03/02/2026 updated
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100 % availableSenior Platform Engineer & Cloud Architect
Bucharest, Romania
Germany +5
Bachelor's Degree in Managementinfo: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Netherlands
About me
Senior Platform Engineer & Cloud Architect | CKA & OSCP Certified | 13+ years designing secure Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS), GitOps (ArgoCD), Terraform, and HashiCorp Vault for regulated financial services and enterprise e-commerce across Europe.
Amazon Web ServicesAmazon CloudfrontPenetration TestingArchitectureArchitectural DesignAutomationMicrosoft AzureBash ShellCisco IOSCloud ComputingComputer ProgrammingData ArchitectureDevOpsGitHubHAProxy
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD), Infrastructure as Code, and Developer Platform tooling with extensive experience in cloud migrations and platform architecture design
Cloud Platform Architecture
Comprehensive knowledge of AWS (EKS, Fargate, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Route53, CloudFront), Azure (AKS, DevOps), and GCP (GKE) with focus on high-availability architectures for enterprise platforms
Security & DevSecOps
Advanced security implementation using HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Falco, Cosign, tfsec, SonarQube, Veracode, Dependency-Track, and OSCP-level pentesting expertise
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and GitHub Actions for automated infrastructure deployment and management
Observability & Monitoring
Implementation of comprehensive monitoring solutions using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Kibana, InfluxDB, and PagerDuty for enterprise-scale platforms
Networking & Security
Advanced networking with NGINX Plus, App Protect, HAProxy, F5 GTM, Akamai WAF, Cloudflare, OpenVPN, IPSec, Cisco IOS, and Fortigate solutions
Data & Messaging Systems
Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DocumentDB, RabbitMQ, and Kafka for scalable data architecture solutions
Programming & Scripting
Development skills in Bash, Python, Lua, and YAML/HCL for automation, tooling, and infrastructure management
Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD), Infrastructure as Code, and Developer Platform tooling with extensive experience in cloud migrations and platform architecture design
Cloud Platform Architecture
Comprehensive knowledge of AWS (EKS, Fargate, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Route53, CloudFront), Azure (AKS, DevOps), and GCP (GKE) with focus on high-availability architectures for enterprise platforms
Security & DevSecOps
Advanced security implementation using HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Falco, Cosign, tfsec, SonarQube, Veracode, Dependency-Track, and OSCP-level pentesting expertise
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and GitHub Actions for automated infrastructure deployment and management
Observability & Monitoring
Implementation of comprehensive monitoring solutions using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Kibana, InfluxDB, and PagerDuty for enterprise-scale platforms
Networking & Security
Advanced networking with NGINX Plus, App Protect, HAProxy, F5 GTM, Akamai WAF, Cloudflare, OpenVPN, IPSec, Cisco IOS, and Fortigate solutions
Data & Messaging Systems
Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DocumentDB, RabbitMQ, and Kafka for scalable data architecture solutions
Programming & Scripting
Development skills in Bash, Python, Lua, and YAML/HCL for automation, tooling, and infrastructure management
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchBasic knowledgeRomanianNative speaker
Project history
Remote contract engagements focusing on enterprise platform engineering and security infrastructure, including HashiCorp Vault cluster deployment, secrets management centralization, certificate lifecycle management automation, and cloud migration projects
Engineered NGINX configurations across full SDLC pipeline for Europe's largest banking platforms, authored operational runbooks for F5 GTM implementations, and managed SSL certificate lifecycle for critical banking infrastructure
Led team of 5 engineers supporting Romania's largest electro-IT e-commerce platform with annual infrastructure spend of 500-850K EUR, architected EKS infrastructure with multi-AZ high availability, and managed full migration from on-premises monolith to cloud-native microservices