Luiz Nunes
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
27 years in critical IT infrastructure across telecom, energy, finance and government. Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and GitSecOps. Trilingual — English · French · Portuguese.
About
I've been in IT infrastructure for 27 years — started on Unix in Brazil, moved through enterprise backup, middleware and cloud, and I'm now deep into Kubernetes, GitSecOps and AI-assisted DevOps.
My background covers major organisations across four sectors: telecom (Bell Canada, CENX), energy (Petrobras), finance (Natixis CIB) and government (Quebec). Mostly embedded as a consultant in complex, regulated environments with real uptime requirements.
For the past two years I've been building my own products as a founder — which means I now understand product and infrastructure as a single discipline. I design systems end-to-end: cloud infra, CI/CD, security posture and the application layer.
Based in Geneva. EU/EFTA national. No notice period. Available immediately.
Experience
27 years
Location
Geneva, Switzerland
Availability
Immediate
Work permit
EU/EFTA · No sponsorship
Languages
English — Native / Bilingual
French — Native / Bilingual
Portuguese — Native / Bilingual
Experience
Alpha Personae
Feb 2026 – Present
Geneva, Switzerland
SaaSFounder & DevOps Architect
- –Designed full AWS cloud infrastructure from scratch: networking (VPC, IGW, EIP), compute (ECS, EC2), storage (S3, ECR) and IAM policies
- –GitOps control plane with ArgoCD; Kubernetes deployments via Kustomize overlays and Helm charts
- –GitSecOps pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) with container security scanning and automated rollback via Velero
- –Full observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki; PostgreSQL with RBAC and automated backup routines
- –Integrated LLMs into the development workflow — advanced prompt engineering, prompt caching, agent auto-research
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking
Jan 2026 – May 2026
Porto, Portugal
FinanceCloud Infrastructure Engineer
- –Migrated legacy RHEL 7 servers to RHEL 8 in a regulated banking environment — CI/CD pipeline updates, script modernisation and permissions management via automation tools
- –Docker image compliance and deployment lifecycle management on OpenShift
- –Cross-functional technical documentation within a globally distributed team
CGI · Bell Canada
Jul 2021 – Apr 2024
Montreal, Canada
TelecomCloud & DevOps Engineer
- –AWS (EC2, VPC, RDS, EKS) and GCP for an enterprise-scale sensitive data tokenisation platform serving Bell Canada
- –IaC with Terraform and Ansible; Helm chart deployments, Vault secrets management, RBAC and end-to-end PKI/TLS certificate lifecycle
- –GitOps with ArgoCD; GitLab GitSecOps pipelines; Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Elasticsearch and HAProxy
- –Neo4j, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Oracle administration; IAM Access Analyzer for least-privilege enforcement
- –Incident response and postmortems; root cause analysis and corrective actions for mission-critical services
CGI · Bell Canada
Feb 2019 – Jun 2021
Montreal, Canada
TelecomMiddleware & Application Support
- –Concurrent support across 6 Bell Canada projects: billing portal, application monitoring, identity migration, order management and legacy messaging
- –WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, IBM MQ across RHEL, Solaris and Windows Server; MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL
- –IBM MQ Series implementation from scratch including queue and channel definition; GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD; OpenSSL/PKI
- –Docker on the CCE billing portal; WebLogic on AWS EC2 for OBM
Belron
May 2018 – Feb 2019
Montreal, Canada
IndustryDevOps & Linux Systems Engineer
- –Built and maintained Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for a microservices architecture
- –Sole Linux administrator for the critical inventory management server supplying hundreds of franchises across Canada and the US — a system with no available internal expertise
CENX
Jan 2017 – Apr 2018
Ottawa, Canada
TelecomSoftware Deployment Engineer
- –Provisioned AWS environments for a multi-vendor global telecom monitoring solution delivered as a turnkey cluster to enterprise clients
- –Docker container configuration, inter-component validation and client handover; Bash automation to standardise the delivery pipeline
Momentum Technologies
Dec 2010 – Dec 2016
Quebec City, Canada
GovernmentICT Consultant — Workflow Automation
- –Sole administrator of CA AutoSys running several thousand Bash-based production jobs for a Quebec government department — 6-year engagement
- –Led major version upgrade of CA AutoSys to v13 independently; introduced graphical interface services for the first time
- –Managed Axway Transfer CFT for encrypted inter-institutional data flows between government agencies and financial institutions
- –Activated the Disaster Recovery Plan after a production datacenter incident: full reinstallation, Veritas NetBackup restoration and integrity validation
ESI Technologies
May 2008 – Dec 2010
Quebec City, Canada
SMB & GovernmentICT Consultant — Unix Specialist
- –Veritas NetBackup deployments for enterprise clients; Sun Ray thin client infrastructure in healthcare environments
- –OpenVPN implementation replacing unsecured remote access; datacenter disaster recovery with zero permanent data loss
Sun Microsystems · Petrobras
Oct 2002 – Dec 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oil & Gas / Telecom / Finance / GovernmentICT Consultant — Unix Specialist
- –Embedded in the UNIX support team at Petrobras HQ — the largest datacenter in Brazil — Tier-1/2 support for Sun Fire 6800, Sun Fire 10000 and IBM Regatta
- –SunCluster HA environments running Oracle RAC; Veritas NetBackup with StorageTek PowerHorn 9310 tape silo for Petrobras's research division (hundreds of servers)
- –SunCluster deployments for government agencies, telecom operators and banks across Brazil
FedEx Brazil
Jan 2001 – Dec 2001
São Paulo, Brazil
LogisticsSystem Administrator
- –Novell NetWare administration; automated software distribution via ZenWorks across all Brazilian branch offices
- –Led in-place upgrade of NetWare 4.11 → 5.0 across all Brazilian servers with pre-upgrade testing and rollback planning
SONDA
Jul 1999 – Jan 2001
Campinas, Brazil
Industry & GovernmentICT Consultant — Unix Specialist
- –Y2K OS upgrade projects (OSF/1 and Windows NT Alpha) for enterprise and government clients
- –Compaq TruCluster deployments with Tru64 Unix, external storage and robotic tape libraries
Universidade São Francisco
1991 – 1995 · Brazil
Bachelor's Degree — Computer Systems Analysis
Tech Stack
Cloud
Orchestration
IaC
CI / CD
Security
Observability
Databases
Containers
Dev
AI / LLM
Side Projects
Built and operated independently — end-to-end ownership from infra to application layer. Proof that I ship, not just operate.
JobScraper
In developmentServerless job aggregator with assisted application form filling.
Go · AWS Lambda · ECS Fargate · DynamoDB
Meridian
Architecture phaseAutomated YouTube video generation pipeline. Full SaaS architecture on AWS.
AWS Step Functions · ECS · Remotion · Kling AI
suica
DeployedWhatsApp → static job portal for Brazilians in Switzerland. Deployed.
Go · Gemini API · Cloudflare Pages
AlphaP ScreenSaver
DeployedmacOS screensaver with smart photo panel layout and subject detection.
Swift · SwiftUI · Vision
Groceries Analyser
DeployedReceipt OCR pipeline that accumulates spending data as structured JSON.
Python · Claude Vision API · Docker
Contact
Open to Cloud & DevOps roles in Geneva and remote positions within Switzerland.
EU/EFTA national — no sponsorship required, no notice period. Available immediately for permanent or contract positions.