THIAGO LAZZAROTTO

Senior SRE and Engineering Manager

Personal information

EU Blue Card Eligible
+55 51 99254-2646
thilazza@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/thiagolazzarotto
Brazilian (Passport Holder)
Immediate Availability

Professional Resume

Senior SRE & Engineering Manager | 25+ years exp. | Specialized in Cloud Efficiency (FinOps) & Critical Data Infrastructure. EU Blue Card Candidate. Cloud-Agnostic Architect with expertise in Multi-Cloud environments (AWS/OCI/Azure), Kubernetes & Docker, Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE), and architecting stateful systems using Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ClickHouse. I build Observability-Driven cultures utilizing Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana, drive CI/CD excellence using Jenkins, DroneCI, and ArgoCD, and automate remediation with Ansible and Scripting. I lead and mentor high-performance engineering teams to solve complex scalability challenges, driving FinOps efficiency, robust security (WAF/IAM), and operational excellence through automation. Proven track record of maintaining 99.95% availability, achieving 30% TCO reduction through FinOps practices, and mentoring over 500 professionals in the database ecosystem.

Core Competencies

High Availability Architecture FinOps & Cloud Cost Governance Observability at Scale GDPR/LGPD Compliance SRE & Platform Engineering Cloud-Native Modernization Mission-Critical DB Operations Developer Productivity Enablement Security (WAF / IAM / Zero-Trust) Engineering Leadership

Work Experience

10/2021 – CURRENT
Head of SRE & Cloud Engineering
Creare Sistemas
Leading IoT/Telematics platform in Brazil — 40k+ vehicles monitored 24x7

Engineering lead driving cloud-native modernization for 100+ enterprise clients, leading a team of 12 engineers. Spearheaded migration of legacy systems to Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, delivering high-availability and automated self-healing workflows.

  • Data Reliability Engineering: Architected and executed the Datalake migration from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse, optimizing query performance by 100x and reducing storage footprint by 40%.
  • Security Engineering: Designed and deployed a WAF solution, hardening API endpoints against DDoS and OWASP Top 10 threats.
  • Observability Stack: Built a comprehensive monitoring ecosystem (Zabbix/Grafana) for 200+ hosts, automating alert correlation and reducing incident response time (MTTR) to less than 20 min on average.
  • FinOps & Automation: Developed automated resource scheduling scripts (IaC), cutting cloud waste and reducing overall spend by 10% YoY.
  • Compliance Implementation: Engineered the IAM layer using KeyCloak to enforce MFA and strict access controls aligned with GDPR/LGPD.
10/2020 – 10/2021
SRE Manager
BEG Support
Brazilian MSP & Oracle Partner — Managed IT services for 300+ SMB clients across retail, healthcare & industry

Technical leadership of a team serving 300+ clients across various sectors such as retail, healthcare, and industry.

  • Platform Engineering: Mentored technical teams on containerization adoption and Database performance tuning.
  • Infrastructure Optimization: Led the virtualization consolidation project, identifying inefficiencies and re-architecting hosts to reduce Windows licensing costs by 60%.
  • Tooling: Enhanced internal ticket and observability systems integrations to streamline support workflows.
03/2019 – 10/2020
Senior Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer
Creare Sistemas
Leading IoT/Telematics platform in Brazil — 40k+ vehicles monitored 24x7
  • Cloud Migration (OCI): Architected the complete "Lift and Shift" and modernization strategy to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), achieving 30% OPEX reduction. Read the case study.
  • CI/CD Implementation: Built the first Jenkins pipeline templates and migrated source code control to GitHub, introducing git-flow standards.
  • Containerization: Pioneered the use of Docker containers for application isolation and portability in production.
02/2017 – 03/2019
Lead Systems Engineer
2Cloud Tecnologia
Cloud hosting & managed services provider — 120+ B2B clients, multi-datacenter infrastructure in Brazil
  • Operations Management: Managed 24/7 technical operations for 120+ B2B clients, enforcing strict SLAs.
  • Network Engineering: Executed 10GbE network core upgrades and managed 200TB+ storage migrations with minimal downtime.
  • Monitoring: Rebuilt the legacy monitoring ecosystem to provide granular metrics visibility.
05/2015 – 02/2017
Senior Database Specialist
Brastorage / ThinkIT
Certified IBM & Oracle partner — enterprise storage, database and datacenter solutions

Acted as Technical Lead for cloud infrastructure administration for companies like SevenBoys / Wickbold (one of the country's largest bread manufacturers) and Unimed (one of the largest health insurance networks in Brazil).

  • Critical Migrations: Technical lead for a major datacenter migration (STEMAC S/A), ensuring data integrity and near-zero business impact.
  • Oracle RAC Administration: Managed complex multi-datacenter Oracle RAC clusters serving 20,000+ users in the mission-critical Healthcare sector.
10/2002 – 05/2015
IT Infrastructure Engineer
Stemac S/A Generator Sets
Brazil's largest gensets manufacturer — 1,000+ employees, SAP ERP environment
  • SAP ECC Implementation Leadership: Led technical build of SAP environments, managing infrastructure, deployment, and legacy data migration.
  • Oracle Cluster Migration: Executed the migration of Oracle databases to a high-availability Cluster environment.
  • Converged Infrastructure (Nutanix): Pioneered the implementation of converged infrastructure with Nutanix.
  • Enterprise Data Protection: Deployed robust backup systems using IBM Tivoli TSM and Enterprise Tape Libraries.
  • Strategic Cost Optimization (Oracle/IBM): Migrated databases to IBM Power Unix, optimizing efficiency to save on Oracle Enterprise licensing.

Education and training

2024
MBA in Leadership & Management
PUC-RS
2016
Bachelor in IT Management
UNISUL University

Technical Skills

SRE & DevOps
Kubernetes (K8s) Docker Terraform (IaC) Ansible CI/CD Linux Expert
Observability
Zabbix Expert Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack PRTG
Cloud & FinOps
Oracle Cloud (OCI) AWS Azure GCP FinOps Cloud Governance
Databases (DBRE)
PostgreSQL Internals Oracle Enterprise Oracle RAC GoldenGate ClickHouse MySQL MongoDB / NoSQL Airbyte NiFi
Platform & Security
GitOps Service Mesh SLO/SLI WAF / IAM Zero-Trust
Leadership
Engineering Mgmt Mentoring Incident Command Strategic Vision
Languages
Language
Level
Portuguese
Native
English
C1 - Proficient
Spanish
B2 - Independent
Italian
A1 - Basic
French
A1/A2 (Actively Studying)
Leadership Competencies
Technical Leadership Mentoring Problem Solving Incident Management Strategic Vision Team Empowerment Result Oriented Proactivity Adaptability
Certifications
  • Oracle OCI & Autonomous Database Architect (Professional/Associate)
  • SAP Basis (Academy) & Certified
  • Oracle 10g Admin I & II
  • ITIL Foundation
  • VMware VSP & VTSP

Side Projects

EasyContas Personal Finance

Personal finance management web app — tracks income, expenses, recurring transactions and provides budget insights.

www.easycontas.com.br
LexiTrainer Language Learning

Free web app for vocabulary development and reading comprehension — AI-generated contextual texts and interactive exercises in foreign languages.

lexitrainer.diigi.com.br
LogMeNow SRE Tooling

SRE inventory management solution — centralizes servers, databases, credentials, and infrastructure configuration in a single searchable interface.

www.logmenow.com