Solutions Architect System Administrator

Eric dela Cruz

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Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 3P8

Professional Summary

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate with 14+ years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in system administration across on-premises and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud providers). Proven expertise in designing and managing scalable, secure cloud infrastructures with a strong focus on automation using Terraform for network and application deployments. Proficient in both Linux and Windows server administration, with hands-on experience in cloud-native and hybrid environments. Adept in infrastructure such as code (IaC), CI/CD practices, and monitoring solutions, including Datadog, Graylog, and Grafana, ensuring high availability, performance, and security across systems. Work Experience

IT System Administrator

Signifi Solutions Inc, 11/2023 – Present

● Collaborate to define IT security standards and develop supporting organizational policies

● Maintain the internal servers, Linux and Windows, including Active Directory servers.

● Maintain the internal network, firewalls, access points, routers and switches.

● Design and implement active-active server and database setup for high availability

● Monitor servers and network devices, physical and cloud based. Sr. System Administrator Team Lead (CloudOps)

Talleco.com (Jobtarget), 09/2020 – 08/2023

● Have successfully designed and implemented scalable AWS network solutions, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to automate deployments

● Oversee the implementation and deployment of cloud infrastructure, ensuring that it aligns with industry best practices and security standards

● Play a critical role in ensuring the security and compliance of cloud infrastructure while establishing and enforcing governance policies, standards, and procedures related to cloud usage.

● Assess physical and technical security risks to data, software and hardware.

● Provision and monitor access and credentials for information and systems.

● Monitor for cyber-attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity. IT Administrator

IONOS, 07/2010 – 09/2020

• Ensures business continuity, Failover, Recovery time objective (RTO), Recovery point objective (RPO) in daily operations. Provisioned and maintained host Monitoring server such as Nagios

• Manage and maintain CRM applications and build a redundancy system through MYSQL replication and resync module

• Planning disaster recovery using configuration management and the VMware Clusters IT Engineer

IONOS, 07/2009 – 09/2010

• Overall responsible for IT hardware and software availability for operations and support group

• Ensuring smooth running all network connectivity internal and external traffic through data and voice ports Education

Computer Programming

Niagara College Toronto, 08/2023 – 04/2025

Computer Engineering

University of Cebu, Philippines,

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Skills

Professional

Communication

Data Insight

Building Relationships

Leadership

Technical

Azrue AD

AWS VPC, VPN, Route53, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Cloudtrail, Control Tower, IAM, SCP. Glue, Lambda, etc.

Terraform, Gitlab, CI/CD

Microsoft Entra, Teams, Exchange Administrator

Plesk, Networking

Arista, Cisco, Fortinet

Datadog, Graylog, Crowdstrike, Ubuntu Landscape

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