Alejandro Paredero de Dios · DevSecOps & Cloud Engineer

About Me

I’m a Senior DevSecOps Engineer and Platform Engineering Leader with 16+ years of experience building secure, automated infrastructure for mission-critical systems. I specialize in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Helm), Kubernetes platforms (GKE, AKS, EKS, k3s, RKE2), and hybrid multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, and Hetzner. I currently lead satellite broadband infrastructure at Gilat Satellite Networks while teaching advanced cloud and platform engineering at several universities.

Work Experience

Infrastructure DevSecOps Team Leader

Gilat Satellite Networks Aug 2023 – Present

Leading infrastructure automation (Terraform/OpenTofu), hybrid cloud management (OpenStack, Azure, GCP, AWS), and security initiatives (Checkov, Trivy). Managing Kubernetes clusters (k3s, rke2) and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and ArgoCD.

Coordinator & Engineering Lecturer

CUNEF University Sep 2025 – Present

Teaching "Cloud Data Processing and Storage" and "Project Management with Agile Methodologies".

Infrastructure DevSecOps Lead

Aurora Technology (ESA) Nov 2019 – Aug 2023

Enabled mission-critical services for ESA space missions (Gaia, Euclid, James Webb). Led hybrid cloud deployments, VMWare clusters, and modernization of legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes.

DevSecOps Project Manager

Orange Espagne Jun 2017 – Sep 2019

Led Agile transformation and cloud-native adoption. Designed full-stack architecture with Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Ansible for automated environment provisioning.

Network & DevSecOps Engineer

Datio Big Data (BBVA) May 2016 – Jun 2017

Managed large-scale big data platforms, hybrid cloud infrastructure (OpenStack, AWS, GCP), and automated CI/CD pipelines.

Technical Skills

IaC & Automation

Terraform OpenTofu Ansible Helm GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) Bash / Python

Kubernetes & Platform

Kubernetes (GKE, AKS, EKS) k3s / RKE2 / kubeadm Docker / containerd / CRI-O CNI (Multus, Calico, Flannel)

Cloud & Hybrid

AWS Azure Google Cloud OpenStack Hetzner VMware

DevSecOps & Security

Checkov SonarQube Checkmarx Trivy TruffleHog HashiCorp Vault / Ansible Vault

CI/CD & Delivery

Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions GoCD / DroneCI JFrog Artifactory

Observability & Data

Prometheus / Grafana ELK / Graylog / Splunk Kafka / Flink NetApp / Dell Isilon

Education & Certifications

Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud (2026 - 2028)
Professional Cloud Security Engineer Google Cloud (2025 - 2027)
MSc Computer Engineering Universidad de Salamanca (2019 - 2021)
Master Executive in Big Data & Business Intelligence MBIT School (2013 - 2015)
BSc Computer Engineering Universidad de Salamanca