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Senior DevOps Engineer

Tomás Caetano

Madrid, Spain · Spanish & Uruguayan

I design secure, scalable, and highly automated cloud environments across AWS and Azure — with deep experience in PCI/DSS compliance, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code. Previously an AI Engineer building production LLM systems, and a university professor teaching cloud infrastructure. Fluent in English and Spanish, learning German.

About

Background

My career spans secure cloud infrastructure, AI engineering, and teaching — always focused on building reliable systems that solve real problems.

Languages

  • SpanishNative
  • EnglishAdvanced (C2)
  • GermanBeginner (A2)

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

Kudelski Security

Jul 2025 – Present

Madrid, Spain

  • Design and operate multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure) using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, improving delivery reliability.
  • Deploy and manage containerized workloads with Kubernetes and Helm.
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules for secure, scalable environments.

AI Engineer

Promtior

Sep 2024 – Jul 2025

Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Designed agentic AI systems and RAG-based solutions, including voice-enabled applications.
  • Built end-to-end AI pipelines with OpenAI, LangGraph, and Azure.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for rapid AI service deployment.

University Professor — Cloud Infrastructure

ORT University Uruguay

Mar 2023 – Jul 2025

Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Designed hands-on curriculum covering Terraform, AWS, and cloud architecture.
  • Taught and mentored 30+ students per semester on real-world DevOps practices.
  • Led labs on Infrastructure as Code, cloud deployments, and distributed systems.

DevOps Engineer

DualBoot Partners

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023

Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Led migration of legacy on-premises applications to AWS as containerized workloads.
  • Designed cloud-native architectures using ECS/EKS and managed AWS services.
  • Collaborated with US-based clients on infrastructure modernization.

DevOps Engineer

Globant

Apr 2021 – Jul 2022

Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Managed a large-scale observability platform across company-wide infrastructure.
  • Implemented HA monitoring with Prometheus and Cortex at scale.
  • Operated Kubernetes clusters of 300+ nodes supporting high-volume metrics.

DevOps Engineer

CONATEL S.A

Apr 2020 – Sep 2020

Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Designed a scalable Elasticsearch cluster architecture for a state-owned company.
  • Analyzed infrastructure bottlenecks and scaling limitations.

Infrastructure Administrator (PCI/DSS)

Siempre Pago

Nov 2016 – May 2019

Montevideo, Uruguay

  • Built PCI-DSS compliant cloud infrastructure on AWS from scratch.
  • Managed secure environments handling sensitive financial data.
  • Led infrastructure through annual PCI-DSS audits and certification renewals.

Skills

Cloud

AWSAzureGoogle CloudMulti-cloud architecture

DevOps

KubernetesDockerTerraformAnsibleHelmGitLab CI/CDAzure DevOps

Programming

PythonGoC#.NETBash

Security

PCI DSSISO 27001Secure cloud migrations

AI

LangChainLangGraphLangFuseRAG pipelinesMicrosoft Bot Framework

Observability

PrometheusCortexELK Stack

Education & Certifications

Education

Degree in Information Systems

ORT University Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay · 2021 – 2025

Analyst Degree in Operating Systems & Networking

ORT University Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay · 2013 – 2016

Certifications

Interests

SwimmingAI & Computer ScienceGeek CultureCoffeeCookingTV Series & Movies

Contact

Open to conversations about DevOps, cloud infrastructure, AI systems, teaching opportunities, and anything in between.