Francis Albert Carrera SantosSystems Mgmt Specialist | DevOps | Computer Engineer
• Over 5 years experience in Information Technology, working on multinational companies; • Experience in Information Security: Endpoint Management, Compliance, Security Policy Review and Implementation, Security Status Checking and Patch Management; • Experience and results in internal and external audits, process reviews and self-assessments; • Technical competence of resources providing compliance services support to global accounts, being responsible for new challenges in the area; Technical Experience: • Security: Access Control, Firewall, IDS, OS and Applications hardening; • Unix Operating Systems Administration; • Domain of TCP/IP network architecture; • Management of network devices; • System monitoring, performance assessment and tuning; • Shell Script, python programming, ansible automation. Technical certifications: Hashicorp Certified: Vault Associate Certified Kubernetes Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Certified Linux Engineer (LPIC-2) CompTIA A+
Tech stack
Linux RHEL/CentOS (4)
Ansible (4)
Shell Scripting (4)
Python (3)
Infrastructure monitoring (3)
Vault (3)
Microsoft Excel (2)
Linux Server Configuration (2)
Linux Server Administration (2)
GitHub (2)
Process Design (1)
Mobile (1)
Event Sourcing (1)
Microsoft Office (1)
Kubernetes
Azure DevOps
Docker
Experience
System Management SpecialistIBM
10/2020 - 12/2021

Responsible for the preparation for new or changed services, management of the change process, management of performance of systems and services in relation to their contribution to business performance; supporting the operation and maintenance of vendor products, services, and solutions. Responsible for sizing, troubleshooting, and critical client situations, focusing on Service Management Tool Maintenance; expert in maintaining the tools, and related infrastructure, necessary to coordinate service management tasks in an IT service management context, ticketing, change management, help-desk support tools, system management software, ITIL best practices, and applying IT Service Management processes to maintain the automation service supported by the maintained tools.

Linux Server Administration
Linux RHEL/CentOS
Linux Server Configuration
Shell Scripting
Ansible
GitHub
Security SpecialistIBM
07/2018 - 10/2020

- Day to day Hashicorp Vault operations such as upgrades, security patching, and working with different team’s Vault use-cases. - Vault Stability improvements - built tools to identify stale data in Vault, and to clear them, this resulted in a 50% reduction of memory footprint on the cluster. - Chaos Engineering project - lead a project that built an automation framework for resiliency testing which helped identify some of the inherent dependencies and some misconfigurations. - Automation improvements - script validation tool; a testing framework built on Python unit test to validate automation scripts and create dependency graphs. - Log analysis - identify and advise teams about incorrect Vault usage by inspecting audit logs. And currently working on a POC to automate this process using Open Distro (a project based on Elasticsearch) - Oncall - respond to issues/outages and patching systems.

Python
Infrastructure monitoring
Linux RHEL/CentOS
Shell Scripting
Vault
Ansible
Service CoordinatorAtos
11/2015 - 06/2016

Service Coordinator for global accounts, coordinating LATAM providers.

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
Event Sourcing
Process AnalystAtos
01/2015 - 11/2015

Responsible to help the Service Desk operation with the process and insuring that the Service Desk Analysts were following the right process. Used the Visio tool to create the flow of the process and used the Microsoft SharePoint design tool. I was also responsible to maintain the knowledge base update by creating new documentation and also validating documentation that the agents also created.

Microsoft Excel
Process Design
Mobile
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer EngineeringFaculdade Anhanguera
07/2014 - 12/2019
Postgraduate Degree, Business Administration and ManagementPontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
02/2013 - 02/2014
Bachelor's degree, TourismUniversidade Norte do Paraná
07/2005 - 12/2009