Axel Bock - DevOps & Cloud Architect, Project Management

Cologne, Germany

Experience

Nov 2023 - Feb 2023

-1 years -8 months

Project Management for the Introduction of Okta as an IAM System

Fritz Schäger GmbH & Co KG

International corporate group for warehousing and logistics systems
Project management
Setup of internal IAM team
Okta
IAM processes

Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

8 months

Project Management Funding Item 2 KHZG

Kreiskliniken Gummersbach-Waldbröl

Requirements clarification
Technical support
Roll-out preparation (KHZG FTB2)
Project management
Vendor selection & management
Hospital experience
System integrations

Jan 2022 - Present

2 years 7 months

Automation of a client's invoicing

MedConNET GmbH

Nationwide non-profit service company in the healthcare sector
Development of a cloud tool for automatic invoicing and posting in SAP based on Python & AWS
Python
AWS
Retool
Terraform
Ansible
ReportLab
Dagster

Oct 2022 - Present

2 years 10 months

Master of Business Administration Studies

Frankfurt School

Specialization in Entrepreneurship

Apr 2022 - Jul 2022

4 months

Germany

Senior Python Developer

GfK GmbH

Resolving a development backlog in an agile development team
Refactoring the microservice architecture aiming for scalable Kubernetes worker processes
Python
FastAPI
Celery
GitLab CI/CD
Kubernetes
Docker
Prometheus
Redis

Mar 2022 - Present

3 years 5 months

Germany

DevOps Support

damedic GmbH

Maintenance of the AWS infrastructure
Development of ML CI/CD pipelines (Python, SageMaker)
Training working students in DevOps methods (Infrastructure-as-Code)
Support of the software architecture
Kubernetes
Helm
Terraform
AWS (EKS, VPC, EC2, IAM, SQS, SageMaker)
Python

Jul 2021 - Present

4 years 1 month

Freelance IT Service Provider

IT architecture
DevOps consulting and support
Interface integration
IT process optimization
Project management

Jul 2021 - May 2023

1 year 11 months

Supervision of an application developer trainee

Paracelsus Kliniken

Coordination of tasks
Technical support
Introduction of DevOps
Python
Django
JavaScript
Terraform
diverse Azure Services

Jul 2021 - Feb 2022

8 months

Design, selection & implementation of a healthcare content management system

Paracelsus Kliniken Deutschland GmbH & Co KGaA

Requirements analysis
Project setup with regard to the strategic goal “interoperability platform”
Development of a PoC
Drafting the specification document
Coordination of the vendor landscape
Project management

Oct 2018 - Jun 2021

2 years 9 months

Team Lead IT Architecture

Paracelsus Kliniken Deutschland GmbH & Co KGaA

Project management
Support of the digital strategy
Partner management
Concept creation for the internal IT team
Technical team leadership (6 persons)
Training IT specialists (content-wise)
Development of WiFi concept including procurement
Selection of HCM system (own initiative)
Process automation, Python/Django
Configuration management of Linux servers
Introduction of Okta IAM
Creation of HCI data center & VDI concept
Firewall selection
Introduction of ClickUp (PM tool)
GBit connections for everyone
Introduction of Office 365
Telemaintenance contracts
Introduction of Docker/K8S platforms
Central signature, Python/Django
Azure (Queues, Blob, Compute, AppServices, AKS, Functions)
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Okta
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Python
Django
ClickUp
GitLab CI
O365
PowerShell

Jun 2016 - Aug 2018

2 years 3 months

Germany

Team Lead Operations & Infrastructure

Cognotekt GmbH

Establishment of the cloud infrastructure
Team leadership (3 FTEs)
Support of developers (knowledge transfer, cloud and DevOps methods)
Setting up CI/CD processes
Kubernetes introduction and management
Introduction of Django as web framework
AWS (S3, EC2, IAM, SQS, ELB, EB, RDS, Route 53, EKS)
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Grafana
Python
Rancher
GitLab CI
Puppet
Foreman
Ubuntu
TeamCity

Nov 2015 - May 2016

7 months

Germany

Freelance Senior DevOps Engineer

Cognotekt GmbH

Design and setup of an automated continuous integration & delivery pipeline and the associated hosting environment on AWS
Process support of internal development processes
AWS (S3, EC2, SQS)
Rancher
Puppet
Python

Mar 2015 - Sep 2015

7 months

Germany

Freelance System Administrator

Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

Automation of the new data center operation concept based on Puppet
Puppet
Bash
OpenStack (RedHat, VMware)
Python

Jun 2013 - Oct 2014

1 year 5 months

Germany

Freelance System Administrator

DVAG

Reimplementation of Puppet configuration management
Drafting a more flexible operating concept
Sub-project management “fast deployments”
Puppet
Foreman
VMware ESX
KVM
Git
heartbeat
DRBD
Java
Tomcat

Jun 2012 - May 2013

1 year

Germany

Freelance System Administrator

Bundesagentur für Arbeit

Deployment automation based on Puppet
Migration support & script development of the learning platform
Design of a hosting concept for internal minor applications
Puppet
Bash
SSH
Ilias
BMC Remedy
Apache
PHP
WordPress

May 2010 - Dec 2011

1 year 8 months

Germany

Frozen ATPL Pilot License

FlightCrewAcademy

Greasemonkey development “Pimp my CAT” to improve the usability of the online CBT software “CAT”
Reimplementation of the DLF training software for Linux & Mac
JavaScript
Greasemonkey
Python
Qt

Jan 2009 - May 2010

1 year 5 months

Germany

Software Trainer in the field of Nuclear Safety

Ferchau Engineering

Design & delivery of trainings for internal and external clients
Installation, virtualization & maintenance of the training environment
Requirements management for a new document management software
Tool development for training management and execution (command line, GUI)
Python
TkInter
SSH
XenServer

Dec 2005 - Jan 2008

2 years 2 months

Germany

Java Developer

ICW AG

Development of a library for the use of ICW products in third-party software
Design of a web service test framework for CI usage
Coordination of internal and external developers
Java
Python
SOAP
Apache Axis
JUnit
XML
Maven
CruiseControl CI/CD

Oct 2003 - Feb 2004

5 months

Australia

Intern

Romteck Pty Ltd.

Porting of a C/C++ embedded application from MS-DOS to Linux
Reimplementation of the graphics and network stack
Development of an embedded development platform
Debian Linux
X11
C
C++
SDL library
DALLAS One Touch Key

Oct 2001 - May 2003

1 year 8 months

Student Assistant for System Administration

Linux system administration
Management of mail, web, and Windows services
IT training for department staff
Linux
Samba
Windows
Postfix

Jan 2001 - Dec 2005

5 years

Freelance IT Service Provider

Network design, setup, IT administration
Basic IT training
Samba
Apache
PHP
Postfix
WordPress

Oct 1997 - Feb 2005

7 years 5 months

Germany

Diploma Studies in Electrical Engineering

TU Darmstadt

Specialization in data communications & networks
Diploma thesis: Stress test of various web service mechanisms under variable connection quality
Studienarbeit: Analysis within the eDonkey network
Python
C
C++
.NET
Java
FreeBSD
Ethereal (Wireshark)
tcpdump