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Raymond R. Trinidad

DevOps Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure | AWS

AWS DevOps Engineer with 16+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. 3x AWS Certified and ISC² Certified.

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16+ Years Experience

3x AWS Certified

ISC² Cybersecurity CC

80% Monitoring Cost Reduction

70% Faster Infra Provisioning

60% Shorter Release Cycles

Expertise

Skills & Technologies

AWS

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, SAM), Terraform, Ansible

K8s

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm Charts, Amazon EKS, GitOps

CI/CD & Automation

GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodePipeline, Codemagic, Bash, Python, boto3

OBS

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch

SEC

Security

IAM hardening, VPC, WAF, SAST, SCA, MFA, Least-Privilege, ISO 9001:2015

OS & Scripting

Linux (RedHat / Ubuntu), Windows Server, Bash, PowerShell, Python

Career

Experience

Feb 2026 to Present

AWS System Administrator

Ease Solutions · Philippines

Designs fault-tolerant AWS architectures, manages Kubernetes clusters, and leads cloud migrations for international clients with minimal downtime.

Apr 2023 to Feb 2026

DevOps Engineer

SM Super Malls · Philippines

Built AWS infrastructure (EKS, EC2, RDS), set up IaC with Terraform and Ansible, and ran CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, CircleCI, and CodePipeline with a full observability stack.

Feb 2022 to Apr 2023

Systems Engineer, L2 SysAdmin

Indra Sistemas SA · Philippines

Managed 800+ production servers, set up AWS CloudWatch alerting, and handled change management across physical, VM, and cloud environments.

Oct 2013 to Feb 2022

MIS Infrastructure Manager & DPO

Servicio Filipino, Inc. · Philippines

Managed IT infrastructure across 7 entities and 5 sites, led AWS cloud migration, served as Data Protection Officer, and drove ISO 9001:2015 compliance.

Jun 2011 to Oct 2013

Network & System Administrator

Information Professionals, Inc. · Philippines

Ran IT infrastructure end-to-end: email, backup, firewall, domain controller, file servers, and endpoint security. Built an Android-based timekeeping app with GPS and SMS integration.

Oct 2010 to Jun 2011

Network Engineer

Webcast Technologies, Inc. · Philippines

Deployed MySQL high-availability server with failover and redundancy, Elastix VoIP, and BigBlueButton web conferencing infrastructure.

May 2008 to Oct 2010

Network & Telecom Specialist

E-Business Services, Inc. · Philippines

Handled network and telecom operations across the I-Vantage Group of Companies, 150+ branches nationwide.

Credentials

Licenses & Certifications

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
AWS Certified Developer – Associate

(ISC)²

Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

Education

B.S. Computer Science
University of Caloocan City · 2005

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Writing

Latest from the Blog

May 10, 2026

How to Set Up Effective Server Monitoring and Alerting with ChatOps

Server monitoring is one of those things that gets ignored until 2 AM when everything is on fire. This post covers the principles and tooling I’ve used to build monitoring stacks that catch issues before users do - and how to wire them into Microsoft Teams so the right person gets notified in the right channel automatically. Why Most Monitoring Setups Fail The common mistake is monitoring too much noise and not enough signal.

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Contact

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Have a project in mind or want to discuss a contract role? Send me a message and I'll get back to you.

raymond@raymondtrinidad.com