# Hector F. Jimenez S.

> Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and SRE. Open to SRE, DevOps, and CloudOps roles.

- Location: Pereira, Colombia (Remote)
- Email: hectorfjimenez@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/h3ct0rjs
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/h3ct0rjs

## About

Infrastructure engineer who has spent 12 years keeping production systems reliable — from migrating datacenters to cloud, building CI/CD pipelines for Disney-scale traffic, to managing global infrastructure at GoDaddy. Started as a computer lab monitor at university and climbed from server administration to SRE, with deep understanding of infrastructure from the metal up.

Works across AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, OpenStack, and bare-metal. Co-founded the CNCF Pereira chapter and co-organized PereiraJS and Pereira Tech Talks for nearly a decade.

## Experience

### Sr Site Reliability Engineer L3 — GoDaddy (Studio 503 Contractor)
Jul 2023 – Present

- Manages production AWS and OpenStack accounts across a global multi-region presence
- Owns GitHub Enterprise Cloud & On-Prem platform for the entire engineering org
- Builds and maintains advanced GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
- Delivers custom Python/TypeScript automation tools integrating AWS services
- Drives AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews

### CloudOps & DevOps Engineer — Globant Colombia
May 2021 – Jul 2023

- Maintained multi-cloud AWS + Azure infrastructure for Disney Media Entertainment (Digitalscreeners, Marvel, TheForce)
- Delivered IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation across 5+ product squads
- Designed and operated GitLab CI/CD Enterprise pipelines
- Orchestrated containerized workloads across Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, ECR

### Sr IT Infrastructure Engineer — Soluciones Globales SAS
Dec 2018 – May 2021

- Sole infrastructure owner for 80–90 servers at a regional BTLatam datacenter
- Led full PostgreSQL on-premise → AWS RDS migration with zero data loss
- Designed site-to-site and client-to-site VPN infrastructure

### Chapter Lead & Community Organizer
2016 – Dec 2025

- Founded and led CNCF Cloud Native Pereira — one of the first CNCF chapters in Colombia
- Co-organized PereiraJS (~10 yrs) and Pereira Tech Talks (~9 yrs)

## Skills

- **Cloud:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, OpenStack, DigitalOcean, Hetzner
- **IaC:** Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Pulumi
- **Containers:** Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, ECS/ECR, Podman
- **CI/CD:** GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, FluxCD, CircleCI, Fastlane
- **Observability:** Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Loki, CloudWatch, PagerDuty
- **Networking:** Cloudflare WAF, Envoy, StrongSwan, Fortinet, OpenVPN, Zero Trust, mTLS
- **Languages:** Python, TypeScript, Bash, HCL, YAML
- **Data:** PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, AWS SQS/SNS, S3

## Certifications

- GitHub Actions — Valid, expires Apr 2027
- GitHub Foundations — Valid, expires Feb 2027
- Organizer, Cloud Native Community Group — The Linux Foundation, Jan 2025
- LFC102: Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation — The Linux Foundation, Dec 2024
- AWS Partner: Technical Accredited — Jun 2021

## Projects

- **Disney Media Entertainment MultiCloud** — AWS + Azure infra for Marvel, Digitalscreeners, TheForce at Globant
- **GitHub Enterprise Platform** — Full GHE Cloud & On-Prem management at GoDaddy with advanced Actions workflows
- **On-Premise → AWS Cloud Migration** — 80–90 server fleet, PostgreSQL to RDS, VPN infrastructure
- **k8s-workshop** — Hands-on Kubernetes workshop (https://github.com/h3ct0rjs/k8s-workshop)
- **Jenkins HA Multi-Region Cluster** — Active-active Jenkins on EKS across multiple AWS regions
- **Bare Metal Kubernetes with OKD** — Self-hosted OpenShift on bare metal with full provisioning automation
- **Bare Metal Kubernetes with Kubespray** — Production K8s cluster with Calico, MetalLB, Rook-Ceph

## Contact

- Email: hectorfjimenez@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/h3ct0rjs
- GitHub: https://github.com/h3ct0rjs
- Website: https://h3ct0rjs.dev