I am a cloud engineer with over 6 years of experience as a DevOps engineer. My expertise lies in Terraform infrastructure management, microservices deployments, CI/CD automation, and configuration management automation.
Edify 08/2024 —
In my role as a Senior devops engineer at Edify, I have supported multiple agile development efforts at a variety of small, mid-size and large EdTech organizations. I've worked directly with product owners, designers, project managers, testers and fellow engineers to infrastructure desgin and automation with Infrastructure as a code.
Highlights
- Performed a clean up of terraform repo and fix terrafrom state drift.
- Planned new architecture design and process for migrating to microservices.
Svitla 02/01/2022 — 31/7/2024
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, I conducted migrations of legacy applications from a data center to a cloud environment. My roles involved architecture design, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup, CI/CD creation and automation, QA pipeline automation, infrastructure maintenance, and monitoring implementation.
Highlights
- Improved build pipelines by more than 50% in terms of build time.
- Established standards for SDLC and CI/CD across multiple organizations.
- Optimized infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and pipeline automation.
- Created JMeter pipelines and collaborated with QA teams to develop necessary tests for each application.
- Integrated SonarQube code tests into pipelines.
- Managed Atlas Mongodb.
- Installed and configured New Relic for microservices deployments.
- Created and managed Helm charts for microservices.
- Troubleshoot production issues and perform production releases.
- Managed Azure Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, troubleshooting, and configuration
IBM 10/5/2021 — 01/31/2022
As a DevOps Engineer, I managed Kubernetes clusters, conducted security scans on containers, and implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) fixes to ensure SOC2 compliance.
Highlights
- Maintained VMware VSphere datacenter and granted user access to developers.
- Maintained data center firewall Pfsense, providing access to servers.
- Managed firewalls rules and maintenance to firewall.
- Contributed in container vulnerability remediation.
- Assisted with container vulnerability remediation.
- Contributed with infrastructure management with Terraform.
- Deployed applications with Argocd and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Oracle 01/2021 — 10/2021
As a security analyst, I maintained Oracle Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF). This role involved analyzing security breaches, maintaining the WAF, fine-tuning WAF rules, and analyzing customer traffic. I also responded to severity 1 incidents and provided architectural designs to help customers implement Oracle WAF in their infrastructure.
Highlights
Intel 07/2019 — 01/2021
As a DevOps Engineer, I maintained Intel core development tools on on-premises servers and local Kubernetes clusters. Performed application upgrades, server patching, and Kubernetes deployments.
Highlights
- Developed strong communication, active listening, and interpersonal skills, which were crucial when collaborating with the product development team and other stakeholders.
- Consistently applied best practices and encouraged others to do the same, helping maintain effective security.
- Researched the latest tools and technologies to determine their effectiveness in fostering agile environment growth.
- Tested and troubleshot applications, documenting issue resolutions for the development team.
- Scheduled ongoing performance assurance for software applications and automated performance test scripts.
- Supported product development applications: CloudBees Jenkins, TeamCity, and Artifactory.
- Performed active troubleshooting for severity 1 cases, conducted root cause analysis, and managed operations ticketing with ServiceNow.
- Supported on-premises environments in SUSE Enterprise, Windows Server, and Ubuntu Server.
- Implemented New Relic agent installations and alerts for Kubernetes cluster infrastructure and on-premises Linux servers.
IBM 05/2018 — 07/2019
As a Security OpsDesk Analyst, I Served as frontline support for security incidents and troubleshooting firewall and IDS/IPS issues. Escalated severity 1 incidents to next-level support.
Highlights
- Served as first-line customer service representative
- Performed basic security firewall troubleshooting
- Developed scripts to improve task efficiency
- Prepared accurate technical and business reports
- Created automated scripts to enhance internal processes
Intel Sep/2017 — May/2018
As a Devops Security Specialist, I administered and maintained security applications for the security team. This involved server maintenance, patching, infrastructure monitoring, and alert implementation. Automated processes with Python scripting.
Highlights
- Monitored and administered Linux servers
- Provided support and troubleshooting for seven security applications
- Developed automation scripts to enhance application support and infrastructure troubleshooting
- Delivered second-level customer support
- Streamlined implementation processes through scripting
- Participated in troubleshooting as required
Invinsec Sep/2018 — 04/2017
As a Jr. full stack, I created unit testing and modules for integrating different technologies to a SIEM.
Highlights
- Developed log parsing for SIEM technology modules using Logstash.
- Implemented OSSEC (Open Source HIDS SECurity) on Logstash for SIEM.
- Performed unit testing and developed security alerts and scripts, which improved incident response investigations and action delivery to customers.
Invinsec Sep/2016 — Apr/2017
As an incident handler I performed security monitoring, host forensics, log and malware analisis.
Highlights
- Worked with a Security Operations Center (SOC) management console.
- Analyzed firewall logs and events from Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS).
- Gained exposure to various attack and penetration methods and tools. Developed the ability to identify common attack techniques within specific technological contexts.
- Our technology automates much of the work, with Data Scientists continuously improving it and Tactical Threat Management Agents assisting in troubleshooting.
- Developed accurate reports for both technical and business audiences.
- Created scripts, tools, and methodologies to enhance incident investigation processes.
- Provided feedback to Data Scientists to help recognize and codify attacker tools, tactics, and procedures into rules applicable to current and future investigations.
Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica Feb/ 2014 — 12/2016
Universidad Fidelitas 02/2018 — current
Devops
- Github Actions
- Azure Devops
- New Relic
- Terraform
- Docker
- Ansible
- Git
- Argo CD
- Flux
- Cloudbees Jenkins
Cloud
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- OCI
Database Management
- Mysql
- Mongo
- AWS RDS
Monitoring
- New Relic
- Zabbix
- Datadog
- Instana
Scripting
- Bash
- Python
- Powershell