Cilas is a DevOps Engineer heavily focused on build and deployment systems. He designs and implements solutions on observability, reliability, security, and access governance into systems and processes. Cilas builds and deploys DevOps solutions for multiple products across web and mobile projects and assists the dev team with bugs and new feature implementations using open-source and cloud solutions.
Delivering CI/CD as part of an Agile team to improve performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.
Helping build and improve infrastructure, application, and performance development and ensuring tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environmental scanning.
Ensuring high-quality deliverables and implementing DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.
Working with K8s in multi-regions to provide a better user experience for end users (gaming industry) using GKE, Helm Charts, Argo CD, Terragrunt, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and Elasticsearch.
Enhancing CI/CD tools to facilitate the work and improve the product, simplifying the workflows using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, including E2E tests, stop buttons, more control over environment promotion, scaling up and down for lower environments, saving costs for lots of K8s clusters.
Working to better fit thousands of concurrent players such as 250K+ users, providing the necessary architecture to handle the load.
Helped to move Rancher apps using Docker Compose to K8s (35+ apps) using Datadog, Helm Charts, Buildkite, Bitnami Sealed Secrets, and EKS.
Worked on Ubuntu 14 upgrade to Ubuntu 20 for EC2 legacy deployments and used Packer and Ansible to create the AMIs.
Created custom Terraform modules to facilitate the team's needs such as Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, etc. including Datadog monitoring settings and default values.
Automated the rotation of the IAM user key process on the project using Python (boto3). The maximum period for an active key on the IAM was 90 days, leading to enhanced security. It uses Lambda to trigger the creation of new keys and push it to the AWS Secret Manager, which deactivates and deletes the old key on the solution.
Worked on a project that sought to apply patches automatically in Linux and Windows Servers by implementing Ansible AWX for patching servers hosted in a VMware cluster, taking snapshots of servers, stopping the services, applying patches, rebooting, and ensuring that services were up and running.
Designed and implemented monitoring solutions to measure metrics and keep processes up to date. Worked with Datadog on implementing log, metrics, and traces for Kubernetes apps and Java-based apps using Helm Chart, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker.
Education
Associate Cloud Engineer Certification (Expires Mar 2027)
Google
2024 - 2024
CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (Expires Nov 2024)
The Linux Foundation
2022 - 2022
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Expires Mar 2025)
The Linux Foundation
2022 - 2022
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate (Expires Jan 2025)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2022 - 2022
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (Expired Feb 2023)
