Available nowGeneva · EU/EFTA national · No sponsorship required

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

SaaS

Founder & 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

Finance

Cloud 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

Telecom

Cloud & 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

Telecom

Middleware & 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

Industry

DevOps & 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

Telecom

Software 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

Government

ICT 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 & Government

ICT 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 / Government

ICT 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

Logistics

System 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 & Government

ICT 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

AWSAzureGCP

Orchestration

KubernetesArgoCDHelmKustomizeEKSOpenShift

IaC

TerraformAnsible

CI / CD

GitHub ActionsJenkinsGitLab CI

Security

HashiCorp VaultPKI / TLSIAMRBAC

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaLokiElasticsearch

Databases

PostgreSQLOracleNeo4jKafka

Containers

DockerVelero

Dev

BashGoPythonSwiftPowerShell

AI / LLM

Prompt EngineeringClaude APILLM Integration

Side Projects

Built and operated independently — end-to-end ownership from infra to application layer. Proof that I ship, not just operate.

JobScraper

In development

Serverless job aggregator with assisted application form filling.

Go · AWS Lambda · ECS Fargate · DynamoDB

Meridian

Architecture phase

Automated YouTube video generation pipeline. Full SaaS architecture on AWS.

AWS Step Functions · ECS · Remotion · Kling AI

suica

Deployed

WhatsApp → static job portal for Brazilians in Switzerland. Deployed.

Go · Gemini API · Cloudflare Pages

AlphaP ScreenSaver

Deployed

macOS screensaver with smart photo panel layout and subject detection.

Swift · SwiftUI · Vision

Groceries Analyser

Deployed

Receipt 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.