Arnaldo Morales
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Solutions Architect and Developer
Arnaldo is a cloud solutions architect and senior consultant with 10+ years of experience working on large and small projects in the IT, telecommunications, and financial services industries. He is an expert in designing and implementing cloud infrastructure solutions and business cases, strategic roadmaps, and public and hybrid cloud architecture. As a professional passionate about technology and teamwork, Arnaldo enjoys solving complex problems and challenges.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Google Cloud, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IaaS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Protection, Amazon EKS
The most amazing...
...platform I've developed is Tradenolimits, which was born to revolutionize and redefine the paradigm of international trading.
Work Experience
Google Cloud Architect
Platinium Group Spain SLU
- Maintained and managed the cloud infrastructure in GCP for daily use in capacity management, auto-scaling, networking, storage, monitoring, and VPN.
- Identified problems and updated platforms, operating systems, certificates, firewalls, and load balancers.
- Worked on tasks that allowed business continuity and the ability to continue integrating customers into its platform.
GCP Cloud Architect
Turismo Canarias – Government Institution
- Assessed, identified, and delivered cloud infrastructure and landing architecture, along with related guidelines, for the adoption, optimization, growth, management, and operation of scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud.
- Participated in cross-functional teams working to review architectural initiatives and improve application resiliency.
- Collaborated with business owners, analysts, engineers, development teams, and infrastructure services to define, establish, and communicate application and data architecture standards, policies, and directions.
- Created high-level design (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) for the infrastructure supporting the GCP product and service platform and components, including networking design (Shared VPC), access model design, and identity and access management (IAM).
- Defined well-documented architectural patterns and processes in GCP.
- Acted as a subject matter expert in the design and development of cloud-based application infrastructure.
- Established architectural standards that enable DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
- Translated organizational-level business requirements and use cases into verified architectural capabilities to meet the requirements.
DevOps and HR AWS Consultant
Tienda Amiga ER S.A.
- Analyzed the status of the VM-based infrastructure running the customer's main applications to prepare a complete disaster recovery plan based on current needs.
- Contemplated a technical analysis of communications, infrastructure, and alternatives to the unavailability of communications using a cloud region with the lowest possible latency.
- Facilitated the cost estimation for implementing a DRP in GCP with different technical alternatives based on replication and backups.
Cloud Solutions Architect
www.speedtocloud.com
- Tasked with assessing, identifying, and delivering cloud infrastructure architecture migrations and operational processes. Participated in cross-functional teams that worked on reviewing architectural initiatives.
- Collaborated with business owners, analysts, engineers, development teams, and infrastructure services to define, establish, and communicate application and data architecture standards, policies, and directions.
- Defined the process for evaluating and approving new cloud-based services (i.e., AWS, Microsoft Azure). Defined cloud infrastructure reference architectures for standard solution archetypes.
- Documented architectural patterns and processes to evaluate new services. Aligned with the project management team and business strategies.
- Designed high infrastructure quality architectures and drove architecture activities aligned with organization requirements set by leadership on behalf of stakeholders and consistent with enterprise architectural standards.
Cloud Architect
Comm-IT
- Helped customers achieve and migrate services and instances to AWS using tools such as Migration Evaluator (formerly TSO Logic).
- Facilitated an Amazon EC2 instance migration between accounts and VMWare virtual servers from on-prem to AWS.
- Achieved a significant result, migrating over 200 systems to the cloud.
AWS DevOps Engineer
Tradenolimits
- Designed and implemented a Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS AKS to deploy the company's main trade application.
- Designed infrastructure under the Agile methodology with two-week sprints. Provided the pipeline design for application maintenance using ArgoCD, Rancher, Terraform, and other tools. Deployed three environments for production, development, and testing in two regions.
- Delivered the environments on schedule, including documentation and Terraform code to maintain the infrastructure.
Enterprise Cloud Architect
Banco Santander
- Served as the enterprise cloud architect within the project that Hopla Software was executing in an international banking group's Technology and Operation (T&O) department.
- Worked in the technology team that analyzes, certifies, and implements new architectures based on Azure, OpenShift, AKS, GKE, EKS, and Kubernetes to improve the cloud strategy.
- Improved CI/CD and pipeline processes in production environments in the cloud center of excellence (CCOE) team.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Telefónica
- Played a key role in service technical design, public cloud management model, multi-cloud solutions, Azure and AWS customers infrastructure, and cloud adoption models.
- Used various technologies, including AWS, Terraform for data center transformation, JSON, YAML, VMware for virtualization, Hyper-V, Linux, and NetApp, while adhering to ISO 27001, ISO 27000, and GDPR standards.
- Contributed to a service offering an end-to-end solution for big customers who wanted infrastructure in the cloud managed by Telefónica.
Experience
Tradenolimits
http://www.tradenolimits.comConceived by a team of traders with more than 25 years of experience, we have created a safe and efficient business space—without spam or complications.
Transition Manager
to the phase of the project and the demand.
The project's governance committee was formed with personnel from MHI and Telefónica: MHI's IT manager, Telefónica's project director, Telefónica's transition manager, and the outgoing provider's transition manager (IBM). An external outsourcing consultant also collaborated in the process, Quint Wellington Redwood.
DevSecOps Santander Technology and Operation
SAP Migration to GCP
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Fundamentals
E.S.I. - Madrid, Spain
Certifications
Cloud DevOps Engineer Specialization
Coursera
Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud
Coursera
Developing a Google SRE Culture
Coursera
Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Google Cloud
Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft
DevOps Essentials
CertiProf
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
AWS
Skills
Tools
Terraform, VMware, Google Compute Engine (GCE), VMware vSphere, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon EBS, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, Grafana, AWS CLI, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Jira
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell
Paradigms
DevOps, DevSecOps, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Azure IaaS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Rancher, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Docker, Azure, Windows Server, Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift
Storage
NetApp, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Active Directory, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud, Microsoft SQL Server
Languages
Python
Other
Security, Networking, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure VDI, Azure Landing Zones, Cloud Computing, Monitoring, Scalability, System Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Consulting, Data Protection, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Cost Estimation, Backups, IaaS, Cloud, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Batch Scripting, Architecture, VPC, Networks, Team Leadership, System Administration, Dynamic Load Balancing, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Architecture, Remote Desktop, Debugging, Argo CD, Data Analytics, Containers, Containerization, Google BigQuery, VMware VMotion, Storage, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Azure, Migration, Cloud Migration, MCSE, SAP Basis, Backup & Recovery, ServiceNow, Memorystore
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