jorge gomes — infrastructure architect · systems engineer

Infrastructure that stays up while everything else moves.

I design, migrate and secure the systems companies cannot afford to lose — hybrid datacenters, Linux and Microsoft estates, virtualization, networking, SOC operations and automation. Since 1986, in Portugal and abroad.

xterm — jorge@twb: ~

jorge@twb:~$ whoami --long

infrastructure architect · 39 yrs · linux + microsoft + network

jorge@twb:~$ uptime

since 1986 — no unplanned reboots of the career

jorge@twb:~$ systemctl status availability

● active — accepting selected projects, remote or on-site

jorge@twb:~$

1986

in IT since

~800

servers migrated

18K+

identities in one IDM

2015

independent since

man twb — how I help

Six things companies call me for.

01

Infrastructure architecture

Datacenters, hybrid environments, migrations, resilience, networking and technical design.

02

Systems engineering

Linux, Windows Server, directory services, storage, production operations and hard troubleshooting.

03

Virtualization & containers

Proxmox VE, VMware, KVM, LXC and Docker — workload migration and consolidation without drama.

04

Networking & cybersecurity

OPNsense, UniFi, VPN, VLANs, HAProxy, segmentation, SIEM, identity security and incident response.

05

Observability

Centralized logging, metrics, dashboards and monitoring across open-source and enterprise platforms.

06

Automation & R&D

PowerShell, shell scripting, n8n, integrations, tooling and applied AI experiments.

$ cat /etc/motd

Built from experience, not theory.

Enterprise, multinational and multi-site environments in Portugal and abroad since 1986 — infrastructure architecture, Linux and Microsoft systems, identity management, virtualization, datacenters, networking, cybersecurity, SOC operations and consultancy.

I am most useful where the silos meet — moving between Linux, Windows, VMware, Proxmox and the network instead of sitting inside one specialist team. International delivery includes large-scale transition work in Germany, alongside independent consultancy since 2015.

Cross-platform Enterprise scale Remote or on-site PT · EN · DE projects
~/principles.txt
  • >Design for the day it fails, not the day it ships.
  • >If it cannot be monitored, it is not in production.
  • >Automate the boring, document the strange.
  • >One engineer across platforms beats three across tickets.
  • >Technology is only powerful when it works for people.

$ ls -l ~/selected-work

Systems built to solve real operational problems.

capgemini-de/transition800 hosts

Large-scale systems transition

Roughly 800 servers moved across three German datacenters — Linux, Windows and VMware delivered by one cross-platform hand in an organization built around separate specialist teams.

ulisboa/idm18k identities

Enterprise identity management

Campus metadirectory / IDM for Universidade de Lisboa with Novell Portugal — multiple directory integrations and IDM drivers across more than 18,000 identities.

sumolcompal/sap-sles40+ hosts

SAP infrastructure on Linux

SUSE for SAP on SLES 11 SP3 — KVM virtualization on Cisco Blade systems, more than 40 Linux servers in production.

corp/portal-esx5-node cluster

Enterprise virtualized platform

Corporate portal infrastructure — Windows Server, BizTalk, CRM, FIM, Exchange, SharePoint, TMG, Lync and SQL Server on a five-node VMware ESX cluster built as part of the project.

dc/migrationsp2v

Datacenter & virtualization delivery

Physical datacenter moves, P2V programmes, blade infrastructure and storage — 19+ physical servers to ESX, plus a Dell Blade / VMware estate of around 40 servers.

soc/observabilitycurrent

SOC, security & observability

SOC operations, SIEM/XDR/EDR, Wazuh, TheHive, Graylog, vulnerability management, Microsoft security, containers and automation.

history | tail -6

A career across generations of technology.

2015 — present

Independent IT consultant · infrastructure projects

Freelance / Tech.Wired.Brains.

2024 — 2025

IT coordinator · security specialist

Luso Cuanza

2022 — 2024

SOC analyst L1 · infrastructure

SIBS CyberWatch (external)

2014 — 2015

Systems engineer

MIPE Lusolabs

2000 — 2013

Senior consultant · systems engineer

Capgemini Portugal

1986 — 2000

Earlier career

Systems administration · infrastructure · programming · technical support

$ pkg list --installed

The stack, honestly used.

LinuxWindows ServerMicrosoft 365Entra IDActive Directory VMwareProxmox VEKVMDockerPowerShellBashn8n OPNsenseUniFiHAProxyWazuhTheHiveGraylog GrafanaPrometheusInfluxDBPostgreSQLVeeam

jorge@twb:~$ ./contact.sh

Have infrastructure that has to keep working?

Architecture reviews, migrations, virtualization, security and observability work, remote or on-site. Tell me what is breaking, or what you are about to build — first reply usually within a day.