Alejandro Paredero de Dios

Alejandro Paredero de Dios

DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer · Kubernetes · Terraform · Ansible · Helm · Security

About Me

I’m a DevSecOps/Cloud engineer and Team Leader with over 15 years of experience in building reliable, secure infrastructure and developer platforms. I specialize in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and security. Currently leading infrastructure initiatives at Gilat Satellite Networks and teaching Cloud Engineering at CUNEF University. Beyond technology, I am a passionate athletics lover and track & field enthusiast.

Work Experience

Infrastructure DevSecOps Team Leader

Gilat Satellite Networks Aug 2023 – Present

Leading infrastructure automation (Terraform/OpenTofu), hybrid cloud management (OpenStack, Azure, GCP, AWS), and security initiatives (Checkov, Trivy). Managing Kubernetes clusters (k3s, rke2) and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and ArgoCD.

Coordinator & Engineering Lecturer

CUNEF University Sep 2025 – Present

Teaching "Cloud Data Processing and Storage" and "Project Management with Agile Methodologies".

Infrastructure DevSecOps Lead

Aurora Technology (ESA) Nov 2019 – Aug 2023

Enabled mission-critical services for ESA space missions (Gaia, Euclid, James Webb). Led hybrid cloud deployments, VMWare clusters, and modernization of legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes.

DevSecOps Project Manager

Orange Espagne Jun 2017 – Sep 2019

Led Agile transformation and cloud-native adoption. Designed full-stack architecture with Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Ansible for automated environment provisioning.

Network & DevSecOps Engineer

Datio Big Data (BBVA) May 2016 – Jun 2017

Managed large-scale big data platforms, hybrid cloud infrastructure (OpenStack, AWS, GCP), and automated CI/CD pipelines.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Orchestration

Kubernetes OpenStack AWS Azure GCP Helm

IaC & Automation

Terraform OpenTofu Ansible Python Bash

CI/CD & Security

Jenkins ArgoCD GitHub Actions Checkov Vault SonarQube

Observability

Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Loki

Education & Certifications

  • Professional Cloud Security Engineer Google Cloud (2025 - 2027)
  • MSc Computer Engineering Universidad de Salamanca (2019 - 2021)
  • Master Executive in Big Data & Business Intelligence MBIT School (2013 - 2015)
  • BSc Computer Engineering Universidad de Salamanca

Featured Projects

Kubernetes Platform Bootstrap

Terraform + Helm stack for multi‑env clusters (ingress, cert‑manager, GitOps, monitoring). Automated with GitHub Actions.

Secure Kafka on Kubernetes

Strimzi Helm with mTLS (cert‑manager), provisioning jobs, external access via NGINX Ingress, and dashboards.

ESA Mission Infrastructure

Designed and maintained critical infrastructure for space missions like Gaia and James Webb, ensuring high availability and security.

Check out more of my work on GitHub.