Hakan K.

IT infrastructure administration, migration to Azure Cloud

Kronberg im Taunus, Germany

Experience

Oct 2023 - Present
2 years
Hybrid

IT infrastructure administration, migration to Azure Cloud

Freelance IT Services

  • Hybrid cloud administration "Cloud Transformation"
  • Azure Cloud administration
  • Azure Entra ID user administration
  • Reporting
  • License reviews
  • User and group management
  • RBAC integration
  • Policy management
  • VM administration
  • Setting up VMs
  • Configuring scale sets
  • Configuring replications
  • Creating backups
  • Manual installation
  • Azure Bastion
  • Privileged access identity management
  • Documentation
  • Azure Security Center
  • Monitoring security posture and giving recommendations for improvements
  • Microsoft 365 administration
  • MS Intune administration
  • BitLocker policies
  • Distribution
  • Device management
  • Group management
  • Microsoft 365 Defender
  • Defender for Endpoint
  • Managing threats and implementing EDR solutions
  • Detecting threats through investigations
  • Defender for Office 365
  • Protecting Office 365 tools like phishing, malware, or other attacks
  • Defender for Identity
  • Identifying and monitoring activities
  • Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Monitoring and securing the application environment
  • Exchange administration
  • Rule creation
  • Setting up and implementing mailboxes
  • Mailbox migration
  • Mail tracking
  • Mailbox conversion
  • Reporting
  • IT administration
  • Windows AD administration
  • User management across the entire structure
  • Device management
  • Attribute management
  • Group management
  • Organization management
  • Troubleshooting
  • Group policy management
  • Changing, deleting, or creating policies
  • Assigning and organizing policies
  • Documentation and reporting
  • Exchange administration
  • User creation
  • Mailbox and distribution list management
  • Email routing and delivery
  • Monitoring and reporting
  • Integration with M365 and WinAD
  • Manual installation & imaging
  • Re-imaging
  • Image creation
  • Manual maintenance and updates
  • Documentation of various company applications
  • BitLocker configuration
  • BIOS and firmware configuration
  • Troubleshooting and collaborating with 3rd level support
  • MBSA reporting
  • WSUS monitoring
  • System and event management
  • Troubleshooting across the entire IT infrastructure
  • Network management for the whole structure and the SWIFT network
  • MAC address filtering
  • Network switch configuration
  • Port management
  • Patching switches
  • VMware ESXi/vSphere/vCenter administration
  • VM management
  • Troubleshooting
  • Virtualization solutions
  • Updates and maintenance
  • Vulnerability management
  • Identifying, assessing, and fixing vulnerabilities on endpoints through regular scans and patch management
  • Teams administration
  • SharePoint administration
  • Exchange administration
  • Rule creation
  • Mailbox migration
  • Mail tracking
  • Mailbox conversion
  • Reporting
  • Monitoring
  • Setting up and implementing mailboxes
  • IT service management
  • Team meetings, report evaluation, documentation, analysis
  • Monitoring target progress
  • Prioritizing activities
  • Integrating requested projects
  • Task assignment and distribution
  • IT service desk
  • JIRA org administration
  • User management
  • Device management
  • Project management
  • Ticket reviews
  • User training
  • Ticket handling
  • Change management
  • Access management
  • VIP support
  • Facility management
  • Coordination with building management/tech
  • Organizing tech for planned conferences
  • Guest access
  • Employee access
  • Nutanix/VMware administration
  • Deploying and setting up Nutanix clusters
  • Installing and configuring Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi & Hyper-V
  • Maintaining and operating the Nutanix infrastructure
  • Upgrades and patches for Nutanix clusters
  • Planning and implementing backup solutions for Nutanix environments
  • Installing and configuring VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter servers
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 2 months
Leipzig, Germany

IT rollout project coordination, software & hardware rollout

ITconfig/all GmbH

  • IT project management "communication, analysis, alignment, coordination, implementation, improvement"

  • Stakeholder management

  • Communication plan

  • Organize and schedule meetings

  • Data exchange

  • Enabling transparency

  • Crisis communication

  • Needs and expectations analysis

  • Regular updates

  • Compliant documentation

  • IT service management

  • HP Service Manager

  • Monitoring service quality of incidents & service requests and documentation

  • Defining, planning, and improving processes

  • Asset management and CI data reconciliation through inventories or returns

  • Coordination with internal problem management and IT operations processes

  • IT administration

  • Software distribution via Baramundi, Microsoft Client Manager, and custom software

  • Checking, restarting, assigning, and deleting jobs and meeting requirements only in Baramundi Management Suite

  • QA reports

  • Troubleshooting via Baramundi

  • Virtualization for Citrix

  • Intranet and web shop administration

  • Creating requests for rollout-specific needs

  • Personnel management

  • Staffing requests at 5 locations, 13 team members

  • Basic onboarding

  • Support

  • Skill checks

  • One-pager

  • Daily and weekly meetings and to-dos

  • IT deployment management

  • Hardware preparation, re-imaging, and staging with various profiles

  • BIOS check

  • BIOS configurations

  • Scheduling rollouts with service recipients

  • MS365

  • SharePoint Admin Center

  • HPSM

  • Validating new hardware, receiving, inventory

  • Hardware transport and planning for external sites

  • Monitoring schedule

  • Feedback and status reports to IT coordinators

  • One-pager

  • Change management

  • Workarounds for internal changes

  • Improving and adjusting workflow

  • One-pager

  • Vendor management

  • Performance monitoring

  • Quality control management

  • Problem solving

  • Coordination with contractors

  • Planning deliveries

  • Permission management

  • Checking and assigning permissions for virtualization via Windows Active Directory or specific software like Visual Studio

  • Coordination with internal permission management for external support access

  • Customer relationship management

  • Regular communication, feedback, and long-term relationship

  • Hardware receipt and inventory

  • Software distribution via SCCM and Baramundi

  • Hardware preparation and imaging

  • Checking installation results

  • Preparing computers for handover

  • Hardware delivery and replacement

  • Creating user and IT service provider instructions

  • Permission checks using Windows Active Directory

  • Disposal planning and waste separation

  • Carrying out transfers and order processing in the asset management tool

  • Documenting workstations and virtual machines

  • Handling incidents and support in IT

  • VDI and computer handovers to departments

  • Planning and coordinating the rollout team

  • Coordination with end-user IT, OEVs, and department heads

  • Checking workstations and monitors

  • Setting up, booking, and documenting virtual machines

  • Checking and fixing computers and software packages

  • Office management and staffing

  • Escalation management

  • Coordination with contractors like FES and Bechtle

  • Preparing pallets for other locations

  • Conducting user trainings

  • Providing 2nd and 3rd level support

  • IT administration

  • Logistics planning for external sites

  • Scheduling with externals and field service

  • Onboarding IT service providers

  • Project planning for special departments

  • Setting up service points

  • Conducting status meetings with service providers, end users, and contractors

  • Monitoring service level agreements (SLAs)

Sep 2018 - Aug 2022
4 years

IT Service Manager, VIP Support & Team Lead

  • IT service management "same partners & more responsibility"
  • Team management
  • Communication plan
  • Crisis communication
  • Regular updates
  • Documentation
  • Task distribution
  • Monitoring service quality
  • Service desk via ServiceNow
  • 1st and 2nd level support, onsite, service requests
  • Ticket handling
  • QA reports
  • Communication with problem management and 3rd level support
  • Mobile support
  • Staffing service point
  • VIP support for special service recipients
  • Deployment management
  • Hardware preparation and re-imaging
  • Service point management
  • Old hardware disposal
  • Documentation
  • Report management
  • Reporting
  • Intranet and web shop
  • Service quality assurance
  • Key figures reporting
  • Progress reporting
  • IT administration
  • Using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) for monitoring
  • Software updates and patches via Software Update Point SUP and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
  • Creating and managing application packages and deployment types
  • Creating detailed inventory reports via SQL Reporting Services (SSRS)
  • Troubleshooting client installations
  • Managing security policies
  • Operating system deployment using PXE boot, Windows Deployment Services, and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
1 year 2 months
On-site

IT Support, Onsite Support

  • Onsite, 1st and 2nd level support "entry-level, experience & opportunities"
  • Service desk
  • Ticket handling
  • Onsite support and field service
  • Printer maintenance
  • Old hardware sorting
  • Documentation
  • Switch rollout according to switch plan
  • Cable laying and cabling in data centers
  • Mobile device support
  • Service requests
  • Asset management
  • Deployment management
  • Hardware preparation, imaging, receiving, documentation
  • Transport and backup
  • User instructions

Languages

German
Advanced

Education

Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

University of Applied Sciences Mainz

Applied Computer Science · Mainz, Germany

Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

Technical University of Darmstadt

Physics · Darmstadt, Germany

Aug 2013 - Jun 2016

Werner-Heisenberg-Schule Rüsselsheim

General university entrance qualification, focus on Mathematics & Mechatronics · Rüsselsheim, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Electrically instructed person - online

DEKRA Akademie GmbH

Driver's license B

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