Experience

Lead Cloud & DevOps Engineer — 15+ years across cloud, infrastructure, and automation.

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Technical skills

Cloud & infrastructure

AWS (expert): VPC, Route 53, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, ACM, IAM, EMR, Bedrock, MQ

IaC: AWS CDK (Python), Terraform, Pulumi

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

Config management: Ansible, Chef

DevOps & CI/CD

Platforms: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Jenkins

Version control: Git, GitHub

Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix

Programming

Languages: Python, Bash

Cloud development: AWS CDK with Python, Pulumi with TypeScript

Systems & data

OS: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 2, Bottlerocket

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · 2019 HashiCorp Terraform Associate · 2023 Azure Fundamentals · 2019 ITIL Foundations · 2016 Scrum Master, CertiProf · 2016

Professional experience

Senior Cloud Engineer / Lead DevOps Engineer

Dec 2024 – Present

Gorilla Logic (CarNow)

Leading the migration of a monolithic application to AWS with a cloud-native architecture
Architecting and implementing the full infrastructure using AWS CDK with Python
Designing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, replacing legacy Jenkins processes
Evaluating and implementing containerization strategies across ECS and EKS
Migrating ETL data jobs from Qubole to AWS EMR
Implementing observability with Datadog

AWS CDK GitHub Actions EKS EMR Datadog

Senior DevOps Linux Engineer

Jun 2024 – Dec 2024

Rockwell Automation

Led a large-scale migration from Chef to Ansible for configuration management
Developed automated VM image creation using Packer
Implemented secure secrets integration with Azure Key Vault and CyberArk
Created automated deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps
Managed configuration for an extensive private-cloud VM fleet

Ansible Packer Azure DevOps Python

DevOps Engineer

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024

Experis Manpower (Rockwell Automation)

Built Packer, Ansible, and Terraform automation for VMware and Azure deployments
Created Python automation for recurring DevOps tasks
Built technical demos for HashiCorp tooling and automation use cases
Defined roadmaps for standardizing DevOps practices

Terraform Ansible VMware Azure

Systems Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Oct 2021 – Oct 2023

EPAM (UKG, EZCall)

Designed and deployed infrastructure using Terraform and Pulumi (TypeScript)
Managed Kubernetes clusters, Helm charts, and Istio configurations
Implemented CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions
Built observability with Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
Provided L2 support and root cause analysis for production issues

Kubernetes Istio Pulumi Prometheus Grafana

Senior Systems Integrator, LATAM

Aug 2020 – Sep 2021

IDEMIA

Deployed and maintained in-house products across private cloud, public cloud, and on-premise
Provided technical guidance on Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, and MongoDB
Worked with executives and stakeholders to define business requirements

Kubernetes Docker MongoDB

Earlier roles

Support Engineer / Systems Integrator

Jan 2019 – Aug 2020

IDEMIA

LATAM customer support for products deployed on OpenStack and AWS; built internal documentation and replicated customer environments for troubleshooting.

Services Manager

Jul 2017 – Dec 2018

BankVision

Managed support teams to meet SLAs and ensure application performance.

Customer Project Manager

Oct 2013 – May 2017

Ericsson (Telefónica Movistar)

Managed large-scale telecom projects across Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Venezuela, coordinating multicultural teams across time zones and hitting delivery goals four years running.

OS Administrator

Nov 2012 – Jul 2013

Huawei (Telefónica Movistar)

Managed Red Hat and Solaris servers supporting critical platforms.

Information Systems Specialist

Jun 2007 – Nov 2012

Digitel GSM

Led infrastructure projects ensuring high availability of enterprise systems.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering