JULIO CESAR
MAURO
Head of Infrastructure, Cloud & Security
+25 years managing critical environments
São Paulo, Brazil
With over 25 years of experience in Information Technology, I lead infrastructure, information security, and cloud environments. My career has been built managing critical operations, ensuring high availability, optimizing hybrid environments, and leading technical teams to deliver strategic solutions aligned with business goals.
Throughout my journey, I led initiatives at major companies in the communications, tourism, and technology sectors, combining technical expertise with business-driven results. Strong experience in building multidisciplinary teams, promoting innovation, agility, and technological resilience.
- Global leader of the Vulnerability Management Program (VMP), responsible for strategy, governance, and full lifecycle execution across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Coordinating cybersecurity initiatives across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, with cross-functional engagement between engineering, product, and operations teams.
- Defining and standardizing vulnerability management strategies for critical CVEs — including deep technical analysis, false positive triage, risk assessment, and exception management.
- Leading incident investigations and response activities using industry-leading EDR and forensic analysis techniques, contributing to reduced mean time to respond.
- Automating security processes and reporting through scripting and API integrations — reducing manual team effort by approximately 40%.
- Risk governance over public asset exposure, insecure configurations, and unauthorized access — focused on attack surface reduction and evidence-based decision making.
- Designed and managed critical IT infrastructures across multi-cloud and on-premises data centers.
- Maintained SLA of 99.998% availability.
- Integrated IT environments of acquired companies and optimized cloud resource costs.
- Led modernization of internal systems, cloud adoption (AWS), and data center migration.
- Coordinated ERP implementation (JDE + Weblogic + Oracle) and MongoDB environments.
- Managed infrastructure relocation during company headquarters move.
- Led virtualization migration from XEN to VMware and redesign of web portals and mobile apps.
- Supported large-scale events: 2014 Brazilian Elections and FIFA World Cup coverage.
- Consolidated physical servers onto VMware vSphere with HP P4000 iSCSI storage.
- Implemented HA strategies with Varnish load balancers and Akamai CDN integration.
- Deployed critical file exchange solutions for Itaú, HSBC, Banco Votorantim, and CEMIG.
- Architected HA Linux, Unix, and Solaris environments for banking operations.
- Managed internal network and migrated server platforms from Windows to Linux.
- Provided SLA-based support for dedicated link clients.