Emilio Ureña Ramírez - Senior DevOps Engineer
Last updated: 2025-08-24
Professional Summary
Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with a strong foundation in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and automation. Over the years, I’ve worked across AWS and GCP environments, leading infrastructure projects, building internal platforms, and driving FinOps and observability initiatives. I care deeply about creating resilient systems, enabling developer self-service, and contributing to a culture of shared ownership and continuous improvement.
Professional Experience
Senior Cloud Architect
T-Systems Iberia — Remote from Bilbao | Jan 2025 – Present
- Design and implement AWS architectures to support secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems
- Automate infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD
- Guide clients through Kubernetes (EKS) adoption and manage cluster operations with Traefik ingress and GitOps delivery
- Advise on cloud-native patterns and best practices during migration and modernization projects
Senior Platform Engineer
BlueLabs — Remote from Bilbao | Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
- Managed GCP infrastructure across multiple orgs, including shared VPCs and secure networking
- Built internal tooling in Python to automate Kubernetes spot node lifecycles
- Adopted GitOps workflows with Argo CD, driving consistent deployments in GKE
- Deployed an LGTM observability stack (Loki, Grafana, Mimir) on spot nodes for efficiency
- Architected Cloudflare for SaaS integration and managed over 100 zones for CDN and DDoS protection
- Developed internal back-office tools to improve infrastructure-product visibility and incident response
- Used GCP services including Memorystore (Redis), Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), and Pub/Sub; also worked with Pulsar for messaging
Senior DevOps Engineer
Clarivate — Remote from Bilbao | May 2020 – Jan 2022
- Managed multi-region AWS infrastructure for global services, including APIs, IAM, and data services
- Built Terraform and ECS Fargate deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Spinnaker, and a custom Groovy shared library
- Enabled self-service infrastructure via Backstage integration
- Promoted DevOps culture with internal demos, workshops, and automation frameworks
- Led EKS adoption and service mesh implementation with Istio and Kiali
- Led EKS adoption and service mesh implementation with Istio
Manager / Technical Lead
StubHub — Remote from Bilbao | Sep 2019 – May 2020
- Led the Bilbao DevOps team, aligning projects with China delivery center
- Championed FinOps efforts that cut annual cloud costs by 50% (~$1M)
- Drove DevOps best practices adoption across teams
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
StubHub — Hybrid | Jun 2018 – Sep 2019
- Helped define and deploy Kubernetes with KOPS pre-EKS
- Migrated services from on-prem to AWS cloud
- Contributed to Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform enablement across SF and Bilbao teams
- Ensured full automation of cloud infrastructure provisioning
DevOps / Cloud Systems Architect
BBVA Next Technologies (formerly BEEVA) — Hybrid | Jan 2016 – Jun 2018
- Achieved PCI and ECB compliance for public cloud payments platform at BBVA
- Contributed to client-facing innovation projects in IoT, Big Data, and serverless on AWS
- Automated deployments with Jenkins and Bamboo using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Promoted annually, reaching architect level
System Administrator / DevOps
Rentalia Holidays S.L. — Madrid | Jun 2013 – Jan 2016
- Migrated from bare metal to OpenNebula-based virtualization
- Introduced CI/CD and config management with Puppet and Foreman
- Boosted uptime from 97% to 99.9% by modernizing legacy systems
IT Manager
Ferri Villena S.L. — Villena (Alicante) | Jul 2008 – Jun 2013
- Led IT operations and infrastructure for an industrial company
- Managed Linux/Windows servers, ERP systems, and internal networking
- Acted as technical advisor to the executive team
Skills
Cloud & Platforms: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, GKE, Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer, Ansible, Puppet
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, Spinnaker, Bamboo
Service Mesh & Ingress: Istio, Traefik, NGINX Ingress, GKE Ingress
Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Fluent Bit, Datadog, Thanos, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis (Memorystore), DynamoDB, MongoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, Cloud SQL
Message Brokers: Pub/Sub, Pulsar, Kafka
Languages & Tooling: Python, Bash, Groovy
Practices: GitOps, FinOps, Agile
Education
Degree in Computer Engineering Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) — Ongoing (part-time)
Technical Engineering in Telecommunications Universidad de Alicante — 2003–2008 (Not completed)
Languages
- Spanish – Native
- English – Proficient
- Catalan – Intermediate
Key Achievements
- 💸 $1M+ Annual Cloud Savings — Led FinOps initiative at StubHub
- 🛠️ 99.9% Uptime — Achieved through automation and infrastructure modernization
- 🚀 Cloud Migration — Led successful on-prem to cloud transitions
- 🧑🤝🧑 Team Leadership — Promoted into lead roles across multiple teams
- 🔐 Compliance Delivery — Enabled PCI/ECB-compliant cloud deployments