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Carlos Iván Barragán González

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer · DevOps · SRE

Infrastructure engineer with 8+ years in Linux, virtualization and data centers. Currently focused on cloud migrations (VMware, OpenShift, GCP), with junior-level production experience in Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

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Professional Experience

January 2025 – Present

Ebunti / DRPMéxico

Cloud & Business Continuity Implementation Engineer (Remote)

  • Migrated 200+ workloads (P2V, V2V, V2P) for 20+ clients to VMware vCloud Director.
  • Moved VMs from VMware and Proxmox to OpenShift Virtualization (SNO) and GCP: disk conversion, S3 upload and bootable images.
  • API automation on vCloud Director across 70–80 tenants: resource validation down from ~1 h to ~2 min, with Power BI reports.
  • Operated Kubernetes, OpenShift SNO, Ceph and Cloudian clusters: health checks, troubleshooting and maintenance.
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions and IaC with Terraform for deployments and provisioning.
  • Built multi-tenant vDC networking on NSX: segmentation, routing, firewall, NAT and 10+ site-to-site IPsec VPNs.
  • S3 object storage (Ceph, Cloudian, Wasabi, MinIO): deployment, onboarding and data migration.
  • Delivered backup and recovery with Veeam (BaaS, DRaaS), including failover tests.

January 2022 – January 2025

Ebunti / DRPMéxico

SysAdmin/DevOps/Datacenter (Remote)

  • Ran Linux (RHEL 7–9, Ubuntu) and Windows Server in production on vCloud Director, ESXi and Proxmox.
  • IaC and automation with Terraform and Ansible, plus Bash, Python and PowerShell scripting.
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions and service deployments on Kubernetes; version control with Git.
  • Data center work: rack installs, cabling, out-of-band management (iDRAC, iLO) and DCIM/IPAM docs (NetBox).
  • Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog and PRTG.
  • Access and security: Active Directory and IPsec VPN (WatchGuard).
  • Troubleshot network, services, storage and OS issues for customers.

January 2021 – January 2022

Autotransportes TUFESA

Computer Systems Engineer (Per project)

  • Owned IT infrastructure for branches and data centers across 4 states (Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima, Sinaloa).
  • Brought up servers in new branches: rack installation, cabling and configuration.
  • Remote server management with iDRAC and iLO; monthly infrastructure audits.
  • Active Directory: access and security policies.
  • Automated admin tasks with PowerShell and Bash.

February 2019 – November 2020

IBM

Jr. Test Engineer (Hybrid)

  • IBM Power9 and Elastic Storage System (ESS3K, ESS5K) clusters for high availability and load balancing.
  • RAID arrays (0, 1, 5, 6, 50, 60) with IBM Spectrum RAID.
  • Scripted I/O and hardware stress tests; diagnosed and replaced disks and DIMMs.
  • Out-of-band management via IPMI and CIMC; node-to-node networking.
  • Automated image deployment with Docker, Podman and Bash.
  • Managed RHEL 8, Fedora and CentOS on physical and virtual hosts.

January 2018 – February 2019

IBM

Test Analyzer (On-Site)

  • Configured IBM Power7/8/9 servers to customer specs.
  • Installed high-speed switches and server cabling.
  • Installed RHEL 7, Fedora and CentOS across multiple nodes.
  • I/O, PCB functional and HIPOT electrical tests.
  • Automated tests with Bash and Python.

Projects & Homelab

Homelab

Proxmox with a Kubernetes cluster, monitored by Prometheus and Grafana. Lab for GCP, Terraform and OpenShift.

  • Proxmox
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Terraform

This resume as code

Content in YAML, static site with Astro, GitHub Actions CI and a Netlify deploy preview for every PR.

  • Astro
  • GitHub Actions
  • Netlify
  • YAML

Technologies

Cloud & Virtualization
Google Cloud (GCP), VMware vCloud Director, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, Proxmox, QEMU/KVM, OpenShift Virtualization; basic AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean
Containers & Orchestration
Kubernetes, OpenShift (SNO), Docker, Podman, LXC/LXD
IaC & Automation
Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python, PowerShell
CI/CD & Version Control
GitHub Actions, Git, GitHub
Monitoring & Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PRTG
AI & LLMs
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, Orca (ADE), Ollama, MCP
Storage
S3 object storage (Ceph, Cloudian, Wasabi, MinIO), NAS (NFS, SMB), SAN (iSCSI, Fibre Channel), IBM Spectrum RAID (0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60), IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS3K, ESS5K)
Backup & Recovery
Veeam Backup & Replication, Bacula, Duplicati, replication, immutable repositories, DRaaS
Operating Systems
Windows Server (2012, 2016, 2019, 2022), Linux (RHEL 7-9, Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, CentOS)
Network Protocols/OSI Model
DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SSH, NTP, DHCP, VPN, SFTP/FTP, LACP, LAG, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, TELNET, RDP, SMB, NFS, TCP/UDP, IP, ICMP, IPSec, ARP
XDR/EDR and Firewalls
Sophos XDR, Sophos Firewall, pfSense, OPNsense
Web services
Apache, Nginx, SSL Certificates, Proxy/Reverse Proxy, HAProxy, Squid
Databases
MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, IBM DB2, MariaDB
Infrastructure Management
Active Directory, IPAM, DCIM, FreeIPA
Hardware & Data Center
Dell, HPE, Cisco UCS and IBM Power (7, 8, 9) servers; out-of-band management (iDRAC, iLO, IPMI, CIMC); rack and cabling; disk and DIMM diagnostics; HIPOT
Work Methodology
DevOps, Scrum, Kanban
Technical Documentation
Infrastructure audits, Configuration and installation manuals, Technical Memories
Services
IaaS, BaaS, DRaaS, SaaS, S3, MSP

Education and Certifications

2019 – 2025

University of Guadalajara

CUCEI – University Center of Exact and Engineering Sciences

B.Eng. in Computer Engineering (graduated)

2023 – Present

Proulex

Language Center

English (B2)

Certifications

Working on

Additional

Languages
Spanish (native) · English (B2)
Applied AI
Daily use of AI agents for infrastructure and automation: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity and Orca (ADE); local models with Ollama; tool integration via MCP.