CURRICULUM VITAE

Nir Vaknin

Senior DevOps Engineer Platform Engineering

IsraelPalo Alto Networks · Idira

Developer platforms, cloud automation, and secure integrations.

Experience

April 2022 - present

Senior DevOps Engineer

Palo Alto Networks · Idira

Formerly CyberArk; continuous tenure since April 2022.

Internal MCP broker providing secure access to Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and other internal tools. Combines security policies and controls for tokens and secrets with OpenTelemetry metrics and logs for observability.

February 2020 - April 2022

CloudOps / Automation Engineer

Imperva

Managed AWS and GCP environments, automated deployments with Python and Terraform, maintained internal deployment tooling, and built a pytest-based test framework.

October 2018 - February 2020

Linux System Administrator

SQream Technologies

Automated infrastructure operations with Python and Bash, deployed Prometheus and Grafana monitoring, and maintained server and network infrastructure.

February 2018 - October 2018

QA Engineer

Imperva

Created and executed test plans, worked with Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL environments, and reproduced customer issues in dedicated test environments.

May 2013 - February 2018

Integration & System Administrator

Elbit Systems

Set up complex server and testing environments for QA and R&D, developed automation scripts, and investigated production issues alongside engineering teams.

Selected work

Core skills

Cloud & delivery

AWS · Terraform · Jenkins · GitHub CI/CD

Platforms & automation

Developer platforms · Python · Docker · MCP integrations

Security & observability

Token & secret controls · OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Datadog · Grafana

Education & languages

Software Engineering, ORT Rehovot College · 2008 - 2010

Hebrew · English

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