Daniel Meireles

Senior Site Reliability Engineer & Cloud Solution Architect

Nice to meet you! I'm a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Lisbon, Portugal. I design resilient, scalable cloud solutions backed by a solid infrastructure background and professional certifications. I love turning ideas into reality, shaping cloud systems, and driving solutions that boost security, compliance, cost efficiency, and time-to-value.

Technologies

Linux Terraform Vault Azure Podman Kubernetes New Relic

Certifications

Terraform Associate Vault Associate LPIC-1 Azure Fundamentals AWS Technical Accreditation

Professional Experience

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Observability)
INSCALE
2026 – Present

Focused on Observability, applying software engineering rigor to telemetry, insights, and system understanding. Designing, building, and maintaining platforms that provide deep visibility into complex distributed systems.

  • Take technical ownership of the observability stack (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) and drive strategic design.
  • Develop automation and foundational tooling for observability data pipelines, dashboards, and alert lifecycle management.
  • Architect and maintain centralized monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis platforms.
  • Own observability aspects of incident lifecycles, optimizing alerting for rapid response and data-driven post-mortems.
Technologies
Terraform Akamai CDN New Relic Splunk AWS WAF & Shield AppMonitor
Project Highlight: Observability Engineer for JYSK, one of Europe's leading home and living retailers. 🛏️
Cloud Solution Architect
Zoi
2024 – 2025

Designed and implemented cloud computing solutions, bridging the gap between complex business requirements and cloud technology capabilities.

  • Designed cloud architectures considering scalability, security, cost, and performance.
  • Created migration strategies and developed best practices & architectural guidelines.
  • Optimized cloud costs and resource utilization (FinOps).
Technologies
Azure Well-Architected Framework Terraform Checkov Infracost Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Project Highlight: Cloud Data Center implementation for the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer 🚛
Site Reliability Engineer
tb.lx by Daimler Trucks & Buses
2019 – 2023

Applied software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems, creating highly reliable, scalable, and efficient systems.

  • Built and maintained infrastructure automation and container orchestration systems.
  • Implemented monitoring, alerting, and metrics analysis to reduce operational toil.
  • Refined incident response procedures and on-call policies.
Technologies
Terraform Bicep / ARM Docker / Podman Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Grafana Prometheus
Project Highlight: tb.lx Platform (Internal Developer Platform) & Truck API (Daimler's SSoT for APIs) 🌎️
Infrastructure Specialist
Capgemini
2014 – 2019

Managed, maintained, and secured enterprise IT infrastructure, ensuring smooth system operations and disaster recovery capabilities.

  • Installed and maintained server hardware, OS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows Server), and virtual networks.
  • Implemented security patches, updates, backups, and disaster recovery procedures.
Technologies
IBM Power Systems RHEL VMware vCenter Ansible / Puppet IBM TSM
Project Highlight: Central Bank of Brazil (BACEN) infrastructure team — managing & optimizing on-premises infrastructure 🏦
Power Systems Specialist
IBM
2009 – 2014

Subject matter expert for enterprise clients on IBM Power Systems platforms and virtualization technologies.

  • Managed system installation, upgrades, performance tuning, and integration for enterprise clients.
  • Handled High Availability solutions (PowerHA SystemMirror) and Virtualization (VIOS).
Technologies
IBM Power Systems AIX PowerVM / PowerVC HMC PowerHA
Project Highlight: IBM CAC (Centro de Atendimento ao Cliente) enterprise-level support ☎️