Gonçalo Sousa

Enthusiastic IT professional with a broad range of interests, including technology, books, games, and music. Dedicated to learning new tools and methodologies to deliver effective solutions, with a strong curiosity for uncovering the “Why” and “How” behind challenges.

Seeking a new challenge involving Linux environments (cloud or on-premises), automation, and infrastructure-focused CI/CD, as well as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes. If my profile aligns with one of your open roles, feel free to contact me!

DevOps Engineer

• Providing support on Azure focused in both Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Working with Agile methodology to ensure high quality delivery and support on a daily basis

• Deploying Azure resources with Terraform using Terraform Enterprise and Azure DevOps with ARM templates

• Automating processes with Bash & PowerShell scripting and Azure DevOps pipelines

• Providing support (Changes, Incidents and Requests) using JIRA and ServiceNow

• Created and maintained technical documentation for installations, deployments, architecture, changes, incidents and processes using Confluence

• Collaborating with multiple teams (Developers and L3) to troubleshoot and deploy specific requirements

• Mentored and guided newcomers in understanding customer infrastructure architecture, procedures, and ticket management through knowledge transfer and practical experience

Cloud Engineer

• Provided support on Azure focused in both Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Worked with Agile methodology to ensure high quality delivery and support on a daily basis

• Managed and troubleshot Windows Server and Linux Virtual Machines

• Reviewed Microsoft Defender for Cloud and implemented recommendations according to product architecture and/or company security policies

• Automated processes with Bash scripting

• Managed High-Performance Computing cluster (HPC Pack on Windows Server) maintenance and troubleshoot

• Provided customer support across different business sectors (Changes, Incidents, and Requests) using Azure DevOps, Jira, and ServiceNow

• Created and maintained technical documentation for installations, deployments, architecture, changes, incidents and processes using Azure DevOps and Confluence

• Collaborated with multiple teams (Developers, L3 and Systems) to troubleshoot and deploy specific requirements

• Mentored and guided newcomers in understanding customer infrastructure architecture, procedures, and ticket management through knowledge transfer and practical experience

Linux System Administrator

• Deployed, configured, maintained and troubleshoot servers including Dell, HP, Oracle Server and Oracle Engineered Systems (Exadata, Exalogic, and Private Cloud Appliance)

• Managed Linux server deployment, configuration, maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting across RHEL and Debian distributions

• Deployed, configured, managed and troubleshoot virtualization platforms (Exalogic, Oracle Virtual Manager and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager) and respective virtual machines

• Implemented backup solutions and system monitoring using BareOS, EMC NetWorker, Oracle Secure Backup, CheckMK, Nagios and Oracle Enterprise Manager

• Automated processes with Ansible and Bash scripting

• Deployed, configured, maintained and troubleshoot storage (LVM, NFS, Oracle ZFS Appliance), networking (firewalld and iptables), and containerization (Docker with Docker compose) environments

• Configured, maintained and troubleshot web services and print management using Apache HTTP Server, NGINX, and CUPS

• Provided customer support across different business sectors (Changes, Incidents, and Requests) using Redmine, ServiceNow, and iTop

• Implemented Oracle technology-driven projects across different business sectors

• Created and maintained comprehensive technical documentation for installations, deployments, architecture, changes, incidents and processes using Microsoft OneNote

• Collaborated with multiple teams (Database, Middleware, and Big Data) to troubleshoot and deploy specific requirements

• Provided 24/7 on-call support

• Mentored and guided newcomers in understanding customer infrastructure architecture, procedures, and ticket management through knowledge transfer and practical experience

• EQF Level 5

• EQF Level 4

• Designed and maintained a self-hosted environment using Proxmox for media management, hands-on experience and skill development

• Deployed and managed services through virtual machines and containers (LXC and Docker), including Pi-Hole for network-wide ad-blocking, NGINX for reverse proxy and web hosting, self-hosted GitLab for version control and CI/CD implementation, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and visualization, and a variety of other services

• Automated resource provisioning and configuration using Ansible and Terraform

• Continuously expanded and optimized the environment to integrate additional services for network management, security, media tools and development

Native

Highly proficient in speaking and writing