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Carlos Serrano Bazán
Cloud Tech Lead

About

IT professional with strong technical and management skills. Experienced on leading teams, focused on results and teamwork. Business, customer and cost efficiency oriented. Technology enthusiast.

Work Experience

September 2023 – Present
SEAT:CODE - Google Cloud Foundations Technical Lead@VW Group IT Cloud
Design, development, implementation, automation and operation of a Google Cloud organization for the VW Group IT Cloud. Identity and access management. Account provisioning based on a self-service solution. Security guardrails. Network security and hybrid connectivity. SIEM integration. Logging and Monitoring. Workloads sustainability.
Highlights
  • Agile and DevOps
  • Deployment of a CMDB in Firestore and development of a Python client
  • Full product automation
  • Self-service of projects and services with MeshCloud
  • Sustainability measures with Carbon footprint reports
October 2021 – August 2023
SEAT, S.A. - Google Cloud Foundations Technical Lead@VW Group IT Cloud
Same as current job.
April 2019 – October 2021
SEAT, S.A. - Cloud Center of Excellence Technical Lead
Design, development, implementation, automation and operation of an AWS Landing Zone for SEAT Group workloads. Identity and access management. Account and CI/CD provisioning. Security guardrails. Network security and hybrid connectivity. Endpoint security and posture management. SIEM integration. Logging and Monitoring. Cost optimization and FinOps. Cloudification and containerization the organization.
Highlights
  • Deployment and operations of Openshift clusters
  • Provisioning of a full toolchain for developing microservices based applications
  • Palo Alto Next Generation firewalls
  • Development of Account vending machine
  • Concept of IAM Master and Central logging
  • Ingestion to Opensearch with SQS and Lambda functions
January 2017 – March 2019
SEAT, S.A. - IT Infrastructure Governance
Steering cross-functions in IT Infrastructure department: Financial management (CAPEX & OPEX), budget monitoring, automation of purchasing processes. Project portfolio definition and planning. Service dashboard and service catalogue. Audits & Risk management.
Highlights
  • Design and implementation of a cross finantial management system
  • Automated forecasts
  • Purchase orders automation with RPA
June 2016 – December 2016
SEAT, S.A. - Change & Configuration Manager
IT Change Advisory Board and Change Manager owner, operating the IT Change & Configuration Management processes. Process definition and implementation. Leading CAB meetings.
September 2014 – April 2016
SEAT, S.A. - Service Delivery Manager
Customer Management of VW group companies, to which SEAT provides IT services. Development of contract structure, service catalogue and financial model. Management of cross-functional projects.
September 2011 – August 2014
SEAT, S.A. - IT Architect
Definition of architectures for Sales Systems and Project Management. Management of Open Systems Operations service. Support to Incident & Change Management processes, with regard to Sales Systems.
February 2005 – September 2011
Kemit/Espherica - Project and Service Manager
Project Manager of Infrastructure Systems and End-User projects, for customers of public and private sector. Project plan definition, implementation and financial control. Project Management process definition and tailoring. Leadership of project-specific teams. Service Manager of outsourced services, with several team members. Description of commercial offers for RFP processes. Pre-sales support, business case evaluation and offer presentation.
June 2001 – February 2005
Capgemini - IT-Security Responsible, Project Manager and Systems Administrator for the 'Agencia Catalana de l'Aigua (ACA)'.
Management of corporate systems, distributed in 7 sites, with 800 users and 80 servers. Direct control of subcontractors, coordinating their activity and reporting directly to the CIO of the company.
March 2000 – June 2001
LAN Informatica y Comunicaciones - Systems Administrator.

Contact

Abrera ES
carlesserrano@hotmail.com
LinkedIn
Carlos Serrano Bazán

Education

  • Present

    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

    Systems Engineering

    Degree (incomplete)

  • 2001

    I. E. S. Mare de Déu de la Mercè

    Certificate of Higher Education (CFGS)

    Systems Administration

  • 1998

    I. B. Baldiri Guilera

    General Certificate of Education (COU)

Skills

Cloud - GCP PCA Certification
IAM Security Command Center Cloud Identity Cloud Directory Sync Hybrid connectivity DNS IPAM automation CMDB based deployments Cloud Build Logging and Monitoring Serverless Containers Compute GKE
Cloud - AWS Architect
IAM Organizations Guardrails Hybrid connectivity DNS Load Balancers CloudFormation Logging and Monitoring Serverless Compute Databases FinOps
Containers
Docker Openshift K8s Helm Registry
Tools
Git Atlassian tools Visual Studio Code jq
Programming and scripting Intermediate
Python C++ Visual Basic Bash VBS
Agile
Scrum Kanban DevOps
Personal
Leadership Teamwork Responsibility Initiative Empathy Sociability

Interests

Home Automation
Home Assistant Raspberry Pi Energy management
Containers
Docker K3d K3s