Carlos Ijalba
Senior DevOps Engineer
  • Palma De Mallorca,
  • Baleares,
  • Spain
Member Since: 2014/08/26
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IT systems technologist, who likes to tinker with common IT problems: HW, software, virtualisation, cloud, networking & DevOps infra.

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Professional Background
Senior DevOps Engineer
Netcentric
October 2021 – Present
Mallorca
Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS, IaC with terraform & puppet, Automation with ansible & jenkins, JCasC, keycloak, confluence, jira, VMware, Veeam.
IT Systems Director, DevOps Engineer.
Seera Group Spain
October 2018 – Present
Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain
IT Systems Director: systems architect, system administration, DevOps Engineer, IaC with terraform & packer, AWS, ansible, VMware, nginx, PostgreSQL, Veeam.
IT Outsourcing Systems Coordinator
Logicalis for Grupo Piñero
November 2014 – November 2018
Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain
Outsourcing Systems Coordinator:  making sure the systems are up and running, all the incidents, problems and tickets are handled in time and form, documentation control, ITIL processes, and systems administration in:

AIX, VMware, Linux, Spectrum Protect, TSM, Nagios XI, Flash Copy Manager, SAN, NAS, Veeam Backup, vDP, OVM.

Basically ease the management of the IT infrastructure for our client.
Systems Engineer
Solucions
March 2013 – November 2014
· FSE:  Oracle Field Service Engineer (Oracle/SUN/STK Hardware), HW & Service Support.
· Oracle, EMC, VMWare Partner Channels liaision.

· Architecture Design:  VMWare, VDI, Nagios, SAN/NAS.
· Consultancy:  (Infrastructure Health Checks, Audits, Performance Checks, Documentation).
· Systems Administration:  UNIX (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, SCO), ESXi, Scripting, Nagios.

· Storage:  SAN (EMC VNXe-VNX, SUN, STK, Brocade), NAS (EMC, Iomega, Lenovo)
· Backup Software:  Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), ARCserve, BackupExec, Commvault.
IT Systems Team Leader & Senior Technical Analyst
Accenture
August 2009 – February 2013
· System Administrators Team Leader (3-4 Sysadmins team).

· Projects Team Senior Technical Analyst (in charge of 2 technical analysts team).

· Senior Technical Analyst and Systems Administration on the following platforms:
__IBM BladeCenter, AIX
__AS/400, IBM i,
__TANDEM-HP NonStop,
__Linux, Solaris,
__Tivoli Storage Manager, TSM,
__CICS (TXseries),
__MQseries & MessageBroker.
IBM AS/400 Hardware Engineer
AYANET
2009 – 2008
· IBM Hardware Engineer (AS/400, iSeries).
· MAXDATA Hardware Engineer.

· Systems Administrator in platforms:
__AS/400,
__iSeries,
__Windows.
IT Manager
Instituto Médico Quirúrgico San Rafael
October 2007 – 2007
· IT Department Management.

· Storage Design for the new PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) based on IBM NAS & TSM backups.
· Project Management of PACS  in a joint venture with Corunna's University (UDC - Universidad de La Coruña) (4 year project).

· AS/400 Administration, Support & COBOL/CL Programming.

· Government's Grant Documentation & Paperwork Management.
· Data Protection's Law Security Officer (Responsable de Seguridad en cumplimiento
    de la L.O.P.D.).
Systems Administrator (AS/400)
Inditex
March 2003 – October 2007
· IBM AS/400-OS/400 Installation, Support, Networking, Administration & Operations.
· Hardware Support and Repair: PCs, Printers, Scanners, Scales and other Periferics.

· Microsoft Windows, WinCE & Mobile Installation, Support & Administration.
· Microsoft Office, Exchange, and MS Clusters Administration.

· Storage Administration: Veritas Netbackup, ARCServe, BrightStor & EMC CLARiiON.
· Network Administration: Switches Alcatel and Network Support.

· Design & Programming of internal applications in PHP, Visual Basic & MS Access (VBA).
IBM Open Systems & Storage Consultant
Computacenter
2001 – 2002
· Datacenter Practice:  AIX Installation, Support, Administration, DR, Korn Shell Scripting.  Training, documentation and support tools creation (monitoring & collect scripts). Programming Scripts, Macros TSM and DRM, and creation of  reports in TSM SQL.

·  Storage Practice:  Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM & DRM) Design & Implementation, Support, Upgrades, Health Checks, Admin, DR, Performance Tuning and Personnel Training. Veritas Netbackup Installation. Design and Implementation of Storage Subsystems IBM (RAID, SSA).   IBM, HP & StorageTek (STK) Tape Systems (Setup, Support & Training).

·  I+D & Documentation:  Writing and maintaining Technical documentation (Whitepapers), and new Technologies Proofs of Concept. Creation and maintenance of the IBM Enterprise section at www.computacenter.com. Technical designs review.
Middleware Technical Analyst / UNIX Admin
Independent Insurance
1998 – 2000
As Middleware Technical Analyst:
· Software Support Engineer: MQseries, Staffware, OS/400, AIX, and Samba.
· AIX Administration and Support, Scripting (sed & awk).
· Backup Design and Implementation on BRMS and ADSM/TSM.
· Candle Command Center Infrastructure Monitoring & Implementation.
· Corporate Relational Database Installation, Backup & Recovery (DB2).
· VMWare Installation and Administration.  
· On-call 3rd line support to the Operations Datacenter & Helpdesk.  

As Operations Shift Leader:
· 3 Operators Shift Supervision, and training of Operators & Trainees.
· Senior OS/400 Operations: BRMS, ROBOT, IBM Jukeboxes,  PTFs, OS Upgrades and Migrations, Disaster Recovery, MQseries, MIMIX, AIX Operations.  
· Documentation of all the Operations Procedures to ISO standards.
· Document Management.
Operations Shift Leader
Telewest
1995 – 1997
· 5 Operators Supervision, Training & Evaluation (Operators and Trainees),
· Senior OS/400 Operations: BRMS, Robotic Tape Libraries, CL Programming, System's Configuration, Capacity Planning (BEST/1), Performance Tuning, Software Beta-testing, Programming Macros & Scripts, Customer Billing Runs Supervision.

· Incident & Problem Resolution and Escalation, Job monitoring/scheduling, Operations on: VAX/OpenVMS, UNIX/AIX, AS/400, Sun Solaris, HP 9000/HP-UX,
Fujitsu/ICL Superserver & Optical Libraries Plasmon, Fathom & Bluechip (WORM).
· Helpdesk Support (with CLS & Remedy) in OS/400, DOS, Windows, Novell, AIX, and Solaris.
VDU Operator
Rubinstein & Son Textiles
1993 – 1994
· Customer data entry with Pegasus.
· UPS Infrastructure Implementation & Configuration.
· Anti Virus Installation and Automation.
· Warehouse work: stock control, stock takes, customer order processing & packing.
IT Administrative
Base Aerea de Son San Juan
1991 – 1991
· Administrative Tasks of the "Furriel" charge (Army personnel leave tramits, transportation paperwork, shift & on call plannings, etc), during the Spanish Militar Service (1 year, mandatory).
· Anti Virus Updates, Administration and PC Virus Removal.
· Software Updates.
· IT Support and users training & guidance.
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IT Professional with more than 25 years experience, specialised in system's administration and infrastructure design.

I have worked as System's Administrator, Hardware Engineer, Project Manager, IT Manager, IT Systems Director, Technical Analyst and Consultant, for different employers ranging from small family businesses to big international companies (Accenture, Inditex, Logicalis, Al Tayyar & Computacenter).

Lived in three different countries (United Kingdom, Andorra & Spain), -and each with it's own language-.

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Current: Level 11
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  • Windows Server 2008
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  • Microsoft Server OS
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  • Microsoft Office
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  • Databases
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  • Windows 10
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    1
  • Cloud Computing
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    1
  • Web Browsers
    1
  • Peripherals
    1
  • Laptops Notebooks
    1
  • Smartphone Programming
    1
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    1
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    1
  • Linux Security
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    1
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  • Outlook
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