Nicolas Vivar Davila

SRE Engineer (DevOps)

Quito, Ecuador

Engineer with a passion for Linux (RHEL & Debian) and open source technologies, focused on cloud computing, DevOps, and automation. Experienced with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, configuration management with Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines that ship fast, reliable, and secure systems.

Work Experience

  1. DevOps Specialist

    Devlane - Huckleberry Labs

    05/2024 – Present

    Remote

    • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery optimization with Circle CI.
    • Terraform management of GCP (Cloud Functions) infrastructure.
    • Load and Stress test of Cloud Functions.
    • Setup alerting and monitoring with Grafana, and GCP monitoring tools.
    • Mobile application deployment support.
    • Bash scripting automation.
  2. DevOps/SRE Engineer

    Stack Builders

    06/2018 – 05/2024

    Quito, Ecuador

    • Configuration management and automation with Ansible.
    • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with Circle CI and GitHub Actions.
    • Cloud infrastructure management in AWS with Terraform.
    • Management and setup of serverless functions.
    • Docker, Docker-compose and container orchestration tools administration.
    • Load and stress tests on web applications.
    • Head of the Internal IT department.
    • Security audits to multiple projects.
    • Cloudfront CDN setup and customization for high traffic sites.
  3. Systems Administrator

    Indra

    03/2016 – 06/2018

    Quito, Ecuador

    • Deployment, support and maintenance of virtualized servers using VMWare software tools.
    • Linux (RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux) servers installation and configuration.
    • Installation, deployment and update of a military surveillance application.
    • Installation and maintenance of external systems connections.
    • Bash shell scripting for maintenance tasks automation on virtualized servers and workstations.

Technical Skills

Linux95%
AWS90%
Ansible85%
Google Cloud80%
Docker90%
Kubernetes85%
Terraform90%
CI/CD95%

Core strengths

  • Linux95%
  • AWS90%
  • Docker90%
  • Terraform90%
  • CI/CD95%

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Education & Certifications

Education

Ing. Electronico en Redes y Comunicacion de Datos

Escuela Politecnica del Ejercito

2007 – 2013, Quito, Ecuador

Certifications & Languages

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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Languages

Spanish (Fluent)
English (Fluent)