Andreas Amstutz
Operations Engineer
Experience
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
2 years 4 monthsOperations Engineer
Aety
- Automated provisioning of Jira, Confluence and Crowd clusters using Ansible playbooks.
- Deployed Jira to Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters for testing purposes using Helm charts.
- Automated security patching of managed EC2 nodes using AWS Systems Manager.
- Automated continuous upgrades and security patching of RHEL servers (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8).
- Set up Elastic APM for observability targeting our Jira and Confluence nodes.
- Wrote Go (golang) programs that supported projects migrating their Zephyr testing data to Xray for Jira.
- Helped customers recover from ransomware attacks and get their system running again.
- On-boarded SSO via ADFS for Jira via Statens IT.
- Wrote Groovy scripts that:
- Repaired Jira issue links for over 10,000 issues using ScriptRunner for Jira.
- Calculated project risk using input parameters on issue creation or modification.
- Wrote Python scripts for:
- Resetting passwords of all Jira users using the Jira REST API.
- Modifying usernames of all Jira users using the Jira REST API.
- Updating the storage class of AWS S3 objects using AWS CloudShell.
Jan 2021 - Dec 2023
2 yearsTest Consultant
TestHuset
- Collaborated with stakeholders regarding release and test planning.
- Conducted exploratory testing using curl, Postman and SoapUI.
- Handled test analysis using Xray for Jira.
- Developed test cases using Xray for Jira.
- Developed test automation code using Cucumber/Gherkin, Spring Boot and REST Assured.
- Conducted ad-hoc and scheduled runs of automated tests using Jenkins pipelines.
- Exported generated test reports into Xray for Jira using a Python script and the Jira REST API.
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
1 yearDevOps Engineer
Peytz
- Automated and orchestrated systems provisioning processes with Ansible.
- Performed day-to-day administration to keep the infrastructure running.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters.
- Supported developers with deployments to internal infrastructure.
Jan 2014 - Dec 2020
6 yearsJava and Alfresco Contractor
Amstutz-IT
- Freelance software development and consulting focusing on current technology stacks.
Summary
Highly skilled and experienced Operations Engineer and IT consultant with over 20 years of expertise. Proficient in programming (Go, Java), systems integrations, web services and web applications in various guises always with a strong focus on ensuring data security. I have a DevOps/GitOps mindset and I find myself using cloud computing more and more.
Languages
Danish
Native
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 1997 - Jun 2002
Niels Brock Business School
Computer Science Technician · Computer Science · Copenhagen, Denmark
Certifications & licenses
Alfresco Certified Engineer
Pearson VUE
Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
ISC2
Go Event-Driven
Three Dots Labs
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
ISTQB
Implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing with Axon
AxonIO
Test automation with Leapwork
TestHuset
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