Summary
João Saraiva is a solution designer and seasoned Linux/HPUX systems engineer with 11+ years delivering infrastructure automation, storage/SAN solutions and enterprise provisioning for large telco and service providers. Currently at Nokia, he designs and implements bare-metal and VM deployment automation, RH Identity Management integrations and cross-forest trust with AD/Azure AD using tools like Ansible, Foreman and Proxmox. He holds RHCE/RHCSA certifications (top scores) and combines deep hands-on experience with high-end storage platforms (EMC VMAX/Symmetrix/CX, NetApp) and SAN fabrics. Comfortable across legacy Itanium/HPUX estates to modern virtualization stacks, he focuses on pragmatic, low-politics engineering and being empowered to deliver results. Notably, his background includes disaster recovery and large-scale migrations (Vmax ↔ DMX3) and a track record of automating host provisioning and OS lifecycle across complex environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
SAFe 4 Practitioner Certification, SAFe 4 Practitioner Certification at Scaled Agile
Gros Bouquet 1 - Gabon
RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer, 95%, RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer, 95% at RedHat / Rumos
Baccalauréat scientifique, Mention assez bien, Baccalauréat scientifique, Mention assez bien at Lycée Français Charles Lepierre
ITILv4 Foundation Certification in IT Service Management, ITILv4 Foundation Certification in IT Service Management at PeopleCert / Axelos
Masters, Masters at Instituto Superior Técnico
French, English