Catalina Cofré Vidal

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Santiago, Chile

Experience

Feb. 2026 - Present

MOOFWD, Santiago, Chile

Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2026

SIXBELL TELCO, Santiago, Chile

Managed application deployments and operations on on-premise and private cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and virtual machines, with configuration automation using Ansible and Chef Infra.
Formalized the use of Docker across the company through reusable container templates to homogenize deployments and reduce variability between teams.
Defined and developed CI/CD pipeline templates in GitLab CI per technology stack (Go, C++, Java, Angular), integrating static analysis, unit testing, and DevSecOps practices with SonarQube, Trivy, and Checkov, applying compliance controls to ensure security and quality.
Designed monitoring solutions with Prometheus and Grafana and centralized log management using Fluentd, defining KPIs and metrics to improve infrastructure visibility and early incident detection.

May 2018 - Nov. 2019

SIXBELL, Santiago, Chile

Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI with automated test integration for early failure detection.
Configured and maintained test environments on virtual machines and using Docker Compose, applying configuration as code with Chef Infra and Chef InSpec.
Collaborated with development teams to identify and resolve defects through manual functional and integration testing.

Jan. 2018 - Feb. 2018

SIXBELL, Santiago, Chile

Updated existing configuration as code with Chef Infra to deploy the Elastic Stack (ELK) for centralized log management.
Developed automated tests using Chef InSpec and Kitchen CI to verify and validate virtual machine configurations and development environments.

2013 - 2021

Universidad Mayor

Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose, Argo CD, Helm, Distribution, Harbor

GitLab CI, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef Infra, Kitchen CI

Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Fluentd, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

SonarQube, Falco, Trivy, Checkov, KICS, Chef InSpec, Kube-bench

PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey

Go, Python, Ruby, Bash

Git, Linux System Administration, Vagrant, VirtualBox