# Matias Martinez

Matias Martinez is a remote worker on Himalayas, DevOps Engineer at Avenga, based in Argentina.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@matiasmartinez1

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DevOps Engineer at Avenga operating AWS and Kubernetes platforms, with prior work saving approximately $10K/month on AWS.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Argentina |
| Authorized to work in | Argentina |
| Salary expectations | 70k+ USD |
| Job categories | DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Cloud Architect, Site Reliability Engineer |
| Skills | AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, AWS ECS, Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, CI CD, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code, AWS Cost Optimization, PCI DSS, DevSecOps, Observability, Site Reliability Engineering |
| Website | https://cloudacademy.ar |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/matias-ariel-martinez |

## What I'm looking for

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I’m available for independent contractor (B2B) work with US teams and full overlap with US Eastern business hours.
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## About

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At Avenga, I operate AWS and Kubernetes environments for client projects, delivering changes through GitOps with Argo CD and supporting trunk-based CI/CD workflows.

At KIU System Solutions, I reduced AWS spend by approximately USD 10K per month by analyzing service and monitoring costs and applying targeted fixes. I also operated airline-partner connectivity and supported PCI DSS remediation across production infrastructure.

I’ve designed AWS architectures and migrations, administered EKS and ECS platforms, and standardized infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and other IaC tools. I’m an AWS Community Builder for Containers and founded CloudAcademy.ar, a Spanish-language AWS blog with an automated news pipeline.
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## Experience

### DevOps Engineer (current)

[Avenga](https://himalayas.app/companies/avenga). Aug 2026 - Present

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Operate AWS and Kubernetes environments for client projects, delivering changes through GitOps with Argo CD. Support CI/CD pipelines in a trunk-based development workflow focused on small, frequent and safe releases.
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Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitOps, CI-CD

### Independent DevOps Consultant (current)

Freelance. Jan 2026 - Present

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Audited infrastructure and ran a K3s cluster on Hetzner (MongoDB, Redis, NATS, Argo CD) for client Dropea. Replaced the managed load balancer with Cloudflare Tunnel, moved Terraform state to Cloudflare R2, added SSH MFA and GitHub Actions snapshot automation, and separated staging from production.
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Skills: K3s, Hetzner, MongoDB, Redis, NATS, ArgoCD, Cloudflare-Tunnel, Terraform, Cloudflare-R2, SSH, GitHub-Actions

### DevOps Engineer

KIU System Solutions. Jun 2025 - Aug 2026

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Reduced AWS spend by approximately USD 10K per month on a ~USD 250K/month AWS Organization by analyzing CloudWatch Logs, Aurora readers, ElastiCache, Datadog custom metrics and load balancer costs. Operated StrongSwan IPsec tunnels and HAProxy TCP proxies to SITA, Amadeus, Sabre and other carriers, and administered IBM MQ queue managers for partner integrations.
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Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon-EKS, ArgoCD, ArgoRollouts, Cluster-Autoscaler, IRSA, ExternalDNS, Envoy, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Cloudwatch, PCI-DSS, Qualys, Trivy, StrongSwan, HAProxy, IBM-MQ, Terraform, GitOps

### DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect

TaTa S.A.. May 2023 - Jun 2025

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Designed cloud architecture and led the migration of company workloads to AWS. Administered Kubernetes clusters and container platforms, applying DevSecOps practices to CI/CD pipelines, and standardized infrastructure provisioning with Infrastructure as Code.
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Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, CI-CD, Infrastructure-as-Code

### Cloud Engineer / DevOps

BGH Cloud Tech. Oct 2022 - Jul 2023

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Managed AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center (SSO) across 84 AWS accounts. Built 30 ECS clusters with CPU/memory-based autoscaling using CloudFormation, and delivered infrastructure and CodePipeline pipelines with Terraform.
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Skills: AWS, AWS-ECS, Amazon-EKS, CloudFormation, Terraform, Helm, EBS, EFS, ALB, NLB, ArgoCD, Trivy, WAF, OpenVPN, Lambda, Python, AWS-SDK-(Boto3)

### Cloud Systems Architect

Merlín Data Quality. Jan 2020 - Oct 2022

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Designed Dev/QA/Prod environments on isolated VPCs with peering and ran services on ECS Fargate with CI/CD to ECS and S3. Implemented API Gateway with VPC Link to NLB, Lambda authorizers and custom domains, and managed RDS PostgreSQL, DMS migrations and Redshift.
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Skills: AWS, VPC, AWS-ECS, Fargate, API-Gateway, Lambda, S3, Amazon-Cloudfront, WAF, RDS, PostgreSQL, DMS, Redshift, Terraform, CloudFormation

### Sysadmin / DevOps

NetLabs IT Solutions. Jul 2018 - Sep 2019

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Administered 500+ servers (Linux, FreeBSD, VMware ESXi/vCenter, Proxmox) and provisioned VMs with Ansible and Packer. Ran Jenkins, GitLab and a private Docker registry, managed BGP routing on VyOS and IPsec VPNs on pfSense, and monitored with Nagios and Zabbix.
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Skills: Linux, FreeBSD, VMWare, Proxmox, Ansible, Packer, Jenkins, Gitlab, Docker, BGP, VyOS, IPSEC, PFsense, Nagios, Zabbix

## Tech stack

- Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Glue
- AWS IAM
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon S3
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Amazon EKS
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS CodePipeline
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- AWS CodeBuild
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- InfluxDB
- Amazon Route 53
- Postfix
- Redis
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- React
- Python
- Go
- HAProxy
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon ElastiCache
- RabbitMQ
- FastAPI
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Zabbix
- Nagios
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- CentOS
- Linux
- Windows Server
- FreeBSD
- Datadog
- NATS
- AWS WAF
- Qualys
- Ansible
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Aurora
- Docker
- Amazon VPC
- OpenVPN
- Packer
- SQL
- VMware ESXi
- Envoy
- Envoy
- Cloudflare Workers
- Trivy
- ArgoCD
- Argo CD
- Bash
- K3s
- N8N
- Cloudflare R2
- LangGraph
- pfSense
- AWS

To contact Matias, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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