André Duarte

Lisbon/Santarem - Male - 07/07/1990 - Portuguese

Email me[at]andremduarte.com

I am experienced Network/Security Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology & Services industry for more than 11 Years!


Experience

Senior Security Analyst | R&D

OutSystems

Monitor, Prevent, and Stop attacks on our cloud infrastructure.

May 2022 - Present

Site Reliability Engineering | Software Engineer | R&D

OutSystems

Automate highly scalable and resilient cloud operations that can be executed with no customer downtime;
Perform blameless root cause analysis on outages and ensure action items are done;
Fix resiliency problems wherever they are in the product, or collaborate with product teams to do it;
Monitor customer infrastructure, measuring availability and system health;
Collaborate with customer support in recovering from escalated outages;
Troubleshoot complex incidents in highly distributed systems;
Shorten time to detecting by improving the accuracy of alarms;

Feb 2021 - May 2022

Cloud Engineer | Global Support

OutSystems

Troubleshoot cloud platform related issues;
Provide solutions and alternative approaches, negotiating with customers the best ways to overcome issues;
Use logging and troubleshooting tools to identify performance bottlenecks and perform root-cause analysis;
Bridge with R&D issues and defect priorities to be a part of our Cloud’s continuous improvement process;

May 2020 - Feb 2021

Senior Network/Security Engineer | Sophos Trainer (PT/MZ/AO) | Sophos Architect | IT Manager

DSSI Portugal/Mozambique/Angola

Designing a secure and scalable infrastructures using Sophos Products;
Highlight and documenting all projects in details;
Resolved security vulnerabilities by analyzing using SIEM concepts such as correlation (Solarwinds SEM);
Planning, testing, and introduce new systems into the infrastructure;
Server Security Hardening, using best practices;
Cordinate the Team, and guide them;
Conduct and organize meetings with customers and/or external stakeholders to discuse future plans to improve their network/security;

Aug 2016 - Apr 2020

Software Tester | Support

ZoneSoft

Database troubleshooting and optimization;
Software Testing and Penetration;
Version Control Systems using TortoiseSVN;
Identifying configuration and/or software bugs;

May 2014 - Aug 2016

Lead System Administrator

Acinet

Designing our network and clients networks using diverses topologies; Design and implement a monthly security patching cycle for our 300+ Clients; Use logging and troubleshooting tools to identify performance bottlenecks and perform root-cause analysis;

Jan 2012 - May 2014

Trainee System Administrator

Os Mosqueteiros

Maintenance of the entire infrastructure of Groupement des Mousquetaires in Portugal; Deployment of solutions using business class hardware: HP, Dell; Network Configuration and management;

Nov 2010 - Jan 2012

Education

CEPTON

Network and System Administration
2010 - 2012

ATEP | ESTA/IPT

Computer Engineering, Networking and Telecommunications
2008 - 2010

Skills

Programming/Scripting Languages
  • Bash
  • PHP
  • C
  • Anything else, I learn fast (Except Assembly!) :P
Job-Related Skills
  • Atlassian Tools - Jira, Confluence
  • Active Network Equipments - Cisco and Dell Switchs, Riverbed SteelConnect (SDWan), Riverbed SteelHead (WANOp).
  • Security Appliances - Sophos XG/SG, Stormshield , PFSense
  • Network Security Auditing Tools - Nessus , Solarwinds Network Configuration Manager, Metasploit
  • SIEM Tools - SolarWinds Security and Event Manager, ManageEngine EventLog, Sentinel , Splunk
  • Monitoring Tools - Grafana , ELK Stack , SolarWinds Orion , PRTG
  • Cloud Providers - AWS , Azure
  • Web Servers - IIS, Nginx, Apache
  • Virtualization - VMWare , Proxmox and HyperV
  • Windows Server - Active Directory, DNS Server, Terminal Services, DHCP Server, IIS, AD Group Policies, Remote Access and File Server
  • DataBases - MSSQL, MySQL
  • Linux Fluent Speaker!

Interests and Hobbies

As a Techie, my main hobby is improving my Home-Lab using diverse technologies.

My main interests are travel (and I hope I get my brevet next year!), listening to random music, building and learn new technologies!
Farming! (True Story!)
Drone Pilot


Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Working on Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • NAKIVO Technical Solutions Professional Certification
  • Sophos Certified Architect
  • Sophos Certified Administrator
  • Sophos Certified Engineer
  • Sophos Certified Sales Consultant
  • Certified Stormshield Network Administrator
  • Riverbed Certified Solutions Associate – WAN Optimization
  • Riverbed SteelConnect 200 (SDWAN)
  • Aternity Digital Experience Management

Achievements

  • Trained more than 100 Customers/Partners/Internal for Sophos products.
  • Designed and implemented security patches cycle for more than 300 Clients.
  • Designed and implemented security systems in some of the biggests banks in Mozambique.
  • Develop my homelab using cutting edge technologies (Node.JS, GitHub, HAProxy, CloudFlare!) (That's where this site is hosted!)

Events

  • Representation of Sophos in MozCyber - "Conferência Nacional de Segurança Cibernética". - Mozambique
  • SolarWinds BootCamp 2017 - Ireland
  • Riverbed Wan Optimization Essentials - United Kingdom
  • Riverbed SteelConnect SDWan - United Kingdom
  • Ubiquiti Network for Hotels - Spain