I am Pedro Richieri, a cloud-focused DevSecOps engineer with extensive experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure, migrating deployments to ECS/EKS, and automating security responses across large organizations. I specialize in CNAPP, cloud security posture management, and secure testing, and I thrive in environments that demand robust observability, incident response, and collaboration across teams. I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, automated cloud platforms, driving DevOps maturity, and helping organizations achieve resilient, compliant, and scalable operations.

Pedro Richieri

I am Pedro Richieri, a cloud-focused DevSecOps engineer with extensive experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure, migrating deployments to ECS/EKS, and automating security responses across large organizations. I specialize in CNAPP, cloud security posture management, and secure testing, and I thrive in environments that demand robust observability, incident response, and collaboration across teams. I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, automated cloud platforms, driving DevOps maturity, and helping organizations achieve resilient, compliant, and scalable operations.

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I am Pedro Richieri, a cloud-focused DevSecOps engineer with extensive experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure, migrating deployments to ECS/EKS, and automating security responses across large organizations. I specialize in CNAPP, cloud security posture management, and secure testing, and I thrive in environments that demand robust observability, incident response, and collaboration across teams.

I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, automated cloud platforms, driving DevOps maturity, and helping organizations achieve resilient, compliant, and scalable operations.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate

Language

English
Advanced
Spanish; Castilian
Fluent
German
Beginner

Work Experience

Cloud Ops / DevSecOps Engineer at European Commission
October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2025
Lead design and deployment of cloud infrastructure in AWS/Azure; set up large environments; implemented security best practices and automated responses (WAF); migrated AWS deployment from EC2 to ECS/EKS with IaC; built CI/CD pipelines (GitLab); established service management, observability, and alerting (Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, EventBridge, ELK); applied ML/AI for security log analysis; implemented CNAPP components; on-call incident response and root-cause analysis.
Senior DevOps Engineer at CARIAD
January 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024
Led Cloud IT Service Management; developed and implemented a comprehensive DevOps strategy; Release/Deployment Management and security integration in CI/CD; enhanced CNAPP rules; Cloud Native Observability (Dynatrace), logs analytics (Elasticsearch, Splunk); designed secure cloud environments with Terraform; cloud security, vulnerability/threat detection and configuration management; Scrum Master.
Datacenter System Administrator / DevOps at Continental
August 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022
DevOps/GitOps; scripting (Bash, PowerShell, DSC, Python); led Scrum transformation; HPC/NVIDIA GPU clusters; IaaS/IaC (Git, Ansible, CloudFormation); Linux admin, VMware; cloud architecture (AWS/Azure); CI/CD pipelines, microservices and Kubernetes; end-to-end cloud infrastructure projects; patching and vulnerability remediation; CNAPP platform development; REST API, API Gateway; ITSM, change/configuration management; monitoring, observability, SIEM and log analytics; cybersecurity, governance and compliance monitoring.
Technology Service Delivery Manager at Amplexcorp C.A.
March 1, 2013 - June 30, 2019
Managed nationwide service delivery against SLAs/KPIs; team leadership; infrastructure architecture and project management for data centers, servers/storage, virtualization, networking, cybersecurity, backups, databases, and open source projects; designed and tested backup/disaster recovery solutions; Linux administration; information security and risk management; AWS lift-and-shift projects.
Service Delivery Project Manager at Lenovo
February 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012
Managed service delivery projects for major accounts; resource, schedule and budget coordination; ensured on-time delivery and quality; stakeholder communication.
Infrastructure Leader & Account Specialist at HP Company
January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2009
Led infrastructure initiatives for key accounts; supported data center operations, cloud migrations, and security.
Service and Support Director at Service IT
June 1, 2000 - November 30, 2006
Directed service and support operations; managed SLAs, KPIs and service performance; built processes and led teams in IT service delivery.

Education

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering at Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1996

Qualifications

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (preparing)
January 1, 2025 - January 23, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
January 1, 2024 - January 23, 2026
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
January 1, 2023 - January 23, 2026
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
January 1, 2022 - January 23, 2026
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
January 1, 2022 - January 23, 2026
Advanced Architecting in AWS
January 1, 2021 - January 23, 2026
Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS
January 1, 2021 - January 23, 2026
SAFe 5 Agilist
January 1, 2021 - January 23, 2026
Professional Scrum Master
January 1, 2021 - January 23, 2026
Project Management Professional (PMP)
January 1, 2020 - January 23, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
January 1, 2020 - January 23, 2026
ITIL V4 Foundation
January 1, 2019 - January 23, 2026
Linux Certified Professional
January 1, 2018 - January 23, 2026
COBIT 5 Foundation
January 1, 2018 - January 23, 2026
Veeam VMSP & VMTSP
January 1, 2018 - January 23, 2026
Cisco CCNA Security
January 1, 2018 - January 23, 2026
Cisco CCNA Cybersecurity Operations
January 1, 2018 - January 23, 2026
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
January 1, 2010 - January 23, 2026
Informix Dynamic Server 11 Administration
January 1, 2007 - January 23, 2026
HP APS Accredited Platform Specialist
January 1, 2005 - January 23, 2026
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
January 1, 2001 - January 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Government, Professional Services, Other