Available for remote DevOps & Cloud roles

Building resilient cloud infrastructure, one pipeline at a time.

DevOps Engineer

I design, automate and scale infrastructure on AWS with Terraform, Kubernetes and GitOps CI/CD — turning manual operations into reliable, repeatable systems.

7+Featured IaC Projects
2AWS Certifications
144Public Repositories
$ terraform apply
Plan: 18 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.
module.eks: Creating...
module.rds: Creating...
✔ Apply complete! Resources: 18 added.
 
$ kubectl get pods -n dev
users-service   1/1  Running
orders-service  1/1  Running
products-service 1/1  Running
 
CI/CD pipeline: passing

Turning infrastructure into code

I'm a DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect based in Barranquilla, Colombia, focused on optimizing cloud infrastructure and driving automation across the full delivery lifecycle. My work centers on Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and building CI/CD pipelines that let teams ship faster without sacrificing reliability.

I specialize in designing scalable, secure, and resilient architectures on AWS — from multi-AZ networking and managed Kubernetes clusters to GitOps-driven release pipelines with OIDC-based authentication. I care about infrastructure that is reproducible, observable, and safe to change.

Currently deepening my expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-cloud CI/CD, while holding AWS certifications in cloud fundamentals and solutions architecture.

LocationBarranquilla, Colombia (Remote)
RoleDevOps Engineer & Cloud Architect
Emailrobpalacios1@hotmail.com
LinkedInin/robpalacios1
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Cloud Architecture

Designing multi-AZ, highly available AWS environments with modular Terraform.

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Container Orchestration

Deploying and scaling microservices on Amazon EKS and ECS Fargate.

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CI/CD & GitOps

Automating build, test, and release pipelines with GitHub Actions and OIDC.

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Observability

Instrumenting services with Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.

Where I've shipped infrastructure

Over 8 years in tech, the last 5 focused on DevOps — building and operating cloud infrastructure for production workloads.

Oct 2026 – Present Current

AWS Administrator

SoftwareOne · Remote, Colombia

Joining to operate and evolve AWS infrastructure across the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework — Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization. Automating infrastructure and change management with Terraform and Python, managing IAM and access security, remediating vulnerabilities, and designing resilient Multi-AZ, self-healing architectures with disaster recovery planning. Supporting AI-assisted cloud operations and driving FinOps cost-optimization initiatives, including serverless adoption.

AWSTerraformPythonIAM & SecurityWell-Architected FrameworkFinOps
Aug 2023 – Sep 2026

DevOps Engineer

Kranio · Remote, Colombia

Owned CI/CD pipeline architecture for microservices on AWS production infrastructure, managing Amazon EKS clusters at 99.99% uptime. Built Terraform + GitHub Actions pipelines that cut provisioning time by 70%, integrated SAST/DAST scanning and AWS Secrets Manager into the DevSecOps workflow, and deployed Prometheus/Grafana observability that reduced incident response time by 35%.

TerraformAmazon EKSGitHub ActionsDevSecOpsPrometheus & Grafana
May 2021 – Aug 2023

DevOps Engineer

Arroyo Consulting · Remote, Colombia

Architected and deployed Azure infrastructure with ARM templates and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices, designing CI/CD pipelines and branching strategies across testing and production. Automated pipelines cut release times by 60% and errors by 30%, while proactive monitoring and root-cause analysis reduced recurring outages by 40%.

AzureARM TemplatesCI/CDMonitoring

Tools I build with daily

A toolkit centered on infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and continuous delivery on AWS.

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSAzureTerraformAnsibleCloudFormation

🐳 Containers & Orchestration

DockerKubernetesHelm

🔄 CI/CD & Automation

GitHub ActionsJenkinsGitLab CIArgoCD

🔒 Security & Monitoring

PrometheusGrafanaELK StackHashiCorp Vault

💻 Scripting & Languages

PythonBashPowerShellYAML

🗄️ Databases & Tools

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisGitLinux

DevOps projects in production form

Infrastructure-as-code repositories covering AWS networking, Kubernetes orchestration, GitOps pipelines, and observability — all open source on GitHub.

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Enterprise Multi-Environment EKS Platform

Enterprise-grade DevOps platform provisioning Amazon EKS through modular Terraform across dev/staging/production environments, deploying Helm-packaged Node.js microservices (orders, products, users) via GitFlow-based GitHub Actions pipelines authenticated with AWS IAM OIDC.

TerraformAmazon EKSHelmGitHub ActionsGitFlow
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Production-Ready AWS EKS Cluster

Multi-AZ VPC and Amazon EKS cluster provisioned with modular Terraform, paired with a GitOps CI/CD pipeline: GitHub Actions builds and pushes Docker images to ECR, then rolls out to Kubernetes via OIDC-authenticated, credential-free deployments.

TerraformAmazon EKSGitHub ActionsOIDC
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Multi-Orchestrator AWS Cluster: ECS Fargate & EKS

A dual-orchestrator infrastructure that deploys the same containerized app to both ECS Fargate and EKS simultaneously — complete with an Application Load Balancer, Kubernetes LoadBalancer service, and a release-tag-triggered CI/CD pipeline.

TerraformECS FargateEKSALB
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Kubernetes Microservices Infrastructure

Reusable Terraform modules provisioning a VPC, three ECR repositories, an EKS cluster, and a managed PostgreSQL RDS instance to host a three-service microservices architecture (users, orders, products), backed by a remote S3 + DynamoDB state.

TerraformEKSECRRDS PostgreSQL
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FastAPI on EKS with Prometheus Observability

A containerized FastAPI service deployed to Amazon EKS with Kubernetes Deployment, Service, and HPA manifests, instrumented with Prometheus-compatible metrics on /metrics, with image builds automated via GitHub Actions.

FastAPIKubernetesPrometheusDocker
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High-Availability AWS Infrastructure

A multi-AZ VPC with public and private subnets, one NAT Gateway per availability zone, and four EC2 instances — designed to demonstrate fault-tolerant network topology with Terraform state stored remotely in S3 and locked via DynamoDB.

TerraformAWS VPCHigh AvailabilityEC2
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Terraform AWS Infrastructure Starter

A foundational Infrastructure-as-Code module provisioning a VPC, public subnet, security group, and an EC2 web server — built as a clean, reusable starting point for new AWS environments.

TerraformAWSEC2VPC

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Let's build something reliable together

Open to remote DevOps, Cloud Engineering and SRE opportunities. Reach out — I usually reply within a day.