Jay Vincent Escamis
Senior Technical Solutions Consultant
Bacoor
Overview
10
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Certificates
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10
years of professional experience
4027
4027
years of post-secondary education
Summary
Results-driven Senior Technical Solutions Consultant with extensive expertise in cloud engineering, infrastructure management, and solution design. Skilled in Microsoft Azure, AWS, and DevOps practices, with a proven ability to optimize IT operations and deliver tailored technical solutions. Committed to leveraging advanced technical skills and collaborative abilities to drive innovation and support organizational success.
Skills
Microsoft Certified Professional
undefinedWork History
Senior Technical Solutions Consultant
Finastra Philippines, Inc.
08.2021 - Current
- Assist the regional Global Solutions team with specific technical configuration requirements as part of the preparation process for client workshops/demos
- Manage Active Directory Domain Environment, DNS, Group Policy, and Citrix Cloud
- Support the GSCE Cloud Engineering team in providing assistance to GSCE Product teams
- Responsible for server maintenance in the internal network and in the cloud (AWS & Azure)
- Perform Microsoft Azure operations management
- Vulnerability Management
- Provide detailed reporting to Managers and director using PowerBI
- Coordinate project deliverables, help monitor and evaluate the progress
- Collaborate across Finastra internal functions and external groups
- Contribute by providing architectural and engineering inputs, leveraging opensource DevOps tools, and mentorship
Cloud Enablement Specialist - Freelance
Confidential Client
06.2025 - Current
- Improved customer satisfaction rates through proactive problem-solving and efficient complaint resolution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals on time and within budget.
- Led cloud adoption, migration, and automation initiatives in a 24x7 support environment. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and maintain secure, scalable cloud solutions.
- Provided Tier 1–3 helpdesk support and administered Microsoft Intune, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, and Endpoint Manager.
- Implemented cybersecurity tools and compliance protocols, including IDS and SIEM systems like Sophos Endpoint Management.
- Demonstrated hands-on expertise in Azure, Terraform, and cloud scripting, ensuring seamless service delivery and operational excellence.
DevOps Engineer - Freelance
Private Tech Firm
05.2025 - Current
- Delivered full-time remote support across cloud automation, infrastructure management, and IT consulting for a fast-paced technology solutions company.
- Administered Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows servers, deployed and maintained virtualized environments using XCP-ng and VMware, and led container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, PXE Booting, Cloud-Init, and Ubuntu Autoinstaller.
- Provided customer-facing consulting, resolved complex technical issues, and ensured secure, scalable cloud operations with strong networking and Python scripting experience
Technical Solutions Consultant
Finastra Philippines Inc.
01.2020 - 07.2021
- Make recommendations on design direction, performance criteria, and work with the cross-functional teams in addressing improvements
- Involvement in networking and traffic management, configuration, monitoring, alerting, log aggregation
- Contribute to the Proof of Concept testing, design and execution for the Capital Markets standalone and integrated solutions
- Contribute to technical proposals (RFP and RFI)
- Software upgrades
- Investigate technical defects and propose adequate solutions
- Create solution design documentation both, internally and externally to the customers, which includes data flow diagrams, description of application components, etc.
- Work in close collaboration with the regional Global Solutions team, Product management, Development, QA, etc.
- Work with, and provide training and assistance for regional Global Solutions team in the designated application areas
- Recommend and document new processes that will result to better day to day operations
Technical Contractor/Cloud Engineer
Finastra Philippines Inc.
04.2018 - 12.2019
- Maintain vCloud, Azure Cloud and AWS Environments
- Create POC to streamline current process
- Support SCE teams and their products with regards to technical and functional aspects
- Participate in preparing, maintaining and configuring demo environments.
- Provide SCE Product team a demo environment for an Opportunity
- Provides subject matter expertise on Cloud Technology architecture, network security, network protocols, platform security, platform standards, hardware configuration and security policies
- Generate and maintain reports regarding VMWare vCloud, Azure Cloud and AWS Environments
- Implement solutions to cater demos as required by the Bank/Client
- Assists manager to keenly track cloud spending and optimize cloud resource resulting to significant savings.
- Automate third party services and proprietary Finastra products/services
- Implement solutions for disaster recovery and high availability of demo environments
- Conduct Knowledge Transfer sessions to let SCE/GSC understand and get familiarized with the Infrastructure implementation
- Deploy and configure monitoring system like Nagios/ICINGA to monitor Ports and Services in Windows and RHEL.
- Experience with VM conversion to be run on different Virtualization platforms.
- Administer the Azure Domain Environment and Citrix Cloud
- File and scripts versioning using Tortoise SVN and Git.
Desktop Support Engineer
Hinduja Global Solutions, ltd.
09.2015 - 03.2018
- Cater in-house ticket requests via Ticketing System
- Monitor Data Center's equipment/devices
- Create and restore Desktop Images using Symantec Ghost Cast Server or Active Boot Disk
- Experience with different Mobile OS to allow company resources access via Microsoft Intune and/or Exchange ActiveSync
- Configure and troubleshoot software or hardware issue of Desktops, IP Phones and Digital Phones.
- Provide daily status update of McAfee Endpoint Security/Symantec Endpoint Protection, WhatsUp Gold, and Data Center/Hub Room temperature.
- Use the read-only permission in Active Directory, DHCP and Group Policy to understand and resolve an issue.
- Monthly desktop audit in all accounts to ensure security
- Inventory of all IT Assets
- Remediate quarterly vulnerability findings for all accounts
- Experience with providing support to high-profile individual/clients within the Company.
- Works with vendor to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment's and software
- Configure VPN access for a user
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology Major in Systems Engineering
Colegio De San Juan De Letran
Intramuros, Manila04.2015
High School Diploma -
Harrell Horne Integrated School
Imus, Cavite04.2011
Certification
ITIL v4 Foundation, PeopleCert
Summary Of Key Project Engagements
- Bank Client Vietnam, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, Vietnam, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, 08/01/19
- Internal, Deploy and configure Citrix Cloud Solution, Philippines, Deploy and configure Citrix Cloud Solution, 07/01/19
- Internal, Deploy and configure Site24x7 Monitoring, Philippines, Deploy and configure Site24x7 Monitoring, 07/01/19
- Bank Client Latin America, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, Latin America, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, 07/01/19
- Internal, Migration of VMWare ESXi and AWS to Azure and Implement Citrix Cloud, Philippines, Migration of VMWare ESXi and AWS to Azure and Implement Citrix Cloud, 11/01/18
- Bank Client Sydney, Aid in functional testing of proprietary software/Monitor Infrastructure, Sydney, Aid in functional testing of proprietary software/Monitor Infrastructure, 09/01/18
- Bank Client New Zealand, Install and Configure proprietary software/Maintain environment in AWS, New Zealand, Install and Configure proprietary software/Maintain environment in AWS, 09/01/18
Technologies Used
- Microsoft Entra Admin Center
- Microsoft Intune Admin Center
- Microsoft Exchange Admin Center
- Sophos Central
- LogMeIn Rescue
- Parallels
- Microsoft Windows Servers
- Amazon Linux
- Kali Linux
- Ubuntu
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- CentOS
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services
- Visio
- Github
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Ansible and Terraform
- PowerShell/BASH Scripting
- Active Directory
- DNS
- DHCP
- Group Policy Management
- Citrix Cloud
- MSSQL
- Oracle
- ActiveMQ
- IBM MQ
- IBM WAS
- Apache Tomcat
- IIS
- Nagios
- Tortoise SVN
- Nginx
- HTML5
- JavaScript
- CSS3
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 07/18/94
Summary Of Key Project Engagements
- Bank Client Vietnam, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, Vietnam, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, 08/01/19
- Internal, Deploy and configure Citrix Cloud Solution, Philippines, Deploy and configure Citrix Cloud Solution, 07/01/19
- Internal, Deploy and configure Site24x7 Monitoring, Philippines, Deploy and configure Site24x7 Monitoring, 07/01/19
- Bank Client Latin America, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, Latin America, Provides Support and High-Level AWS Expertise, 07/01/19
- Internal, Migration of VMWare ESXi and AWS to Azure and Implement Citrix Cloud, Philippines, Migration of VMWare ESXi and AWS to Azure and Implement Citrix Cloud, 11/01/18
- Bank Client Sydney, Aid in functional testing of proprietary software/Monitor Infrastructure, Sydney, Aid in functional testing of proprietary software/Monitor Infrastructure, 09/01/18
- Bank Client New Zealand, Install and Configure proprietary software/Maintain environment in AWS, New Zealand, Install and Configure proprietary software/Maintain environment in AWS, 09/01/18