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Assaf Manzur

Senior Platform / DevOps Tech Lead

Summary

Senior DevOps and platform engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building, operating, and improving production infrastructure in large-scale environments.

Hands-on background across Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability, with experience leading technical direction and improving how engineering teams ship and operate services in production.

Experience

DevOps Tech Lead

Salesforce

August 2024 - Present

Leading DevOps and platform direction across shared engineering environments, with ownership over delivery standards, platform architecture, and operational consistency.

  • -Set technical direction for Kubernetes, Istio, and GitOps adoption across multi-team platform environments.
  • -Defined platform patterns that improved consistency between teams and reduced friction in deployment and operations workflows.
  • -Worked across development and operations teams to establish supportable standards for running and shipping production services.
  • -Led design reviews and day-to-day technical guidance for engineers working on platform and infrastructure changes.

Technologies: Kubernetes, Istio, GitOps, CI/CD, Platform Engineering

Senior DevOps Engineer

Salesforce

November 2021 - August 2024

Owned infrastructure automation, observability, and CI/CD improvements supporting production systems at scale.

  • -Implemented infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible to improve repeatability, provisioning, and change control.
  • -Improved monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana, giving engineering teams better visibility into production health.
  • -Built and evolved CI/CD pipelines that supported safer and faster delivery for application teams.
  • -Worked closely with application and operations teams to translate infrastructure requirements into production-ready implementation.

Technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, AWS

Senior System Engineer

Gigya

January 2016 - May 2019

Managed large-scale infrastructure environments and supported modernization efforts through automation, operations, and platform improvement.

  • -Operated and maintained large-scale virtualized environments supporting enterprise workloads.
  • -Automated recurring operational work with scripting to reduce manual effort and improve consistency in day-to-day operations.
  • -Supported migration and modernization initiatives that moved legacy environments toward more scalable infrastructure patterns.
  • -Provided technical guidance and support for junior engineers working on operational and infrastructure tasks.

Technologies: Linux, Virtualization, Automation, Operations, Infrastructure

Selected Technologies

Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Istio, GitOps, CI/CD, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code, Observability, Platform Engineering, Linux