Senior Cloud Engineer

AWS & Terraform IaC · Reliable Cloud & Systems Administration · Agentic AI-Assisted Infrastructure Engineering

I specialize in cloud architecture, Terraform-driven Infrastructure as Code, and Linux/open-source systems administration — engineering production reliability at scale.

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About

I'm a cloud infrastructure engineer with deep expertise in AWS architecture, Terraform-driven Infrastructure as Code, and advanced Linux systems administration — plus the security, compliance, and disaster-recovery discipline that keeps production platforms trustworthy — with strong working fluency in agentic AI-assisted engineering practices.

I'm currently a Senior Cloud Engineer on a UK Cloud Team, driving large-scale AWS migrations and long-term production ownership of business-critical platforms — from cross-account architecture and disaster recovery to security compliance and infrastructure modernization. I'm also an early and active adopter of agentic AI / MCP-based engineering workflows, building tooling and mentoring colleagues on AI-assisted infrastructure practices.

Key Skills & Competencies

Cloud & Infrastructure as Code

Primary specialization

AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, Route53, S3) HashiCorp Terraform Cross-account architecture Azure (AKS) — past

DevOps & Containers

CI/CD & orchestration

Kubernetes & Docker GitHub Actions / GitOps Packer & Ansible Configuration mgmt

Reliability & Compliance

Operating rigor

Security compliance (Vanta) IAM / SSO hardening Disaster recovery PagerDuty on-call

Observability

Monitoring & logging

Prometheus / Grafana OpenSearch / ELK CloudWatch

Agentic AI-Assisted Engineering

Current differentiator

Claude & GitHub Copilot MCP servers (Terraform/GitHub/AWS/Grafana)

Systems Administration

Deep Linux expertise

Advanced Linux administration Python & Bash PostgreSQL / MySQL

Experience

Senior Cloud Engineer — Team Internet (formerly CentralNIC)

August 2022 – Present · Fully Remote

I lead cloud infrastructure initiatives as part of the UK Cloud Team — cross-account AWS architecture, Terraform platform migrations, a recurring disaster-recovery test program, security compliance remediation, and championing team-wide adoption of agentic AI / MCP-based engineering workflows.

Cloud, DevOps, and systems administration across the full stack

I've worked across early Linux systems administration and hosting infrastructure, through DevOps engineering for telematics, fintech/ML, and e-learning platforms, to cloud architecture today. Full role-by-role history is in the CV below.

Curriculum Vitae

Full role history, certifications, and technical detail, in one document.

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Contact

riccardi.gianluca@gmail.com

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