
Armando Azevedo
Senior Capacity Planning Manager | IT Infrastructure
Salary / Daily rate
Brussels, Belgium
Freelance
Remote only
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About me
Intro
Infrastructure architect with 25+ years managing enterprise UNIX/Linux systems at global financial institutions. Led large-scale cloud migrations, managing 4000+ servers across 5 datacenters, reducing deployment time by 60%. Specialized in capacity planning, cloud architecture, and complex IT infrastructure transformations for mission-critical environments.
Work experience
Capacity Manager
BNP Paribas - Securities Services
Mar 2016 - Present
10 years 8 months
69340 Francheville, France
• ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT IT CORPORATE/ Capacity Planning Manager • Capacity Planning Manager for the IT INFRASTRUCTURE Technical Architect, Capacity Planning Manager, for the UNIX/Windows/VMWARE applications, doing budgets, and recommendations for Technical Leader for Business Line, help the applications work Maps for the 2017-2020, Migration HW/VM for a NEW DC; Planning migrations from VMWARE to VBLOCKS 3540, Planning the migrations for BD ORACLE for EXADATA, and do the new recommendations for M9000 to M7 HW (Sun Solaris - ORACLE). Numbers – 150 Server HPUX – 5 Superdome; AIX, 4 Power7; 4000 RHEL/Linux Servers. Between VM and Physical Servers. 3 DC in Paris and 2 DC in Brussels. HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade, Gen8, Gen7. SCOM and Nagios for Monitoring. Project LINUX, migrate all the legacy applications to RHEL/LINUX, from AIX, HPUX, Sun Solaris, to new PRIVATE CLOUD; VBLOCKS 3540 – HW. Create the Planning of all RHEL/Linux Servers with RH Satellite Project Jump, creates with a special and small team new migrations from old Systems (VM) to new Virtual Machines in the Private Cloud.
Senior System Administrator AIX/HPUX/Tsm
Hewlett-Packard Financial Services
Jun 2011 - Present
15 years 5 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
- Administration for HP-UX - AIX 5.1 to 6.1 Administration and supporting; - Creating new DLPAR’s servers - Creating new servers HPUX; - Migration for SAN Storage for Hitachi Storqge, from EVA HP, DS8K, EMC Clarion - OS HPUX, 11.11, 11.23, 11.31 - Migration for SAN Storage to HP XP 9500, from EMC, DS8K, VMAX - OS HPUX 11.23, 11.31 , Sun Solaris ZFS, 8, 9, 10
SSO UNIX
IBM Global Services
Dec 2007 - Jun 2011
3 years 7 months
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Senior System Administrator UNIX - AIX 5.3 - HP-UX 11.31 • Administration for HP-UX and Infrastructure design. • AIX 5.1 to 6.1 Administration and supporting; Creating new DLPAR’s servers, with HACMP; • Migration from HPUX to AIX; • Migration for SAP (HP) to AIX servers and upgrade for new version; • HP-UX OS 11.00, 11.23 & 11.31 Administration and supporting; VPAR, NPAR, Host servers and VM’s. Super Dome – 4 and Blades. Ignite Server. Upgrade of the operation systems, QP, Feature Pack, and HW patches • TSM – extend use of backup technologies, such as IBM Tivoli Storage Flashcopy Manager (FCM), for cloning Oracle Database 10g, for creating a test environment used to upgrade the Oracle Database to 11g; used the following products , SAN Storage DS8000, Oracle ASM, RMAN, installation of FCM, Did that for all the Oracle Database in Version 10gR1. • Did create the new server from scratch and replicate the list of File-system of Oracle with FCM. • Monitoring the full 230 UNIX servers, with all the Tivoli applications framework; • SAP, SAS, Oracle Support; • Responsible for the UNIX Part of Release Manager for all the Environments – DEV, QUA, PRD – create new packages; new deliveries and deploy to PRD. • Scripting for the system administrator, support Developments teams for Productions, updates for O.S., installation for Oracle 9.2, 10 and 11 versions, and kernel parameters. Audit and Security for all the systems. Creating the new plans for software and O.S. Schedule releases. • DS8700, DS8300, DS8100 – are the San Storage for this project, and 8 EVA Storage • Deep Knowledge of storage infrastructure (SAN, SVC, DS, XIV, …) and network infrastructure, EVA Storage (HP) and DS8K (IBM)
Senior System Administrator
BSource
Dec 2007 - Dec 2010
3 years 1 month
Lisbon Area, Portugal
The same as SSO UNIX - IBM Global Services More HPUX oriented
Snr System Administrator
ParaRede
Dec 2007 - Dec 2010
3 years 1 month
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Senior System Administrator Aix, HP-UX 11.23, 11.31 , Hosts and Vm’s • Administration for HP-UX Infrastructure design. • HP-UX OS 11.00, 11.23 & 11.31 Administration and supporting; Host and VM’s. • SAS, SAP, Oracle Support • Windows MS SQL Server 1997,2000, 2005,2008 Instalation, Security. Availability, Reliability, Recoverability • Scripting for the system administrator, support DEV teams for Productions, updates for O.S., installation for Oracle 9.2, 10 and 11 versions, and kernel parameters. Audit and Security for all the systems. • AIX.
Sr Aix System Administrator
KCI Medical
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
2 years
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
System Administrator AIX, DRP Site Backups . TSM Admin Support the DBA in Dev/UAT and PRD servers
System Administrator
PTCOM
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
2 years
Lisbon Area, Portugal
AIX Sun Solaris OpenVMS Tickets On-call Monthly backups for OpenVMS
System Administrator AIX, HP-UX
SIBS
Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
3 years
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Senior System Consultant on a project in the area of Unix, AIX and HP-UX, with the goal to make an audit for the systems administration for the Netbackup Veritas 5.1 and do all the migrations for upgrade of Operations Systems; Databases, applications and Netbackup. My current responsibilities were: • Administration for AIX Infrastructure design, rack construction, installation. • AIX 5.3 Server design; VIO design; LPAR design • HMC for the 2 server p5-570 and p5-590 • HACMP System Administration, design for 4 databases clusters • IBM Power5 hardware configuration, LPARs and virtualisation • Design for NIS and migration to LDAP in AIX, with all the migration and duplication for LDAP Primary server and a Second LDAP Server in the Disaster Recovery Site; • Integrating AIX into Heterogeneous LDAP Environments; configuration AIX to use LDAP authentication, and how-to do in AIX 5L LDAP user management. • Database administrator for Informix and Oracle; • Infrastructure design for the Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 6.0; • Administration for Storage EMC Symmetrix and HP StorageWorks 4100/6100/8100. • Administration for Fiber Channel Switches – CISCO, HP. • Documentations for procedures in wiki-pages; Backups TSM, Netbackup and AFS. • Administration for the backup solution with Netbackup Veritas function, responsible for Multi-Site Operations and backups for Unix and Wintel Servers, Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 6.0; • 3rd Line Support for operations/productions Teams and Development; • Last Year 2006 – I have the following IBM Courses – HACMP System Administration I – Planning and Implementation (Course code AU54) and AU08 – AIX 5L Network Installation Management (NIM).
Senior Unix Consultant
Novabase Consulting
Oct 1999 - Dec 2003
4 years 3 months
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Overview • Design and Implementation for a Operations Team; • Responsible for 3 sites ( EDP/EDINFOR/ONI) • SLA 24 h * 7 * 352 days; • System Administration for UNIX SLA’s 99,99% for services, servers, infrastructures • Design monitoring systems for the 3 sites; • CTO for Operations; • Worked with Billing application (Arbor/Kenan), it was the application that makes the bills for ONI; • Team leader for all the migrations for the project; • Single point of contact with the client and diferents teams( DBA / System Administrator / Operations/ Productions); • Administration for Storage EMC, IBM and HITACHI. Technologies Used: Tivoli, TEC, Legato, TSM, HACMP, Sun Solaris 7.0; Linux, with the flavors RH ES, Fedora, Oracle 7.0 and 8.0; Viso, MS Project, RMAN. Scripting in perl, cgi, Kshm csh, bash; Robots, L180e, L700, StoraTek 7140, SAN, Window NT server, NT 2000). And Linux.
Coordenador da Operação ONI
EDP
Jan 1999 - Dec 2003
5 years
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Single point of Contact between Edinfor Operations and the Client ONI, from backups to the full cycle of billing of ONI. Documented all the procedures and make a lot of scripts to run the Operations Command Center.
Education
University of Lisbon
DR, Computer Science
1988 - 1993
6 years
1st Pure Mathematics + 2nd Computer Science
D Pedro V - Liceu
12 º Ano, Ciências - Media - 15,6/20
1980 - 1985
6 years
Grade: 15,6
Licenses & certifications
Armando Jose Azevedo
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