NAME

Exequiel Fernandez Cueto - OpenSource Enthusiastic SysAdmin. - Compiled in 1983 -

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

In my life and in my work I always try to plan ahead, test and implement. After implementation, always try to improve what I have done and obtain.
As an athlete, I need to train hard and get the best result in competition, and in my professional experience it's the same. Work hard every day,
improve what has been done and get to the finish line.
I'm passionate about OpenSource solutions. Investigate new technologies / solutions and try to get the best of them for the business.
I am very enthusiastic and committed to maintain quality and efficiency.
I like to commit myself to the things I do, instead of just being involved. When you love what you do, you give yourself entirely to it.

EXPERIENCE

--July 2021 - Present (Kopernicus Tech)
Director - Cloud Architect

Team Lead for Infraestructure and Security - Bringing our customers the best solutions for theis business.
Matter Expert for Linux and RedHat products.
Architect for new technologies and products.

- DevOps implementation with Agile solutions (Jira, GIT, Automation, CI/CD, Microservices, Monitoring, etc.).
- Proof of Concept PoC engagements, design and test over different products.
- Infrastructure Architect on new solutions working side-by-side with Developers.
- Design of Private Cloud and Public Cloud.
- Automation expert (Ansible Automation and Ansible Tower, Salt-stack, Terraform, Cloudformation).
- Production software deploying.

Technologies used:
- Networking: Cisco UCS, Juniper, Nexus, Citrix ADC, F5, Fortinet.
- Security: Fortinet Firewall, Iptables, Firewalld, SeLinux.
- Virtualization: Redhat Virtualization, VMware.
- Clouds: AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, DigitalOcean.
- Microservices: Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, ECS, GKS.
- Storage: Dell, EMC Isilon, EMC VNX, vSAN, NAS.
- CI/CD: Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Azure CI/CD.
- Observability: Grafana, ELK Stack, Graylog, Nagios, CheckMK.
- DevSecOps: Sonarqube, Checkmarx.
--December 2020 - July 2021 (Amazon Web Services)
Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Migration Team Leader on "move to the cloud projects".
Helping customers to choose the right AWS solution and 3rd parties tools if they prefer others outside AWS ecosystem.

Projects:
- Lift & Shift Test and Prod servers with CloudEndure (< 80 servers)
- Lead team of 10 engineers to tansform customer's applications to cloud-ready solutions.
- Migrate on-premise microservices to ROSA (RedHat Openshift on AWS)
--October 2013 - December 2020 (Telecom Argentina S.A.)
DevOps Leader | Planning & Implementation Specialist @ FLOW Streaming Platform

Senior Matter Expert for Linux and RedHat products.
Architect for new technologies and products.
Budget managment for OpenSource solutions and Load Balancers.

- DevOps implementation with Agile solutions (Jira, GIT, Automation, CI/CD, Microservices, Monitoring, etc.).
- Proof of Concept PoC engagements, design and test over different products.
- Infrastructure Architect on new solutions working side-by-side with Developers.
- Design of Private Cloud and Public Cloud.
- Vendor & Supplier Negotiations for growing plan & implementation for new upgrades.
- Resercher for new solutions that provide the best for Operations.
- Automation referent on the team ( Ansible Automation and Ansible Tower).
- Coaching for new or junior expertise teammates.
- Define infraestructure annual growth plan.
- Production software deploying.

Technologies used:
- Networking: Cisco UCS, Junniper, Nexus, Citrix ADC.
- Security: Fortinet Firewall, Iptables, Firewalld, SeLinux.
- Virtualization: VMware, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean.
- Microservices: Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Storage: EMC Isilon, EMC VNX, vSAN, NAS.
- Automation: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Puppet.
- Scripting: BASH, Python (beginner).
- Streaming: Live & VoD streaming, HLS, DASH, Widevine, DRM, CDN.
- Tools: GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, FreeIpa, RedHat Satellite, Jenkins, Nagios, Cacti, Bind, Nginx, Apache, Kibana, Graylog.
- Mobile: Apple Store, Android Store.

--August 2012 - October 2013 ((Cetelem Bank {BNP Paribas Bank Group}))
Senior OpenSource Administrator

- Sun Solaris System Administrator and responsible for SO and HW issues, problems and innovations.
- In charge of new projects, planning and implemtations of new applications to satisfy the the business needs.
- Nagios monitoring tool implementation responsible for all company servers (100 Windows, 100 Solaris, 50 Linux, 50 switches) and scripting tunning for special monitoring.
- Cacti implementation from scratch of this performance monitoring tool.
- Git experience for deploying tools into the servers, and other open source utilities.
- Scripting tunning, automatization of process, align security to national and international standards (SOX, A4609 BCRA).
- Backups & Restores with TSM.

--July 2011 - September 2012 (ThomsonReuters)
Sales & Trading Implementation & Support Sr. Engineer Transaction

Senior Implementation and Support Engineer.
- 3 rd Line support team for the following platforms: Oracle Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris, MS Windows 2003, MS Windows 2008, Cisco Switches.
- Tivoli tools for monitoring and massive installation on servers.
- Bash Scripting for performance and tunning.
- Internal wiki admin for knowledge database for incidents and known issues.
- Team work with teammates from the following countries: USA, United Kindom, India, Swiss, France, Thailand and Argentina (Follow-the-sun method).
- Services and servers *nix /Wintel Architecture.
- Implementations.
- Maintenance, audits and proactive security.

--January 2011 - June 2011 ((Cetelem Bank {BNP Paribas Bank Group}))
Senior OpenSource Administrator

- Sun Solaris System Administrator and responsible for SO and HW issues, problems and innovations.
- In charge of new projects, planning and implemtations of new applications to satisfy the the business needs.
- Nagios monitoring tool implementation responsible for all company servers (100 Windows, 100 Solaris, 50 Linux, 50 switches) and scripting tunning for special monitoring.
- Cacti implementation from scratch of this performance monitoring tool.
- Git experience for deploying tools into the servers, and other open source utilities.
- Scripting tunning, automatization of process, align security to national and international standards (SOX, A4609 BCRA).
- Backups & Restores with TSM.

--June 2009 - January 2011 ((IBM Argentina S.A.))
Unix Security System Administrator

- Unix Security System Administrator for Novartis Client World Wide.
- OS Patching AIX 5.3, 6.1(installation packages,TLs SPs), Solaris 8, 9, 10, Linux SLES, RHEL, HP-UX 11.11, 11.23), security upgrades, vulnerability fixes, implementation of security standards policies.
- Vulnerability impact analysis.
- Cluster managment: Moving services from active-passive nodes.
- Basic knowledge of LUNs and WWNs.
- LVM managment, VolumeGroups, LogicalVolumes, PhisicalPartitions, disk mirroring.
- mksysb and alt_disk_install for backups-restores and disk cloning.
- Instalation, configuration and monitoring of TSCM, TSM.
- Disable unsecure services (TELNET, FTP, TFTP, RSH, RLOGIN, etc.)
- Installation and configuration of SSH, SUDO, SFTP, etc. to comply with Security standards (Sarbanes Oxley).
- Installation and configuration of application over UNIX platforms.
- Shell Scripting.
- Use of ticketing applications: Remedy & Tivoli (TSD).
- Coordinate implementations with customer from different countries.

--February 2008 - May 2009 ((PriceWaterhouseCoopers))
Information Security Assistant

- Telefónica de Argentina SA Proyect.
- Fix Sarbanes Oxley security issues: Review and implement security policies on UNIX platforms (AIX 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, Solaris 8.5, 9.5, Tru64 v4.0E).
- Tru64 migration from Base Security mode to Enhanced Security mode (C2).
- Servers review, impact analysis, implementation of passwords policies, disable unsecure services and implement the secure ones.
- Arrange implementation windows and manteinance with customer and vendor (IBM).
- Shell Scripting.
- Use of ticketing applications: Tivoli (TSD)

EDUCATION

Seminars and trainings completed.

Marina Mercante University (2nd year of System Engineer degree - paused)
DO500 - RedHat - DevOps Culture and Practice Enablement.
DO410 - RedHat - Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower.
ICSPs - EMC - EMC Isilon Certified Storage Professional.
EX300 - RedHat - Red Hat Certified Engineer.
EX134 - RedHat - Red Hat Certified System Administrator II. *CERTIFIED* - [200~160-032-850]
EX124 - Redhat - Red Hat Certified System Administrator I.
JNCIA - Juniper - Juniper Networks Certified Associate
VCP4 - VMware - VMware Administrator.
SCSA - Solaris - Sun Certified System Administrator Solaris 10.
MSCA - Microsoft - Microsoft Certified System Administrator.

SKILLS

- LINUX - Red Hat - Debian - Ubuntu
- MySQL Cluster
- AWS
- OS Patching and security
- LVM Management
- Cluster Filesystem
- NFS Server
- Bash and Korn Scripting
- Monitoring and fixing scripts design.
- Nagios Configuration.
- Hight Availability and LoadBalancer
- Apache WebServers (PHP and Modules)
- Email Servers

Hobbies

Triathlete
- 2019 - Ironman 70.3 Buenos Aires Finisher
- 2019 - Ironman 5i50 - Buenos Aires Finisher
- 2018 - Ironman 70.3 Buenos Aires Finisher
- 2018 - Ironman 70.3 Florida Finisher
- 2018 - Ironman 5i50 - Buenos Aires Finisher
- 2017 - Ironman 70.3 Buenos Aires Finisher
- 2016 - Ironman 70.3 Buenos Aires Finisher

AUTHOR

Exequiel Fernandez Cueto - Argentina - Buenos Aires
Email exequiel@fernandezcueto.com.ar
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