Rares Badea

Dynamic and adaptable professional with a background in IT infrastructure and system engineering who transitioned into financial audit after discovering a strong interest in finance and business during academic studies in Banking and Finance. Experienced in infrastructure administration, automation, cloud technologies, and system troubleshooting, while also developing strong analytical and business-oriented thinking through finance studies and professional audit experience. Currently working in Financial Services Audit at PwC while pursuing a Master's degree in EU Business Law.

Financial Audit Associate – Financial Services (FS) at PwC (2025-09 – Present)

• Participating in financial audit engagements for clients in the Financial Services industry.
• Assisting in the analysis and testing of financial statements and supporting audit documentation.
• Working with financial reporting standards, risk assessment procedures, and audit methodologies.
• Collaborating with audit teams to evaluate financial processes, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Developing analytical and financial investigation skills within a professional consulting environment.

System Engineer at Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest (2023-09 – 2025-09)

• Worked in the Infrastructure department, managing and maintaining servers, firmware, BIOS and RAID controllers.
• Analyzed network equipment logs and events using OpManager and Nagios.
• Installed and configured network devices together with the IP engineer.
• Administered virtual environments including VMware ESXi and Hyper-V.
• Worked with firewalls, Apache web servers, VPN servers, MySQL servers, system and application logs, and PowerShell scripting for automation.

System Engineer at METRO.digital (2022-09 – 2023-08)

• Monitored PROD and QA servers using Checkmk and created or modified monitoring checks.
• Used SCCM and Ansible for deployment and configuration of infrastructure.
• Created and maintained PowerShell, Bash and Python scripts.
• Created Ansible playbooks and roles and documented scripts and processes.
• Maintained and modified virtual machines in VMware.
• Troubleshot system and application issues, investigated root causes and prepared reports.
• Maintained Active Directory structures including OUs, users, groups, computers and GPOs.

Internship Trainee – DevOps DevSchool at ING Hubs Romania (2023-02 – 2023-04)

• Completed an internship program covering Git, basic Linux, Bash scripting, Python, Azure cloud basics, Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, Docker and Kubernetes.

Infrastructure System Engineer at Next Byte Concept (2022-01 – 2022-09)

• Created scripts to automate daily tasks using PowerShell, Python and Bash.
• Monitored and maintained Windows and Linux systems.
• Managed basic AWS infrastructure tasks using Terraform.
• Performed system maintenance tasks including patching, registry changes, service/process management, firewall settings and file permissions.
• Used Git to store source code, configuration scripts, deployment scripts and Ansible playbooks.
• Used Ansible for infrastructure automation and developed playbooks and roles.
• Performed basic VMware activities and changes in AD, DNS, DHCP, WSUS and DFS.
• Implemented and monitored backup tasks and created process documentation.

Master's Degree in European Union Business Law – Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest – Faculty of Law (2025-09)

Bachelor's Degree in Banking, Corporate Finance and Securities Law – Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest (2022-10 – 2025-06)

Bachelor's Degree in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation Engineering – University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (2020-10 – 2022-06)

High School Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science – "Nicolae Iorga" Theoretical High School Bucharest (2016-09 – 2020-06)