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Hi, I am Ovidiu

Ovidiu Ionescu

Infrastructure - Cloud Architect / DevSecOps / GitOps Engineer

Cloud Architect / Infrastructure Engineer, specialized in enterprise-level Kubernetes, AWS and Azure cloud projects with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code with over 15 years of IT experience. During this time I have been working with automation and specific tasks on Windows and Linux systems, on different platforms.

Skills

Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Deploying, managing applications on Kubernetes. Experience with cloud managed and hosted Kubernetes clusters.
Traefik
Traefik

Deploy, configure and fine tune Traefik as an ingress controller inside Kubernetes clusters.
Kubernetes Gateway API
Kubernetes Gateway API

Configuring and managing Kubernetes Gateway API for advanced traffic management, load balancing and routing. Experience with HTTPRoute, TLSRoute and GRPCRoute resources, multi-cluster traffic policies and migrating from Ingress to Gateway API.
Kubernetes Autoscaling
Kubernetes Autoscaling

Implementing workload and cluster autoscaling using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), Karpenter and Cluster Autoscaler. Experience with custom metrics-based scaling, node provisioning strategies and cost-aware capacity management.
Metrics & Observability
Metrics & Observability

Building and operating scalable observability stacks using Victoria Metrics for high-performance time-series storage and Grafana for dashboards, alerting and on-call workflows. Experience configuring VMAgent, VMAlert, recording rules and multi-tenant monitoring pipelines.
OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry

Implementing distributed tracing, metrics collection and structured logging using the OpenTelemetry SDK and Collector. Configuring auto-instrumentation for services, designing collector pipelines with processors and exporters, and integrating OTEL signals with existing observability backends.
ArgoCD
ArgoCD

Deploying ArgoCD, configuring projects and applications. Writing custom application healthchecks. Experience working with Argo Rollouts, Argo Workflows and Argo Events.
Docker
Docker

Configure and run applications inside Docker containers. Deploying cloud managed and hosted container registries.
Helm
Helm

Configuring, creating and deploying Helm charts.
Policy as Code
Policy as Code

Implementing policy as code for IaC governance and Kubernetes admission control using OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and Checkov. Enforcing compliance, security, and cost guardrails across cloud infrastructure.
Internal Developer Platforms
Internal Developer Platforms

Designing and implementing Internal Developer Platforms using Backstage and Port to improve developer experience, provide self-service infrastructure provisioning, and standardise engineering workflows. Measuring platform adoption and developer experience through DORA metrics, onboarding time, and self-service success rates.
FinOps
FinOps

Applying FinOps principles for cloud cost visibility, optimisation and governance. Implementing tagging strategies, showback/chargeback models, rightsizing, and integrating cost estimation into IaC pipelines with Infracost.
AIOps
AIOps

Leveraging AI-driven operations for intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, predictive scaling and automated incident triage. Experience integrating AIOps capabilities into existing monitoring stacks (Datadog, Prometheus).
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services

Building, migrating and running solutions in AWS, using infrastructure as code to deploy the components.
Azure
Azure

Building, migrating and running solutions in Azure, using infrastructure as code to deploy the components.
VMware
VMware

Server automated deployment in VMware, creating and managing virtual machines, working with PowerCLI to achieve automation.
Git
Git

Experience with git-based development on Github, Gitlab, AWS CodeCommit and Atlassian BitBucket.
CI/CD pipelines.
CI/CD pipelines.

Setting up CI/CD pipelines for different environments using GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI/CD, Argo Workflows, Jenkins pipelines.
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code

My first option when I’m writing code. It’s simple and provides comprehensive code editing, navigation and Git support.
Jenkins
Jenkins

Installing, configuring and managing Jenkins master and worker nodes (on Linux and Windows), deployment pipelines.
Terraform
Terraform

Creating and updating existing infrastructure using Terraform. Working with different providers, modules, pipelines.
Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy

Configuring and managing Octopus Deploy projects using related components like Runbooks, Deployments, Packages, Releases, Infrastructure, Worker Pools.
Ansible
Ansible

Managing mutable infrastructure using Ansible playbooks, working with different modules and inventories, performing zero-downtime multi-server deployments, automation with Ansible Tower and CI/CD.
Linux
Linux

I’m using Linux as my main Desktop OS for more than 5 years. Experience with Ubuntu Server and CentOS distributions.
Windows
Windows

MCSA and MCSE certified professional, I have experience working with Microsoft Windows Server OS starting with 2008R2.
Python
Python

Developing and designing custom tools including custom IPAM solutions, developer utilities, reporting pipelines and UI interfaces using Streamlit. Building custom GitHub Actions workflows for day-2 operations automation.
Bash
Bash

Writing scripts used for different automation tasks and also to produce the Linux based application containers.
Powershell
Powershell

Writing scripts used for different automation tasks.
MongoDB
MongoDB

Deploying and configuring MongoDB clusters and collections both on cloud managed and on-premise.
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server

Deploying and configuring Microsoft SQL Servers 2012, 2016, 2019, backup and restoring databases, monitoring.
Oracle Database
Oracle Database

Deploying and configuring Oracle Database Server 12c, 18c, 19c, backup and restoring databases, monitoring.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL

Deploying, configuring and maintaining PostgreSQL clusters, instances and databases in AWS RDS Aurora, backup and restoring databases, monitoring.
Datadog
Datadog

Configuring and managing the monitoring of entire solutions using Datadog.
Telegraf
Telegraf

Configuring the monitoring agent and different integrations.
Confluence
Confluence

Working with Atlassian Confluence to store documentation and project related pages.
Jira
Jira

Working with Atlassian Jira on Scrum and Kanban methodologies to manage projects and related cases.

Experience

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Infrastructure - Cloud Architect / DevSecOps / GitOps Engineer
IT&C Consultancy

Mar 2015 - Present, Remote

Providing IT&C Consultancy services, delivering different solutions for various projects with a focus on cloud infrastructure and automation, working with micro-services architectures.

Responsibilities:
  • Establishing and maintaining technical environments in cloud/on-premise;
  • Working with infrastructure as code (IaC), Terraform, Ansible, deployment pipelines and micro-services solutions;
  • Configuring and tuning the environments for optimal performance, cost and dynamic scaling;
  • Designing and implementing monitoring and logging solutions;
  • Writing documentation;
  • Migrating applications from the private to the public cloud (AWS, Azure) and monolithical to micro-services (Docker, Kubernetes);
  • Planning and implementing according to the security best practices;
  • Participate in an agile oriented distributed development teams and creating automated tools to process existing workloads;
  • Work according to modern quality standards when it comes to high performing enterprise software, where continuous testing and testability is a natural part of the daily work;
  • Participate in 3rd line investigations and provide solutions;
  • Implementing policy as code for IaC governance and Kubernetes admission control;
  • Designing and operating Internal Developer Platforms to standardise engineering workflows and enable developer self-service, measuring adoption through DORA metrics and developer experience KPIs;
  • Applying FinOps practices to optimise cloud spend and integrate cost estimation into infrastructure delivery pipelines;
  • Leveraging AIOps capabilities for intelligent alerting, anomaly detection and predictive operations.
Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Visma Enterprise AS

May 2018 - Present, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Establishing and maintain the technical environments and helping the teams increase the required quality and speed;
  • Tuning the environments for optimal performance, cost and dynamic scaling;
  • Designing and implementing a monitoring and a logging solution;
  • Writing documentation;
  • Participate in an agile oriented distributed development teams and creating automated tools to process existing workloads;
  • Work according to modern quality standards when it comes to high performing enterprise software, where continuous testing and testability is a natural part of the daily work;
  • Participate in 3rd line investigations and provide solutions;
  • Implementing policy as code for IaC governance and Kubernetes admission control;
  • Designing Internal Developer Platforms to standardise engineering workflows and enable developer self-service, measuring impact through DORA metrics and developer experience KPIs;
  • Applying FinOps practices to optimise cloud spend across environments;
  • Leveraging AIOps capabilities for intelligent alerting and anomaly detection.
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Infrastructure Specialist
Maurer Imobiliare Sibiu SRL

February 2018 - April 2022, Sibiu

Providing IT&C Consultancy services, managing all the infrastructure and all the specific software solutions for the Sibiu office.

Responsibilities:
  • Providing regular maintenance for the IT infrastructure;
  • Providing consultancy for the acquisition of new IT equipment/tools (software/hardware);
  • Configuring the firewall and security groups according to the business needs;
  • Assisting the employees at the location with all the IT tasks with immediate response time;
  • Installing the Security Updates on the operating systems according to the patching standards;
  • Configuring the network infrastructure and implement security protocols;
  • Troubleshooting network issues;
  • Improving the overall performance of the infrastructure;
  • Working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, to configure and manage CI/CD pipelines.
Infrastructure Administrator
Visma IT & Communications

November 2016 - May 2018, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Install, configure, test and patch operating system and middleware, including security packages;
  • Configuring and managing CI/CD pipelines through Ansible playbooks;
  • Working with different internal teams to understand product domains and address documentation/training needs;
  • Maintain and grow a production environment in a way that makes the system increasingly maintainable
  • Participate in 24/7/365 support for production issues and upgrade and pre-production installations at varying levels;
  • Monitoring the services provided to customers;
  • Work to resolve a running queue of application support tickets and debug complex problems as they arise.
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Team Manager - Operations Center dept. / Service Desk dept.
Visma IT & Communications

November 2016 - May 2018, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Manage the performance of services to customers, ensure that service levels are achieved in line with contracts and that customers expectations are met or exceeded;
  • Ensure that the Operations Center/Service Desk departments are fully using appropriate knowledge management tools and practices to provide an effective/efficient service to customers;
  • Onboard solutions, tools and applications, new employees;
  • Contribute to the success of the business and assist in improving the overall customers experience within the team;
  • Manage staff on the basis of performance reports and observed problem areas, vacation planning;
  • Ensure that problems and solutions are properly recorded and determines priorities in the handling of incoming cases;
  • Has responsibility for day-to-day management of the Service Desk team and for appropriate capacity planning;
  • Ensure that the Visma strategy and business plan are applied;
  • Review aspects for improvement with own practices and processes and ensure that communication takes place across the whole area of responsibility;
  • Responsible for implementing and continuously improving the quality systems of the team;
  • Provide management, performance and team results reports.
Support Consultant
Visma IT & Communications

June 2013 - November 2016, Sibiu

Leading European supplier of business-critical software to companies of all sizes, organisations and the public sector.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide technical assistance and support related to computer systems and software;
  • Respond to queries, determine and implement solutions;
  • Creating / Modifying users, Managing users access in Active Directory and internal software;
  • Manage and troubleshoot users / servers / applications / printers in Citrix AppCenter;
  • Create / Modify / Backup and Restore operations for databases/files;
  • Create / Modify user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, distribution groups, address lists;
  • Run diagnostic programs and troubleshoot problems.
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Projects

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor March 2020 - Present

Deploying and managing EKS together with a complex suite of enterprise grade applications in a large EKS cluster with over 300 worker nodes and 30000 pods.

professional kubernetes cloud aws ingress-controller helm lens auto-scaling prometheus
AWS
AWS
Technical Lead & Network SME January 2025 - July 2026

Large-scale migration of 8000+ VMware VMs to AWS across 30+ AWS accounts. Designing and deploying the AWS Landing Zone, Governance Area with SPCs, network infrastructure (Transit Gateways, Site-to-Site VPN, AWS Network Firewall, Centralized Egress), Nutanix network setup for database servers, delivering IaC and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. Analysed customer requirements and developed custom tooling and solutions, closing the engagement with full documentation and handover to the customer.

professional aws vmware landing-zone terraform github-actions networking migration platform
AWS
AWS
Contributor November 2019 - Present

Migrating an enterprise grade application from on-premise to the public cloud, implementing infrastructure-as-code and process automation.

professional aws kubernetes docker application-virtualization
Terraform
Terraform
Contributor January 2023 - July 2023

Working with Infrastructure as Code as part of a platform team to build an AWS Landing Zone on an environment having +20 AWS accounts.

professional terraform cloud aws gitlab
Azure
Azure
Contributor June 2022 - December 2022

Deploying and managing an Azure VDI solution with a legacy enterprise grade application and allowing external users to access it.

professional cloud azure
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor February 2020 - May 2020

Linux server configuration and redeployment of a single master/worker node cluster with kubeadm hosting a website with microservices.

hobby kubernetes docker postgresql mongodb rabbitmq nginx ssl-certificates-renewal
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor February 2020 - Present

Linux desktop configuration, deploying and managing a sandbox environment with a single master/worker node cluster with k3s / Rancher Desktop.

hobby kubernetes docker helm traefik lens sandbox
Policy as Code
Policy as Code
Contributor 2023 - Present

Implementing policy as code using OPA/Gatekeeper and Kyverno for Kubernetes admission control, and Checkov in CI/CD pipelines to enforce IaC compliance and security guardrails across cloud environments.

professional platform opa kyverno checkov kubernetes terraform
Internal Developer Platform
Internal Developer Platform
Contributor 2024 - Present

Designing and deploying an Internal Developer Platform using Backstage to centralise service catalogues, software templates and self-service infrastructure provisioning for engineering teams. Evaluating developer experience through DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR), platform adoption rates, onboarding time reduction, and self-service success rates.

professional platform backstage idp kubernetes developer-experience dora-metrics
FinOps
FinOps
Contributor 2023 - Present

Implementing FinOps practices across multi-account AWS environments — establishing tagging standards, showback dashboards, rightsizing recommendations, and integrating Infracost into Terraform pipelines for pre-merge cost visibility.

professional finops aws terraform cost-optimisation infracost
AIOps
AIOps
Contributor 2024 - Present

Integrating AI-driven operations into the monitoring stack using ML-based anomaly detection to reduce alert fatigue, accelerate incident triage, and enable predictive scaling.

professional aiops datadog monitoring kubernetes automation

Achievements

Certified Argo Project Associate (CAPA)

DevOps and Workflow Management with Argo (LFS256)

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Kubernetes Security Essentials (LFS260)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Kubernetes Fundamentals (LFS258)

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate

Microsoft Specialist

Microsoft Certified Professional