Lisbon, Portugal β€’ DevOps / DataOps / Security / Infrastructure / Architecture / SRE

Anderson Ayres Bittencourt

Anderson Ayres

Senior DevOps Engineer with 20+ years in infrastructure and 10+ years in Cloud.

  • DevSecDataOps
  • Cloud Architect
  • SRE

About

I build resilient, secure and high-availability platforms. I have delivered results across Finance, Mining, Steel, Pulp & Paper, Logistics, Access Control, Sanitation, and Government sectors. I combine DevOps, DataOps and Security expertise to ship reliable platforms fast.

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer β€” ClearOps

Apr 2023 – Present β€’ Lisbon, PT

Responsible for ClearOps Cloud Environments, Architecture, Automation and CI/CD Pipelines.

  • Cloud architecture and platform reliability.
  • Security-first automation at scale.

Senior Lead DataOps Engineer β€” Trustly

Mar 2022 – Jan 2023 β€’ Lisbon, PT

Provided data platforms and tooling for Analytics and Risk teams, enabling solid risk processes, in-depth analysis and reliable dashboards.

  • AWS Awarded Data Analytics Architecture β€” case study.
  • NRT streaming with MSK, Debezium and EMR; batch with Spark + Airflow.
  • Redshift, EMR, Athena, Tableau, EKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Presto, Hive, IAM, NGINX.
  • Encrypted/anonymous Delta Lake for safe model training.

Automation Specialist β€” ArcelorMittal

Dec 2013 – Jul 2020 β€’ VitΓ³ria, BR

Led cross-department initiatives for L1/L2 automation networks, containerized environments, security baselines and high-availability systems.

  • Azure cloud adoption for industrial automation (AKS, IoT Hub, DevOps, CI/CD).
  • Containerized ELK + Zabbix for assets and systems monitoring.
  • Oracle RAC for L2; IIoT instrumentation for locomotives (award-winning).

Senior Cloud Architect β€” Simpo.co

Dec 2017 – Jun 2019 β€’ Portugal

24/7 EKS microservices on AWS, Postgres and MongoDB. Automation with Terraform and CloudFormation; CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, SonarQube; monitoring with CloudWatch, ElasticSearch and NewRelic APM.

Skills

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Packer
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • NGINX
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Redshift
  • EMR
  • Athena
  • Airflow
  • Kafka / MSK
  • Delta Lake
  • SageMaker
  • Presto
  • Hive
  • NewRelic
  • Zabbix
  • ELK
  • Okta
  • IAM
  • Security
  • SRE

Highlighted Projects

AWS Awarded Data Analytics Platform

Enterprise-grade data platform recognized by AWS for accelerating insights at Trustly.

  • MSK + Debezium streaming; Redshift gold layer; Airflow orchestration.
  • Security and compliance baked-in from day zero.
Read case study β†’

Industrial Azure Adoption

Lift-and-improve for L2 systems with AKS, IoT Hub and CI/CD; deep observability with ELK + Zabbix.

Okta SSO + IAM Hardening

Company-wide identity provider rollout with strong IAM profiles, roles and guardrails.

Case Study β€” AWS Data Platform

Enterprise-grade, security-first data platform enabling near real-time analytics and governed batch pipelines.

  • Streaming: MSK (Kafka) + Debezium β†’ EMR / Spark Streaming β†’ curated layers
  • Batch: Spark on EMR orchestrated by Airflow (dependencies & SLAs)
  • Storage/Serving: S3 + Redshift gold layer; Athena/Presto for ad-hoc
  • Security: IAM guardrails, encryption, network isolation, SSO, auditing
  • Observability: CloudWatch, ELK, NewRelic APM; cost + performance KPIs
  • CI/CD: Terraform/CloudFormation/Packer, Git-driven artifacts
High-level AWS Data Platform diagram

Publications

  • Evolution of Applications Performance and Automation Assets Monitoring
  • Use of Internet of Things for Remote Locomotive Supervision at ArcelorMittal
  • Application Monitoring in the Industrial Automation Environment
  • Trustly Generates Insights 4x Faster Using AWS Services
  • Security on Cloud Computing

Certifications

  • MCSA β€” Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (+ Security)
  • MCTS β€” Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
  • OCA β€” Oracle Certified Associate
  • MCP β€” Microsoft Certified Professional

Awards

  • InStartUp Award β€” RFID Login
  • Technical Recognition Award β€” Gerdau Digital Steel

Languages

  • Portuguese β€” Native or Bilingual
  • English β€” Native or Bilingual
  • Spanish β€” Limited Working

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