Principal Platform Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure Architect | Kubernetes | DevOps | SRE | IAM
Aktualisiert am 07.03.2026
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Verfügbar ab: 07.03.2026
Verfügbar zu: 100%
davon vor Ort: 100%
Kubernetes
DevOps
AWS
Terraform
Linux
Platform Engineering
SRE
Cloud Architecture
CI/CD
GitOps
Keycloak
Docker
LDAP
Kerberos
IAM
DNS
Security
Python
Bash
Observability
Prometheus
Grafana
PostgreSQL
English
Verhandlungssicher
Italian
Muttersprache
German
Fortgeschritten

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Berlin (+200km) Milan (+20km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

5 months
2025-10 - now

Platform Security & DevOps Consultant

Security & DevOps Consultant DevOps Cloud Infrastructure WAF ...
Security & DevOps Consultant
Security and DevOps consulting across multiple clients.

? Deployment and tuning of Fastly / Signal Sciences WAF for EMEA environments  
? Security posture improvements and compliance preparation (ISO 27001 / Vanta)  
? CI/CD pipeline improvements and infrastructure automation  
? Production reliability and security hardening for cloud-based platforms
Kubernetes AWS Terraform Fastly Signal Sciences GitLab CI
DevOps Cloud Infrastructure WAF Security Engineering CI/CD Kubernetes Linux
DFND Security / Forward Earth / 3T Labs 
Remote
2 years 2 months
2024-01 - now

DevOps Team Lead & Mentor

DevOps Team Lead Kubernetes DevOps Infrastructure as Code ...
DevOps Team Lead
? Mentored junior DevOps engineers and supported production platform operations
? Designed and deployed MinIO distributed storage cluster on Rancher Kubernetes
? Implemented Infrastructure as Code using CDKTF (TypeScript)
? Provided long-term DevOps and platform architecture advisory
Rancher Kubernetes MinIO Terraform CDKTF Git GitLab Linux
Kubernetes DevOps Infrastructure as Code Terraform Platform Engineering Distributed Storage Linux
Confidential client (DevOps advisory)
Remote
9 months
2025-02 - 2025-10

Tokenized Finance Platform Development

Senior Software Development Engineer Python TypeScript Microservices ...
Senior Software Development Engineer
? Developed tokenized financial infrastructure using Python and TypeScript/Node.js
? Designed microservices architecture with FastAPI-based backends
? Implemented distributed services for financial transaction processing
? Applied AI-native development workflows (Cursor, Windsurf)

FastAPI

FastAPI Node.js Python PostgreSQL Docker Redis
Python TypeScript Microservices Backend Development Financial Systems API Design Distributed Systems
Stealth FinTech Startup
Remote
10 months
2024-05 - 2025-02

Head of SRE ? Multi-Architecture GPU Kubernetes Platform

Head of Site Reliability Engineering  Kubernetes SRE Distributed Systems ...
Head of Site Reliability Engineering 
? Led SRE team deploying multi-architecture GPU Kubernetes clusters for ML workloads  
? Architected ClickHouse + MinIO data platform for real-time ML analytics  
? Designed high-performance infrastructure for distributed GPU workloads
Kubernetes ClickHouse MinIO Docker Linux GPU computing
Kubernetes SRE Distributed Systems Platform Engineering ML Infrastructure High-Performance Systems
Octostar
Bergamo / Remote
1 year 6 months
2022-12 - 2024-05

Hybrid OpenStack / Kubernetes Research Platform (MPI Berlin)

Site Reliability & Security Engineer  Kubernetes OpenStack Hybrid Cloud ...
Site Reliability & Security Engineer 

  • Built hybrid OpenStack / Kubernetes infrastructure platform with integrated security controls

  • Deployed 1.5PB storage platform for research workloads

  • Integrated Azure AD SSO and centralized identity management

OpenStack Kubernetes Ceph Azure AD Linux
Kubernetes OpenStack Hybrid Cloud Identity Integration Distributed Storage Infrastructure Engineering
Max Planck Institute
Berlin
8 months
2023-04 - 2023-11

Architecture Consulting (Due Diligence & Embedded Systems)

Architecture Consultant Embedded Linux ARM Architecture Debian Packaging ...
Architecture Consultant
? Performed technical due diligence and architecture audit for investors
? Reverse engineered AWS infrastructure, internal systems, and production architecture
? Reviewed application codebase and engineering practices
? Audited third-party vendors and infrastructure contracts managed by CTO
? Produced technical risk and scalability assessment for founders and investors

? Built ARM Debian packaging for embedded systems platforms
? Provided architecture and platform engineering consulting for early-stage startups
Linux Debian ARM Git Build Systems AWS Cloud Infrastructure Docker
Embedded Linux ARM Architecture Debian Packaging System Architecture Technical Due Diligence Cloud Architecture Review Codebase Analysis Vendor Assessment
Bella & Bona / SkyCharge
Remote
9 months
2022-11 - 2023-07

Staff SRE ? Infrastructure Scaling & Platform Governance

Staff Site Reliability Engineer Site Reliability Engineering AWS Architecture Infrastructure Scaling ...
Staff Site Reliability Engineer

? Provided technical leadership for a 12-engineer SRE team

? Drove infrastructure scaling, cost optimization, and platform governance

? Coordinated AWS multi-region rearchitecture across London, Barcelona, and Milan

AWS Kubernetes Linux Terraform Cloud Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineering AWS Architecture Infrastructure Scaling Cost Optimization Distributed Systems
Prima Assicurazioni
Remote
1 year 11 months
2021-09 - 2023-07

Cloud Architect ? Kubernetes Platform & Federated IAM

Cloud Architect  Kubernetes Cloud Architecture GitOps ...
Cloud Architect 

? Built scalable Kubernetes platform using GitOps (ArgoCD, Traefik, Datadog)

? Established security operations capability and governance blueprint

? Designed federated identity architecture using SAML, Google Identity, and Cloudflare Access

Kubernetes ArgoCD Traefik Datadog Cloudflare Google Identity
Kubernetes Cloud Architecture GitOps Identity Federation SAML Platform Engineering
ClovrLabs
Remote

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2 months
2016-02 - 2016-03

?Red Hat Ceph Storage Architecture and Administration (CEPH125)? by J. C. Lopez

Certification, Red Hat J. C. Lopez NY
Certification
Red Hat J. C. Lopez NY

Position

Position

  • Staff Site Reliability Engineer
  • Infrastructure & Performance

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Kubernetes DevOps AWS Terraform Linux Platform Engineering SRE Cloud Architecture CI/CD GitOps Keycloak Docker LDAP Kerberos IAM DNS Security Python Bash Observability Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

WAF
Fastly/Akamai/Cloudflare
IAM/SSO
OAuth2, SAML, Keycloak
SIEM
vuln. scanning
Distributed Systems:
Fault tolerance, load balancing, large-scale design, performance engineering

Cloud Platforms:
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, OpenStack, VMware

SRE Practices:
Incident response, root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, SLO/SLI design, on-call

Observability:

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, NewRelic, distributed tracing


Security / Edge:
Fastly (Signal Sciences), Akamai, Cloudflare
OAuth2, SAML, Keycloak
Vulnerability scanning, SIEM

Betriebssysteme

Linux systems administration
Experte
Kubernetes
Fortgeschritten
networking
TCP/IP, DNS, NTP, load balancing
storage
Ceph, NFS, ZFS
GNU/Linux systems administration since 1996; deep knowledge of system architecture and internals
Delivered Kubernetes training across multiple organizations

Programmiersprachen

Python
Java
C
C++
SQL
Bash
PHP
Perl
AWK

Branchen

Branchen

FinTech ? tokenized finance infrastructure
Cybersecurity ? DevSecOps and security platform engineering
Machine Learning ? GPU Kubernetes clusters
Cloud / SaaS ? distributed systems and platform engineering
Gaming / Online Services ? large-scale production infrastructure
Enterprise / Retail ? cloud migration and platform modernization

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Berlin (+200km) Milan (+20km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

5 months
2025-10 - now

Platform Security & DevOps Consultant

Security & DevOps Consultant DevOps Cloud Infrastructure WAF ...
Security & DevOps Consultant
Security and DevOps consulting across multiple clients.

? Deployment and tuning of Fastly / Signal Sciences WAF for EMEA environments  
? Security posture improvements and compliance preparation (ISO 27001 / Vanta)  
? CI/CD pipeline improvements and infrastructure automation  
? Production reliability and security hardening for cloud-based platforms
Kubernetes AWS Terraform Fastly Signal Sciences GitLab CI
DevOps Cloud Infrastructure WAF Security Engineering CI/CD Kubernetes Linux
DFND Security / Forward Earth / 3T Labs 
Remote
2 years 2 months
2024-01 - now

DevOps Team Lead & Mentor

DevOps Team Lead Kubernetes DevOps Infrastructure as Code ...
DevOps Team Lead
? Mentored junior DevOps engineers and supported production platform operations
? Designed and deployed MinIO distributed storage cluster on Rancher Kubernetes
? Implemented Infrastructure as Code using CDKTF (TypeScript)
? Provided long-term DevOps and platform architecture advisory
Rancher Kubernetes MinIO Terraform CDKTF Git GitLab Linux
Kubernetes DevOps Infrastructure as Code Terraform Platform Engineering Distributed Storage Linux
Confidential client (DevOps advisory)
Remote
9 months
2025-02 - 2025-10

Tokenized Finance Platform Development

Senior Software Development Engineer Python TypeScript Microservices ...
Senior Software Development Engineer
? Developed tokenized financial infrastructure using Python and TypeScript/Node.js
? Designed microservices architecture with FastAPI-based backends
? Implemented distributed services for financial transaction processing
? Applied AI-native development workflows (Cursor, Windsurf)

FastAPI

FastAPI Node.js Python PostgreSQL Docker Redis
Python TypeScript Microservices Backend Development Financial Systems API Design Distributed Systems
Stealth FinTech Startup
Remote
10 months
2024-05 - 2025-02

Head of SRE ? Multi-Architecture GPU Kubernetes Platform

Head of Site Reliability Engineering  Kubernetes SRE Distributed Systems ...
Head of Site Reliability Engineering 
? Led SRE team deploying multi-architecture GPU Kubernetes clusters for ML workloads  
? Architected ClickHouse + MinIO data platform for real-time ML analytics  
? Designed high-performance infrastructure for distributed GPU workloads
Kubernetes ClickHouse MinIO Docker Linux GPU computing
Kubernetes SRE Distributed Systems Platform Engineering ML Infrastructure High-Performance Systems
Octostar
Bergamo / Remote
1 year 6 months
2022-12 - 2024-05

Hybrid OpenStack / Kubernetes Research Platform (MPI Berlin)

Site Reliability & Security Engineer  Kubernetes OpenStack Hybrid Cloud ...
Site Reliability & Security Engineer 

  • Built hybrid OpenStack / Kubernetes infrastructure platform with integrated security controls

  • Deployed 1.5PB storage platform for research workloads

  • Integrated Azure AD SSO and centralized identity management

OpenStack Kubernetes Ceph Azure AD Linux
Kubernetes OpenStack Hybrid Cloud Identity Integration Distributed Storage Infrastructure Engineering
Max Planck Institute
Berlin
8 months
2023-04 - 2023-11

Architecture Consulting (Due Diligence & Embedded Systems)

Architecture Consultant Embedded Linux ARM Architecture Debian Packaging ...
Architecture Consultant
? Performed technical due diligence and architecture audit for investors
? Reverse engineered AWS infrastructure, internal systems, and production architecture
? Reviewed application codebase and engineering practices
? Audited third-party vendors and infrastructure contracts managed by CTO
? Produced technical risk and scalability assessment for founders and investors

? Built ARM Debian packaging for embedded systems platforms
? Provided architecture and platform engineering consulting for early-stage startups
Linux Debian ARM Git Build Systems AWS Cloud Infrastructure Docker
Embedded Linux ARM Architecture Debian Packaging System Architecture Technical Due Diligence Cloud Architecture Review Codebase Analysis Vendor Assessment
Bella & Bona / SkyCharge
Remote
9 months
2022-11 - 2023-07

Staff SRE ? Infrastructure Scaling & Platform Governance

Staff Site Reliability Engineer Site Reliability Engineering AWS Architecture Infrastructure Scaling ...
Staff Site Reliability Engineer

? Provided technical leadership for a 12-engineer SRE team

? Drove infrastructure scaling, cost optimization, and platform governance

? Coordinated AWS multi-region rearchitecture across London, Barcelona, and Milan

AWS Kubernetes Linux Terraform Cloud Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineering AWS Architecture Infrastructure Scaling Cost Optimization Distributed Systems
Prima Assicurazioni
Remote
1 year 11 months
2021-09 - 2023-07

Cloud Architect ? Kubernetes Platform & Federated IAM

Cloud Architect  Kubernetes Cloud Architecture GitOps ...
Cloud Architect 

? Built scalable Kubernetes platform using GitOps (ArgoCD, Traefik, Datadog)

? Established security operations capability and governance blueprint

? Designed federated identity architecture using SAML, Google Identity, and Cloudflare Access

Kubernetes ArgoCD Traefik Datadog Cloudflare Google Identity
Kubernetes Cloud Architecture GitOps Identity Federation SAML Platform Engineering
ClovrLabs
Remote

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2 months
2016-02 - 2016-03

?Red Hat Ceph Storage Architecture and Administration (CEPH125)? by J. C. Lopez

Certification, Red Hat J. C. Lopez NY
Certification
Red Hat J. C. Lopez NY

Position

Position

  • Staff Site Reliability Engineer
  • Infrastructure & Performance

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Kubernetes DevOps AWS Terraform Linux Platform Engineering SRE Cloud Architecture CI/CD GitOps Keycloak Docker LDAP Kerberos IAM DNS Security Python Bash Observability Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

WAF
Fastly/Akamai/Cloudflare
IAM/SSO
OAuth2, SAML, Keycloak
SIEM
vuln. scanning
Distributed Systems:
Fault tolerance, load balancing, large-scale design, performance engineering

Cloud Platforms:
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, OpenStack, VMware

SRE Practices:
Incident response, root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, SLO/SLI design, on-call

Observability:

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, NewRelic, distributed tracing


Security / Edge:
Fastly (Signal Sciences), Akamai, Cloudflare
OAuth2, SAML, Keycloak
Vulnerability scanning, SIEM

Betriebssysteme

Linux systems administration
Experte
Kubernetes
Fortgeschritten
networking
TCP/IP, DNS, NTP, load balancing
storage
Ceph, NFS, ZFS
GNU/Linux systems administration since 1996; deep knowledge of system architecture and internals
Delivered Kubernetes training across multiple organizations

Programmiersprachen

Python
Java
C
C++
SQL
Bash
PHP
Perl
AWK

Branchen

Branchen

FinTech ? tokenized finance infrastructure
Cybersecurity ? DevSecOps and security platform engineering
Machine Learning ? GPU Kubernetes clusters
Cloud / SaaS ? distributed systems and platform engineering
Gaming / Online Services ? large-scale production infrastructure
Enterprise / Retail ? cloud migration and platform modernization

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