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Artem Penner

Staff/Lead Platform Engineer — cloud, DevOps, and AI-assisted operations.

📍 Lörrach, Germany🇪🇺 Full EU work authorizationRemote-first, DACH & EU
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15+ years building and operating both cloud-native and classic infrastructure — Kubernetes, Terraform, service mesh, and observability across AWS, GCP, and Azure, alongside deep distributed-systems and database expertise. I lead and grow platform engineering teams, drive architecture RFCs and PoCs, and build reliability practices (SLOs, postmortems, disaster recovery) spanning Development, SRE, and Support.

I've built Internal Developer Platforms, GitOps delivery pipelines, and AI-assisted operational tooling that measurably cut toil, plus security hardening for regulated environments and FinOps cost optimization. I also bring a rarer depth in large-scale on-premises and hybrid datacenter operations — footprints of 2,000+ servers, 5,000+ VMs, and 19 datacenters.

Right now: leading a globally distributed Cloud DevOps team, running multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) infrastructure for a database platform at scale — architecture, GitOps delivery, observability, and AI-assisted operations tooling.

Technical skills

Cloud & Platform Engineering

AWSGCPAzureKubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)OpenShiftDockerHelmInternal Developer Platforms

IaC & GitOps Delivery

TerraformAnsiblePuppetArgo CDArgo WorkflowsGitHub Actions

Observability & AI-Assisted Ops

DatadogPrometheusGrafanaVictoriaMetrics/LogsOpenTelemetryMCP serversRAG / LLMOps

Security & Compliance

SOC 2PCI DSSHashiCorp VaultOIDCZero TrustNetwork segmentation

Databases & Data Platforms

ScyllaDBCassandraPostgreSQLOracleKafkaRedisRabbitMQ

Reliability & FinOps

Disaster recoveryIncident response & RCASLO/SLI designCost optimization & allocation

Certifications

  • ✓AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • ✓Google Cloud Architect – Professional
  • ✓Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)