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Zurich, Switzerland

Zug, Switzerland

- Managed deployment and configuration of Google Cloud landing zones, collaborating with enterprise clients to understand their needs and compliance goals. Translated requirements into landing zone blueprints, ensuring secure and scalable cloud environments that align with best practices and Google's recommended architectures.- Automated landing zone provisioning using Terraform and Terragrunt, achieving consistent and reproducible deployments. Additionally, I designed and implemented… Show more - Managed deployment and configuration of Google Cloud landing zones, collaborating with enterprise clients to understand their needs and compliance goals. Translated requirements into landing zone blueprints, ensuring secure and scalable cloud environments that align with best practices and Google's recommended architectures.- Automated landing zone provisioning using Terraform and Terragrunt, achieving consistent and reproducible deployments. Additionally, I designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build to automate the deployment processes.- Implemented robust security measures based on CIS benchmarks and Google Cloud best practices, including IAM, network security, logging, and monitoring.- Collaborated with development teams to containerize applications efficiently, implementing Dockerfile configurations for defining container environments, dependencies, runtime configurations, and network settings. Configured secure Artifact Registries and repositories for storing, distributing, and managing Docker images with controlled access and version management.- Implemented a multi-tiered DR strategy, for a critical production environment, including backup and restore mechanisms, high availability (HA) configurations, and geo-redundancy to ensure data integrity and system availability during disaster scenarios. Show less

Lisbon, Portugal

- Collaborated with stakeholders to understand requirements and design scalable, secure cloud solutions. Leveraged Terraform as the infrastructure-as-code tool to provision Google Cloud Functions and associated resources, enabling consistent and reproducible deployments of event-driven and scalable application components across multiple environments.- Collaborated with a telecom client to design and implement a scalable cloud infrastructure solution. Architected and deployed Anthos… Show more - Collaborated with stakeholders to understand requirements and design scalable, secure cloud solutions. Leveraged Terraform as the infrastructure-as-code tool to provision Google Cloud Functions and associated resources, enabling consistent and reproducible deployments of event-driven and scalable application components across multiple environments.- Collaborated with a telecom client to design and implement a scalable cloud infrastructure solution. Architected and deployed Anthos Service Mesh on a private GKE cluster for a critical production environment, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security. Streamlined Kubernetes application deployment and management using GitOps methodologies with Flux CD and Argo CD, integrating them with a private Git repository for automated synchronization of manifests and consistent, auditable deployments.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enforce API best practices, ensuring consistent, reusable, and scalable APIs. Implemented monitoring and analytics in Apigee for real-time visibility into API performance, usage patterns, and issue detection, enabling proactive problem resolution and optimization.- Led the exploration, testing, and evaluation of innovative cloud technologies and solutions through Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives, identifying opportunities for innovation and potential benefits. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Delivered the position of IT Risk Analyst in the Cyber Security Virtual Internship provided by the iQ4 Corporation. The program provided the opportunity of having Mentors from Symantec, KPMG, ISACA and Sopra Steria