabytes of data

• Primarily scripted in Python, with PowerShell used for on-premises Ansible-managed servers.

• Ensured all deliverables passed review by CIS (Nike’s internal security team) for compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.

• Earned an AWS certification while at Nike (2023).

• Participated in frequent cross-functional meetings with stakeholders, product owners, engineering managers, and architects, demonstrating strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Contributed to the development of a Chatbot application, which was built from scratch upon joining the team.
• Focused heavily on AWS infrastructure, working with services such as: Fargate, ECS, EKS, Pinpoint, Route 53, VPC, NAT Gateways, RDS, CIDR, ALB, ACM, S3, Secrets Manager, and others.
• Led automation efforts for legacy CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment reliability and speed.
• Designed and implemented a Blue/Green deployment model to support seamless releases.
• Worked extensively with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) for provisioning and managing infrastructure.
• Managed and maintained Kubernetes environments as part of daily responsibilities.

• Gained initial hands-on experience with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Transitioned from CloudFormation to Terraform for infrastructure management.
• Conducted proof-of-concept (POC) work and explored early versions of Kubernetes (circa 2017).
• Joined as the sole Senior DevOps Engineer, responsible for building the infrastructure from the ground up.
• Played a key role in establishing the company’s DevOps practices within a startup environment.
• Focused on automation, infrastructure scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Followed the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and best practices to ensure secure and reliable infrastructure.

• Started the first professional role in DevOps Engineering after university.
• Gained hands-on experience in real-world production environments.
• Began learning and working with cloud technologies.
• Managed on-premises Linux servers, contributing to system administration tasks.
• Worked with Jenkins to support and configure CI/CD pipelines.
• Spent one year in the USA, starting a career in a dynamic and practical setting.