Israel Arias Panez

Profile

Senior Platform Engineer with 4+ years of experience in Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps and SRE across production cloud and Linux environments. I build and operate platforms with a focus on reliability, observability, resource efficiency, incident response and practical developer tooling.

Email: [email protected]
GitHub: github.com/israelsz
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/israel-arias-panez

Core skills

Platform and Kubernetes

Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Helm, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, GitOps, Karpenter, Actions Runner Controller, Envoy Gateway, Gateway API, ExternalDNS, RBAC and CSI storage

Cloud and infrastructure as code

AWS, GCP, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Route 53, ALB/ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, OpenTofu, Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible

Observability and reliability

OpenTelemetry, eBPF tracing, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, Elastic Stack, alerting, on-call, incident response, RCA and runbooks

Delivery and automation

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Groovy, Python, Go, Bash, TypeScript, k6, Locust and repository governance

Security and networking

OpenBao, HashiCorp Vault, External Secrets Operator, NetBird, Teleport, Keycloak, Google SSO, AWS IAM, Cloudflare, Cilium, Istio, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS and TLS

Experience

Senior Platform Engineer

Talos Labs · Technology consulting

Oct 2025 — PresentRemote, Chile

Lead platform engineering and SRE work across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and Linux environments, including production reliability, incident response, security and observability.
Built development and production Amazon EKS platforms across multiple AWS accounts with OpenTofu and Argo CD.
Built elastic self-hosted GitHub Actions runners with Actions Runner Controller, Karpenter and Spot EC2. Idle runner capacity scales to zero.
Built a distributed k6 and Locust platform with Argo Workflows that reached 100,000 concurrent simulated users.
Migrated about 70 application routes from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway and Gateway API without service downtime.
Deployed OpenTelemetry tracing with eBPF instrumentation and designed private access with NetBird, Google SSO, AWS IAM and Kubernetes RBAC.

DevOps Engineer

Technology Solutions Latam · Technology consulting · Financial services

Jun 2024 — Sep 2025Santiago, Chile

Supported Kubernetes delivery and production operations across development, staging and production financial-services environments.
Replaced manual deployment steps with controlled Jenkins, Groovy and GitHub Actions workflows.
Improved Veracode and SonarQube gates in CI/CD and documented recurring operations through runbooks.

DevOps Engineer

CITIAPS · Technology consulting

Dec 2021 — May 2024Santiago, Chile

Introduced Argo CD and GitOps in a client environment that had relied on separate Helm-based deployment processes.
Reduced annual observability infrastructure cost by about USD 3K by replacing an Elastic-based stack with VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, VMAlert and Grafana.
Built and maintained more than 16 reusable Helm charts and delivery automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Python and Bash.
Designed highly available PostgreSQL with CloudNativePG, automatic failover and Amazon S3 backups through Barman.

Selected platform work

Elastic CI compute platform

Ephemeral GitHub Actions compute with ARC, Karpenter and Spot EC2. Capacity follows each workload and returns to zero when idle.

Kubernetes performance engineering platform

A self-service k6 and Locust platform on Argo Workflows, tested at 100,000 concurrent simulated users.

OpenTelemetry and eBPF tracing

Kernel-level trace telemetry for production troubleshooting without relying only on application instrumentation.

Credentials

Certifications

CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Google Associate Cloud Engineer
GitHub Foundations
Google Cloud Computing Foundations
EF SET English Certificate — C2 Proficient

Education

B.S. in Computer Science Engineering
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 2019 — 2022

Ranked #1 among Civil Engineering graduates at the university and received the Marcos Orrego Puelma Award from the Institute of Engineers of Chile.

Languages

Spanish — Native
English — Professional working proficiency