Overview
26+ years of experience in IT systems administration: Unix, Windows, Linux, Solaris, TCP-IP networks, Firewalls, Cloud computing, Systems Virtualization, Security and Telecom. During the last 7 years he has performed work on roles including Sr. Systems Administration, Middleware systems operations, and Infrastructure Architecture for datacenters and complex production systems. He has planned and performed multiple live migrations of complex systems. Advanced expertise in assessing, planning and participating in the execution of complex infrastructure or systems maintenance where many teams are involved, he is familiar with ticketing systems, ITIL processes, industries security regulations and operations of critical production environments including Firewalls, SSL Certificates, Load Balancers, Server Clusters, Web farms, Application server farms, database backends, event management, disaster recovery and Backup technologies. With wide expertise and over 9 years of experience in the monitoring, live maintenance and troubleshooting of complex productions systems including multiple tier infrastructures, he has a perfect understanding of all the layers of a web solution: the telecommunications, networking, firewall, infrastructure security, ssl certificates, web servers, application servers, middleware, storage area network systems (SAN), the database, Systems logs, Events, SNMP alarms, and backup solutions. He has remained up to date with the arrival of Virtualization and Cloud computing technologies: VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, vCenter vcsa, vCloud , Hyper-V, XEN, Amazon, Azure, Rackspace Cloud, Office 365 integration, Vair Cloud, Eucalyptus, Microsoft Private Cloud, OpenStack, Stacki, Ansible, Devops scripting methods , and other emerging cloud technologies. He can offer Level 2, Level 3 , Level 4 support to Integration developers, testers, monitoring and operations engineering teams of business IT departments, Internet service providers, mobile industry, insurance, entertainment, telecommunication providers, banks, trading market, web hosting, application hosting, e-commerce , managed service providers, specialized systems software vendors, and cloud computing service providers. Fernando continues to renew his professional training and expands his hands on expertise in Architecture, design, implementation and operations of Managed Service Provider Systems, Cloud Hosting Provider system, and Web Apps Backend / FrontEnd Platforms. 2016: Architecture, Installation and Deployment of : VMware vSphere 6 based Cloud Infrastructure, SAN IBM DS , SAN Dell Compellent, Switchs HP, Cisco, Brocade, Hardware IBM x, Dell R730 vCenter 6 appliance, Vrealize suite, Ansible, Openstack, Splunk Cloud, Splunk 6, Filezilla, Syslog-ng, SNMP traps event monitoring automation, monitoring scripts in php / python , 2016: Fortinet Network Security Expert NSE 1/2/3/4 / Fortigate 5.4 , Fortinet Fortimanager / Fortiview , Centos 6 to 7 migrations; Latest Linux versions : Redhat , OpenSuse , SLES, Ubuntu 2015,2016: Azure Cloud Systems for Dev and Prod: Microsoft server 2012, 2012 R2, AD/LDAP Authentication, Office 365 Integration, Google Cloud, Google apps AD integration, Microsoft Private Cloud and new Systems Center configuration management tools. Microsoft IIS Web servers and application pools for .Net applications. Azure Cloud to Private Cloud solutions with HA datacenter design Unix, Linux and Windows based systems for Apache application servers for PHP, Apache reverse proxy for Tomcat, Weblogic, and custom Applications Firewalls. VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform, Tomcat 5/6/7, Oracle Weblogic, and Java server solutions including Oracle, MySql, MS SQL and other database backend Hybrid Infrastructures including traditional in-house hosted systems, virtualization with VMware vSphere, Hyper-v, and cloud computing parts. Integration of Applications and Automation in a variety of languages including Java, Php, Python, Perl, Bash. Cloud Management and Monitoring tools using traditional tools and emerging Cloud infrastructure administration technologies. Automated systems deployment and administration tools using Puppet, Chef, HP Automation and Orchestration, custom scripts. Solaris 11 integration to Active Directory, SAP BOE, Brocade BNA. Systems and Application security, Role based access control implementations. Dual Facto Authentication : RSA , Azure Authenticator