Victor Barba Martin
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Barcelona, Spain
Toptal member since March 16, 2021
Victor has substantial experience in the field of DevOps, architecting AWS solutions and leveraging tools like CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC, and S3, among others. He is adept at handling governance and management tools (Organizations, CloudTrail, and Config) and developer tools (CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy). Victor has successfully migrated workloads to containers, set up CI /CD pipelines, and built Slackbot for deployments and dynamic creation of development environments.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - 5 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- AWS Cloud Architecture - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 5 years
- Grafana - 5 years
- Docker - 4 years
- Python - 4 years
- Terraform - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Docker, Serverless, System Administration, Server Infrastructure, Linux Administration, Amazon Lightsail
The most amazing...
...thing I've performed is a server-to-containers migration for workloads of more than 400 containers.
Work Experience
Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Zinio
- Developed the AWS infrastructure (ECS Docker) with Terraform following a DRY methodology and ensuring all the infrastructure meets the company-compliant guidelines.
- Tracked the team's progress with Jira, building a roadmap and planning sprints.
- Secured AWS access with automated IAM policies for SSO with MFA.
AWS DevOps Engineer/Architect
Play Time, Inc - Main
- Set up a replication platform for Aurora PSQL to a GCP data stream to allow the data team to get real-time changes for analytics.
- Created Terraform pipelines to integrate infrastructure changes with code changes, allowing developers to change infrastructure on-demand and decrease lead time.
- Set up GitLab runners hosted in AWS with dynamic autoscaling to decrease the app's build time and lower costs.
AWS DevOps Engineer
Design First Builders LLC
- Containerized customer apps to migrate from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to an Amazon ECS service for a construction renovation company.
- Developed infrastructure as code to create the resources needed to run the apps in the AWS Cloud (AWS Copilot).
- Created a testing environment and tools to troubleshoot incidents.
Systems Monitoring and Management Guru (Contract)
JamKazam, Inc.
- Developed Ansible playbooks to add latency metrics on network nodes and get alerts if some nodes report bad latencies.
- Created Grafana dashboards to visualize network latency between nodes.
- Created a Kubernetes cluster for the video platform, allowing users to have video music sessions.
DevOps Expert (AWS) for Cloud Solutions Provider
Cloud KB Ltd
- Developed Terraform code for EKS cluster provisioning.
- Set up the GitOps ArgoCD platform for deploying applications.
- Set up Terragrunt code for AWS multi-account management.
Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer
Vueling
- Developed an AWS account vending machine for automatic account provisioning using Lambda functions (Python) to allow business units to provision AWS accounts on-demand.
- Created an AWS service catalog with a curated resources portfolio ready to be used for development teams.
- Implemented AWS Transit Gateway with Direct Connect and more than 100 VPCs.
- Led a five-person engineering team through the company's technical roadmap for cloud migration.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Wallapop
- Built a Slackbot for Docker environments on-demand creation using Python allowing developers to test new features on their environment.
- Migrated from an Ansible mutable infrastructure to a Docker container system in AWS.
- Migrated from 25 Jenkins servers to an AWS CodeBuild service, decreasing costs and improving performance.
DevOps Engineer
Telefonica
- Automated environments creation for regression testing using Bash scripts and Puppet manifests.
- Set up the development platform for VOD recordings enabling customers to schedule TV recordings and watch them on-demand.
- Made Puppet manifests CI/CD scripts with Jenkins to enable the fast and secure development of server configurations.
Linux System Administrator
Freelance Work
- Developed virtual (VMware) infrastructure automation for regression testing.
- Migrated a data center infrastructure to the AWS cloud following IaC principles.
- Created a Linux bastion infrastructure in an AWS multi-account environment with LDAP user synchronization.
Experience
Slackbot for Docker Environment Management
Server to Container Migration
AWS Account Vending Machine
Ansible Role Development for Multi-cloud Monitoring
Kubernetes Cluster for a Video Platform
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Amazon EC2 API
Tools
Ansible, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Service Catalog, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Fargate, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS IAM, VPN, Amazon CloudWatch, CircleCI, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Step Functions, Puppet, GitHub, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon EKS, AWS CodeCommit, GitLab CI/CD, Slack, NGINX, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Helm, Apache, AWS Copilot, GitLab, VMware, Jenkins, TCPDF, Cron, Apache Solr, RabbitMQ, Amazon Cognito
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevSecOps
Platforms
Docker, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, AWS ALB, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Lightsail, Amazon Linux, AWS IoT, Linode, Ubuntu, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Datadog, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
Languages
Bash, Python, Java, SQL, PHP
Other
Cloud, AWS Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Security, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure Architecture, Prometheus, SaaS Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Monitoring, AWS DevOps, ECS, System Administration, Server Infrastructure, AWS VPN, Infrastructure, Networking, Networks, DevOps Engineer, Amazon RDS, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Cloud Cost Management, GitHub Actions, AWS ECS Fargate, Solution Architecture, YAML Pipelines, Serverless, Costs, IT Governance, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Troubleshooting, Linux Administration, Security, API Gateways, SDKs, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Firewalls, Network Security, Team Leadership, Architecture, AWS CodePipeline, Vulnerability Management, Containerization, Containers, AWS Organizations, Single Sign-on (SSO), AWS Control Tower, AWS Transit Gateway, Consul, Amazon Route 53, Argo CD, HAProxy, APIs, Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability, UDP, SSH, Unix Shell Scripting, Systems Monitoring
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