Álvaro González

About Me

DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 2+ years designing and operating AWS infrastructure in production. I specialise in infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, FinOps optimisation, and IaC standardisation. Currently at Nagarro building platform tooling for a major travel group, working across multi-account AWS environments with a strong focus on security and reproducibility.

Work Experience

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Nagarro (Cloud Enablers team · major travel group) | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | March 2026 – Present

Replica Provisioner: IaC tool to provision common AWS services from scratch on a clean account (multi-layer VPC, Security Hub, SSM, Lambda), with an automated and validated nuke→reprovision cycle.
infra-nuke: Daily automated sandbox account cleanup via GitLab CI scheduled pipelines using aws-nuke v3, with configurable resource exception policies.
disposable-infra-factory: Ephemeral infrastructure deployment for testing environments (CloudFront, API Gateway), enabling isolated and reproducible test setups.
Multi-account AWS management using aws-vault, enforcing enterprise naming conventions and tagging standards across all resources.
3-layer VPC architecture (public/private/isolated), multi-AZ, following AWS best practices for network segmentation and security.

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Dingus (Tourism & Hospitality) | Mallorca, Spain | March 2024 – February 2026

Managed production AWS infrastructure (ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch) supporting mission-critical hospitality applications with high availability and security requirements.
Designed and deployed a reservation cancellation prediction model using SageMaker Canvas, integrated with S3 for automated CSV file processing, reducing the financial impact of unanticipated cancellations.
Orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines in SageMaker (Canvas, Data Wrangler, Autopilot) covering data preparation, model training, and production deployment.
Designed and automated CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time and minimising manual errors.
Implemented AWS cost optimisation strategies through right-sizing and automated shutdown policies, reducing monthly infrastructure spend by 10–12%.
Integrated AWS Bedrock and generative AI services into business automation and support workflows.
Containerised applications with Docker and administered Linux servers (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) with Bash scripting for task automation.
Operated within PCI DSS and ISO 27001 compliance frameworks applied to cloud environments.

Technical Skills

Cloud & DevOps

AWS: ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, EventBridge, SSM, Security Hub, CloudFront, API Gateway, Bedrock, SageMaker, CodePipeline, CodeBuild
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild
Pre-commit: terraform-docs, tflint, checkov, infracost, trivy
Containers: Docker
IaC: Terraform
Observability: Datadog (log forwarding from Lambda/CloudWatch)
Linux: Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS — administration and Bash automation

Development & Data

Python: automation scripts, internal tooling, integration development
Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, MongoDB, SQL
Data & Analytics: Redshift Serverless, Athena, BigQuery (migration from BigQuery to Redshift Serverless)
ML in production: SageMaker Canvas, Data Wrangler, Autopilot; model output integration into operational data flows

Security & Compliance

PCI DSS: applied knowledge in cloud environments
ISO 27001: familiarity with principles and information security best practices

Education

Vocational Degree — Microcomputer Systems and Networks

Colegio Aula Balear | Palma de Mallorca | 2022 – 2024

High School Certificate (ESO)

Colegio Madre Alberta | Palma de Mallorca | 2018

Certifications & Additional Training

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004) — In progress

Languages

Spanish & Catalan: Native

English: B2 Certificate