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Hi, I am Alex

Alexandre Alves

Cloud Solution Architect and Scrum Master at Self-Employee

Highly accomplished Information Technology Professional with a strong track record of successfully developing and implementing intricate infrastructures and technical solutions for renowned industry leaders such as Fujitsu Technology Solutions and Atos IT Services.

Recognized for proficiency in determining system requirements and designing solutions to increase organizational productivity and exceed business requirements. Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments and known for good presentation and communication skills. Backed by exceptional academic credentials, including a Master of Business Administration degree in Information Technology Management attained from National American University.

Leadership
Team Work
Solution Design
Google Cloud Professional Network Engineer
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
CISSP
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
TOGAF 9 Certified
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

Experiences

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Freelancer

Dec 2021 - Sep 2024 (estimated)

Remote

Cloud Consultant

Google Cloud Solution Architect

Mar 2023 - Sep 2024 (estimated)

Responsibilities:
  • Implemented new Google Cloud Organization polices resulting in a improve security stance.
  • Reduced initial findings from Security Command Center by 90% for newly created projects.
  • Developed an end-to-end service to enable efficient security response with Just in Time access.
  • Configured third-party integrations such as ServiceNow, Microsoft AD and security tooling.
  • Provided expert guidance to teams working on deploying intricate hybrid solutions that necessitated a blend of on- premises and public cloud accessibility.
Cloud Solution Architect and Scrum Master

Dec 2021 - Fev 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Provided guidance on the Cloud Journey (training paths).
  • Set the standard for multi-cloud application-to-application authentication, leveraging cloud native functionality.
  • Defined architecture patterns, through documentation and terraform code, easy to consume by development teams.
  • Developed the central Azure patch platform allowing teams to patch their systems.
AWS DevOps Engineer

Dec 2021 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Reviewed AWS infrastructure and reduced costs by 35%.
  • Implementation of continous deployment through GitLab.
Atos Poland Global Services

Oct 2019 - Nov 2021

Remote

Atos Poland Global Services, part of the Atos group, provides multiple products and services for customers worldwide.

Enterprise Cloud Architect

May 2021 - Nov 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Multi-cloud solution design, including service and technical designs.
  • Alignment with cloud engineering teams to prioritize features development.
  • Definition of standards for multi-cloud offerings.
Technical Architect

Oct 2019 - July 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Defined strategy to reduce CAPEX by 75% and OPEX by 40%.
  • Defined standard for ROBO ensuring a consistent experience across the globe.
  • Coordinated and ensure project documentation delivery such as high- and low-level designs and bill of materials.
  • Provided solution planning and costing for solutions with 99.7% availability for offices spread across the globe.
  • Ensured that new solutions are inline with current strategy and in scope.
  • Contribution to the estate lifecycle as part of the CTO team.
  • Gap and risk analysis for deployed solutions resulting in either tech debt or solution debt.
  • Working closely with CTO, Service Managers and delivery teams to deliver a high-quality service.
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Fujitsu Technical Services

Sep 2017 - Apr 2019

Remote

Fujitsu Technolgy Services, is a leader in the IT space, providing products and services for customer worldwide.

Customer Solution Architect

Sep 2017 - Apr 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Designed a solution for a retail customer for secure file transfer.
  • Responsible for the patch management within the customer estate.
  • Coordinated and ensure project documentation delivery such as high- and low-level designs and bill of materials.
  • Lead a team of five and mentor two customer solution architects to enhance staff skill levels.
  • Provide solution planning and costing with strict attention to detail and ensuring 100% accuracy.
  • Partner with customers, partners, account managers, business development, engineering, and product teams to craft scalable, flexible and resilient architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of services.
  • Recognized as a trusted customer advocate and for commitment to the organization’s understand best practices around platform integration and adoption.
Atos Poland Global Services

Jun 2015 - Aug 2017

Bydgoszcz, Poland

Atos Poland Global Services, part of the Atos group, provides multiple products and services for customer worldwide.

Local Service Architect

Sep 2013 - Aug 2017

Responsibilities:
  • Compared and defined added value of company tools against customers’ existing tools to reduce costs up to 30%.
  • Promoted to receive the Accolade Gold Award and the Director Award.
  • Produced technical proposals to meet customer requirements to increase corporate revenues.
  • Coordinated and ensured delivery of high- and low-level infrastructure designs in a timely manner.
  • Led major incidents to resolution by coordinating 30 technical resources, and liaising between the customer, management, and technical teams.
  • Led initial development of the end-to-end automation of standard service requests to raise efficiency.
  • Promoted company global standards within the local organization and defined actions to eliminate gaps within technical areas of the server-hosting organization.
  • Assessed non-standard bids for server hosting.
Solaris Technical Lead and Technical Project Coordinator

Jun 2015 - Jul 2017

Responsibilities:
  • Implemented a process change resulting in 90% incident reduction.
  • Designed and implemented high-availability solutions to increase organizational productivity.
  • Served as technical leader for Sparc and Solaris technology and administered 300 Solaris and Linux systems.
  • Led transition projects for five Application Hosting Services business units while leading a team of 25 engineers.
  • Led end to end automation project to reduce cost up to 50% and increase efficiency.
  • Managed small and medium projects, ensuring projects were completed on time.
  • Mentored and coached three junior personnel to enhance staff skill levels.
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Multiple companies (see responsabilities section)

Jul 2002 - Nov 2013

Cracow, Poland; Prague, Czech Republic; Lisbon, Portugal

For a full detailed list, please download my resume.

Previous Experience

Jul 2002 - Nov 2013

Responsibilities:
  • Senior System Administrator, Teradata (2013)
  • Software Engineer, Nokia Siemens Networks (2012-2013)
  • Solution Integrator Engineer, Gemalto (2012)
  • Senior Hardware Quoting and Configuration Specialist, Oracle (2011)
  • System Support Engineer, Sun Microsystems (2002-2011)

Education
National American University
2017-2018
Master of Business Administration – Information Technology Management
Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal
2006-2010
Bachelor of Computer Engineering – Business Management

Projects

Technology Roadmap - converged infrastructure
Technical Architect October 2020 - April 2021

Developed the roadmap to replace the existing converged infrastructure. Price and feature comparison between the 3 main hyper-scalers (Azure, AWS and GCP) and on-premise options.

professional
Technology Roadmap - database hosting
Technical Architect January 2021 - April 2021

Research about database hosting. Evaluated options between Oracle Sparc, IBM Power, x86 and hosting in cloud providers (Azure, AWS and GCP). Developed recommended migration paths for existing databases.

professional
Branch Office design standard
Technical Architect October 2019 - December 2019

Created solution design standard. therefore allowing multiple locations to have the exact same configuration.

professional SolutionDesign
Patch information automation
developer July 2018 - August 2018

Developed script to automate patch information reports based on Microsoft bulletins.

dev professional python
CRUD application
developer January 2021 - present

Currently creating a small piece of SW to combine all of my finances from bank accounts to security investments. Frontend being develop with SvelteKit, backend with Python and database PostgreSQL.

dev hobby python
Ticketing Application
developer 2012 - 2013

Developed a new ticketing application to replace the existing one. As a result, incident query reduced from 120 seconds to less than 10 secs. Used Java Server Pages and PostgreSQL.

dev professional

Recent Posts

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Enabling Federations between Google Cloud and Azure Entra ID

Overview In this post, we delve into Workforce Identity Federation, a service that enables organizations to grant access to Google Cloud services without the need for users to create a Google Account. This simplifies user management and enhances security by leveraging existing identity providers. While Workforce Identity Federation shares some similarities with Workload Identity Federation, they serve different purposes. Workforce Identity Federation focuses on providing access for employees and users, whereas Workload Identity Federation is designed for managing access for service accounts and applications.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Read
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Securing your Google Cloud with Security Posture (SCC)

Overview Following on the topic of the previous post, I’ll be focusing now in an alternate way to enforce Organization Policies via Security Command Center Premium. This could be a good solution for those users that have Security Command Center and also want to apply a pre-defined Security Posture SCC - Predefined Security Posture. The SCC Promise The Security Posture allows for more than enforcing Organization Policies, it allows also to make Health Checks for a few services, such as, no password for Cloud SQL instances, or BigQuery datasets are not encrypted with a CMEK for example. Although, I am focusing on Organization Policies on this post, I will be going over what it can do and what it cannot do.

Monday, February 19, 2024 Read
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Securing your Google Cloud with Organization Policies

Overview Security is always a hot topic and although we can secure each solution on a one by one basis, we can help application and infrastrcture teams by offloading some of these concerns. With the implementation of Google Cloud Organization policies we aim exactly at enabling a secure posture within a Google Cloud Organization. What are Organization Policies Policies or as per Google Cloud documentation, constraints, are configurations that limit what can or cannot be done within a Google Cloud Organization, Folder or Project.

Saturday, February 3, 2024 Read