Tzvi Edelman
Infrastructure Automation Specialist
Jerusalem
Summary
Experienced Linux infrastructure professional with 25+ years of collaboration and leadership in information technology. Known for problem-solving, improving customer satisfaction, and driving operational enhancements. Strategic mindset in addressing challenges, especially in automation, scalability, and security. Consistently reduces costs while increasing productivity and performance.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Independent Consultant
Anderson Industries LLC
2 2021 - Current
- Migrated inaccessible production server setup in the cloud by a former employee from unsupported infrastructure to managed infrastructure, without available access to the unsupported cloud management console
- Advised Anderson personnel on updating their client configurations to use the new server
- This restored critical functionality to two manufacturing sites
- Setup new Dev and QA infrastructure in the cloud: cloning and synchronizing replicas of the production server as well as creating and administering a private Git server in the cloud for managing source code, issues, projects, and documentation
- Mentoring Dev, QA, and Customer teams in the best practices use of Git as a collaboration tool
- Provide engineering support to DB developer for designing efficient and secure data transport from the production server to a data archive server
- Implemented automation for the archival process
- Provide design support to Django programmer to migrate configuration details from source code to settings files, thus centralizing the configuration content and eliminating duplication of content
- Hardened web security by applying 2FA/htaccess, SSL Certificates, HTTP Headers, and reverse proxies for Apache/Django and Grafana servers
- Implemented automatic renewal of SSL Certificates
Linux Systems Engineer
Tk Open Systems, Ltd
07.2019 - 09.2020
- Implemented customer requests for analysis, specification, design, implementation, and maintenance of RedHat/CentOS Linux systems, infrastructures, applications, and services such as ReviewBoard, SVN, and Gerrit/git, locally and in AWS
- Designed and implemented Bash and Perl scripts to automate migration of corporate infrastructure from obsolete co-located infrastructure to cloud-based assets
- Specified, designed, and implemented security measures, reducing risk of DOS attacks
Sr Infrastructure Specialist & Automation Engineer
Ness Digital Engineering contracted to Barclays Bank, Plc
05.2011 - 04.2018
- Contributed to the provisioning and updating of Barclays' internal cloud's governance infrastructure using HPOO, C#, Perl, Bash, and AutoSys
- Specified, designed, and implemented RedHat, AIX and Windows infrastructure, RPM and MSI packaging, deployment, and usage guidance for 3rd party servers and agents
- RedHat and Windows infrastructure capacity planning and design
Software Engineer
Tk Open Systems, Ltd
04.2010 - 08.2010
- Implemented automation of Ubuntu/Debian packaging
- Creating, extending, and maintaining virtualization domains and servers
- Performance of general Linux Systems Administration, documenting procedures
- Researched and implemented maintenance and portation of 3rd party software from Windows to Linux
Senior Systems Administrator
Oleh Technologies & Communications, Ltd
01.2008 - 03.2009
- Transformed messy manual installation procedures into automated scripts with documentation, reducing errors, and improving reliability
- Designed and implemented security standards and protocols for developers, administrators, and clients
- Scrutinized and adjusted monitoring parameters to sharply reduce spurious and false reports
- Standardized and automated maintenance procedures to improve service reliability and reduce downtime
Systems Administrator and Programmer
Tzvi Edelman Consulting
03.2006 - 01.2008
- Performed configuration and content management for web services startup using apache on RedHat
- Provided PHP programming with no prior PHP experience for web video startup, substituting for an individual on leave
- Systems programming, RedHat infrastructure management, and administration for commercial weather service
VP, Project Manager & Team Leader: Distributed Scheduling Infrastructure Engineering
Goldman, Sachs & Company
07.1997 - 03.2006
- Recognized by industry peers and vendor as subject matter expert in usage, internals, and management of an application scheduling platform
- Conducted strategic planning for compensatory engineering for large-scale deployment/utilization of distributed scheduling infrastructure on Unix and Windows servers using AutoSys for the global enterprise
- Increased capacity and throughput by 500% while reducing off-hours tertiary support calls by 80%
- Designed and implemented scheduling infrastructure that enabled Y2K preparation, testing, and validation
Global Unix Production: Systems & Batch Administrator
Lehman Brothers, Incorporated
06.1996 - 06.1997
- Analyzed manual procedures previously performed by operations and sysadmin personnel and converted them to automated batch procedures
- Identified bugs and specified vendor remediation of AutoSys batch system
- Responded to all reports of trouble for hardware, software (OS and application), and network connectivity for fixed income and equities desktops and servers
Senior Analyst: Systems Integration & Team Leader: SysAdmin Tools
Salomon Brothers, Incorporated
08.1992 - 05.1996
- Defined, designed, and implemented packaging and deployment standards across production domains
- Facilitated and contributed to design and implementation of automation tools for sysadmins
- Managed tools written by sysadmins to be shared by all areas of the firm
- Packaged in-house software, with emphasis on automated delivery and installation mechanisms written in Perl and Bourne-shell
- Enforced manufacturing, resource sharing, and security standards
- Coordinated horizontal deployments from development groups to sysadmins for 800+ production hosts
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Boston 04.2001 -
Skills
Linux, Solaris, AIX, Unix
Bash, Perl, Python
Confluence, Jira
git, Gitea
Teams, SharePoint, MS Office
Timeline
Linux Systems Engineer
Tk Open Systems, Ltd
07.2019 - 09.2020
Sr Infrastructure Specialist & Automation Engineer
Ness Digital Engineering contracted to Barclays Bank, Plc
05.2011 - 04.2018
Software Engineer
Tk Open Systems, Ltd
04.2010 - 08.2010
Senior Systems Administrator
Oleh Technologies & Communications, Ltd
01.2008 - 03.2009
Systems Administrator and Programmer
Tzvi Edelman Consulting
03.2006 - 01.2008
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
04.2001 -
VP, Project Manager & Team Leader: Distributed Scheduling Infrastructure Engineering
Goldman, Sachs & Company
07.1997 - 03.2006
Global Unix Production: Systems & Batch Administrator
Lehman Brothers, Incorporated
06.1996 - 06.1997
Senior Analyst: Systems Integration & Team Leader: SysAdmin Tools
Salomon Brothers, Incorporated
08.1992 - 05.1996
Independent Consultant
Anderson Industries LLC
2 2021 - Current