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Rafael Dutra

DevOps / SRE Engineer

Infrastructure automation as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability on cloud environments. Based in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil.

DevOps culture enthusiast, focused on delivering reliable, reproducible and easy-to-operate environments.
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About me

More than 14 years of experience in IT, network administration and infrastructure analysis, mostly on GNU/Linux environments. Since 2015 I have worked with infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) using a range of tools for different scenarios — from immutable provisioning to platform operation pipelines.
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Education

2017
UNISINOS — São Leopoldo/RS
Information Technology Security (not completed)
2010–2011
Centro de Tecnologia em Automação e Informática — SENAI/SC, Florianópolis/SC
Computer Networks (not completed)
2008–2009
UNISINOS — São Leopoldo/RS
Information Technology Security (not completed)
2004–2007
Escola Estadual de Educação Profissional em Estrela — Estrela/RS
Computer Networks Technical Certificate (completed)

Experience

Career

Working as a DevOps / SRE engineer at consultancies and product companies, focused on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and pipeline automation.

Experience (list)

Feb 2022 – Present
DevOps / SRE Engineer
4ALL. Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

DevOps / SRE Engineer — 4ALL

Technology company.

  • Infrastructure as code: several Terraform projects for AWS environments.
  • Implementation and administration of Kubernetes clusters (EKS) across different AWS accounts, with multiple components.
  • Platform operation automation at the pipeline level, built with Shell Script and Python.
  • Systems and infrastructure observability with Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch — latency, 4xx/5xx errors, memory usage, request volume.
  • Docker and Docker Compose for infrastructure development environments; internal Shell Script tool released as open source (cid).
  • CI/CD with Git/GitLab.
  • Full infrastructure automation cycle with Packer, Terraform and Ansible for AWS using GitLab.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
DevOps Engineer
PoaTek IT Consulting. Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

DevOps Engineer — PoaTek

Technology company.

  • CI/CD with AWS CodeCommit and CodePipeline.
  • Infrastructure as code with CloudFormation.
  • Python scripts with Boto3 for AWS.

May 2019 – Jan 2020
DevOps Engineer
Sicredi. Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

DevOps Engineer — Sicredi

Working on site for Sicredi.

  • Full infrastructure automation cycle with Packer, Terraform and Ansible for AWS using GitLab.
  • CI/CD with Git/GitLab.
  • Blue/Green environments on AWS.
  • Ansible roles for multi-master Kubernetes cluster automation.
  • HashiCorp Consul and Vault; metrics collection with Spring Boot for Consul.
  • TDD for Ansible roles.
  • Python scripts with Boto3 for AWS.

Aug 2018 – May 2019
DevOps Engineer
Stefanini | IT Solutions and IT Staffing. Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

DevOps Engineer — Stefanini

  • Deployment and infrastructure automation using Docker, Docker Compose, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Cloud-init.
  • AWS: EC2, EBS, RDS.
  • Documentation of internal tools used on AWS.
  • Continuous integration with Git and GitLab.
  • Published Terraform modules to manage AWS Route 53 records and zones.

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018
SaaS Architect
Jive Software (via Crossover). Portland, Oregon, USA (remote)

SaaS Architect — Jive Software

Jive Software is part of Aurea Company. Remote work through Crossover.

  • Deployment and infrastructure automation with Docker, Docker Compose, Bash and Puppet.
  • Internal support tools.
  • AWS: EC2, EBS.
  • Documentation of internal tools, processes and procedures.
  • Job scheduler (Rundeck).
  • Continuous integration with Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins.
  • Logs and metrics monitoring (Datadog and Flapjack).

Oct 2016 – Jan 2018
DevOps Engineer
PoaTek IT Consulting. Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

DevOps Engineer — PoaTek (AGCO)

Working on site for AGCO (Agriculture Corporation).

  • Deployment and infrastructure automation with Docker, Docker Compose, Bash and Puppet.
  • Continuous integration with Git, Bitbucket and Bamboo.
  • Logs and metrics with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Grafana, Telegraf and InfluxDB.
  • Development environment automation with VirtualBox, Vagrant, Packer, Linux and Preseed.
  • Job scheduler (Rundeck) and build tools (Gradle, Apache Maven).
  • Linux server administration (Ubuntu Server) and process documentation for developers.
  • Participation in special projects implementing new tools.

Open source projects