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Georgios Sarris Tzamtzis

@gsarris

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I am all-SRE guy, currently Head of SRE based in Athens, Greece.

Greece

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What I'm looking for

I have more than 7 years experience in the SRE world. Started as Senior SRE for Oracle Cloud back in 2015 all the way to Lead/Manager SRE Team for Oracle Cloud, Callsign and Everypay. I have a lot of experience as an Engineer with IaC (Terraform), Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP), a lot of experience around monitoring (Prometheus, ElasticSearch), Kubernetes and many more technologies.

As a Leader, I have been able to work with amazing engineers, driving Teams to success and also coaching & mentoring great people and great Engineers to achieve even greater things and overcome difficulties.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of SRE

Current

EveryPay S.A.

Jan 2022 - Present (3 years 2 months)

I joined EveryPay to establish the SRE Foundation, organise the Team. Also, I focused on many projects, including (but not limited to) Terraforming everything, AWS Lambda/SNS/SQS, DR Region deployment, Incident Management policy, Kubernetes onboarding.

AWS Terraform SaltStack SRE GitHub Actions

Head of SRE

Qatalog

Jun 2021 - Dec 2021 (6 months)

I joined Qatalog to achieve the following things:
- use Terraform to deploy the infrastructure
- Deploy decent monitoring using Prometheus and ELK stack
- establish SRE Foundations

Terraform Prometheus Grafana Elasticsearch Kibana Google Cloud GitHub Actions

Lead DevOps Engineer

Yodeck

Jan 2021 - Jun 2021 (5 months)

I joined Flipnode (Yodeck) to deploy Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Kibana for logging and monitoring. All where deployed using Terraform and all automated. Also set the plan to transition the entire product to Kubernetes.

AWS Terraform GitHub Prometheus Grafana

Head of SRE

Callsign

Sep 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 3 months)

I joined to build the SRE Function and:
- hire and lead the SRE
- own Monitoring and Logging platforms
- Capacity planning
- Platform provisioning using Terraform
- Service and Solution Architecture
- DR exercises

AWS Kubernetes Prometheus SRE ELK Engineering Manager

SRE Manager

Oracle

Apr 2015 - Aug 2019 (4 years 4 months)

I joined Oracle as a Senior SRE (and became the Manager after 1.5 year) for Oracle Cloud. Responsibilities included (but not limited to):
- Provided the framework for automated application deployment on the cloud (using Chef)
- Provided the platforms for logging and log analysis, metric collection and presentation
- Assisted application development teams to get to the cloud