Pavel Tankov

Senior DevOps/Linux Engineer with 20+ years of hands-on Linux experience and a strong focus on cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD modernization, and container orchestration. Currently at Pariplay, an Aristocrat Interactive company, I work on CI/CD pipeline modernization across a large portfolio of production services - migrating legacy Jenkins pipelines to a Jenkins + Octopus Deploy architecture, containerizing Windows IIS applications for AWS EKS with Windows Server 2022 nodes, and managing deployments with Helm and Terraform. Day to day, this involves rolling deployments with load balancer integration, Octopus API automation, Artifactory package management, and Bitbucket webhook integration with Jenkins. Previously at Percona, I tested Kubernetes Operators for PostgreSQL and MongoDB across GKE, EKS, AKS, and OpenShift. My broader toolbox includes Docker, Helm, Terraform, and AWS EKS. I specialize in turning legacy build and deployment workflows into repeatable, automated pipelines - from infrastructure provisioning to container orchestration. Comfortable with both greenfield cloud-native projects and brownfield migrations at scale. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria (EET/EEST), available for full-time or contract remote roles. Looking for Linux-first, cloud-native teams where I can bring immediate impact to infrastructure, reliability, and deployment velocity.