Personal details

Daniel C. - Remote

Daniel C.

Timezone: Madrid (UTC+2)

Summary

As a Cloud Engineer and SRE with a strong focus on Kubernetes, I am passionate about staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and finding ways to apply them in my work. My expertise lies in automation, architecture, monitoring/logging, and developing cloud solutions that are scalable, efficient, and secure. I am committed to following best practices and embracing a DevOps culture in order to continuously improve and deliver value to my clients and team. I am always eager to take on new challenges and learn more.

Work Experience

Cloud Operations Engineer
Clarivate | Mar 2020 - Present
Git
Jenkins
Ansible
Datadog
Terraform
Packer
Fluentd
Elastic Stack
Splunk signalfx
Technical Leader of the main logging platform (FluentD, Opendistro ElasticSearch, Kibana) in AWS – automation done using (Docker, GIT, Python, Terraform, JSON, YML, Ansible, Rundeck and Jenkins). • On-boarding and supporting new ingestions from our internal business units. SSO, ISM Policies, Indices, Monitoring, Aggregators, certificates, LB, DNS, fluentD configs... • Leading the migration from the custom ElasticSearch Cluster to AWS ElasticSearch Service. • Troubleshooting any issues in Production. • On-Call 24x7. • Monitoring in SignalFX and Datadog (Integration, configuration, management and creation of dashboards) • Helping other teams with any potential blockers they can have in AWS. • Solving issues in AWS using Jira to manage the tickets. (EC2, VPC, Route53, LB, SG, TGW, IAM, S3, Workspaces...) • AMI management using Packer and Jenkins. • Improving existing automation. Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Packer, EC2... • Governance tasks.
Site Reliability Engineer
Dealfront | Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
Elasticsearch
Kubernetes
Grafana
Pagerduty
Prometheus
Helm
GitLab CI/CD
Helm Charts
Argo CD
- Installed and configured various tools and services (e.g., Vault, Cert-Manager, Opensearch, Sentry, MinIO, Qdrant) using Helm, Ansible, and ArgoCD to support data-engineering and data-science teams. - Supported developers in creating roles and tokens in Vault for secure access to production databases. - Implemented VictoriaMetrics Alert for critical alerts to PagerDuty and ensured its functionality. - Established a logging strategy in the Kubernetes cluster using Opensearch for effective troubleshooting. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to maintain the Kubernetes cluster's smooth operation. - Monitored and managed the Kubernetes cluster using VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, creating custom dashboards. - Developed and maintained comprehensive documentation for the Kubernetes cluster and associated processes. - Stayed updated with the latest technologies and continuously improved cluster infrastructure. - Installed, configured, and maintained production Kafka clusters and Postgres databases, including monitoring and customizations for efficiency and reliability. - Integrated various tools with Okta for SSO and OpenID. Designed and implemented Gitlab CI pipelines for automating operational tasks.