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Hi, I am Max

Max Levine

Infrastructure Engineer at Arenko

Mission driven Infrastructure Engineer building sustainable energy of the future at Arenko

Skills

Experience

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Arenko

November 2024 - Present

London, UK

Building a sustainable energy platform for the UK’s future

November 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Developed bespoke Terraform modules for deploying services on AWS infrastructure
  • Reduced technical debt of critical systems in production environments
  • Incident response and on-call. Diagnosed and resolved incidents in live systems
VivaCity Labs

Dec 2022 - November 2024

London, UK

At VivaCity, our vision is to make cities smarter, safer and more sustainable. Our AI sensors and ‘Smart Junctions’ signal control gather detailed and anonymous data 24/7 on transport modes, traffic flow and travel patterns, supporting strategic decisions to help optimise the transport network and improve urban infrastructure.

Infrastructure Team Lead

May 2023 - November 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Led the Infrastructure team by defining objectives and key results (OKRs), creating training and development plans, organizing sprint planning sessions, and conducting retrospectives
  • Developed a new, scalable Kafka cluster to handle data from over 4,000 distributed IoT devices
  • Implemented Jira Service Management for alerting, incident management, task tracking, and internal and external helpdesks
  • Provided support and maintenance for cloud-based Kubernetes clusters defined as code with Terraform
Platform Engineer

Dec 2022 - May 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Managed Continuous Integration (CI) process running builds across over 20 virtualised Jenkins agents hosted on an internal Proxmox cluster, equipped with GPUs to train AI models
  • Developed formal incident response procedure including incident post-mortem templates and guidance
  • Provided support and maintenance for cloud-based Kubernetes clusters defined as code with Terraform
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Crescent Med

Oct 2022 - Oct 2022

Crescent Med is building immersive remote learning experiences for surgical education

DevOps Engineer (Contractor)

Oct 2022 - Oct 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Refactored code for cloud compatibility
  • Deployed microservices to Azure
  • Documented deployment process and Azure concepts
Elephant Healthcare

Sep 2022 - Sep 2022

London, UK

Elephant provides digital software to medical centres in third world countries

Platform Software Engineer

Sep 2022 - Sep 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Built kubernetes web deployments deployed using Helm and ArgoCD on AWS EKS
  • Used a GitOps methodology to maximise automation flows based around git infrastructure
  • Made redundant due to funding issues resulting in 70% reduction in costs across business
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Morgan Stanley

Jun 2018 - Mar 2022

London, UK

Morgan Stanley helps people, institutions and governments raise, manage and distribute the capital they need to achieve their goals

Data Infrastructure Engineer

Aug 2020 - Mar 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Grew plant of HVR hubs from 4 to 30 across four environments, including both clustered and single-node installations
  • Designed and implemented new REST API server based on Python’s FastAPI with PostgreSQL to store and manage configuration data for HVR plant
  • Onboarded team onto Ansible Tower with playbooks and dynamic inventories to automate operations performed by colleagues, adjacent teams, and clients
  • Used Jenkins as a CI/CD server to build and deploy software onto globally distributed AFS according to internal SDLC process
Summer Analyst

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

Responsibilities:
  • Developed a flexible Python application to build and run instances of Sybase ASE either locally or, using the Treadmill API, on cloud-based containers
  • Customisable with CLI flags and environment variables for build details or Sybase configuration
Warwick Student Cinema

Feb 2017 - Mar 2019

Coventry, UK

Warwick Student Cinema is a nationally acclaimed, student run, professional standard cinema

IT Officer

Feb 2017 - Mar 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Developed and maintained PHP website and CRM used for film schedules, staff rotas, events management, and resource tracking by up to 3,500 monthly users
  • Migrated bare-metal and virtual machine based services onto Docker containers spread across a seven node cluster using GlusterFS to replicate persistent data
  • Purchased scalable HP rack server based on user requirements, architected and implemented integration with existing infrastructure, and decommissioned legacy hardware
  • Maintained office infrastructure for over 50 staff members, including an active directory, internal Wi-Fi network, printers, and role-based access control, as well as providing regular user support
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Noam Masorti Youth

Summer 2015 - Summer 2019

London, UK

Noam invests in its young people by allowing them space to explore what they value, challenging them to take on new experiences and equipping them with the skills they need to become inspiring leaders

Welfare Officer

Summer 2019 - Summer 2019

Responsibilities:
  • In later years held a senior role directing other leaders and providing specialised welfare support.
Senior Summer Camp Leader

Summer 2015 - Summer 2018

Responsibilities:
  • Volunteered as a leader on three week long summer camps for groups of 30 - 70 children between the ages of 11 and 15
  • Wrote and ran educational programs teaching about history, school issues, and Judaism
  • Supported unique situations and needs, such as SEN, homesickness, and behavioural issues
  • Gained skills in leadership, co-operation, welfare, and discipline