Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

• As Senior AWS Cloud Tech Lead at Ayvens, I lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our global AWS infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and automation across a multi-account enterprise environment.
• Key responsibilities:
• Architect and evolve the AWS Landing Zone platform, enforcing governance, compliance, and security at scale.
• Drive DevSecOps and FinOps practices to optimize cloud spend, enhance security posture, and streamline operations.
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve system reliability, observability, and incident response.
• Lead and govern offshore service providers, ensuring high-quality delivery and alignment with enterprise cloud strategy.
• Champion infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK), CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes (EKS) to enable developer velocity and platform resilience.
• Key technologies: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM), EKS, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, CI/CD, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks

Jan 2021 – May 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

• Led digital product delivery and service operations across global platforms, blending Agile, DevOps, and ITSM to drive high-quality releases and 24/7 support.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Directed CI/CD release operations across multiple services, aligning product, engineering, and QA teams.
• Oversaw service onboarding, incident response, and SLA adherence for live digital products.
• Promoted Agile practices (Scrum, SAFe) and cross-functional collaboration across business and tech stakeholders.
• Implemented automation and continuous improvement initiatives using ITIL and SDLC frameworks.
• Key Achievements:
• Led a full ITSM transformation: 24/7 support, event management (Opsgenie, Datadog), and modern change management.
• Launched a global Jira Service Management portal used by 30+ countries.
• Defined and delivered a GitFlow-based release strategy bridging DevOps and ITSM.
• Owned the ITSM product roadmap and led technical releases and hypercare phases.

Mar 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands · On-site

• Summary: Led DevOps transformation for a global-scale platform, driving automation, resilience, and continuous delivery across hybrid cloud environments.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Managed a DevOps team delivering CI/CD pipelines (AWS, VMware) for a multi-million user platform.
• Designed high-availability microservices architectures using Docker, Kubernetes, and open-source tooling.
• Acted as Scrum Master, owning the full application lifecycle and fostering team performance and agile delivery.
• Key Achievements:
• Implemented a next-gen CI/CD pipeline with Spinnaker, enabling continuous deployment.
• Led the migration from private to public multi-cloud using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Unified fragmented Dev and Ops teams under a shared DevOps culture and delivery model.

Sep 2017 – Feb 2018 · 5 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands · On-site

• Summary: Led CI/CD automation and microservices transformation for a large-scale platform in a distributed environment.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible, and Python to enable high-velocity software delivery.
• Coordinated cross-team requirements and deployments using Jira and Agile practices.
• Troubleshot complex issues across hybrid environments and platforms.
• Key Achievements:
• Migrated a monolithic application to Kubernetes, enabling scalable microservices and continuous delivery.
• Established a high-performance DevOps workflow that accelerated release cycles and improved system resilience.

Mar 2014 – Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands · On-site

• Summary: Led virtualization and infrastructure engineering across 1000+ servers, enhancing performance, automation, and availability for global IT operations.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Designed and managed virtual environments (VMware, OVM) and implemented HA, clustering, and elastic cloud solutions.
• Ensured infrastructure security, performance, and lifecycle support across Linux/Unix platforms and Oracle Engineered Systems.
• Drove automation and change management to streamline operations and reduce manual overhead.
• Key Achievements:
• Deployed Liberty Global’s first Puppet-based configuration management system, standardizing infrastructure at scale.
• Delivered two major Oracle Engineered Systems (PCA & BDA), boosting data processing and resource efficiency.

Feb 2007 – Feb 2014 · 7 yrs · Amsterdam Area · On-site

• Summary: Led infrastructure delivery and operations across enterprise data centers, focusing on storage, virtualization, and system automation.
• Key responsibilities:
• Delivered IT infrastructure projects under PRINCE2, ensuring ITIL compliance and operational readiness.
• Managed SAN storage, backups, and OS lifecycle across 12 affiliates and multiple vendor platforms (Oracle, Hitachi, RedHat, Cisco, HP).
• Supported DBA teams and coordinated with internal and external stakeholders for system integration and performance.
• Key achievements:
• Deployed Oracle Engineered Systems (Exalytics, ODA) and enterprise monitoring (Oracle EM Ops Center 12c).
• Introduced Ansible-based orchestration and automated OS provisioning (Kickstart, Jumpstart).
• Contributed to the design and deployment of two new data centers.

Sep 2004 – Aug 2005 · 11 mos · Madrid Area, Spain

• Security and system administration of hundreds of Sun servers widespread throughout Spain. Firewall administration (SunScreen, VPNs). Making of security standards and policies. Data monitoring and analysis. Antivirus and antiSpam implementation. Statistics and performance analysis.

Mar 2003 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Madrid Area, Spain

• Engineering multiple end-to-end solutions for prominent governmental enterprises and public organizations, including customer-centric pre-sales presentations and tailored training programs. As well as auditing and consulting, integration, optimization, and securitization of OS, deployment, administration and hardening of services. DC and HW infrastructure design and architecture. Project end-2-end implementation (procedures, deployment, troubleshooting, documentation, training).
• Main Projects / Achievements: DC replica auditing (VSAN, clusters, Veritas, dark fibre), RHEL Cluster with MySQL, Systems and Roaming IP services auditing, DNS and security auditing in RHEL and Solaris, Optimization and securing Solaris, Novell to RHEL Samba migration, Network HA with Linux, LexNET Project (Electronic legal doc, with RHEL), Linux auth. against MS Active Directory.
• Main Clients: Red.es, Ministry of Public Administrations, Valencia Government, CADA (Government), Telefonica International, PME (Treasury), France Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, Asturias Government, Amena (Orange), Ministry of Justice, Maroc Telecom.

Feb 2000 – Mar 2003 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Madrid Area, Spain

• Technical writing in several publications: “PC Actual”, “Redes y Telecom”, “Computing” and “Computer Idea”. Elaboration of documentation, analysis, protocols and methodologies of tests. Implementation and administration of systems, networks and servers with different O.S. Accomplishment of laboratory tests.

Mar 1998 – Feb 2000 · 1 yr 11 mos · Madrid Area, Spain

• Hardware and software computer store. Hardware operations manager. Network administration (Windows / Linux). Laboratory tests. Implementation of systems. Incident reports, optimization, maintenance and outsourcing.