Maria Vulcu
DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Production-focused DevOps / Cloud Engineer with hands-on experience in AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, security hardening, and cloud migration.
I build infrastructure that is automated, observable, secure, and reliable.
What Drives Me
I like infrastructure that behaves predictably, fails loudly, and recovers cleanly.
I enjoy turning messy, manual systems into automated platforms: clean Terraform, reusable CI/CD, useful alerts, documented runbooks, and deployments teams can trust.
For me, DevOps is about ownership — understanding the application, the infrastructure, the pipeline, the logs, and the impact on users.
🌟 Behind every deployment — a bit of curiosity and caffeine
# About Me
2+
Years in Cloud & Infrastructure
15+
Production Services Operated
19+
Repositories Standardized with CI/CD
Multi-cloud
AWS · GCP · Azure
My Background
I’m a DevOps / Cloud Engineer based in Sweden, focused on cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability.
My strongest experience is production AWS platform work for a healthcare AI environment, where I operated 15+ services, standardized CI/CD across 19+ repositories, built Terraform-based infrastructure, improved security, and handled incidents end-to-end.
I also work with Kubernetes/GitOps, GCP, Azure, monitoring stacks, and infrastructure-as-code projects — always with a practical focus on reliability, maintainability, and clean handover.
My Approach
Automation with Ownership
I automate repetitive work, but also make sure the process is understandable, documented, and maintainable.
Reliable by Design
I care about health checks, logs, alerts, rollback paths, and infrastructure that can be trusted in production.
Security Built In
I treat secrets, IAM, network boundaries, and least privilege as part of the platform — not as an afterthought.
Practical Cloud Engineering
I choose tools based on the problem: AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD, containers, or Kubernetes when they make sense.
# Technical Skills
Technologies used across production infrastructure, cloud projects, GitOps labs, and certified training.
# My Projects
Explore my portfolio of projects across different domains and technologies
My most comprehensive project showcasing full-stack and DevOps skills
Nightingale — Production AWS Platform
Production AWS platform for a healthcare AI environment — ECS Fargate, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, security hardening, incidents, and cost optimization.
Maria Guestbook — GitOps Delivery Platform
Self-hosted Kubernetes/K3s platform with GitOps delivery, canary deployments, observability, sealed secrets, and alerting.
KulturHub — Cloud-Native Event Platform
Full-stack event management platform built with a DevOps-first approach: Docker, Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and clean deployment workflows.
grepme.dev — Multi-cloud Portfolio Platform
This website is also a live DevOps project: containerized Next.js, CI/CD, monitoring, Terraform, and a migration from Azure to Google Cloud.
# Live Monitoring
Real-time health, resource and platform metrics powered by Google Cloud Run and modern cloud monitoring best practices. Migrated from Azure
GCP Cloud Run Dashboard
CI/CD Pipeline Stats
Uptime resets with each deployment - Regular deployments are part of our continuous delivery process, ensuring the latest features and fixes are always live.
Container Memory (0.0%)
V8 Heap (0.0%)
Latency Trend
Memory Trend (RSS)
# Infrastructure as Code
Containerized Next.js portfolio deployed to Google Cloud Run with GitHub Actions CI/CD, Workload Identity Federation, Artifact Registry, immutable image tags, and keyless authentication.
Dockerfile (Multi-stage)
GitHub Actions (OIDC)
# Recommendations
“Maria did her internship in the Nightingale project with amazing results. She helped us deploy a huge number of applications, created a site documenting our infrastructure and led the entire cloud team. Employers can really be helped by her great cloud skills, energy to help and her great learning abilities.”
Håkan Lane
Teaching Assistant & Nightingale Project Leader, Roskilde
Managed Maria directly · May 2026
“Maria worked with us in Transdata AS as a trainee for a year. During this time she showed dedication, will to learn and flexibility with colleagues. A great team player and independent worker. She developed her skills significantly: VMware, Cisco, vyOS, automation tools, Azure, Entra AD & Office365. I would recommend Maria to any company seeking a reliable, professional and flexible colleague.”
Michael Jacobsen
Mentor, Conscia Norge AS
# Certifications & Continuous Learning
I keep learning through hands-on projects, vendor training, and certification-focused coursework — especially around Linux, cloud platforms, automation, OpenShift, data platforms, and security.
- Red Hat System Administration I & II
- Red Hat OpenShift DO180 / DO188
- Red Hat OpenShift AI
- Red Hat Ansible Automation
- Databricks Fundamentals
- Scrum Foundation Professional
- AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
- Google Cloud Preparing for Cloud Engineer
- Azure Security / Entra ID
Academic Feedback
Databasteknik
"Mycket bra Maria, bra djup och välgrundat och du visar på en djup förståelse för GDPR och säkerhet såväl som realtids- och batchprocesser. Bra jobbat!"
Projektmetodik
"Ett bra VG. Arbetet är bra och välskrivet men jag skulle gärna ha sett lite djupare jämförelser mellan Vattenfall och Agile."
Molnteknologier
"Maria, det här är mycket bra. Bra reflektion och sättet som du hittar workarounds visar på en mycket välgrundad förståelse för ämnet. Bra jobbat!"
# Let's Connect
Open to DevOps, Cloud, Platform, and Infrastructure Engineering opportunities — remote, hybrid, and international.
I’m especially interested in roles involving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Terraform, Kubernetes/GitOps, observability, security hardening, and production reliability.
Get in Touch
Location
Jönköping, Sweden