Senior SRE / Platform Engineer

I build the platforms,
observability & automation
that let teams ship.

20+ years across infrastructure, DevOps and observability — now focused on internal platforms and AI-native engineering.

operational·Moita, Setúbal · Portugal·20+ yrs · multi-cloud platforms

About

I build the platforms, observability and automation that let engineering teams ship safely and fast.

Over 20+ years I have moved from infrastructure and systems administration into DevOps/SRE and now Platform Engineering — the through-line being reliability, automation and removing friction for the people who build on top of my work.

Today I run enterprise observability and platform tooling at Richemont. On the side I operate Tailotek, a production SaaS running end-to-end on my own self-managed Kubernetes — which is also where this site is deployed, through GitOps.

What sets my work apart is how I use AI: MCP servers and multi-agent workflows that turn AI from a chat assistant into dependable engineering tooling, kept production-grade with SDD + TDD discipline.

Certifications

  • In progress (2026): Terraform Associate → CKA → AWS (GenAI)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • DevOps Professional Certificate — PagerDuty & LinkedIn Learning (2026)

Experience

A 20-year line from infrastructure to platform.

  1. 2025 — Present

    Richemont

    Senior SRE / Platform Engineer · Lisbon, Portugal

    Enterprise observability, platform engineering and internal tooling for business-critical systems across multi-cloud Kubernetes.

  2. 2019 — 2025

    Webasto

    DevOps Engineer · Portugal

    Infrastructure automation (PowerShell, IaC, Azure Runbooks), global WSUS for 1,200+ servers, and MES support across 34 global sites in a follow-the-sun model.

  3. 2008 — 2019

    MEGASA — Siderurgia Nacional

    IT System Administrator / Analyst · Aldeia de Paio Pires, Portugal

    Enterprise infrastructure (Windows Server, AD, VMware, Linux, Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL), large-scale networking and BI with MicroStrategy.

Stack

What I work with.

Platform & Orchestration

Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/k8s)DockerTerraformAnsible / AWXGitLab CI/CDGitOpsArgoCD

Observability & SRE

DatadogElastic StackOpenTelemetryAPMRUMSLO / SLIIncident Management

Cloud

GCPAWSAzureIAMNetworkingWorkload Security

AI-Native Engineering

MCP serversMulti-agent orchestrationAI-assisted IaC reviewRunbook generationSDD + TDD

Languages & Backends

PythonPHP / LaravelDjangoPowerShellBashREST APIs

Contact

Working on developer platforms, observability or AI-augmented engineering?

Let's talk.