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Senior SRE | OpenShift & Kubernetes | Dynatrace | Oracle Exadata | AIOps | Banking & Insurance
Setúbal, Portugal
Worldwide
BSc Computer ScienceAbout me
Senior SRE, 5 years on banking and insurance platforms, currently embedded at a top-tier Portuguese bank. I keep OpenShift estates, observability stacks and Oracle/SQL databases fast and available, and automate the toil away. Remote from Lisbon (CET).
SREGitHub ActionsLLMHelmJava (Programming Language)BankingLinuxDevOpsElasticsearchOracle ExadataGitHubHAProxyIncident ManagementPython (Programming Language)Uptime
Kubernetes & OpenShift Operations
Expertise in operating and optimising Kubernetes and OpenShift environments, including CI/CD pipelines with GoCD and GitHub Actions, package management with Helm, capacity planning, and right-sizing pod CPU/memory resources across large-scale enterprise estates.
Observability & Monitoring
Deep knowledge of observability tooling including Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/ECK, Kibana, and Splunk, covering SLO-style alerting, anomaly detection, dashboard creation, and on-call escalation path management.
Database Performance & Administration
Strong background in SQL and database performance tuning across Oracle/Exadata, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, including query optimisation, indexing, capacity management, and leading zero-downtime database migrations.
AIOps & AI Agent Development
Design and development of AI agents backed by internal knowledge bases to diagnose DevOps and Kubernetes incidents, with approximately 90% of proposed fixes applied directly to CI/CD pipelines.
CI/CD & Automation
Hands-on experience with GoCD, GitHub Actions, Python, and Shell scripting for automation of reporting, cluster analysis, ticket workflows, and introduction of LLM-based tooling to DevOps teams.
Cloud & FinOps
Practical experience with Azure (fundamentals) and FinOps practices, including on-premises capacity right-sizing resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings.
Languages & AI Frameworks
Programming and scripting skills in Python, Java/Spring Boot, .NET, and SQL, with experience building LLM agents.
Platform Engineering
Experience developing and operating enterprise applications using .NET, OutSystems, and SQL Server for media and banking clients, managing the full lifecycle from development to production support.
Incident Management & Root-Cause Analysis
Leadership of incident response processes, authoring postmortems, and driving follow-up actions across development and infrastructure teams to meet SLA and uptime targets.
Experience
Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2026
Languages
EnglishFluentPortugueseNative speaker
Project history
Embedded SRE for major Portuguese banking and insurance clients, currently on-site at a top-tier bank. Responsibilities include reliability and performance analysis for business-critical systems, observability across Dynatrace, Grafana/Prometheus, Kibana/ELK and Splunk, CI/CD operations on OpenShift and Kubernetes, incident response and root-cause analysis, Technical Service Manager for Oracle Exadata migration, SQL and database performance tuning, and building automation in Python and Shell including LLM-based tooling.
Developed and operated enterprise applications using .NET, OutSystems, and SQL Server for media and banking clients, owning the lifecycle from development to production support. Optimised SQL queries and stored procedures, and introduced proactive debugging, testing, and monitoring practices that reduced production incidents.