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Jorge Lozano

DevOps Engineer | Software Engineer

AWS Solutions Architect Certified Associate

🚀 Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Infrastructure Automation | Kubernetes | AWS Solutions Architect Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing, automating, and managing modern cloud-native architectures. Skilled in developing backend services, automating infrastructure provisioning, and implementing CI/CD pipelines for scalable, resilient systems. My expertise spans designing and deploying scalable microservices architectures, implementing GitOps practices, and provisioning cloud resources. 💻 Tech Stack: • Languages & Frameworks: Java (Spring Boot), Golang, Python, Scala • Cloud & IaC: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation, SAM • DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Kustomize • Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, ELK Stack (on-prem & cloud), New Relic • Testing & Automation: Appium, JMeter, K6, Gatling, BDD • Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet, Bash scripting ⚙️ Key Responsibilities & Achievements: - Designed and managed cloud infrastructure to support multiple microservices. - Implemented GitOps workflows using Knative, FluxCD, ArgoCD, and Kustomize. - Automated provisioning of AWS services, including Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, RDS, DMS, CloudFormation, and SAM Templates. - Optimized containerized applications on EKS, EC2, ECS, and Fargate. - Managed AWS networking and load balancing, including VPC, Route 53, ALB, NLB, and security groups. I am passionate about automation, cloud computing, and building resilient infrastructure.

Experience

Mercadolibre - Software Engineer

May. 2024 - Present

  • EKS Administration & Automated infrastructure provisioning at scale
  • Built scalable GitOps-based provisioning pipelines for EKS cluster management
  • Developed internal tools for end-to-end cluster monitoring and observability
  • Performance optimization and resource management

Vozy - DevOps Engineer Consultant

Feb. 2024 - Mar. 2024

  • Designed EKS-based cloud architecture supporting multiple microservices over gRPC
  • Infrastructure management with Terraform, Gitlab, Service Mesh and TriggerMesh
  • Guided teams in refactoring monoliths into serverless microservices using AWS Lambda
  • Support development and operations teams to decouple microservices to serverless architectures

Imagemaker - DevOps Engineer

Oct. 2023 - May. 2024

  • Managed IAM roles and user policies for secure cloud access
  • AWS account cost management and FinOps optimization
  • Kubernetes monitoring and management
  • Python scripting for automation

Robinfood - DevOps Engineer

Oct. 2022 - Oct. 2023

  • Full management of AWS services (EC2, ECS, RDS, DMS, S3, IAM)
  • Kubernetes EKS and ArgoCD administration
  • Developed AWS Lambdas with Serverless Framework (Python)
  • Infrastructure automation using Terraform
  • On-premises deployments with Puppetserver
  • CI pipelines creation with Jenkins

Robinfood - QA Engineer | Automation Tester

Nov. 2021 - Oct. 2022

  • Automated testing for APIs and mobile apps (Flutter, Android) using Appium and custom scripts
  • Performance testing with JMeter, K6, and Gatling
  • Functional and non-functional testing for APIs, mobile apps, and web
  • Basic AWS Cloud and Docker container usage

Robinfood - QA Intern

May. 2021 - Nov. 2021

  • Functional and non-functional testing
  • Database management with MySQL and Skeema