Jorge Pérez Suárez - Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist

Q: Where is Jorge based?

Jorge is based in Berlin, Germany .

Q: What languages does Jorge speak?

Jorge speaks the following languages: Spanish (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced) .

Q: How many years of experience does Jorge have?

Jorge has at least 22 years of experience. During this time, Jorge has worked in at least 11 different roles and for 19 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 2 months . Note that Jorge may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Jorge's latest experience?

Jorge's most recent position is Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist at Citti .

Q: What companies has Jorge worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Jorge has worked for Citti , Elinvar , Regnology , CGM , and 2wcom .

Q: Which industries is Jorge most experienced in?

Jorge is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance , Information Technology , and Retail . Jorge also has some experience in Education , Automotive , and Telecommunication .

Q: Which business areas is Jorge most experienced in?

Jorge is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology , Quality Assurance , and Product Development . Jorge also has some experience in Operations and Finance .

Q: Which industries has Jorge worked in recently?

Jorge has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance , Information Technology , and Retail .

Q: Which business areas has Jorge worked in recently?

Jorge has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology , Operations , and Product Development .

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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Feb 2024 - Present

2 years 2 months

Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist

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

Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes 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

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

Site Reliability Engineer

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 2021 - Apr 2021

4 months

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

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

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

Oversaw quality control for 1.5 billion offers through web crawling of Idealo-affiliated shop sites as part of the Price Validator project
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

Interconnected multiple AWS services using CloudFormation templates and established a Jenkins Pipeline for continuous deployment on AWS
Keywords: Docker, EC2, ECR, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, S3, Vue.js, REST services, Keycloak, Nginx, 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 Engineer

Department One GmbH

Optimized 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

Integrated payment gateways with Payco's backend infrastructure and its Fraud Rules Engine
Created regression tests using Selenium and JBehave
Keywords: Java, Spring Boot, GWT, Selenium, JBehave, MySql, MongoDB

Dec 2010 - Dec 2012

2 years 1 month

Vienna, Austria

Calypso Developer

sIT Solutions – DES

Focus on Interest Rate Derivatives and Equity Options development
Keywords: Java WebStart, Swing, Apache CXF, Spring, Sybase, Linux, Calypso

Apr 2009 - Dec 2010

1 year 9 months

Vienna, Austria

Software 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

Software Developer

SolveDirect

Development and testing of a SaaS web application for helpdesk
Keywords: Java, GWT, Servlets, ActiveMQ, JMS, JavaScript, WebServices, XSLT, JFreeChart, Selenium, Tomcat, CSS, Postgress, Linux

May 2006 - Oct 2006

6 months

Vienna, Austria

Software Developer

Priority Telekom

Development of an ordering system on PHP
Keywords: JavaScript, PHP, MySql

Jul 2004 - Apr 2006

1 year 10 months

Bogotá, Colombia

Software Engineer

PSL S.A

Built web applications for banks in a geographically distributed team
Keywords: Java, WebServices, ActiveMQ, JSP, JSF, JavaScript, Axis, JMS, WebSphere, Tomcat, Jaguar, JBoss, CSS, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Linux, JUnit

Jan 2003 - Mar 2004

1 year 3 months

Bogotá, Colombia

UML Designer and Java Developer

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Designed UML diagrams and developed Java applications for eLearning

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Retail, Automotive, Education, and Media and Entertainment.

Banking and Finance

Information Technology

Retail

Automotive

Education

Media and Entertainment

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Product Development, Operations, and Finance.

Information Technology

Quality Assurance

Product Development

Operations

Finance

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.

Skills

Aws: Eks, Cloudtrail, Rds, Iam, Shield, Route53, Cloudfront, Api Gateway, Alb, Sns, Sqs, Ecr, Cloudformation, Vpn, S3, Ec2, Efs, Codepipeline, Codecommit
Iac: Terraform
Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes (Expert), Gae (Google Appengine)
Programming Languages: Java (Expert), Javascript (Prior Experience), Php (Prior Experience), Go
Databases: Mongodb, Dynamodb, Postgress, Mysql, Db2, Oracle
Testing Tools: Mockito, Selenium, Junit, Jbehave, Cucumber
Java Tools And Frameworks: Springboot, Springcloud, Activemq, Rabbitmq, Jsf, Jpa, Maven, Axis, Gwt, Hibernate, Eclipselink, Swing, Jdom, Guice
Others: Gitlab, Jenkins, Bash, Makefile, Xpath, Git

Languages

Spanish

Native

German

Advanced

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 1998 - Jun 2004

National University of Colombia

Software Engineering (Systems 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

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 19

Experience in Banking and Finance 10.5 y

Avg length 1 y 1 m

Longest experience 4 y 1 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 3 (Germany, Austria, Colombia)

Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist, Kubernetes Expert, Site Reliability Engineer

Main industries Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Retail

Main business areas Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Product Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor

Certifications earned 8

Profile

Created

September 2024

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Where is Jorge based?

Jorge is based in Berlin, Germany.

What languages does Jorge speak?

Jorge speaks the following languages: Spanish (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Jorge have?

Jorge has at least 22 years of experience. During this time, Jorge has worked in at least 11 different roles and for 19 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 2 months. Note that Jorge may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Jorge be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Jorge would be well-suited for roles such as: Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist, Kubernetes Expert, Site Reliability Engineer.

What is Jorge's latest experience?

Jorge's most recent position is Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist at Citti.

What companies has Jorge worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Jorge has worked for Citti, Elinvar, Regnology, CGM, and 2wcom.

Which industries is Jorge most experienced in?

Jorge is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance, Information Technology, and Retail. Jorge also has some experience in Education, Automotive, and Telecommunication.

Which business areas is Jorge most experienced in?

Jorge is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Quality Assurance, and Product Development. Jorge also has some experience in Operations and Finance.

Which industries has Jorge worked in recently?

Jorge has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Information Technology, and Retail.

Which business areas has Jorge worked in recently?

Jorge has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development.

What is Jorge's education?

Jorge holds a Bachelor in Software Engineering (Systems Engineering) from National University of Colombia.

Does Jorge have any certificates?

Jorge has 8 certificates. Among them, these include: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, and AWS Certified Security – Specialty.

What is the availability of Jorge?

Jorge is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Jorge?

Jorge's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.