Lucas de Souza

DevOps Engineer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates10 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure.
Expert in CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
Strong focus on customer-centric solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a strong focus on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Infrastructure ManagementSite Reliability Engineering

Other Skills

AWSAmazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)CI/CDContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DevOpsGitOpsInfrastructure as code (IaC)JenkinsKubernetesLinuxMentoringNetwork InfrastructurePlatform ArchitecturePython

About

I'm a computer engineer with 8+ years of experience, passionate about blending innovation, scalability, and practical solutions. I've worked across different industries and roles, always focused on creating customer-focused solutions, tackling tough challenges head-on, and taking full ownership of my work. At the core of my professional philosophy are three pillars: - Customer Obsession: From enabling developer autonomy to crafting secure, reliable infrastructure, I keep the end-user experience front and center. - Dive Deep: I have a track record of building robust cloud ecosystems, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, and automating workflows with precision and foresight. - Ownership: Every project I undertake reflects my commitment to not only meet but exceed expectations, ensuring long-term scalability and security. Whether I’m enabling self-service capabilities for development teams or architecting multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, I’m motivated by a singular goal: driving impact through technology.

Experience

Alraedah digital solutions

DevOps Tech Lead

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

DevOps Lead | Building a Strong Foundation for Alraedah’s Cloud Journey
Started the Platform Team from scratch, setting up everything the team needed: observability tools, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable infrastructure templates to make life easier for everyone.
Managed and kept our Oracle Cloud infrastructure running smoothly, using Kubernetes to handle our applications and make sure they were always reliable and scalable.
Took charge of cloud costs, finding smart ways to keep expenses under control while making sure everything stayed performant.
Focused on making things developer-friendly, so the team had the tools and systems they needed to work efficiently and stress-free.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Infrastructure ManagementPlatform ArchitectureMentoringSite Reliability Engineering+1

Huspy

Platform Engineer

Jul 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Making Cloud Infrastructure Reliable, Secure, and Developer-Friendly at Huspy
Built and managed infrastructure-as-code (IaC) with Terraform, making it super easy to spin up resources quickly and consistently.
Empowered developers by conducting training sessions and producing comprehensive documentation. This enabled teams to independently deploy their own applications, eliminating the need for external support and accelerating their workflows.
Worked closely with teams across the company to ensure our infrastructure met their needs while staying secure, reliable, and scalable.
Set up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, automating testing and deployments to save time, reduce errors, and get features out faster.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Amazon Web Services (AWS)TerraformInfrastructure ManagementMentoringSite Reliability Engineering+3

Malwarebytes

Site Reliability Engineering

Nov 2021 – Jul 2022 · 8 mos · Tallinn Metropolitan Area

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Infrastructure ManagementMentoringSite Reliability EngineeringKubernetes

Pythian

DevOps Engineer

May 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Infrastructure ManagementSite Reliability EngineeringKubernetes

Iti itaú

Platform Engineer

Jun 2020 – Feb 2021 · 8 mos

Develop and maintain multi-cluster EKS for microservices using Terraform/Terragrunt.
Develop CI/CD Gitlab pipelines for Terraform using GitOps principles.
Responsible for developing Terraform modules with guardrails and security compliance.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Infrastructure ManagementSite Reliability EngineeringKubernetes

C6 bank

SRE

Sep 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

Responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring emergency response, and capacity planning of the services.
Develop and maintain Microservices in Infrastructure as Code fashion.
Develop Terraform modules.
Build CI/CD Terraform pipelines with Vault as a secret backend engine.
Develop Ansible roles/playbooks and Packer for immutable Infrastructure.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Infrastructure ManagementSite Reliability EngineeringKubernetes

Semantix brasil

2 roles

Infrastructure Developer

Jan 2018 – Sep 2018 · 8 mos

Responsible by creating and managing infrastructure as code in cloud using mainly Terraform and Ansible.
Experience with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, Codepipeline, Codebuild, Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch and others.
Reducing the efforts on creating and managing infrastructure by using Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes.
Experience with DevOps and HA environments
Responsible for monitoring in the team using Prometheus for the metrics and Grafana to show them.
Experience in serverless by using AWS lambda with python.
Help to bring the Automate all the things culture.

Data Engineer Intern

Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 · 4 mos

Learned concepts in Big Data and tools
o Apache Spark
o Hadoop
o Hive
crawler and scraper data with Python and Ruby

Portland state university

Student Volunteer

Oct 2015 – Mar 2016 · 5 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Front desk volunteer for PSU. Worked on the Computer Action Team supporting the PSU students with their e-mails account and login accounts. My shifts were mostly speaking with students on the front desk and reply question by e-mail. I also worked to maintain the infrastructure of the University.