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Michael Manolioudis

Senior SysOps Engineer

€300/day
Heraklion, GR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Michael

Senior SysOps Engineer with 9+ years in web hosting and infrastructure operations, including 5+ years owning large-scale cloud infrastructure across 35+ global datacenters serving thousands of production WordPress sites. Expert in GCP, Terraform, Ansible, and Zabbix, with strong Bash and Python automation. Proactive operator equally comfortable architecting infrastructure, building internal tooling, and mentoring teammates on Linux and hosting fundamentals.
  • Greek

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Kinsta
    SysOps Engineer
    January 2021 - Today (5 years and 5 months)
    ▸ Operate GCP and Oracle Cloud infrastructure across 35+ global datacenters, ensuring high availability for thousands of production WordPress sites.
    ▸ Administer Kubernetes/GKE clusters with Helm and manage LXC/LXD container fleets at scale.
    ▸ Provision and version infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible — repeatable, auditable deployments and config management across environments.
    ▸ Own end-to-end Zabbix monitoring (setup, tuning, alerting), driving proactive incident detection platform-wide.
    ▸ Administer Cloudflare: firewall rules, WAF policies, DDoS protection, DNS management.
    ▸ Tune PHP, Nginx, and MySQL/MariaDB for WordPress performance; build Python and Bash tooling with Jira-integrated workflows.
    Ansible Google cloud
  • Top.Host (Enartia)
    Senior Hosting Support / SysAdmin
    February 2017 - December 2020 (3 years and 10 months)
    ▸ Monitored and administered Debian and Windows Server hosting platforms via Icinga and Nagstamon.
    ▸ Delivered Level 2 support for web, mail, and WordPress hosting; resolved escalations through Kayako and Jira.
    ▸ Coordinated successful migration of a large VPS client base to modernized infrastructure with minimal downtime.
    ▸ Trained and mentored the Level 1 team on hosting fundamentals, server-side debugging, and incident response.
  • Plaisio Computers
    Sales Consultant — Electronics Retail • · Public
    January 2014 - January 2017 (3 years)
    ▸ Consultative selling with SAP-based inventory management across two leading Greek electronics retailers. Awarded Best Employee in 6 months across both employers.

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Education

  • Zabbix Certified User
    2023
    Zabbix Certified User
  • BSc Informatics
    Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
    2011
    BSc Informatics

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