Daniel Alejandro Gamboa Frayre

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer • DevOps Engineer


Professional Profile

Results-driven Cloud and DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Linux systems administration, cloud infrastructure, and automation: born on-prem and forged in the cloud. Proven experience managing Kubernetes clusters, deploying cloud solutions, automating infrastructure, and optimizing system performance. Passionate about leveraging open-source technologies to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency across modern cloud environments.

Technical Skills

Professional Experience

Capgemini

Azure DevOps Engineer Remote, Mexico February 2026 – Present
  • Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support automated application delivery and infrastructure workflows.
  • Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to streamline build, testing, and release workflows.
  • Participate in the migration of CI/CD workflows from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, contributing to pipeline modernization efforts.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline, deployment, and automation-related issues across development and production environments.

Aditi Consulting

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Remote, Mexico May 2025 – February 2026
  • Supported AWS infrastructure in multi-region Terraform-managed environments, ensuring service availability and resilience across regions.
  • Coordinated deployments across multiple teams and services, validating dependencies and minimizing service disruption during releases.
  • Deployed, configured, and troubleshot Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters, including node scaling, networking issues, and workload failures.
  • Diagnosed and resolved AWS IAM permission and access issues, including policy creation, least-privilege adjustments, and cross-service access debugging.
  • Used Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure diagnostics.
  • Performed troubleshooting using Datadog metrics, log streams, dashboards, and alerting to accelerate incident resolution.
  • Followed and improved operational runbooks, documentation, and standard operating procedures.
  • Managed AWS cloud services including RDS, S3, Lambda, Bedrock, and SageMaker.

Key Achievements

  • Improved infrastructure reliability by standardizing Terraform modules and deployment patterns, reducing deployment-related incidents by approximately 25%.
  • Contributed to reducing MTTR by approximately 30% through enhanced Datadog and CloudWatch observability.
  • Improved shared Terraform modules, increasing reusability, operational consistency, and deployment efficiency.
  • Migrated legacy infrastructure into modular Terraform structures, reducing onboarding time for new engineers.
  • Collaborated in coordinated production deployments, reducing rollout friction and minimizing downtime.

Whitestack

Cloud Support Engineer Remote, Mexico December 2023 – May 2025
  • Supported self-managed Kubernetes platforms deployed with Kubespray, including cluster operations, workload troubleshooting, Helm deployments, and GitOps workflows with Argo CD.
  • Investigated infrastructure, networking, and platform-related issues across hybrid and public cloud customer environments.
  • Managed observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana, including dashboards, alert tuning, and centralized log analysis.
  • Administered Longhorn distributed storage, persistent volumes, backup and restore operations, and storage troubleshooting.
  • Automated operational tasks using Bash, Python, and Ansible.

Key Achievements

  • Promoted to a higher-responsibility role based on performance.
  • Ranked among the Top 3 performers in ticket resolution during Q4 2024.
  • Reduced incident resolution times by improving monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue detection.

Whitestack

Monitoring Engineer Remote, Mexico May 2023 – December 2023
  • Performed first-level troubleshooting and incident triage for infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, and OpenStack environments.
  • Investigated alerts by analyzing logs, metrics, and monitoring data before escalating incidents to engineering teams.
  • Managed incident tracking and customer communication through Jira ticketing workflows.
  • Supported Kubernetes and OpenStack-based environments across hybrid and multi-datacenter infrastructures.

Key Achievements

  • Improved incident response efficiency through proactive monitoring and faster alert triage.
  • Reduced unnecessary escalations by resolving infrastructure and platform issues at the first support level.
  • Developed strong troubleshooting expertise across Linux, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure.

Softtek

Linux / AWS Support Engineer Remote, Mexico August 2022 – May 2023
  • Supported AWS cloud infrastructure with emphasis on EC2 lifecycle management, Linux administration, and operational excellence.
  • Coordinated maintenance windows and Linux server patching across production environments.
  • Enhanced infrastructure observability through Datadog integrations for monitoring, log aggregation, and troubleshooting.
  • Supported automation initiatives using GitHub Actions for routine operational workflows.

Key Achievements

  • Supported more than 100 Linux servers running on AWS.
  • Maintained 99.9% availability for critical production workloads.
  • Reduced manual operational work through process standardization and monitoring improvements.
  • Assisted patching operations across multiple Linux environments with minimal downtime.
  • Led automation efforts by creating reusable Bash, Python, and Ansible solutions adopted across operational teams.

Education

Computer Engineer

Faculty of Mathematics
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

2018

Certifications