Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Daniel Quiros

Multi-cloud architect building secure, production-grade infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP — from CI/CD automation and Terraform IaC to cloud security hardening. Based in McKinney, TX. Bilingual, English/Spanish.

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I'm always chasing the next hard problem — reach out on any of these.

Credentials

Certifications.

Certified across all three major clouds.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

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Azure Administrator Associate

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Career

Experience.

December 2025 – Present

Donor Tech Support / Phlebotomist

CSL Plasma
  • Resolve complex automated equipment alarms, execute calibrations, and document/remove faulty hardware from service.
  • Maintain strict data accuracy within the electronic donor management system in alignment with FDA, OSHA, and SOP guidelines.
  • Execute venipuncture, automated cycle monitoring and fluid disconnection while optimizing floor flow for station turnover.
June 2025 – Present

Co-Founder & Lead DevOps Engineer

  • Co-founded an enterprise advisory firm delivering defensible architecture across six practices: Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Secured DevOps, AI Workflows, GRC, and Training.
  • Lead the Secured DevOps practice — building AI-accelerated CI/CD pipelines with policy gates, IaC scanning, drift-prevention workflows, and SBOM/artifact-signing supply chain attestation.
  • Deliver secure-by-design multi-cloud landing zones (AWS, Azure, GCP) with pre-production security baselines, guardrail catalogs, and continuous posture management.
September 2024 – October 2025

MSP Cloud Vendor Support Engineer Agent

Itelecom Cloud MSP
  • Provided technical support for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, resolving client issues related to networking, storage, and compute services.
  • Monitored cloud resources with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and GCP Cloud Monitoring, escalating and troubleshooting incidents to maintain uptime.
  • Assisted in deployments using Terraform and ARM templates, while applying IAM and security best practices across multi-cloud environments.
Portfolio

Key Projects.

A sample of infrastructure I've designed, built, and hardened.

01

Active Directory & Datacenter Deployment

Designed and deployed Active Directory services for a colocation datacenter, including DNS/DHCP and user/group policy management.

02

Proxmox Virtualization in Colocation Datacenter

Built and managed a self-hosted Proxmox virtualization environment for hybrid workloads in a colocation facility.

03

Multi-Tier AWS Web App with Load Balancing & Autoscaling

Architected a resilient multi-tier application on AWS using EC2, load balancers, and autoscaling groups for high availability.

04

Terraform IaC Automation

Automated multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, cutting manual deployment steps and accelerating releases by ~50%.

05

Serverless Data Pipeline with AWS Lambda

Built a serverless data pipeline using AWS Lambda for event-driven processing without managing dedicated servers.

06

Kubernetes on GCP

Deployed and managed containerized workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for scalable, portable services.

07

Cloud Security Hardening Implementation

Implemented zero-trust security controls, IAM policies, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail auditing to harden cloud environments.

Toolbox

Skills & Core Competencies.

Cloud Platforms

AWS: EC2S3IAM VPCLambdaRDS CloudFormationGCP: Compute Engine Cloud StorageGKE Azure ARM TemplatesAzure Monitor

DevOps & Tools

TerraformCloudFormation GitHub ActionsProxmox VMwareHyper-V

Security & Networking

IAM PoliciesActive Directory DNS/DHCPFirewallsVPNs GDPR/HIPAAGuardDutyCloudTrail Zero-Trust

Languages & OS

PythonBashSwift PowerShellLinuxWindows Server
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