Jorge Nicolás Pérez Suárez

Kubernetes Expert

Jorge Nicolás Pérez Suárez
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Feb 2024 - Present
1 year 1 month
Germany

Kubernetes Expert

Citti

Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD.

Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, (CI/CD) ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator.

Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 1 month
Germany

Kubernetes and AWS Specialist

Elinvar

Managing, monitoring, and securing the company's AWS accounts and Kubernetes clusters (kOps and EKS) using the GitOps approach, employing Terraform and ArgoCD.

Keywords: Kubernetes, Karpenter, Terraform, Vault, Prometheus, Opsgenie, (CI/CD) ArgoCD, GitLab, kOps, SSO, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Filebeat, DDoS Protection, Aqua Trivy, Traefik.

AWS: EKS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Shield, IAM, System Manager, ECR Scanning, Route53, RDS, SNS, ALB, Health Dashboard, and many others.

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
5 months
Germany

Kubernetes Expert

Regnology

Developing a CLI application in Go for Kubernetes cluster installation and management, along with the deployment of custom Helm applications.

Keywords: Kubernetes, Helm, Calico, ContainerD, local-path-provisioner, Golang, Cobra/Viper, PromptUI, Docker, JFrog, GitLab (CI/CD).

May 2021 - Aug 2021
4 months
Germany

SRE

CGM

Reducing backlog in Kubernetes Cluster monitoring, alerting, and operations

Keywords: FluxCD, ArgoCD (CI/CD), ElasticSearch, Kibana, Prometheus, AlertManager, Keycloak, Ansible, Gitea, Ceph, OpsGenie, Terraform, Kubernetes.

Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
4 months
Germany

Kubernetes Expert

2wcom

Migration of an audio streaming application to Kubernetes.

Keywords: Kubernetes, MultusCNI, CNI-Genies, Multicasting, Unicasting, Make, Helm, Docker, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Kibana, NGINX, NFS, Jenkins, Prometheus.

Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
4 months
Germany

Kubernetes Expert

Sodatech

Planning and executing a migration to Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and achieving full CI/CD automation with Jenkins.

Keywords: EKS, Kubernetes, AWS, Make, NGINX, Helm, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Kibana, MySql, Jenkins (CI/CD) , Prometheus

Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
11 months
Germany

DevOps Engineer

Sopra Steria AG

Migration of a bare-metal DockerEE Swarm cluster to Kubernetes on AWS using Helm charts, and configuring monitoring and logging for the cluster applications and AWS services.

Keywords: Kubernetes, Network Policies, AWS, DockerEE, UCP, DTR, Ansible, Make, Helm, Calico, Kafka, Zookeper, Kafka Topics, Kafka manager, Consul, Docker, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Postgres, NGINX, NFS, Jenkins(CI/CD), Prometheus, JFrog. GitLab, Jira, Confluence.

May 2018 - Feb 2019
10 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Site Reliability Engineer

Volkswagen AG

Responsible for monitoring, managing, and enhancing Kubernetes clusters and AWS accounts, with a focus on reducing AWS costs by 50%.

Keywords: Kubernetes, Helm, Kops, Docker, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Prometheus, Jenkins, FluentD, Route53, API Gateway, EFS, CodePipeline (CI/CD), CodeCommit, CloudFront, S3, CloudFormation, Make, kube-state-metrics, cert-manager

Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
2 months
Berlin, Germany

Java Developer

Idealo

Java Developer for the "Price Validator" project, overseeing quality control for 1.5 billion offers through web crawling of Idealo-affiliated shop sites.

Keywords: SpringBoot, SpringCloud, MongoDB, Grafana, Graphite, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Java8, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, Jenkins Pipeline, Vaadin

Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
3 months
Hamburg, Germany

DevOps and Java Developer

Otto Group

Interconnecting multiple AWS services using CloudFormation templates and establishing a Jenkins Pipeline for continuous deployment on AWS.

Keywords: Docker, EC2, ECR, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, S3, Vue.js, REST services, Keycloak, Ngnix, Jenkins (CI/CD).

Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
3 months
Berlin, Germany

Java Developer

Rohnde & Schwarz

Java development and test automatization with Selenium.

Keywords: Java 8, Guice, JPA, EclipseLink, Selenium, JSR 380 (Bean Validation 2.0), Java reflection.

Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
5 months
Berlin, Germany

Software Developer

Department One GmbH

Optimizing the company's "customer loyalty" program deployed on AWS.

Keywords: AWS, RDS, S3, EC2, SQL, Java, MySql. Spring Security, CloudFront

Jan 2013 - Feb 2017
4 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany

Lead Java Developer

UPG

In charge of integrating payment gateways with Payco's backend infrastructure and its "Fraud Rules Engine." Additionally, responsible for creating regression tests using Selenium and JBehave.

Keywords: Java, Spring Boot, GWT, Selenium, JBehave, MySql, MongoDB

Dec 2010 - Dec 2013
2 years 1 month
Vienna, Austria

Calypso Developer

sIT Solutions – DES

Focus on Interest Rate Derivatives and Equity Options.

Keywords: Java WebStart, Swing, Apache CXF, Spring, Sybase, Linux, Calypso

Apr 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 9 months
Vienna, Austria

Java Developer

sIT Solutions – CMTI

Migration of a web application from JSP to GWT.

Keywords: Java, Spring, Hibernate, GWT, Ext-GWT (GXT), JavaScript, Mockito, JUnit, JSP, CSS, MSSql, UML

Dec 2006 - Apr 2009
2 years 5 months
Vienna, Austria

Java Developer

SolveDirect

Development and testing of a SaaS web application.

Keywords: Java, GWT, Servlets, ActiveMQ, JMS, JavaScript, WebServices, XSLT, JFreeChart, Selenium, Tomcat, CSS, Postgress, Linux

May 2006 - Oct 2006
6 months
Vienna, Austria

PHP Developer

Priority Telekom

Development of an ordering system on PHP. JavaScript, PHP, MySql

Jul 2004 - Apr 2006
1 year 10 months
Bogotá, Colombia

Java Developer

PSL S.A

Software house with a CMMI 5 and ISO-9001 accreditation, specialized on building web applications for banks in a geographically spread team.

Keywords: Java, WebServices, ActiveMQ, JSP, JSF, JavaScript, Axis, JMS, WebSphere, Tomcat, Jaguar, JBoss, CSS, Orable, Sybase, DB2, Linux, JUnit

Jan 2003 - Mar 2004
1 year 3 months
Bogotá, Colombia

UML Designer and Java Developer

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

UML Designer, Java developer.

Summary

Kubernetes and AWS specialist with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. My primary focus is on Kubernetes and AWS technologies. Since 2017, I have been actively engaged in various AWS projects, gaining expertise in a wide range of AWS products, with a particular emphasis on Amazon EKS.

Languages

Spanish
Native
English
Advanced
German
Advanced

Education

Oct 2000 - Jun 2004

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Ingeniero de Sistemas · Bogotá, Colombia

Certifications & licenses

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

ITIL Certification