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Virgil Cristian Todea

@virgilcristiantodea

Platform Engineer and IT Consultant at Freelance, building Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms with automation for dependable app operations.

Austria

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What I'm looking for

I'm available immediately for full-time or part-time contract work, on-site in Vienna and the surrounding area or remotely, with travel by arrangement. I'm open to time-and-materials work, fixed-scope assessments and builds, ongoing operations support, and retainers.

At Freelance, I provide platform engineering and infrastructure consulting, building Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OKD platforms from bare metal or cloud. I focus on making platforms dependable for the applications customers run.

At cloudWerkstatt GmbH, I progressed from DevOps engineer to team lead and managing director. I worked on customer and internal Linux infrastructure, with a focus on automation and container platforms.

At cloudWerkstatt GmbH, I built and staffed 24/7 support and on-call rotations for managed services, including escalation paths, runbooks, and handovers. I also managed service delivery and customer accounts.

Earlier, I drove the containerisation of internal applications at AVILOO GmbH and supported OpenShift operations at Santander UK. My work has also included infrastructure automation, monitoring, and audit support.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

IT Consultant, Platform Engineering

Current

Freelance

Sep 2026 - Present (1 month)

Independent platform engineering and infrastructure consulting.

Kubernetes OpenShift Ansible Linux Terraform Prometheus Grafana Loki

From DevOps to Managing Director

cloudWerkstatt GmbH

Jun 2021 - Feb 2026 (4 years 8 months)

Started as DevOps engineer, became team lead, then managing director. Led DevOps team, built 24/7 support rotations, managed service delivery, and handled hiring and stakeholder communication.

Kubernetes OpenShift Ansible Linux Team Leadership Service Delivery Hiring Stakeholder Management

DevOps Engineer

AVILOO GmbH

Oct 2020 - Apr 2021 (6 months)

One of a two-person team owning the startup's entire IT infrastructure. Managed application lifecycle, drove containerisation, and served as technical counterpart for ISO/IEC 27001 audit.

Gitlab Linux Automation Containerization ISO 27001 Networking

OpenShift Administrator

Santander UK

Oct 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 5 months)

Supported the bank's automation journey with Ansible and Rundeck, deployed and maintained OpenShift 3 in complex networking environments, and handled monitoring and 24/7 on-call.

Ansible Rundeck OpenShift Linux Monitoring On Call

Technology Consultant

Talentwerk

May 2018 - Oct 2018 (5 months)

Linux-focused consulting on small projects, including cloud migrations, automation, containerisation, and CI/CD. Conducted technical interviews of candidates.

AWS Ansible CloudFormation Terraform Docker Docker Swarm CI CD

Junior System Engineer

EDICOM

Mar 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year)

SysAdmin of a 24/7 on-premise infrastructure across two data centres, managing hundreds of servers, MySQL Galera clusters, and promoting Ansible automation and containerisation.

Linux Windows Server Apache Tomcat MySQL Galera BASH Python Ansible