Manuel J
SRE Cloud, Reliability & Infra Manager at The Hotels Network
Jerez, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolManuel J is an experienced SRE and cloud infrastructure leader with 11 years building and scaling AWS-native platforms, currently managing reliability, observability and compliance at The Hotels Network. He blends hands-on systems engineering—Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog—and infrastructure as code with team leadership, defining SRE roadmaps and fostering self-service platforms that accelerate developer velocity. Previously head of DevOps at Wazuh, he contributed to prominent open-source projects (wazuh-docker, wazuh-ansible, wazuh-documentation), improving security, Docker/Kubernetes integrations and Splunk documentation for real-world deployments. Based in Jerez, Spain, he pairs strong compliance experience (SOC 2, GDPR) with practical automation and incident-response practices. Colleagues describe him as a Linux and open-source enthusiast who prefers solving reliability problems by designing resilient, observable systems rather than firefighting.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Grado Ingeniería Informática, Grado Ingeniería Informática at Universidad de GranadaTécnico superior Administración de sistemas informáticos en red, Técnico superior Administración de sistemas informáticos en red at I.E.S. Francisco Romero Vargas
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (43)
monitoring10
docker10
log-analysis10
amazon-elasticsearch10
splunk10
configuration-management10
dockers10
filebeat10
cicd10
kibana10
security10
automation10
elasticsearchquery10
logstash10
installer10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
wazuh/wazuh-ansible
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Wazuh - Ansible playbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 releases, 25 reviews, 82 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Manuel's contributions primarily focus on the configuration and maintenance of the Ansible playbooks for Wazuh, as well as integrating filebeat for log collection and analysis. The changes include modifications to configuration files, template updates for Elasticsearch, and the addition of molecule tests to improve the testing and reliability of the project's components. Moreover, the user has worked on Open Distro configurations.
loganalyzerpolicy-monitoringintrusion-detectionosseccompliance
wazuh/wazuh-docker
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Wazuh - Docker containers
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 releases, 14 reviews, 75 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Manuel focused on enhancing the `wazuh-docker` repository by implementing security measures and improving the configuration of existing files. The user added authorization mechanisms for Elasticsearch requests and implemented HTTPS support for secure xPac requests. Further contributions included merging branches and modifying scripts related to the Elasticsearch template, Kibana and Logstash configuration, and Nginx to ensure the proper operation and integration of the Wazuh components within the Docker environment.
loganalyzerpolicy-monitoringintrusion-detectionosseccompliance
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