Fabio Arão
IT Systems Engineer
Identity, Endpoint & AI-Automation Engineer
Porto, Portugal (hybrid / remote) ·fabioarao@gmail.com ·linkedin.com/in/fabioarao ·fabioarao.cloud ·github.com/FabioArao
Professional Summary
IT systems and identity engineer with a 15-year trajectory from IT support to platform engineering, extending a small team's capacity through automation and AI rather than headcount. At Teya (formerly SaltPay), a European payments and fintech company, I own the identity platform (Okta), a large SaaS and endpoint estate, and the automation layer that provisions, deprovisions and reviews access company-wide. I currently lead a company-wide Data Loss Prevention (DLP) program — requirements, multi-vendor evaluation and phased rollout — and drive AI enablement for IT operations, building agentic automation on LLM tooling (Claude, MCP) for identity and access workflows. A self-directed, high-closure operator who prefers empty queues and resolved tickets to long threads.
Core Technical Skills
AI & Automation: Claude (Anthropic) & LLM APIs · Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers · agentic workflows / AI agents for IT operations · AI-assisted editorial/automation pipelines · prompt engineering · Okta Workflows · Workato · Python scripting · ML/DL/NLP foundations (MSc coursework, in progress)
Identity & Access: Okta (user lifecycle, SSO/SAML, MFA, Workflows, Okta-as-code) · SCIM provisioning/deprovisioning · access reviews & certification · RBAC · SaaS SSO integrations
Device & Endpoint: Jamf Pro (macOS/iOS/iPadOS enrollment, policies, MDM) · Microsoft Intune / Entra (Autopilot, Conditional Access, compliance baselines) · CrowdStrike Falcon · endpoint security · asset management
Productivity & SaaS: Microsoft 365 administration (Exchange, SharePoint/OneDrive, licensing, SPF/DKIM/DMARC) · Google Workspace · Slack administration · SaaS application lifecycle & governance
ITSM & Compliance: Jira Service Management · ticket-queue management · ISO 27001 & SOC 2 evidence · Data Loss Prevention (DLP) · audit prep · GDPR / EU AI Act awareness
Ways of working: async-native communication · documentation (Confluence, ADRs, runbooks) · self-directed ownership
Professional Experience
IT Engineering — Identity & Access Management, endpoint & automation · Porto, Portugal
Data Loss Prevention & AI governance
- Leading the company-wide Data Loss Prevention (DLP) program end to end — requirements gathering, multi-vendor evaluation and phased rollout — under a banking-certification deadline.
- Evaluated Claude and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for internal tooling ahead of the market; built agentic automation on LLM tooling for identity and access workflows, and authored the company's AI-governance layer (access/role governance, usage quotas, budget controls) mapped to EU AI Act, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR touchpoints.
- Built Claude enablement material for company-wide adoption and prototyped a Slack-based L1 service-desk AI agent; own incident resolution end to end (root-caused a runaway AI-API cost incident; delivered a cloud security report with six critical/high findings).
Identity & access platform (Okta)
- Own identity lifecycle end to end — built the Okta Workflows new-joiner flow and a Slack-attested, reversible offboarding pattern — and turned Okta Workflows into an operational platform with a naming-convention standard, solution templates and backup/recovery runbooks.
- Designed and built a SaaS access-review & revoke automation (human-in-the-loop Slack prompts, idempotent state, ticketed revocation and audit reporting) that reclaimed ~150 unused seats and turned one-off audits into recurring, self-evidencing campaigns.
- Led selection and rollout of a cross-SaaS backup & recovery platform with twice-daily snapshots and validated live restore; delivered SSO/SCIM lifecycle for multiple SaaS applications.
IT operations, endpoint & support
- Primary escalation point for complex identity and access issues across a large SaaS estate and global offices; administer the macOS fleet (Jamf Pro) and Windows fleet (Intune/Entra) via a nested-group model that inherits compliance, security-baseline and Conditional Access policy with zero per-device configuration.
Porto, Portugal · Remote
- Owned end-to-end resolution of high-priority partner escalations, engaging executive stakeholders, product and escalation teams to drive optimal outcomes against Delivery Partner KPIs.
- Used Power BI to surface improvement areas and lift support efficiency by ~20%, partnering with global Microsoft teams on forward-looking service solutions.
Porto, Portugal
- Owned the service-desk ticket queue and product-level delivery; hands-on across Okta, Workato, Slack, Jira/Confluence, Azure and Microsoft 365, and point of contact for technical escalations.
- Designed process improvements and new automations, and coached teammates through knowledge-sharing and training sessions — the foundation for the platform work above.
- IT Support Analyst · DHL IT Services · São Paulo, Brazil · 2018–2021 — 2nd/3rd-level support for 1,000+ endpoints; managed a field-support vendor team; endpoint-security compliance 95%+ and SLA 98%+.
- IT Services Coordinator / IT Support Specialist · Assistec Informática · São Paulo, Brazil · 2016–2018 — led a 16-person managed-support team across 8 client companies; standardized ITIL-based processes.
- Earlier IT roles · 2010–2015 — Project Coordinator (Datacenter Solutions), IT Analyst (LSK), IT Support Analyst (TIVIT): infrastructure, networking, Active Directory and endpoint security across Brazilian enterprises.
Selected Projects
- pills.fabioarao.cloud — autonomous daily technical-learning system built with AI agents (generation → deploy → archive, zero-touch).
- fabioarao.cloud — bilingual personal site with an AI-assisted editorial pipeline (draft → human approval → publish automation).
- Okta Certification Trainer — practice-exam app (Vite/React/TypeScript) built while studying for the Okta certification track.
Education
Focus: machine learning, deep learning, NLP and AI strategy.
Certifications & Professional Development
Certified: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) · AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · ITIL 4 Foundation (IT Service Management) · Microsoft 365 Administration & Troubleshooting · Workato Automation Pro I · IBM AI Developer · IBM Data Science · Google IT Support · Scrum Fundamentals
In progress: Okta certification track (Professional → Administrator → Consultant)
Languages
Portuguese (native) · English (fluent, professional) · Spanish (basic) · French (basic)