Resume

Tomer Cohen

Cloud Architect & Consultant

Professional Summary

Cloud architect and consultant with extensive experience designing, building, and optimizing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. Specializing in multi-cloud environments, infrastructure as code, security compliance, and DevOps practices. Proven track record of helping organizations achieve operational excellence, security, and cost efficiency.

Professional Experience

Head of Cloud Infrastructure | EverC

2023 – Present

  • Lead company-wide security architecture, cloud infrastructure, and compliance programs across product, engineering, and operations
  • Achieved and maintain SOC 2 Type II and ISO-27001 certifications; manage audits, evidence, and remediation
  • Architect AI/ML platforms (Databricks, AWS EMR, MLflow) and assess risks of AI adoption for regulatory alignment
  • Monitor regulatory trends (DORA, EU AI Act) and align internal practices and product roadmap
  • Provide architectural guidance to R&D, embedding secure-by-design and SSDLC principles
  • Lead security readiness for highly regulated customers in banking, payments, and marketplace sectors
  • Implement and manage security systems (CSPM, SIEM, DLP, CDR, CNAPP) following OWASP and NIST guidelines
  • Drive vendor relationships and product roadmap collaboration with leading security and observability vendors
  • Drive cloud cost optimization strategy, achieving a 35% reduction in hosting spend

DevOps Team Lead | EverC

2021 – 2023

  • Principal engineer, leading a distributed DevOps team across Israel and Ukraine (60% hands-on)
  • Prepared annual budget plans and designed team policies, goals, and procedures
  • Led product’s system and infrastructure from startup to enterprise grade, introducing new technologies and automation
  • Designed and implemented big-data solutions and automation to improve development velocity
  • Drove cloud cost optimizations, reducing hosting costs by 30%
  • Led team through high-pressure environments and fast-changing priorities

Previous Experience

2020 – 2021: Senior DevOps Engineer & SRE, EverC
2018 – 2020: DevOps Engineer, AT&T
2012 – 2018: Full-Stack Developer, QA Engineer, System Administrator (AT&T & IDF)

  • Managed production and development environments over AWS and Azure, led cloud migrations, and implemented automation
  • Kubernetes tech lead, designed and provisioned new infrastructure, and led POCs with industry partners
  • Developed scalable applications and CI/CD pipelines, integrated security and compliance tools
  • Administered Linux servers, mentored new team members, and collaborated with global teams
  • Built full automation coverage, developed open-source projects, and led onboarding programs in classified environments

Public Speaking & Conference Engagements

DevOps Days Summit | Tel Aviv, Israel – October 2024
Invited speaker on just-in-time access and just-enough privileges in cloud environments. Shared strategies for minimizing security risks and reducing attack surfaces.

NetApp EMEA Industry Analyst Strategy Summit | Windsor, England – May 2024
Selected to present EverC’s architecture and AI-based merchant risk detection solution. Shared strategic insights on the evolving AI landscape with analysts and industry leaders.

DevOps Leaders Meetup | Tel Aviv, Israel – May 2024
Invited to speak about leveraging DORA metrics to measure DevOps culture and performance in high-growth environments.

DevOps Leaders Podcast | Remote / Israel – April 2024
Featured guest discussing experience in DevOps across a startup and an enterprise, and the evolving role of platform leadership.

15th Chais Conference on Innovation and Learning Technologies | Ra’anana, Israel – February 2020
Presented academic research titled “Big Data Mining from Israel’s National Digital Learning Platform (Campus)”. Demonstrated a video analytics tool developed to support course improvement by identifying student engagement drop-off points.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi
Container & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS
CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, Coralogix
Security & Compliance: SOC2 Type II, ISO-27001, GDPR, EU AI Act
Scripting & Programming: Python, Bash, Go
Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab

Education

2016-2019: B.Sc. Computer Science (evening class) - Holon Institute of Technology (HIT)
2016: Linux Networking
2016: Advanced Java Programming
2016: Angular for Beginners
2015: Agile Methodology
2014: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]

Contact

For consulting inquiries or collaboration opportunities, please get in touch.