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Alin Palamaru

@alinpalamaru

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DevOps engineer with 17 years delivering resilient, automated Kubernetes and AWS platforms.

Romania

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to bring deep Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS expertise to a team building resilient, automated delivery platforms—reducing deployment friction and improving reliability in regulated environments.

I’m a DevOps Engineer with 17 years of experience in IT infrastructure, automation, and software delivery across fintech and retail. At ING Tech Romania, I manage CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure for banking-grade systems serving millions of customers across Europe.

I’m known for reducing deployment friction through infrastructure-as-code practices and improving system reliability in regulated environments. I’ve automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, and built centralized observability with Elastic Stack and Prometheus to improve real-time visibility and mean time to resolution.

I also drive adoption of modern delivery workflows, including migrating legacy processes to GitOps using ArgoCD across 15+ engineering teams. Alongside security and compliance, I enforce patch management policies and RBAC controls, and earlier roles strengthened my systems-level perspective through architecture and delivery management in multi-country retail environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer

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ING Tech Romania

Nov 2020 - Present (5 years 7 months)

Designed Kubernetes deployment pipelines that improved release frequency while maintaining >99.9% availability; automated provisioning with Terraform/Ansible (days→hours) and built Elastic/Prometheus observability to reduce mean time to resolution.

Kubernetes Terraform Ansible GitOps ArgoCD Prometheus CI CD Pipelines

DevOps Engineer

Metro Systems

Sep 2017 - Nov 2020 (3 years 2 months)

Introduced Kanban workflows to improve delivery predictability; deployed and maintained McAfee Endpoint Security across retail infrastructure, built Kubernetes clusters for a POS microservices platform, and automated operational tasks using .NET Core and C#.

Kubernetes McAfee Endpoint Security .NET Core C++Monitoring Kanban

System Architect

Metro Systems

Oct 2014 - Sep 2017 (2 years 11 months)

Managed software distribution with Microsoft SCCM across 25 countries and 750+ retail stores; automated installation for 14,000+ scanning devices and designed a mobile retail system for Metro stores in France and India.

SCCM Software Deployment Automation System Architecture

Technical Project Manager

Metro Systems

Sep 2011 - Sep 2014 (3 years)

Coordinated IT infrastructure support and new store openings across multiple countries, managing hardware delivery and software installation under tight timelines.

IT Infrastructure Support Project Management Stakeholder Management Incident Response

Systems Administrator

Metro Systems

Aug 2008 - Aug 2011 (3 years)

Installed and maintained servers, databases, and network equipment for Metro retail infrastructure to keep systems available during high-traffic store hours; monitored database growth and coordinated patch upgrades with maintenance windows to minimize business impact.

Server Administration Patch Management Networking System Uptime Maintenance Windows

Junior Field Technician

Traho Electronics

Sep 2007 - Mar 2008 (6 months)

Installed POS terminals and configured POS software at client sites, and provided on-site technical support to diagnose and resolve reported hardware and software issues.

client support