Ricardo

Cloud Architect and the underlying services, working on digital transformation and large projects. Creating cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, cloud management, and monitoring. Cloud foundation based on Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architect Framework (WAF).

• Implementation and management of Azure cloud environments and their respective services. Including PaaS services like AKS, Storage Accounts, App Services, Data and Analytics tools (Azure Databricks, Data Lake, Data Factory), and IOT tools (IoT HUB, Digital Twins). Load Balancer and network services (Azure Front door, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway)
• POCs and MVPs developments
• Architecture and implementation of infrastructure automation solutions and OPS processes. Configuration Management using Ansible
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementation using Terraform and GitHub Actions running pipelines to perform all infrastructure deployments and changes
• Cloud migration from Datacenter using Azure Site Recovery and Azure VMware Solution. Migrations are done using Rehost, Refactor, and, Replatform approaches. IaaS to PaaS, for example, migrating a website running on a VM to a PaaS WebApp platform
• Responsible for implementing, managing, and supporting AKS (Kubernetes) environment using Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert manager. Deployments using CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions. Velero is our official backup tool to back up all AKS clusters.

Technologies:  Azure, PaaS, AKS, Databricks, Data Lakes, Data Factory, IoT Hub, Digital Twins, Load Balancing, Azure Front Door, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, MVPs, POCs, Ansible, IaC, Azure VMWare, IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, GitHub, Velero, AKS, WebApp

Cloud Architect and the underlying services, worked on digital transformation and large projects. Architecture, implementation, and management of Azure cloud environments and their respective services.

• POCs and MVPs development
• DevOps culture implementation and management
• Experience with CI / CD tools
• Containers and Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Grafana, Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Azure Monitor) and log analysis (Kibana, Azure Log Analytics)
• Implemented architectures following the best practices and using tools that are according to the customer’s needs (Cloud Native or Cloud Agnostics), optimizing cost management

Technologies: MVPs, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Grafana, Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Azure, Kibana, Azure Log Analytics, Cloud Native, Agile, Cloud Agnostics, PAS, SAS, GCP, AWS

Deployment automation using CD (Continuous Delivery) method, using Jenkins pipelines on Windows and Unix systems for web applications. Improvements and automation of operational processes in legacy applications integrated with monitoring tools alert.

• Involved in the web services testing for the UI
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration and run the scripts several times by giving specific time in configuration settings
• Possessed thorough technical and operational knowledge within the QA area of responsibility

Technologies:  CI/CD, Jenkins, Windows, Unix, UI, QA, AWS, Terraform

Responsible for optimizing and improving the relationship of the development team with the infrastructure team using monitoring tools like NewRelic, Zabbix, and ELK Stack. Implemented DevOps culture with configuration management and continuous integration.

• Sysadmin cloud and on-premises platforms
• Configuration management (infrastructure as a code) using Ansible
• Deployment automation using CD (Continuous Delivery) method using Jenkins pipelines on Windows and Unix systems for web applications
• Web services with Nginx, Apache, and IIS. Load balancer with HAProxy management
• OpenShift container cluster (Kubernetes) management

Technologies:  NewRelic, Zabbix, ELK, DevOps, CI/CD, Ansible, Jenkins, Windows, Unix, Nginx, Apache, IIS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure, GCP

Deployment automation using CD (Continuous Delivery) method, using Jenkins pipelines on Windows and Unix systems for web applications. Configuration management using System Center Orchestrator and Ansible.

• Code management with Git Lab
• Sysadmin in Windows and Linux
• Implementation of Rundeck tools to improving, monitoring and automating the systems scheduler tasks
• Monitoring with Zabbix and Grafana
• Office365 platform (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business, Azure AD) and Microsoft System Center management

Technologies:  Continuous Delivery, Jenkins, Windows, Unix, Ansible, GitLab, Linux, Rundeck tools, Zabbix, Grafana, SharePoint, Azure

Support and administration of computer networks in Microsoft environment.

• Used Active Directory, DNS, File Server, DHCP, IIS, WSUS, GPO
• Print Server, Remote Desktop Services, and VMWare virtual machine management.