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DevOps & Platform Engineering Leader | Principal Cloud Architect
Moralzarzal, Spain
Only remote
MSc Theoretical PhysicsAbout me
Cloud/Platform Architect — 25+ years engineering, 10+ in regulated FinServ (HSBC, Citi, Barclays). Expert: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Crossplane v2, Argo CD, Terraform. Built IDPs with 0% release failures, 98.6% faster provisioning, 94% faster releases across 8 products. Founder, Dalimaray SL (Madrid).
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Platform Engineering & IDP Design
Design and delivery of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) at enterprise scale, including golden paths, progressive delivery, automated quality gates, self-service infrastructure and platform-as-a-product thinking. Hands-on experience with Backstage, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts and OpenShift.
Multi-Cloud Architecture (AWS & GCP)
Architecture of mission-critical cloud systems from first principles on AWS and GCP, covering re-architecture for latency and reliability, event-driven IDPs on native cloud services, and zero-exposure security architectures. GCP Professional Cloud Architect certified (2026).
DevOps Transformation & CI/CD
Practitioner of The Three Ways and CALMS (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing), translating theoretical frameworks into measurable delivery outcomes. Expertise in CI/CD, GitOps, progressive delivery, DevSecOps (SAST/DAST/SCA), and DORA Metrics across enterprise platforms.
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
Deep expertise in OpenShift (4.x, 3.x), Kubernetes and Istio for containerised workloads, including StatefulSets, KubeVirt VirtualMachines, and private cloud deployments at enterprise scale.
Infrastructure as Code & GitOps
Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, Crossplane and ArgoCD for infrastructure automation, GitOps workflows and declarative platform management across multi-cloud environments.
Observability & SRE Practices
Building global observability platforms processing 16M+ active metric series with 1M+ ingestions/second. Experience with proactive monitoring, automated rollbacks, DORA dashboards, blameless post-mortems and waste-detection tooling.
AI & Machine Learning Integration
Blueprinting cost-effective AI augmentation for platform engineering and DevOps using RAG, agentic systems, production AI evaluation (correctness, faithfulness) and safety guardrails (PII, toxicity, misuse), with EU data sovereignty at the core.
Programming & Scripting
Programming skills across Rust, Python, Go, Java and TypeScript, applied to platform tooling, automation and cloud-native development.
Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
TOGAF 9 Certified enterprise architect with experience defining platform strategy, roadmaps and technology selection as Final Technical Authority. Skilled in Team Topologies, DevOps leadership and stakeholder engagement at CIO level.
Security & Compliance
Embedding DevSecOps (SAST/DAST/SCA), Continuous Testing, audit-grade compliance and cybersecurity practices (mTLS, Binary Authorization, container attestation, zero-inbound-exposure) into delivery pipelines.
Design and delivery of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) at enterprise scale, including golden paths, progressive delivery, automated quality gates, self-service infrastructure and platform-as-a-product thinking. Hands-on experience with Backstage, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts and OpenShift.
Multi-Cloud Architecture (AWS & GCP)
Architecture of mission-critical cloud systems from first principles on AWS and GCP, covering re-architecture for latency and reliability, event-driven IDPs on native cloud services, and zero-exposure security architectures. GCP Professional Cloud Architect certified (2026).
DevOps Transformation & CI/CD
Practitioner of The Three Ways and CALMS (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing), translating theoretical frameworks into measurable delivery outcomes. Expertise in CI/CD, GitOps, progressive delivery, DevSecOps (SAST/DAST/SCA), and DORA Metrics across enterprise platforms.
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
Deep expertise in OpenShift (4.x, 3.x), Kubernetes and Istio for containerised workloads, including StatefulSets, KubeVirt VirtualMachines, and private cloud deployments at enterprise scale.
Infrastructure as Code & GitOps
Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, Crossplane and ArgoCD for infrastructure automation, GitOps workflows and declarative platform management across multi-cloud environments.
Observability & SRE Practices
Building global observability platforms processing 16M+ active metric series with 1M+ ingestions/second. Experience with proactive monitoring, automated rollbacks, DORA dashboards, blameless post-mortems and waste-detection tooling.
AI & Machine Learning Integration
Blueprinting cost-effective AI augmentation for platform engineering and DevOps using RAG, agentic systems, production AI evaluation (correctness, faithfulness) and safety guardrails (PII, toxicity, misuse), with EU data sovereignty at the core.
Programming & Scripting
Programming skills across Rust, Python, Go, Java and TypeScript, applied to platform tooling, automation and cloud-native development.
Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
TOGAF 9 Certified enterprise architect with experience defining platform strategy, roadmaps and technology selection as Final Technical Authority. Skilled in Team Topologies, DevOps leadership and stakeholder engagement at CIO level.
Security & Compliance
Embedding DevSecOps (SAST/DAST/SCA), Continuous Testing, audit-grade compliance and cybersecurity practices (mTLS, Binary Authorization, container attestation, zero-inbound-exposure) into delivery pipelines.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2017
Languages
EnglishFluentSpanishNative speaker
Project history
Architected an IDP reference platform using Backstage, Crossplane v2, ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts with progressive delivery, automated quality gates and revert-PR automated rollback. Blueprinting cost-effective AI augmentation for platform engineering and DevOps using RAG, agentic systems and safety guardrails. B2B consulting for enterprise clients on platform architecture, IDP design, cloud journey advisory and DevOps transformation.
Led platform stream (3 engineers) for Area51 Datafabric on OpenShift private cloud. Blueprinted observability platform for the Equities and Risk department. Contributed to Area51 Datafabric re-architecture for reliability and cybersecurity (mTLS). Built global observability platform processing 16M+ active metric series. Coordinated cross-datacenter migration with zero BAU disruption. Implemented DevOps and SRE practices including IaC, CI/CD, runbooks, incident response and DR testing.
Directed DevOps Digital Transformation for Global Private Banking, reporting to Digital CIO. Led The Platform team (15-30 engineers) implementing Team Topologies and the Three Ways of DevOps. Designed Olin (the GPB IDP) as an end-to-end DevOps platform. Defined platform strategy, roadmap and technology selection. Transformed 8 products from waterfall to agile, delivering 0% release failures, 98.6% faster provisioning, 99.4% cycle time reduction and 94% faster releases. Embedded DevSecOps, Continuous Testing and audit-grade compliance in the delivery pipeline.