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Cloud Engineer & DevSecOps Specialist

Payvalida

Full-time · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia (Remote) · January 2022 — July 2025

Led cloud security architecture on AWS for a multi-region payments platform, managing all infrastructure as code (CloudFormation / Terraform) with full PCI-DSS compliance.

Security & Compliance

  • Built an automated compliance platform for SOC 2 and PCI-DSS: aggregated evidence from AWS, Azure DevOps, GitHub/GitLab, Cloudflare, and Azure Monitor/Defender; mapped controls; generated auditor-ready reports — reducing prep cycles and external audit costs.
  • Automated secrets rotation and certificate renewal in Go and Python.
  • Created repository-wide mega-linter and policy checks to enforce secure coding standards in every pipeline.
  • Reduced critical CI/CD vulnerabilities by 90%.

CI/CD & Automation

  • Scaled Azure DevOps pipelines for 200+ services, cutting deployment time by ~60–70% and improving release reliability.
  • Delivered serverless handlers on AWS Lambda and containerized services on Amazon ECS.

Observability & Incident Response

  • Implemented observability with Amazon CloudWatch (metrics/logs), AWS X-Ray (distributed traces), and Cloudflare Analytics — reducing incident response time by 65%.

Skills

AWS Terraform CloudFormation PCI-DSS SOC 2 DevSecOps Azure DevOps CI/CD Go Python AWS Lambda Amazon ECS CloudWatch AWS X-Ray Cloudflare Secrets Management