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

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

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
Jan 1997 - Present
28 years 7 months
Germany

Abitur

Heidelberg College

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2022 - Present

Frankfurt School

Master of Business Administration, Entrepreneurship

Oct 2022 - Mar 2024

Frankfurt School of Finance

Master of Business Administration (MBA) · Finance

Oct 1997 - Present

Heidelberg College

Abitur · Heidelberg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

NLP Business Coach

Frozen ATPL Pilot License

FlightCrewAcademy

Certified Specialist Instructor

TÜV Rheinland

IHK Project Manager

IHK

UML Business Process Modelling

OOSE

NLP Practitioner (DVNLP)

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