Vlad George Dudau
Bucharest
Summary
Experienced Cloud Engineer specialising in designing and managing scalable AWS environments with Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes. Built secure, highly available systems through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. Managed production troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis in AWS and Kubernetes, ensuring rapid recovery and system stability while enhancing performance and operational reliability.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Team Leader - Cloud Engineer
Lucanet
Remote
2025.09 - Current
- Directed AWS infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management through Terraform, achieving standardized version-controlled and fully automated deployments across various customer environments.
- Led transition of customer workloads from on-premises infrastructure to dedicated AWS environments through development of secure, isolated VPC-based architectures that elevated scalability, resilience, and compliance.
- Configured and maintained cloud networking solutions, integrating VPCs, routing, VPN connectivity, security groups, DNS, and load balancing to ensure secure, high-availability services for customers.
- Optimized cloud observability via Amazon CloudWatch, Grafana, and Prometheus by implementing dashboards that delineate SLIs/SLOs and configuring alerting to boost platform reliability and accelerate incident response.
- Served as principal technical escalation resource for customer-facing production incidents, leading root cause analysis and team coordination to ensure SLA compliance and maintain high availability.
- Provided technical guidance and mentorship for team of five cloud engineers, overseeing delivery activities and assessing technical solutions to streamline customer escalations.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
IBM
Bucharest (Remote)
2021.05 - 2025.09
- Optimized AWS infrastructure deployment utilizing Terraform, delivering secure and resilient multi-AZ environments adhering to production-grade architecture standards.
- Enhanced AWS security posture through VPC design, IAM policies, Security Groups, and WAF configurations, ensuring secure, segmented, compliant multi-account environments.
- Operated Kubernetes workloads in production environments, managing deployments, scaling behaviour, and application reliability for microservices running on AWS-based infrastructure.
- Worked with service mesh technologies (Istio) to enhance microservices communication, enabling traffic management, observability, and secure service-to-service communication within Kubernetes environments.
- Implemented GitOps delivery workflows using ArgoCD, enabling declarative application management, automated synchronization, and controlled release strategies across Kubernetes clusters.
- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery, enhancing deployment reliability and minimising manual operational effort across release workflows.
- Participated in production incident response and troubleshooting across AWS and Kubernetes environments, performing root cause analysis , log correlation, and cross-team coordination under SLA constraints.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Bucharest
Bucharest, Bucuresti 2019.10 - 2022.07
Master of Science - Software Engineering Master's program
University of Bucharest
Bucharest 2022.10 - 2024.07
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Service Mesh
- GitOps: ArgoCD
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Rundeck
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, SLI/SLOs
- Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Load Balancing, DNS, VPN, S2S VPN
- Security: IAM, Security Groups, Network Policies, Secrets Management, WAF, Shield, NACL
- Automation: scripting (Bash/Python)
- Reliability Engineering: Incident Management, RCA, SRE practices
- Cost Optimization: resource tuning, capacity planning, right-sizing
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
Timeline
Team Leader - Cloud Engineer
Lucanet
2025.09 - Current
Master of Science - Software Engineering Master's program
University of Bucharest
2022.10 - 2024.07
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
IBM
2021.05 - 2025.09
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Bucharest
2019.10 - 2022.07