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Identity

Name

Cristiano Nilsen

Location

Brazil

Primary Focus

Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering

Primary Cloud

AWS

Work Preference

Remote opportunities

cristiano@nilsen.com.br

Professional Summary

Senior Cloud / DevOps / SRE professional with extensive infrastructure experience and hands-on production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, networking, security and automation.

Cristiano Nilsen is a Cloud Architect / Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in infrastructure and technology, with a strong focus on AWS, DevOps and SRE practices. His recent experience includes operating and evolving distributed SaaS infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and geographic regions.

Core Technologies

cloud

AWSOCI

aws

EKSEC2VPCS3IAMIAM Identity CenterAWS OrganizationsWAFCloudWatchConfigBackupGuardDutyInspectorSESEventBridgeFirehoseAthena

containers

KubernetesAmazon EKSDockercontainerd

infrastructure As Code

TerraformOpenTofuHelmAnsible

cicd

JenkinsGitLab CIGitHub Actions

observability

GrafanaLokiPrometheusDatadogInstanaCloudWatch

security

AWS WAFCloudflareImpervaModSecurityCrowdStrikeOrca SecurityIAMSCPs

networking

AWS VPCroutingNAT GatewayLoad BalancersingressIPv6VPC Flow Logs

Production Experience

✓ More than 20 AWS accounts
✓ 15 Amazon EKS clusters
✓ Approximately 1,700 containers
✓ Multi-region infrastructure spanning South America, North America, Europe and Asia
✓ 24x7 SaaS production operations

Selected Technical Cases

AWS WAF Architecture

production

Centralized domain protection with AWS WAF, rate limiting, managed rule groups, logging and monitoring. Automated via Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

AWS WAFTerraformCI/CD

AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center

production

Multi-account environment with Permission Sets, security baselines, SCPs and governance infrastructure as code.

AWS OrganizationsIAM Identity CenterInfrastructure as CodeSCPs

Cloud Network Standardization

production

VPC architecture standardization across multiple AWS accounts with centralized logging via VPC Flow Logs, Firehose and CloudWatch.

VPCVPC Flow LogsFirehoseCloudWatch

Kubernetes / Amazon EKS Operations

production

Production EKS operations covering networking, ingress, storage, security, troubleshooting, upgrades and reliability.

EKSKubernetesnetworkingsecurity

Application-Level WAF

production

ModSecurity with Nginx and OWASP Core Rule Set. Anomaly scoring with configurable activation as a separate project alongside AWS WAF.

ModSecurityNginxOWASP CRS

AI-Assisted Cloud Operations Context

production

A structured technical context layer for querying infrastructure information using AI. Included cloud resources, AWS accounts, regions, infrastructure standards, security guardrails, WAF log locations, VPC Flow Log locations, Firehose pipelines and operational procedures. Enabled less experienced team members to consult technical information more easily and support operational and security analyses.

Context EngineeringAIoperational context

Projects and Labs

production

AWS WAF automation

AWS WAFTerraformCI/CD

lab

AWS Organizations

AWS OrganizationsIAM Identity Center

lab

IAM Identity Center

IAMPermission SetsSCPs

production

Kubernetes / Amazon EKS

EKSKubernetesDocker

lab

Argo CD / GitOps

Argo CDGitOpsKubernetes

lab

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetryObservability

lab

Backstage / Internal Developer Platform

BackstageIDPPlatform Engineering

production

Cloud observability

GrafanaLokiCloudWatchDatadog

portfolio_project

Generative AI for infrastructure

Generative AIContext Engineering

production

AI-assisted operational context

AIContext Engineeringoperational automation

production

Cloud automation

TerraformCI/CDAWS

Suitable Roles

Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

Senior SRE

Cloud Architect

Cloud Solutions Architect

Platform Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Professional Intent

My primary professional focus is Cloud, DevOps, SRE and infrastructure engineering. AI-related work is complementary to this background and is focused mainly on infrastructure automation, operational context, documentation and agent-assisted workflows.

Structured Data Preview

Structured summary for consumption by AI systems and agents.

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Resources

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resume.json

Full structured resume

projects.json

Detailed projects and labs

cases.json

Technical cases with context

llms.txt

LLM-optimized context