Rafael Rodrigues
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Developer
Rafael is an experienced DevOps engineer and cloud engineer with a strong background in the financial industry. He is passionate about using clean code and automation to improve company processes and is skilled in working under high pressure. Rafael is proficient in modern cloud technologies and is constantly looking for opportunities to learn and grow as an engineer. He is an asset to any team and is eager to work on challenging projects.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed and architected is a greenfield project, an empty canvas to implement all the DevOps best practices in the largest beverage company.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
JLL - JLLT Corporate Strategy
- Reversed engineering complex and legacy systems to create documentation to provide training to junior engineers and suggest improvements to the architecture and process.
- Designed and implemented the log architecture for Kubernetes to be ingested into Splunk and outputting a human-readable format, keeping the minimum overhead for the application's pod and being easier for engineers to debug and spot problems.
- Deployed Flux GitOps implementation with Terraform uploading the encryption key into Azure Key Vault, creating an Azure Kubernetes Service fully automated with encrypted secrets.
- Created Terraform release pipelines into Azure DevOps to deploy new infrastructure and add user permissions.
DevOps Engineer Specialist and Tech Lead
Z-Tech
- Developed a cloud-native architecture to host all the applications aiming for cost efficiency and high scalability in multiple regions to mitigate disasters.
- Managed all the infrastructure with IaC to keep updated and mitigated configuration drift.
- Created the base templates for all the pipelines with quality, integration, end-to-end, and security tests to deliver the best product possible.
DevOps Engineer
Next
- Helped introduce the DevOps culture into a traditional company, showing the impact on quality and agility.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines for on-premise applications and cloud, using Ansible paired with Ansible Tower to easily manage playbooks.
- Led the DevOps front for cloud migration, mapping the requirements needed, implementing the pipelines for the cloud applications, and migrating the CI/CD platforms.
Datacenter Analyst
Bradesco
- Provided the first response for incidents and monitored critical applications in a distributed system with z/OS as mainframe, Linux, and network devices.
- Managed the DNS entries into BIG-IP and networking services.
- Wrote documentation and runbooks about solving common problems.
Experience
Z-Tech Fintech
https://ztech.netIt has multiple microservices to handle each application flow and a payment gateway platform with apps for both mobile systems.
I architected and developed all the infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines from the ground up, using all the best practices to create a cost-efficient and scalable app during high loads.
Next
I was part of the team that raised DevOps as a culture, improving agility and delivering better quality products to our clients. We also migrated and modernized the infrastructure, applications, and pipelines to migrate the workload to Microsoft Azure.
Skills
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps
Platforms
Azure, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure Functions, Apache Kafka
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud, Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Containers, Solution Architecture, Web Security, Cloud Security, Monitoring
Languages
Python, Bash, Python 3
Tools
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), GitLab CI/CD, Git, Shell, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Bamboo, Terraform, Splunk, Helm, Kafka Streams
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell
Storage
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Data Pipelines
Certifications
Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
GitLab Certified Associate
GitLab
Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
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