We architect, automate, and operate production-grade cloud platforms — Kubernetes, Terraform, multi-cloud, and AI-enabled DevSecOps — for engineering teams that ship fast without breaking things.
Infrastructure Health
Live production metrics
15+
Projects
10yr
Experience
98%
Satisfaction
Trusted by forward-thinking companies
Specialized cloud engineering disciplines — not generic IT consulting. Engagements led by certified engineers with real production experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Design and operate Internal Developer Platforms with golden paths, service catalogs, and self-service provisioning. Reduce cognitive load, accelerate velocity.
Land-and-expand cloud strategy across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Zero-downtime migrations, well-architected landing zones, and cost-optimized multi-cloud operating models.
Terraform modules, GitOps pipelines, and policy-as-code — everything version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and continuously tested. Infrastructure that scales like software.
Secure delivery pipelines from commit to production. Container scanning, SAST/DAST, supply-chain security, and compliance gates embedded at every stage.
FinOps Foundation-aligned framework — reserved instance strategy, anomaly detection, and showback/chargeback dashboards that create real cost accountability.
End-to-end observability stacks — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk. SLO definition, error budgets, incident runbooks, and chaos engineering to validate resilience.
The Stack We Operate in Production
Cloud Platforms
Container & Orchestration
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD Pipelines
Observability
Data & AI
From OpenClaw deployment to AI workflow automation — we cut resolution time from days to minutes.
We install and configure OpenClaw — the AI-powered personal assistant platform — across your entire organisation. OpenClaw connects AI to your tools, workflows, and communication channels, automating repetitive tasks and resolving issues in real time.
OpenClaw identified root cause, freed 40 GB of stale logs, and notified ops team — resolved in 47 seconds.
OpenClaw traced the failure to a misconfigured env variable, auto-patched the pipeline config, and re-triggered deploy — team never paged.
OpenClaw detected a runaway Lambda loop, shut it down, estimated savings of $4,200/mo, and generated a cost optimisation report — in 2 minutes.
Beyond single-agent automation — UP2CLOUD designs and deploys coordinated teams of AI agents that collaborate autonomously across your infrastructure, codebase, and business workflows. Each agent has a defined role, memory, and toolset; together they operate as a 24/7 digital workforce that never sleeps, never misses an alert, and continuously improves.
Example Agent Roster
FinOps Agent
Monitors cloud spend 24/7, flags anomalies, files rightsizing tickets automatically.
Incident Triage Agent
Receives alerts, correlates logs, proposes root cause, and auto-creates Jira tickets.
Security Agent
Scans IaC, container images, and IAM policies on every commit. Blocks misconfigs before they ship.
Deploy Agent
Validates PRs, triggers pipelines, monitors rollouts, and auto-rolls back on error rate spikes.
Reporting Agent
Compiles weekly engineering health reports, SLO summaries, and cost digests — delivered to Slack.
AI-assisted diagnostics cut mean time to resolution from hours to minutes across all incident types.
Custom AI agents that handle repetitive IT tasks autonomously — from provisioning to reporting.
AI-powered anomaly detection predicts failures before they happen — keeping your systems always healthy.
A coordinated crew of specialist AI agents — FinOps, security, deploy, triage — running your ops autonomously around the clock.
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Industry Experience
A structured, repeatable delivery model — from initial assessment to continuous optimization. Every engagement follows the same rigorous engineering process.
Current-state assessment, gap analysis & roadmap prioritization
Target-state design, ADRs, security model & toolchain decisions
Terraform modules, GitOps scaffolding & environment setup
Pipelines, dashboards, alerting & distributed tracing
Zero-trust, policy-as-code, RBAC, audit logging & ISO 27001
Monthly FinOps reviews, SLO tuning & capacity planning
Current-state assessment, gap analysis & roadmap prioritization.
Target-state design, ADRs, security model & toolchain.
Terraform modules, GitOps scaffolding & env setup.
Pipelines, dashboards, alerting & distributed tracing.
Zero-trust, policy-as-code, RBAC, ISO 27001.
Monthly FinOps reviews, SLO tuning & capacity planning.
Ready to start your infrastructure transformation?
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UP2CLOUD is led by Cesar A. Nogueira, a Cloud DevOps Engineer with 10+ years building and scaling infrastructure across three continents.
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Cloud cost saved
10×
Faster resolution
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Uptime delivered
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with 10+ years specialising in infrastructure automation, FinOps, and cost optimisation. Has led multi-cloud platforms (GCP · AWS · Azure · Oracle Cloud) for clients across Brazil, UK, Spain, and Portugal — from automotive 3D configurators at scale to enterprise FinOps pipelines reducing cloud spend by millions annually.
Certifications
GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud · ×2 Certified
GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Microsoft Azure
Tech Stack
Work Experience
Platform Engineer · DevOps & FinOps
CurrentUP2CLOUD
Feb 2022 – Present
International consultant delivering cloud infrastructure automation and FinOps optimisation across GCP, AWS & Azure for global clients including H&M, SAP, Revelo, Epic Games. Built automated governance pipelines cutting cloud waste by 35–42%, deployed Kubernetes clusters at scale, and authored Terraform modules adopted org-wide.
DevOps Engineer
ZeroLight LLC
Aug 2021 – Feb 2022
Architected and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS & GCP for global automotive clients, enabling real-time 3D vehicle configurators serving millions of users. Optimised Kubernetes node pools and CDN pipelines for sub-100ms render latency at scale.
Technology Architecture Manager
Accenture Interactive Brazil
Aug 2020 – Aug 2021
Led Kubernetes cluster administration and Jenkins/Spinnaker pipeline automation for large-scale digital transformation at one of Brazil's top consultancies. Managed cross-functional cloud enablement squads across multiple enterprise accounts.
Cloud Architect
everis Brazil (NTT Data)
Feb 2019 – Aug 2020
Designed multi-cloud solutions across GCP, AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with comprehensive monitoring, security implementations, and infrastructure automation.
Software Engineer
CI&T
Dec 2017 – Feb 2019
Full-stack development with Java, Node.js, and React on Google Cloud — bridging software engineering with cloud-native architecture.
Headquartered in Europe with full delivery capability in Latin America. Engineering teams operate across timezones — async-first, ISO 27001 aligned, GDPR compliant.
Vila Real, Portugal — HQ
UTC+0/+1 · EU GDPR compliant · Primary timezone
São Paulo, Brazil — Engineering Hub
UTC−3 · LATAM delivery capability · Extended coverage
Madrid, Spain — Expanding Q3 2026
UTC+1/+2 · EU presence expansion
Bangkok, Thailand — APAC Hub
UTC+7 · APAC delivery capability · Early coverage
Remote Worldwide
Async-first · Clients across EU, US, LATAM, APAC
≤4h
Critical incident response SLA
3
Languages: EN · PT · ES
24-Hour Delivery Coverage
Active working hours per location
ISO 27001
Aligned
GDPR
Compliant
NDA
From Day 1
Real recommendations from LinkedIn — colleagues at H&M, ZeroLight, Accenture, CI&T and more.
"He has a strong grasp of cloud and DevOps practices, especially within GCP environments, and approaches infrastructure challenges with calm focus and practical thinking. He doesn't just execute tasks — he takes responsibility for outcomes and ensures things are done the right way."
"Cesar is an exceptional DevOps engineer — great knowledge of Cloud and DevOps principles. Hard working, willing to take on any task and help others wherever he can. He was a credit to the team at Zerolight, championing the DevOps process. I would highly recommend Cesar."
"Cesar has strong technical skills and an excellent strategic and business vision. His knowledge with Cloud Services is outstanding — in the time we worked together I saw his professionalism and unparalleled knowledge. He is certainly someone of enormous value for any company."
"I had the pleasure of working with Cesar on a cloud-native application. He was our go-to person for DevOps. One experience stands out — he skillfully used Checkov to bolster our security by identifying and fixing potential vulnerabilities in our code."
"Cesar is a skilled developer who helped us build a Data Analytics platform on top of Google Cloud using Big Data Engineering techniques. He certified as Google Cloud Architect and is always bringing new stuff to the team. He is that type of person you can always count on."
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Location
🇵🇹 Vila Real, Portugal · 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brasil
🇪🇸 Madrid — coming soon · Remote Worldwide
Our Location
🇵🇹 Vila Real · 🇧🇷 São Paulo · 🇪🇸 Madrid (soon) · Remote Worldwide
Cloud Advisor
AICloud · DevOps · FinOps expert · Instant
