MAICOL STIVEN GOMEZ ESPINOSA

Systems Technologist
Bogota, CO.

About

Highly proficient Systems Technologist with over 5 years of experience in critical infrastructure operations, technical support, and L1/L2 incident resolution. Expertly managed large-scale environments, monitoring 300+ servers and 1,000+ services while safeguarding 6 TB of business-critical data, consistently achieving 97% SLA compliance and reducing ticket resolution times by 30%. Seeking remote opportunities in Technical Support, Systems Administration, NOC Operations, or AI Training, leveraging bilingual proficiency in Spanish and English.

Work

SONDA Colombia S.A.
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Data Center Operator - Level 1C

Bogota, Colombia, Colombia

Summary

Orchestrated critical L1/L2 data center operations, encompassing infrastructure monitoring, user support, data protection, and systems administration, ensuring high availability and compliance for 300+ servers and 1,000+ services.

Highlights

Achieved and sustained a 97% SLA compliance rate over 5+ years in a multi-client data center, reducing average ticket resolution time by ~30% through optimized prioritization and documented procedures.

Proactively monitored 300+ physical/virtual servers and 1,000+ network services using PRTG, Dynatrace, and Nagios, ensuring continuous uptime and stability for the production environment.

Executed comprehensive backup and recovery cycles for 6 TB of business-critical data across multiple datacenters with Veritas Backup Exec, and successfully restored services during vCenter host failures using VMware and Zerto.

Documented 20+ critical operational processes and trained multiple colleagues on ITSM tools and monitoring, significantly reducing new team member onboarding time and increasing first-contact resolution rates.

Managed user access, group policies, and configurations across Windows Server and Linux environments, while participating in large-scale security patching and server hardening initiatives.

Education

UDEMY
Bogotá D.C., Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Junior Windows Server & Linux Administrator

SENA
Bogota, Colombia, Colombia

Technologist

Computer Maintenance and Communications Design (MECYDICE)

Languages

English

Proficient

Spanish

Native

Skills

Monitoring & Diagnostics

PRTG, Dynatrace, Nagios, Pingplotter, RVTools.

Ticketing / ITSM

System Center Service Manager (SCSM), L1/L2 Incident Management.

Backup & Storage

Veritas Backup Exec, retention policies, media management.

Virtualization

VMware vSphere, vCenter, Zerto, VM lifecycle management.

Operating Systems

Windows Server (2012-2022), Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu).

Directory & Networking

Active Directory (AD DS), DNS, DHCP.

Documentation

Runbooks, SOPs, technical process documentation.

Methodologies

ITIL, L1/L2 support, operational reporting.

Team Training & Mentoring
Cybersecurity
Problem Solving
Process Improvement
Communication