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100 % availableSenior DevOps & Cloud Engineer | AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform
Dudu, Chiajna, Romania
Only remote
Bachelor's degree - Geography, Universitatea Ovidius (2005-2008)About me
Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 8+ years in DevOps and extensive enterprise IT experience. Specialized in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, CI/CD and Golang. Experienced in banking, financial services, cloud migrations and enterprise automation.
Azure Kubernetes ServiceAzure FunctionsAzure DevOpsAmazon Elastic Compute CloudBash ShellCloud ComputingCloud Computing SecurityCloud EngineeringCloud FoundryVirtual Private ServersCloud TestingApache CloudStackDevOpsPython (Programming Language)OpenShift
Cloud Infrastructure – AWS & Microsoft Azure
Enterprise cloud infrastructure design, provisioning and operations across AWS and Azure. AWS EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, ECR, Route 53, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager and SSM. Azure Container Apps, AKS, Key Vault, Application Gateway, WAF, Private Endpoints, Private DNS, Managed Identities, RBAC and networking. Experience supporting financial services and enterprise platforms.
DevOps & CI/CD Engineering
Design, development and modernization of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins and Bitbucket. Reusable pipeline templates, automated builds, Docker image publishing, Maven, Helm deployments, release approvals, environment promotion and rollback strategies. Integration of SonarQube, Trivy, JFrog Artifactory and security scanning.
Kubernetes, OpenShift & IBM Technologies
Deployment, administration and troubleshooting of Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS and Red Hat OpenShift workloads. Helm charts, container orchestration, RBAC, ingress controllers, TLS certificates, secrets, networking and application monitoring. Experience with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, IBM Event Streams, Kafka Connect, Debezium CDC and JMX/Prometheus monitoring in banking environments.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python and Bash. Infrastructure provisioning, reusable Terraform modules, remote state management, environment isolation, cloud networking, IAM/RBAC, secret management and automated infrastructure deployment through CI/CD pipelines.
Golang & Software Development
Go (Golang) development for monitoring exporters, automation tools, backend services and cloud-native applications. REST APIs, Docker containerization, Linux services and integration with Prometheus/Grafana. Python scripting, AWS Lambda functions and API integrations.
DevSecOps, Security & Networking
AWS IAM, OIDC/IRSA, Azure Managed Identities, Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, TLS/mTLS, certificates, private networking, VPN, firewall rules and Kubernetes security. Security scanning with Trivy, SonarQube, Wazuh and Dependency-Track.
Monitoring, Observability & Troubleshooting
Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Fluent Bit, Kibana and JMX exporters. Production troubleshooting, container diagnostics, performance analysis, incident investigation and infrastructure health monitoring.
Enterprise & Banking Platforms
Experience supporting regulated banking environments, payment platforms, authentication systems, Keycloak, API gateways, microservices, database migrations, IBM integration platforms and high-availability infrastructure across development, testing and production environments.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2019
Languages
EnglishFluent
Project history
Supported and modernized cloud-native banking platforms running on AWS, focusing on Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD automation, secure application delivery and operational reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
Managed Amazon EKS environments hosting banking microservices and API gateways.
Designed and refactored GitLab CI/CD pipelines using reusable deployment templates.
Developed and maintained Helm charts for application deployments and centralized ingress management.
Automated Docker image builds, publishing to Amazon ECR and deployment across environments.
Integrated AWS Secrets Manager, External Secrets Operator, IAM and Kubernetes RBAC.
Troubleshot Kubernetes networking, ingress, TLS/mTLS, application authentication and deployment issues.
Supported Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning and environment management.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Helm, Docker, ECR, Secrets Manager, Kubernetes, NGINX Ingress, Linux.
Developed Go-based monitoring components and automation utilities to improve operational visibility and support cloud-native infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
Developed custom Prometheus metrics exporters using Golang for services without native monitoring capabilities.
Integrated application metrics into Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.
Supported containerization and deployment of monitoring components.
Built automation and integration tooling for Linux and cloud environments.
Worked with REST APIs and infrastructure automation workflows.
Supported observability across distributed microservice environments.
Technologies: Golang, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Linux, REST APIs, Python, Bash, Kubernetes.
Contributed to the modernization of enterprise application infrastructure using Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment pipelines.
Key Responsibilities:
Managed Azure Container Apps and associated infrastructure across development and testing environments.
Developed and maintained Terraform configurations for networking, storage, identity and application hosting.
Integrated Azure Key Vault with managed identities and secure application configuration.
Configured private endpoints, private DNS, network security groups and Azure Application Gateway.
Developed Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for Terraform planning, approvals, deployment and environment management.
Supported Azure Blob Storage integration, secure connectivity and infrastructure monitoring.
Investigated infrastructure drift, Terraform state issues and deployment failures.
Technologies: Microsoft Azure, Azure Container Apps, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Key Vault, Application Gateway, Private Endpoints, Azure Monitor, RBAC.