Mauricio Villagran

Sr. Cloud Engineer

About Me

Mauricio, has more than 10 years of experience working in IT. He has participated and led different migration projects (Applications, Mail Systems, Hybrid Clouds, etc). handling all kinds of technologies. He has strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies (AD, SQL, Azure, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, etc); and Virtualization technologies (VmWare, HyperV, etc). Currently, he was participating in migration projects of payment means applications to Azure, using DevOps methodologies and tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Azure DevOps. He also has knowledge of kubernetes and orchestrators (Rancher, OKD, etc.); and has also participated in the implementation of these technologies.

Experience

Globant

Sr. Cloud Engineer

August 2021 - present

https://globant.com

Description of role:

  • Multi-region infrastructure management on AWS.
  • Development of infrastructure as code using Terraform.
  • Migrating from ECS to EKS.
  • Use of CI/CD tools such as Harness and Gitlab.
  • EKS administration.
  • Implementation of a multi-region Blue/Green environment with high availability in an AWS ECS cluster, using Terrafrom as IaC and Gitlab for deployment.
  • Implementation of environment variable manager for EKS called CloudTruth.
  • Technical lead.

Pyxis

Sr. System Administrator

March 2014 - August 2021

https://pyxis.com.uy

Description of role:

  • Architecture design for payment application migration developed in .net to Azure. Infrastructure development as code (Using, Terraform, and Ansible for configuration), and implementation of it through CI / CD process with Azure DevOps.
  • Support to development teams to implement the application code under CI / CD, using Azure DevOps.
  • Implementation of different Azure solutions. (For example, WVD, Azure SQL, etc).
  • Implementation of different kubernetes orchestrators. (For example, OKD and Rancher).
  • Infrastructure provision as a service (IaaS) using Devops tools.
  • Platform as a service (PaaS) provisioning using Devops tools.
  • Administration, design, infrastructure and systems support.
  • Database installation, configuration and administration.
  • Migration of on premises Microsoft Exchange Servers to Office365.
  • Migration of Microsoft Exchange Servers to new versions.
  • Migration of different Microsoft Technologies, such as (Active Directory, SQL Server, IIS, SharePoint, System Center, etc.).

Arnaldo Castro

Sr. System Administrator

May 2010 - January 2014

https://arnaldocastro.com.uy

Description of role:

  • Migration, Installation, configuration, and administration of virtualization systems (VMWare).
  • Migration, Installation, and configuration of systems (Microsoft).
  • Configuration, administration and resolution of network problems.
  • Development of automatic tasks with scritpting using Bash, and PowerShell.
  • Installation, configuration and administration of monitoring and reporting tools.
  • Installation, configuration and administration of OpenSource systems for company branches.
  • Deployment, configuration and administration of services such as Squid, Apache, DNS, Postfix.
  • Installation, configuration and administration of backup tools, for both Virtual and OnPremise infrastructure.

IDS Ltda

Support Engineer

October 2008 - May 2010

https://www.idsltda.uy

Description of role:

  • Level 1 on site and remote support for different clients using Microsoft and Linux technologies.
  • Network troubleshooting.
  • Linux server administration (OpenSuse).

GHM Uruguay

Technician

January 2008 - March 2008

Description of role:

  • Assembling and repairing computers.

Education

Solymar High School

Bachelor Degree.

1997 - 2004.

At the Solymar high school I continued my studies in the scientific orientation and then in the engineering orientation.

I have received a bachelor’s degree in engineering orientation.

Certifications

Azure administrator

Microsoft Certification.

2017

  • MCSE: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
  • MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure.

Sharepoint Server

Microsoft Certification.

2014

  • MCSE Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.

Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Certification.

2013

  • MCSA-MCSE: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012.
  • MCSA-MCSE: Administering Windows Server 2012.
  • MCSA - MCSE: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Microsoft Certification.

2012

  • MCTS: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Installation and Configuration.

Exchange 2010

Microsoft Certification.

2012

  • MCTS: Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

Courses

CKA Certification

Udemy CKA Kubernetes Administrator.

2017

I took the Kubernetes administration course, which had 22 theoretical hours, plus labs and mock exams.

Linux Administration

Linux Administrator.

2009

I took a linux administration course based on OpenSuse.

Summary of Qualifications

Proficient In:

Gitlab AWS Microsoft Technologies Virtualization Technologies Azure Cloud
Azure DevOps Jenkins Kubernetes Docker Git repositories
Ansible Terraform Powershell PowerShell DSC Harness
Istio CloudTruth CI/CD Bash NodeJs Scripts
Responsible Resilience Committed Teamwork Leadership