Arturo Kirkconnell
IT Solutions
IT Solutions
SRE Engineer | DevOps Engineer | Cloud Engineer with “Can Do” attitude. Determined, I am passionate about software development, platform engineering, software and platform reliability, automation, scalability and security. I am intrigued by complex applications and systems, how they interact and integrate with each other, the information they exchange, how they exchange them but most importantly, the impact these applications, systems and products have on our daily lives. As every professional in its own field of expertise, I strive to let the work i do have a tangible impact in the real world. Insightful and competent professional, with excellent analytical and problem solving skills. With over 9 years of experience in large scale production environments, I strive to leverage existing and emergent technologies to the edge of their capabilities to see how they perform in small as well as big context. One of my goals is to be part of an organization whose products and services have a beneficial impact on the people who use and consume them every day, hopefully across the world; where talented and passionate people like me share, perfect and push to the top the very same interests I have. Where the combined individuals success, personal and professional growth is the shared objective to achieve. Open to learn new topics and invest long working hours. Bilingual in English and Spanish.
• Diagnose computer problems
• Monitor computer processing systems
• Install software
• Perform tests on computer equipment and programs
• Minor repairs
Company - Ministry of Communications and Informatics
Duration - 3yr [2005 to 2008]
Location - Cuba
• Installing and configuring computer networks and systems
• Identifying and solving any problems that arise with computer networks and systems
• Assembling new systems
• Maintaining existing software and hardware and upgrading any that have become obsolete
• Monitoring computer networks and systems to identify how performance can be improved
• Working with IT personnel
• Providing network administration and support
Company - Ministry of Communications and Informatics
Duration - 1yr [2008 to 2009]
Location - Cuba
• Server administration with active directory with Windows Server 2008/2012.
• Deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 with consistent access to email and no downtime.
• Install and maintain Databases (SQL and MySQL Server)
• Network deployment and administration to meet the bandwidth requirements.
• Satisfying storage requirements for a rapidly growing environment.
• Meeting backup and recovery needs in DR scenario.
Company - KB Travel
Duration - 4yr [2013 to 2017]
Location - Cuba
• Build in-house infrastructure automation tools using Ansible.
• Deployed on-prem Kubernetes cluster using MetalLB, NGNIX and Kubeadm.
• Utilize Vagrant to create a staging environment to test new features.
• Implemented a monitoring solution with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Created a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins.
Company - Vultr
Duration - 2yr [2017 to 2019]
Location - USA
• Migrated company’s system from on-prem to the cloud using IaC principals which resulted in higher availability and lower costs.
• Utilized docker with Kubernetes for the company’s system for better scalability, reliability and performance.
• Migrate company’s environment from Windows to Linux, bringing better stability, reliability, achieving lower prices avoiding licenses and maintenance cost.
• Design for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other DR models over Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Terraform.
• Performing troubleshooting to system failures and identify bottlenecks to ensure long term efficiency of the network.
• Do regular data backups to protect the organization’s information.
Company - Bore Tech Utilities & Maintenance.
Duration - 1yr [2019 to 2021]
Location - USA
• Deployed Grafana Cloud across the organization, gaining on observability of all EKS infrastructure and applications.
• Developed solution to migrate logs from Datadog to Splunk Cloud, leveraging Fluentbit, Kinesis and Lambda.
• Develop several Terraform modules to facilitate the adoption of Observability tools.
• Developed Jenkins pipeline to automate the process of AMI updates to fix weekly vulnerabilities.
• Developed Chatbot functionality that integrates with MS Teams, to enable Self Service for the different teams.
• Automated the process of Incedent Management.
• Develop solution to keep track of the open merge request across the organization.
• Deployed Grafana Dashboards to keep track of SLO and avoid breaching SLA's.
Company - US Bank
Duration - 1 yr [2021 to Present]
Location - USA
Institute - Polytechnic Institute: IPQI Martires de Giron
Session - 2002 - 2006
Institute - University of Technologies José Antonio Echeverría
Session - 2009 - 2013
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Get in touch for quotes and services
We are here to bring results which will grow your business. Large or small, we adapt to your networking needs.
Because technology plays a significant role in your day-to-day functions, we specialize in the deployment and management of technologies which will serve your business.
Network security services are designed to protect internal company infrastructures and connected devices from undesired access, mishandling, and attacks.
We can offer a comprehensive assessment of network architecture and evaluate the security of internet and intranet connections. We then use this information to implement firewalls and other protective measures that are customized to meet our client’s needs.
Cloud services have revolutionized computing, not least through IaaS, PaaS, and especially SaaS, which have allowed businesses to develop virtualized IT infrastructure and deliver software through the cloud, independent of a user's operating system.
If you are thinking on migrating your services to the cloud, or just start a new service on the cloud, we are here to make that process as smooth as possible.
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We utilize today’s latest, greatest technological tools including CSS, HTML5, jQuery and modern responsive design principles.
We are here to bring results which will grow your business. Large or small, we adapt to your networking needs.
Because technology plays a significant role in your day-to-day functions, we specialize in the deployment and management of technologies which will serve your business.
We are here to bring results which will grow your business. Large or small, we adapt to your networking needs.
Because technology plays a significant role in your day-to-day functions, we specialize in the deployment and management of technologies which will serve your business.
Get in touch for quotes and services
+1 720-775-0000
info@kirkbc.com
https://www.akirk.info