Gabriel Virga
DevOps at Blink
- Role
- Devops Engineer at Amazon
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gabriel Virga
SUMMARYSystem administrator for 10+ years, providing 24/7 high availability of the operating systems.Unix Best Practice and ITILAdministration of various Unix OS such as AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, CentOS, RedHat, Oracle Linux.Developing tools, Azure Devops, Gitlab, github. Languages Python, Kotlin and typescript.Automation with Ansible and CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Azure Devops, Tekton, Github Actions)OS Installation, upgrade, and patching. Installing and managing container infrastructure - Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes.Work focused on finding the problem root cause, followed by establishing definitive solutions to prevent new or repetitive problems in the future.Quick learner and profoundly motivated with technology.Strong ability of troubleshooting and multi-tasking; great team player with strong communication skills.TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages: Python, Bash, Perl and Ruby.Automation: Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines - Tekton, Gitlab, AzureDevOps, Github Actions.Unix: Best practices, System Performance, OS Maintenance, ID Administration (NIS and LDAP)Applications: Openshift, Docker, Jfrog, Dynatrace, AquaSec, Zimbra, Open-ldap, Momentum Ecelerity, MongoDB, Graphite, Drupal, Blackboard, Apache, Nginx, Splunk, Wordpress, Confluence, Adobe CQ5Linux: Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Alpine, VMWARE, Virtualization, Administration of SAN disks attached to the server.
Experience
Devops Engineer
Oct 2024 — Present · Buffalo, NY, US
Infrastructure Modernization & Migration- Spearheaded enterprise-wide RHEL 8 migration from Amazon Linux 2, coordinating evaluation, deployment, and adoption across login servers, Slurm compute clusters, and development environments- Architected and deployed GitLab infrastructure improvements including EKS-based runner fleet, admin node groups, blue-green deployments, and GitLab 17→18 upgrade path- Designed and implemented multi-environment (sandbox/eval/prod) deployment strategy using modern CDK toolkit with automated CI/CD pipelinesPlatform Engineering & Automation- Built and maintained container orchestration systems using Docker, Podman, and ECS for CI/CD workflows and development tooling- Developed Python-based CLI tools for developer productivity and infrastructure automation- Created reusable GitLab CI templates and EC2 Image Builder components to standardize infrastructure-as-code practicesHigh-Performance Computing & Workload Management- Managed Slurm workload scheduler infrastructure supporting ASIC design verification workflows- Implemented dynamic license management system preventing over-allocation and improving resource utilization- Deployed monitoring and metrics collection for license usage, queue health, and cluster performanceTechnical Stack: AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, FSx, Route 53), GitLab CI/CD, Slurm, Docker/Podman, Python, CDK/CloudFormation, RHEL.
Education
HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Bachelor, Information System
2007 — 2010
ETCV
Technician, IT Technician
2003 — 2006
University at Buffalo School of Management, The State University of New York
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2017 — 2021
SENAI Roberto Mange
Technician, Milling Technician - Machining
2003 — 2005
Skills
- Linux
- Servers
- Unix
- Hp-UX
- Aix
- System Administration
- Unix Administration
- Veritas Cluster Server
- Lvm
- Sun Cluster
- Virtualization
- Shell Scripting
- Linux System Administration
- Hacmp
- Red Hat Linux
- Solaris
- Hp Serviceguard
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