Ana C.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Experience
Jun 2022 - Present
3 years 4 monthsSenior Cloud Engineer
Gate7 IT Solutions
- Cloud engineer hired to work in the Public Cloud Engineering team to assess and deploy new projects using cloud resources and provide BAU activities across Azure tenants of customers
- Executed five Azure projects
- BackScan Document ID Recognition:
- Collaborated with the data team and senior data engineer to design the stack necessary to extract the document ID of over 3 million PDF pages of back scanned documents from 15,000 customers
- Utilized a multi-staged CI/CD solution with ARM templates to deploy infrastructure resources including Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Functions, and other key resources
- Gateway uplift:
- Re-architected middleware running 283 microservices and interfaces in collaboration with the integration and architecture team
- Built four new environments to enable rehosting with minimal refactoring, migrating from a single App Service Environment V2 in a legacy Azure subscription to two domains using two App Service Environment V3 instances in Azure Landing Zones
- Deployed core Azure Landing Zone resources through Azure DevOps pipelines for non-production and production environments (resource groups, VNETs, subnets including delegations, NSGs, and UDRs)
- Created and updated Bicep modules to meet solution requirements and organized YAML pipeline definitions into four core stacks: application components, application-shared-components, logging and diagnostics, networking
- Gathered networking requirements, mapped network flow between Azure resources, on-premises infrastructure, and Google Cloud Platform
- Deployed inbound and outbound IP configurations and required ports in NSGs and Azure Firewall using the firewall operations pipeline
- Discovered connectivity requirements for other applications, mapped network dependencies, and architected solutions using VNet peering and UDRs
- Troubleshot and resolved performance issues post-migration by scaling Azure resources and collaborating with the integration team and Microsoft Support to analyze telemetry data and debug issues
- Azure Data Platform:
- Collaborated on defining requirements from third-party architecture and provided input for networking modifications aligned with the company’s desired state
- Deployed Azure Landing Zones via Azure DevOps pipelines to support DEV, TST, PRE, and PRD environments
- Contributed to daily stand-ups to gather requirements from the data platform team and resolved blockers related to platform services and DevOps resources
- Landing Zones uplift:
- Identified opportunities to enhance platform services and led workshops to implement Azure DNS Private Resolver, replacing traditional DNS resolution via domain controllers in VNETs
- Consolidated private DNS zones from legacy Azure subscriptions and Azure Landing Zones using a centralized design within a hub-and-spoke network
- Walker Digital:
- Gathered requirements with vendor and solution architects to deploy IaaS infrastructure resources across availability zones for tracking chips in table games
- Deployed network changes to enable communication between Melbourne and Sydney casinos and GCP integration
- Liaised with the internal networking team to define connectivity requirements and necessary ports
- Role and responsibilities:
- Troubleshooting PaaS services in a hybrid environment, reducing MTTR
- Collaborated to upskill the engineering team in Azure technologies
- Managed the lifecycle of AKS clusters to reduce toil
- Technical snapshot: Azure Cloud Platform, App Service Environment, App Service Plans, VNETs, Application Gateway, Azure DNS Private Resolver, Private DNS Zones, Azure Firewall, IaaS Infrastructure, API Management, Managed Identities, Azure Key Vault, Storage Accounts, Service Bus Namespaces, Integration Accounts, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Bicep Modules, YAML Pipeline Definitions, Microsoft Dev Box, Azure Virtual Desktop, Splunk, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Git, Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Jun 2020 - May 2022
2 yearsCloud Engineer
MUNPEC
- MUNPEC is a leading company in the Peruvian agribusiness specializing in high-quality animal nutrition leveraging advanced logistics and quality control technologies
- Web infrastructure modernization:
- Steered a production incident call and conveyed that the platform engineering team had a functional POC in UAT to address front-end outages
- Architected and deployed a new front-end solution by moving from a single on-premises IIS server to a pool of IIS servers in different Azure availability zones behind Azure Application Gateway
- Azure migration:
- Deployed Azure Migrate in the current infrastructure and used it to lift and shift the production analytics platform to Azure
- Application modernization assessments:
- Deployed third-party solutions sponsored by Microsoft to perform discovery of dependencies in source code and databases
- Performed assessments of microservices and monoliths for Azure migration, delivering effort estimations to the development team
- PCI DSS firewall enhancements:
- Designed firewall changes to increase security posture and meet compliance requirements by restricting common protocols
- Applied changes in the UAT environment, liaising with stakeholders and troubleshooting issues
- Role and responsibilities:
- Remediated pen test findings raised by auditors
- Deployed new servers across all environments
- Designed and deployed Azure resources using Azure Portal and ARM templates
- Advocated automation of manual tasks, introducing automated Windows patches using Octopus runbooks
- Maintained automation tools for data refresh across environments, removing PII from SQL databases
- Deployed Windows patches and new product releases
- Supported platform servers, resolving production incidents using monitoring tools
- Shared best practices and emerging technology use cases with the team
- Supported developers with common DevOps tooling issues
- Technical snapshot: Route 53, SQL Server 2017, Windows Server 2012 and 2016, VMware 6.5, Acurity, Octopus, Azure DevOps Server, Git, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Redgate Software, PRTG, Datadog, Application Insights, NGINX, Azure Migrate, App Service, Azure Synapse Analytics, Key Vault, Hybrid Connectivity, ExpressRoute, Network Peering, VNets, Virtual Machines, AZCopy, Monitor, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Web Apps, Azure Functions, PagerDuty, Confluence, Jira, BeyondTrust, Azure DNS, Synapse
Summary
Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering cloud and DevOps solutions across a range of industries. Proven track record leading Azure-based projects from design to deployment, including infrastructure automation, application modernization, cloud migrations, and CI/CD pipeline development. Adept at translating complex business needs into scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures.
Proactive and adaptable, able to troubleshoot critical issues, optimize platform performance, and guide teams through change. Trusted contributor with strong communication skills and a practical, solutions-first mindset.
Languages
Spanish
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2015 - Jun 2021
Le Cordon Bleu
Bachelor · Hospitality and Tourism Administration
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