Senior It Consultant

CVRRICVLVM VITAE

Carlos Rodriguez

Mobile +31-613**-****

E-mail : ********@*****.***

: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carlos-rodriguez/35/285/292 Summary:

I am a senior IT consultant with a large experience in the system administration area as well as Webservers, API’s, automation and webapplications. I am used to work across multiple environments and technologies with different topologies and infrastructure’s designs. Most of my experience has been acquired while implementing cutting-edge solutions for big corporations and the Administration as well as in the banking and financial sector. I’m accustomed to manage a large number of critical systems in a production environment and to constantly investigate new ways to optimize and make more robust the existing infrastructure. I have also wide experience working together with developers in a DevOps / Agile environment, being involved in the continuous delivery and deployment of new applications, building and administrating infrastructures and working in migrations of services on-premises to the cloud. Ability to quickly learn and incorporate new technologies and methodologies that can improve the current scenario. My best capabilities and most remarkable skills are:

- Used to pay attention to detail and endeavour to deliver a high quality finished job.

- Good skills and experience in automation and writing scripts for different purposes and task automation.

- Good intuition to detect points of failure in a non working scenario.

- Organised and methodical and able to manage priorities to achieve optimal efficiency. My sought job would be any related to system and/or infrastructure management, system administration, DevOps engineering, SRE or similar where I can take advantage of my previous experience and skills. However I am also open to shift to other areas where I can widen my professional field. Technical skills:

- System administration (Linux “RedHat, Debian, Suse, Gentoo”, OpenBSD, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows).

- Websphere administration, Network deployments, vertical and horizontal clustering.

- Scripting (bash, python/jython, jacl, rexx, perl), process automation, task scheduling.

- HTTP servers infrastructures (Apache, iPlanet, IHS) and application servers (Websphere, Tomcat, Jboss)

- Automation and supporting tools for software packaging and deployment (Nolio, Jenkins, Gitlab, Artifactory)

- Full support for standard TCP/IP services (Proxies, DNS, HTTP, FTP, NFS, LDAP, DHCP, Samba ...)

- Clustering and load balancing. Failover and redundant systems (HeartBeat, DRBD, RAID).

- Network administration. Network security. Encryption and VPN’s (IPSEC, L2TP, PPTP, etc)

- PKI technology infrastructure, certificate management, keys generation, CA administration, OCSP, CRL’s ...

- Firewalling, rules definition, ipchains, iptables, NAT.

- Large experience giving support to developer (specially C and Java working in Agile/DevOps environments)

- Identity management and Single Sign On software deployment.

- Experience with problem management, change management and incident management (Prisma, Remedy, SM9 ...)

- Familiar with code in several programming languages Assembly, C, BASIC, PHP, Javascript and Java

- Experience with virtualization and paravirtualization solutions (VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, KVM ...)

- Basic administration of different relational Databases (DB2, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server).

- Mail servers administration postfix, QMAIL, Exchange. Protocols POP, IMAP, SMTP. Mailbox/Maildir formats.

- Secured system interconnection and interoperability: SSH, X windows system, XDMC, xhost, etc

- Kernel recompilation, additional hardware driver installation, patching, upgrades.

- Alert management system (NAGIOS), monitoring (Graphana, Graphite), reports generation.

- Logservers. Log files tracking and analysis. Troubleshooting.

- Backup system. TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager), tar, cpio, dump, amanda, etc ...

- Hardware installation and replacement or upgrade.

- Container based infrastructure using Docker, podman and Kubernetes.

- Extensive experience working in international teams.

- Experience as IT trainer.

Work experience and professional background :

- (Since July-2022) DevOps Engineer at Rabobank (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

· PKI infrastructure: Maintenance and re-design of the PKI infrastructure of the corporation.

· CA’s & digital certificates: Issuing of digital certificates for the corporation.

· Incidents and support: Resolving incidents related to smartcards, digital certificates and related services.

· Automation: Creation of pipelines and automation routines.

· API services: Support and management of API services.

· Azure environment: Configuration of applications, interconnections and objects relationships.

· SaaS & cloud: Moving services from on-prem to containerized environment in the cloud and locally.

· Assets & configuration management: Administration of assets, relationships and configurations via CMDB.

- (2021-2022) Site Reliability Engineer at SWIFT (Zoeterwoude, The Netherlands).

· Monitoring: Monitor the flow of messages that represent the core of the business.

· Optimization: Analysis and improvement of data visualization and errors tracking.

· Automation: Automation of tasks that otherwise had to be performed manually by the team.

- (2020-2021) DevOps engineer at ABN-Amro (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

· Changes management: Governance of the changes in our environment including alignments with other teams.

· DB upgrading: Manage the processes for upgrading the existing Oracle databases used by the applications in scope.

· Incidents and support: Production incidents resolution, keeping the infrastructure up and running and up to date.

- (2018-2020) Ops engineer at Rabobank (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

· CD/CI: Deployment of applications and new deployment plans using XL Deploy and ansible.

· Incidents and support: Production incidents resolution, keeping the infrastructure up and running and up to date.

· Migrations: Migrations of affected subsystems, dependencies and configurations (DB, servers, security policies, etc...)

· Architecture design : Building a new infrastructure from scratch in coordination with other affected/dependent teams.

- (2017-2018) DevOps engineer at ING (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

· Continous delivery: Periodic deployments of applications and data contents using Nolio automation tool.

· Incidents management: Incidents management and resolution in an integrated way via ServiceNow.

· Support: Continuous support to the developer’s team as well as incidents from customers .

· Ops engimeering : Keeping the environments operational and adjusting systems and applications configurations properly.

· Monitoring : Monitoring of applications and systems, undertaking proper actions when unexpected situations arise.

· Working methodology : Working in an Agile environment using sprints in mixed squads with developers and operations engineers.

- (2015-2017) Linux and Middelware specialist at AEGON (The Hague, The Netherlands).

· Deployments: Continuous delivery deployments using RAFW and customized automation commands.

· Migrations: Migration of applications between environments.

· Support: Continuous support to the developer’s team as well as to final clients.

· Incidences and ticket resolution: Problems resolution using “Remedy” and “Launch” to properly track customer’s problems and provide a final solution.

· Sanity checks and quality control: Final checks to ensure that the delivery meets all the requirements.

· Automation of frequent maintenance tasks: Writing automation scripts for daily time consuming tasks using standard system tools (bash, ksh, expect, …)

· Transition to a new environment: Improvement of the existing procedures to achieve a full DevOps/Agile environment and installation of new tools like puppets, Appdynamics, logscape, udeploy, etc.

- (2013-2014) Middleware and automation's specialist at IBM (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

· Deployments and environment configuration. Automation using bash, python, jacl and other OS standard tools.

· Websphere platform support : Support to clients and internal developers for problem resolution and assistance.

· Webservers integration: Integration and plugin generation for Apache and IHS webservers.

· Infrastructure’s building and design: Design and installation of new WAS and webservers.

- (March 2012-Oct 2012) Webshpere specialist at BNP Paribas Fortis Bank (Brussels, Belgium).

· Automation of application’s deployments.

· Websphere architecture engineering.

· Clustering design and implementation.

- (July 2010-Dec 2011) Webshpere and System administrator at Santander Bank (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom).

· Websphere infrastructure installation and setup.

· Webserver + WAS integration. Plugins generation and propagation.

· Application’s deployment and testing.

· Server and application integration with Banking framework layer (Banksphere).

· Scripting and tasks automation using Bash, jacl and Jython.

- (August 2008- Jan 2010) Linux and network administrator at Andago (Madrid, Spain).

· Installation, configuration and administration of Linux and Solaris servers.

· Virtual domains creation and administration using Apache2 for both internal and external projects.

· Wiki, trac and subversion integration.

· Infrastructure monitoring using Nagios and alert system Management and design.

· Open Source Solutions design and support for both clients and developers.

· Remote Management of client’s infrastructures.

· Paravirtualization with XEN. Systems virtualization using KVM, VMware and Virtualbox.

· Incident resolution for system and network related problems for both internal staff and external clients.

- (June 2006 – July 2008) Software architect in security infrastructure’s area at SIA group (Madrid, Spain).

· Deployment, configuration and documentation of Identity Management (eTrust Admin) project.

· Deployment, configuration and documentation of Secure Sigle Sign On (S3O) project.

· Websites security. Web security using certificates (TruePass).

· Web Application Server administration (Websphere). Web servers administration (Apache & Nginx).

- (Dec. 2005 - May 2006) Systems and Infrastructure’s Manager at Antevenio Group (Madrid, Spain).

· Linux, Windows and OpenBSD administration and monitoring.

· Supporting both,the corporate intranet and internet portal.

· Web servers cluster tunning and optimization (Apache).

· Monitoring high availability services and critical processes.

· Log files analysis and statistics reporting.

· Database administration (MySQL, Postgres and SQL Server).

· Corporate Backups scheduling.

· Management and coordination between the development and systems teams.

- (Feb. 1999 – Oct. 2005) System analyst at IBM Global Services (Madrid, Spain).

· Linux, AIX and Windows system Administration.

· Network administration (hardware and connectivity management).

· Software and system migration between different existing platforms.

· Advanced scripting for administration and task automation and scheduling.

- (Until 1999) Software and Hardware engineer at Caja Madrid bank offices (Madrid, Spain).

· Hardware upgrades (Servers, workstations and peripherals).

· Corporate software application updates. Branch offices Backups.

· IT training courses for a wide range of audiences: Adults, children and teachers.

· Different positions in the public administration and IT consultant for small business. Education: - IT engineering

- Physics

Language skills: English C2

Spanish Mother tongue

Russian C2

French C1

Dutch B1

Hobbies: - Travelling, cycling, chess, socializing ... Den Haag, 2024 July the 31st.

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