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Victor Elizondo
Santos

Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer

Experienced leader in Cloud & DevOps Engineering, Platform Infrastructure, Observability, Security and Wireless with 15+ years in the IT industry. Outstanding at organizing teams, architecting scalable platforms, and driving automation from idea to production.

📍 Littleton, Colorado ✉️ victor.elizondo@outlook.com 📞 +1 (303) 943-2977
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0 Cell Towers Monitored
0 AWS Certifications
0 US Patent
Expertise

Technical Skills

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Cloud Platforms

AWSAzureGCP EKSECSLambda EC2S3VPC
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CI/CD & DevOps

GitLab CIGitHub ActionsJenkins ArgoCDAtlantisBitbucket
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Containers & Orchestration

KubernetesDockerHelm RancherAKSEKS
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Infrastructure as Code

TerraformCloudFormationAWS CDK AnsibleSaltBicep
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Observability

PrometheusGrafanaDatadog LokiAirflowCloudWatch Splunk
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Languages & Scripting

PythonBashPowerShell JavaC/C++YAML Ruby
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Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedis MySQLDocumentDBAWS RDS
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Security & Compliance

PCI-DSS L1SOC 2SAST OWASPIAMSecrets Manager
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Messaging & Streaming

KafkaAWS MSKMirrorMaker2 AWS KinesisData Firehose
Work History

Experience

Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer

Charter Communications — Greenwood Village, CO

Project: Spectrum Wireless

Aug 2025 – Present
  • Leading migration of Kafka/Zookeeper cluster serving millions of router messages from Kafka 1.x to 3.9 KRaft on AWS MSK with Data Firehose Splunk integration
  • Implemented MirrorMaker2 replication ensuring zero data loss across lower and retail environments
  • Supporting DMS migrations of PostgreSQL and DocumentDB to maintain security patching compliance
  • Architected GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multi-team cloud onboarding using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, SSM, and Ansible
  • Automated resource tag compliance remediation via AWS Config, EventBridge, and Lambda — saving thousands of dollars in cloud costs
  • Integrated Prometheus metrics from EKS clusters into Grafana observability framework
AWSKafkaMSKTerraform KubernetesGitLab CIPythonPrometheus

Sr. SME AWS DevOps | Observability Assurance Engineer

EchoStar (Dish Wireless / Boost Wireless) — Littleton, CO

Project: Dish Wireless 5G Network / Open RAN

Mar 2023 – Aug 2025
  • Led design and deployment of observability backend health check system for the Open RAN 5G network covering 25,000 towers nationwide (Samsung + Mavenir on VMware)
  • Enhanced NOC operations with Airflow and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for continuous observability
  • Redesigned Grafana dashboards unifying RDS, SQL, MongoDB, Loki, and Prometheus data sources
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with CloudFormation for IAM, EC2, ECS, and CloudWatch
  • Led SRE practice for network operations team improving availability, scalability, and robustness
  • Published US Patent: Cellular Network Component Automated Health Checks (US 20260081860)
AWSGrafanaPrometheusAirflow GitLab CICloudFormationSREPython

Tech Lead | Sr. L2 DevOps Platform Engineer

Globant (Client: Disney Parks) — Remote

Project: Disney Parks Platform

Feb 2022 – Mar 2023
  • Led DevOps/Platform team delivering Kubernetes pipeline features for Disney Parks globally
  • Managed IaC using CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Atlantis
  • Built CI/CD pipeline for computer vision model deployments with Prometheus + Grafana Enterprise observability
  • Reduced Unity GPU simulation rendering time from 2 hours to 1 minute using Nvidia + Docker
  • Deployed and managed Helm charts in production Kubernetes for park attraction systems
  • Managed production changes via ServiceNow with Disney VP-level approval workflows
AWSKubernetesTerraformCDK GitHub ActionsHelmDockerGrafana

Lead DevOps Engineer

Stella Tech — San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

Projects: Velpay, Tudi, Pesp, Bruno

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022
  • Architected cloud platform from scratch for cost-effective delivery across four products
  • Migrated monolithic application to multi-stage Kubernetes pipeline achieving operational excellence
  • Achieved PCI-DSS Level 1 certification for Velpay payment processor regulated by Banco de México
  • Provisioned and managed MongoDB, Redis, and AWS RDS with Terraform EKS/ECS modules
AWSKubernetesTerraform PCI-DSSMongoDBRedis

DevOps Engineer

Epicor Software — Monterrey, Mexico

Projects: LaserCat, epartExpert, eStore

Jul 2017 – Jul 2021
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines and release delivery across DEV/QA/STG/PROD for enterprise SaaS
  • Designed pipelines provisioning on-premises and cloud infrastructure
  • Deployed microservices with Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins & GitLab automation pipelines
  • Automated overnight maintenance runbooks with RunDeck
  • Managed Active Directory, DNS, SSL/TLS with NGINX and SaltStack fleet management
KubernetesDockerRancher JenkinsGitLabSaltNGINX

Senior Software Engineer

Epicor Software — Monterrey, Mexico

Jun 2014 – Jul 2017
  • Owned full SDLC of LaserCat 3 Java product including API, frontend, and C server core
  • Handled Apache XMLRPC communications and SQL optimization for large part catalogs
  • Successfully ported codebase from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture
JavaC/C++DockerGitLabJenkins

Software Development Engineer

CITI Value In Real Time — Monterrey, Mexico

Projects: Telcel, Claro LATAM

Nov 2012 – Jul 2014
  • Developed Java EE web applications using Spring Framework for Telcel, Claro Brasil, Iusacell
  • Built the Telcel Transfer API for mobile payments
JavaSpringMySQLOracle
Impact

Key Projects

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5G Open RAN Observability — 25,000 Towers

Designed and deployed a full observability and automated health check backend for the entire US Open RAN 5G network at EchoStar. Unified multi-source data into Grafana and led SRE operations for the NOC. Work resulted in a US Patent.

AWSGrafanaPrometheusAirflowCloudFormation
02

Kafka MSK Migration — Millions of Messages

Leading mission-critical migration from legacy Kafka 1.x/Zookeeper to Kafka 3.9 KRaft on AWS MSK at Charter Communications. Zero data loss requirement with MirrorMaker2 replication and full CI/CD automation for multi-team cloud onboarding.

KafkaAWS MSKMirrorMaker2TerraformGitLab CI
03

Disney Parks Kubernetes Platform

Led DevOps/Platform team for Disney Parks globally. Managed production Kubernetes with Helm and full IaC. Reduced Unity GPU simulation rendering from 2 hours → 1 minute using Nvidia + Docker. Built CI/CD for computer vision model deployments.

KubernetesHelmTerraformCDKGitHub Actions
04

PCI-DSS Level 1 Fintech Platform

Architected the cloud platform from scratch for Velpay, a fintech payment processor regulated by Banco de México. Migrated monolithic app to multi-stage Kubernetes pipeline and achieved PCI-DSS Level 1 certification — one of the most rigorous compliance standards.

AWSKubernetesTerraformPCI-DSSMongoDB
Academic Background

Education

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Master's in Innovation for Business Development

Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Tec de Monterrey)

Sep 2014 – May 2017
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Bachelor's in Computer Science

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) — FCFM, Monterrey

Aug 2009 – Dec 2013
Credentials

Certifications & Patents

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US Patent

Cellular Network Component Automated Health Checks

US 20260081860 A1 Published March 2026
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

November 2023
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Amazon Web Services

November 2022
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

August 2022
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Amazon Web Services

February 2023
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

August 2022
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PCI Simplified — PCI Compliance

Payment Card Industry Security Standards

September 2021
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OWASP Top 10 — Securing Microservices

Open Web Application Security Project

September 2021
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Get In Touch

Open to new opportunities, collaborations, and conversations.

✉️ Email victor.elizondo@outlook.com 📞 Phone +1 (303) 943-2977
📍 Location Littleton, Colorado 80129
💼 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/victorelizondosantos