Alex Almeida

ALEX ALMEIDA SENIOR ARCHITECT - INFRASTRUCTURE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A technology expert with over 15 years of experience in extensive computer networking, cloud computing, system analysis and evaluation. Practitioner with attention to detail and excellent critical thinking, decision making, team management, and leadership skills. SPECIALIZATIONS Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, On Primise, Openstack, AWS, Oracle Cloud PCI DSS Audit Penetration Testing Virtualization: (Vmware, KVM) Automation with Ansible, Terraform, Bash Storage Technologies: (Enterprise Fibre Channel SAN) Backup Techniques (Disk, Cloud, Physical Tape Library) Networking & Security High Availability Clustering - Disaster Recovery Mobile: --Dubai, United Arab Emirates WORK EXPERIENCE Senior Technical Architect - Infrastructure Air Arabia (accelaero), UAE | 2019 - Present Design and development of IT infrastructure architecture solutions and Maintainance of 500+ Linux servers to ensure site reliability of production, staging and test environments. Lialise with regional cloud hosting partners and evaluate performance analytics to ensure platform succession. Manage and maintain Oracle Cloud Infrastructure including designing the architecture on from Virtual Cloud Network, Subnet, Security list, Routing, VM sizing, VPN with Disaster recovery automation. Principal Engineer Air Arabia, UAE |- Alert monitoring and alert awareness management, DDOS attack prevention measures including mitigation and automatic thresholding and blacklisting. Error log management and load balancing. Jira service desk priority management, Monitoring L2 support and prioritise urgent issues to be resolved. Applying best practices based on the backup retention policy. Arbor DDOS Appliance, TrendMicro Seciruty Appliance POC, Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS DX200 S4, PRIMERGY RX2530 M4 BOOT from SAN fabric, PCI DSS AUDIT, NGINX, Jenkins, Jira Software, Dockers. Managing Linux KVM ((Kernel-based Virtual Machine) clusters. Firewall policy creation, routing, policy-based routing, IPSec VPN, SSLVPN. F5 BigIP LTM workflow tasks such as creating nodes, pools, Virtual Pool. Spacewalk server, Free IPA, Free IPA Replica with DNS, IBM Websphere MQ, Active MQ, Boot from SAN for Blade servers, Fujitsu Storage Eternus DX80 S2, Data Center for Pre-production, BladeCenter Bx900S2, Cisco 2960XR, PCI DSS AUDIT, Tableau, MongoDB, Couchbase, Splunk POC, Converting local and remote physical machines into virtual machines, Syslog server with bash script for backup EDUCATION Cardiff Metropolitan University Msc. IT | 2021 - Currently reading Karnataka Open School University BSc. IT | 2008 - 2012 LANGUAGES SPOKEN English - Full professional proficiency Hindi - Full professional proficiency Marati - Limited working proficiency Konkani - Native / bilingual proficiency. Managment Engineer - Infrastructure Air Arabia (accelaero), UAE |- Support and maintenance of IT infrastructure and administrating servers placed at multi-locations through iRMC S2/ S3, Remote Management. Updating servers with hotfixes, Security updates and Resolve software distribution failures and eliminate problems. Preparing monthly status reports and updating technology-specific documents which include Incidents, Resolutions, Complaints, Communications, and Escalations. Linux Administrator Air Arabia (accelaero), UAE |- Maintainance Linux Systems in all test and pre-production environments. Zabbix server and agent installations with Postgres DB and configuring host creating triggers and alerts. Managing Proxy server (Squid) for caching and forwarding HTTP web traffic, bandwidth throttling. Maintainance of Content Filtering server (DansGaurdian) to block unwanted sites, Malware and Adware to protect end-user work station. CERTICATIONS AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Certified Kubernetes Administrator HashiCorp Certified Terrafor Associate Redhat Certification - Credential ID - Red Hat Certified Engineer Reh Hat Certified System Administrator Red Hat Certified Administrator in Red Hat Openstack Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization REFERENCES Available on request