Ciprian Ursu

Leading SaaS technology provider to the global capital markets industry

• —Progressed into staff-level platform architecture scope from June 2025, leading enterprise AWS foundations, governance, networking, security, and shared services.
• —Designed and evolved the operating model for a multi-account AWS environment spanning 60+ accounts.
• —Led account provisioning and readiness architecture from account creation through deployment-ready environments.
• —Designed event-driven post-provisioning automation triggered by AWS Control Tower events.
• —Built global and account-specific customization patterns driven by account purpose, ownership, metadata, and tags.
• —Owned governance across AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, Config, CloudTrail, and policy-driven controls.
• —Led FinOps and cloud cost optimization initiatives, including Kubernetes cost attribution models.
• —Designed hub-and-spoke networking and centralized egress strategy, moving from distributed NAT gateways to a shared egress model.
• —Driving inspection VPC and AWS Network Firewall adoption for outbound traffic control and policy enforcement.

Education technology company

• —Own platform responsibilities across networking, security, CI/CD, and application delivery.
• —Manage and improve deployment workflows for containerized services running on Amazon ECS.
• —Support delivery pipelines across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and CircleCI.
• —Contribute to platform reliability, environment consistency, and secure release practices for web and mobile product teams.

S&P Global Market Intelligence / Ness Digital Engineering

• —Optimized cloud and DevOps practices across AWS, Azure, and on-premise environments.
• —Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps for services deployed on EKS and AKS.
• —Created reusable CloudFormation templates and Terraform modules for AWS and Azure infrastructure.
• —Maintained EKS clusters and supported data platforms including in-house products and Databricks.
• —Configured observability with Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, and related tooling.
• —Provisioned and maintained infrastructure for data analytics teams, including Tableau Server, backup/restore plans, and Kubernetes migration blueprints.

Esure / Endava

• —Migrated APIs from on-premises and Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes with Helm charts, repositories, and deployment pipelines.
• —Designed cloud infrastructure with solution architects and implemented it using Terraform.
• —Created and maintained Kubernetes clusters across bare metal and AWS EKS with autoscaling policies.
• —Built Jenkins shared libraries, drift detection pipelines, and recurrent AWS Lambda automation in Python.
• —Configured Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and YACE dashboards for Kubernetes resources, Airflow pipelines, and AWS services.
• —Delivered MLOps POCs using Kubeflow, Jupyter notebooks on GPU nodes in EKS, MLflow, FastAPI, and SageMaker.

Esure / Endava

• —Designed and implemented scalable pre-production and production infrastructure.
• —Created and maintained development, QA, and POC environments.
• —Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Travis CI, Python, and Bash.
• —Installed, configured, and managed applications across production and QA environments.
• —Investigated and implemented improvements for application security and system performance.

Vezuvian SRL

• —Designed, created, and maintained AWS infrastructure for scalable application deployments.
• —Installed and configured APIs in cloud and on-premise environments.
• —Automated CI/CD processes using Bash, PowerShell, and Python.
• —Provided 24x7 tier-2/3 production support for APIs and databases.

Vezuvian SRL

• —Monitored and supported production systems and applications for performance and availability.
• —Acted as primary responder to alerts and real-time events, minimizing service disruption.
• —Developed NOC process documentation and trained new team members.
• —Provided tier-1/2 support and coordinated root-cause analysis and remediation.