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About me

Hi, I'm Francesco Pio Barletta

AWS-certified Cloud Engineer and Solutions Architect with 3+ years acting as a trusted technical advisor to Enterprise clients in regulated industries (Insurance, Financial Services).

Proven track record as the technical point of contact across the full engagement lifecycle — from RFP/pre-sales solution design and TCO estimation to operational health, risk management and continuous cost optimization. Skilled at translating complex architectures into executive-level recommendations and influencing decision-makers up to C-suite.

AWS Vertical Expert Enterprise Landing Zone Design Banking & Finance Focus Terraform & CI/CD Automation SRE & Disaster Recovery Hybrid Cloud Networking
Francesco Pio Barletta
01

Security by design

I embed security into infrastructure from day one: identity and access, encryption, segmentation, and observability to reduce risk and meet compliance expectations.

02

High-impact execution

I turn complex requirements into concrete technical roadmaps with fast delivery and strong governance.

03

Enterprise scalability

I build multi-account cloud foundations for performance, operations and long-term growth.

Career path

Experience

Jan 2026 — Present

Archiva Group

Cloud System Engineer · Technical Advisor

  • Act as the technical point of reference for cloud architecture decisions, designing optimized AWS solutions aligned with business objectives, security guidelines and customer requirements to maximize performance, uptime and scalability.
  • Own the operational health of application flows across PaaS and SaaS solutions, proactively monitoring environments and driving reliability and cost-efficiency improvements.
  • Lead IAM security hygiene across a multi-account AWS Organization — auditing users, rotating long-lived credentials and enforcing least-privilege via AWS Config, SSM Automation and Secrets Manager.
  • Define and execute cloud migration strategies, assessing trade-offs and risk while decommissioning legacy on-premise infrastructure to reduce complexity and operational cost.
  • Design cross-account envelope-encryption / BYOK architectures (AWS KMS with External Key Store and customer HSM) for strict data-isolation and key-revocation guarantees.
  • Serve as technical mentor and trusted advisor for the team, guiding stakeholders in adopting AWS best practices.

Sep 2023 — Jan 2026

Storm Reply Financial Services IT — Reply S.p.A.

Cloud Engineer · DevOps · Enterprise Technical Advisor

  • Acted as trusted advisor and technical point of contact for Enterprise clients (Unipol Gruppo, Generali Italia), advocating for customer needs and aligning AWS solutions to strategic and regulatory objectives.
  • Authored and presented technical and commercial proposals (RFPs), defining high-level target architectures, producing TCO / cost estimates and presenting solutions directly to client decision-makers to influence strategic technology choices.
  • Led the AWS Landing Zone implementation for Unipol Gruppo: security (WAF, Shield, Network Firewall), monitoring (Config, CloudWatch) and networking (Transit Gateway, centralized DNS with Route 53).
  • Drove risk management and operational reviews for Generali Italia within the AWS Group Operations Service Platform (GOSP), enhancing service quality across business units.
  • Designed and automated Disaster Recovery with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), aligning with DORA requirements and ensuring resilient, audit-ready architectures.
  • Implemented SRE practices for Generali (reliability, observability, operational excellence) with centralized log management and AWS Health-based notification automation; designed a Terraform-based service catalog for Unipol enabling governed, on-demand provisioning (EKS, EC2, ECS, VPC, TGW, Route 53).
  • Built SaaS and containerized (EKS) workloads and IaC pipelines (GitLab CI/CD); engineered a hybrid Azure Entra ID ↔ AWS Managed AD identity sync; delivered a serverless contact-center PoC (Amazon Connect, Chime, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway).

Apr 2023 — Sep 2023

TOP-IX Consortium

Cloud & Network Engineer

  • Internship on edge computing (EU FLUIDOS project) with Kubernetes, Docker and Golang operators.

Sep 2022 — Sep 2023

Collegio Universitario di Torino

Network System Administrator

  • Managed Active Directory, Windows Server and Cisco switching; provided technical support to end users.

Validated skills

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect — Associate

Amazon Web Services · Professional Certification

AWS Certified Security — Specialty

Amazon Web Services · Specialty Certification

MongoDB SI Architect Certification

MongoDB · Specialist Certification

MongoDB SI Associate Certification

MongoDB · Associate Certification

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