Jorge (Nicolás) Pérez suárez

Kubernetes Expert

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Feb 2024 - Present
1 year 6 months
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Citti - (on behalf of WiseModo UG)

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
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Elinvar - (on behalf of WiseModo UG)

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

Kubernetes Expert

Regnology - (on behalf of WiseModo UG)

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

SRE

CGM - (on behalf of SHE)

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

Kubernetes Expert

2wcom (on behalf of WiseModo UG)

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

Kubernetes Expert

Sodatech (on behalf of WiseModo UG)

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

DevOps

Sopra Steria AG (on behalf of WiseModo UG)

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 (on behalf of Lufthansa 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 (on behalf of WiseModo)

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 (on behalf of WiseModo)

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
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Rohnde & Schwarz (on behalf of WiseModo)

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
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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 (former Payment Company AG)

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 (subsidiary of Erste Bank)

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
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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
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SolveDirect (subsidiary of Brain Force Holding AG)

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
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Priority Telekom

Development of an ordering system on PHP.

  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • MySql
Jul 2004 - Apr 2006
1 year 10 months
Bogotá, Colombia
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PSL S.A (Productora de Software)

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, Java Developer

Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UN Virtual)

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

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Systems Engineer · Software Engineering · 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