Hans Kula

Senior IT-Operations Specialist

Bad Aibling, Germany

Experience

Feb 2023 - May 2023
4 months

Senior IT-Operations Specialist

Carl Zeiss Digital Innovation

  • Technical and strategic support for the task force to build a globally available service unit focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud following the Follow the Sun principle and SAFe.
Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
11 months

Lighthouse Teamleitung SRE

Alpin Analytics Gmbh

  • Infrastructure setup of a data management and data analytics platform for HP Enterprise and the Foreign Office.
  • Development and deployment of the Kubernetes distribution kube-metal with a focus on Zero Trust and classified data (VSNFD).
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
1 year 9 months

Senior Technical Advisor und Product Owner SRE

Bundesdruckerei

  • Management of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team of 16 members to implement the latest technologies under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Kubernetes).
  • Coordination and reporting with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Planning and development of the technical strategy for the overall PREVIEW/crisis early warning detection project (KFE/Foreign Office).
  • Architecture and implementation of the on-premise cloud for operating KFE as part of the federal government's data strategy with a focus on Zero Trust and classified data (VSNFD).
  • Planning, setup and application of SRE/service and support interfaces with 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support according to ITIL.
Jun 2016 - Jun 2020
4 years 1 month

Externer Projekt Manager

VW Financial Services

  • 2020 – Project lead | Network Security/European Central Bank (ECB):
  • Analysis, transformation and documentation of ECB findings in network security as work packages for IT operations.
  • 2019 – Subproject lead | Mirantis OpenStack/zScaler:
  • Introduction of ADFS/SSO/OIDC for OpenStack.
  • Deployment planning and provider management.
  • Initial development of the “Segregation of Duties” process for agile projects in cooperation with the CISO of VWFS AG.
  • 2018 – Project lead | Network Security/Single Sign On/ADFS:
  • Company-wide rollout of Microsoft ADFS/SSO as the new security standard.
  • Introduction of Microsoft ADFS/SSO for the on-premise OpenStack cloud.
  • 2017 – Project lead | Digital Unit:
  • Project lead (agile, scrum) for infrastructure setup of the VW Financial Services Digital Unit.
  • Setup of WAN, LAN and WLAN infrastructure with Cisco Meraki.
  • Setup of Microsoft O365 (Exchange) including MFA, BYOD, user management and helpdesk.
  • Creation of the “Digitalunit as a Service” blueprint for regional subsidiaries with a focus on banking security.
  • Implementation of identity providers and VPNs on Amazon/AWS.
  • Introduction of Terraform for CI/CD pipelines.
  • Network security concept for AWS/VPCs and implementation.
  • Introduction of FireEye for email scanning (hybrid).
  • 2016 – Subproject lead | OCL (Omni Channel Layer):
  • Subproject lead (agile, scrum) for the Omni Channel Layer (OCL) project focusing on Microsoft Azure and O365.
Jan 2004 - Dec 2023
20 years

Senior Datacenter Engineer

JIntelligence GmbH

  • Consulting, housing and hosting (full service).
Jan 1999 - Dec 2004
5 years

Senior Datacenter Engineer

JIntelligence oHG

  • Software development, consulting, housing and hosting (full service).
Jan 1998 - Dec 2000
3 years

IT-Leiter

Reinhard Zeilbeck Design Company

  • Head of IT and development department for clients from the Siemens Group.
Jan 1996 - Dec 1998
3 years

Senior Developer

Active Consult (Holzbrink)

  • Senior developer for financial service providers and publishing houses.
Jan 1992 - Dec 1994
3 years

Softwareentwickler

Isoft Gmbh

  • Software developer for X.400 and X.500 for the interior ministries of NRW and Brandenburg.

Summary

PUBLIC CLIENTS / FOREIGN OFFICE Team leadership, planning, setup and operation of a complex infrastructure in an external data center to run a data management and analytics platform.

FINANCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS AND INSURERS IT strategy consulting at C-level IT consulting for technical implementation IT project planning and provider management Co-building the Cloud Helpdesk, Cloud AWS, development and network infrastructure areas of the Digital Unit in Berlin for VW Financial Services to digitize existing business areas

COLOCATION OPERATION Planning, setup, migration and long-term operation of colocation sites in Munich and Frankfurt up to handing over finished operating environments to customers as an Internet service and cloud provider.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Development and operation of the Kubernetes distribution kube-metal for public clients. Development of the Kubernetes distribution kube-crafter as a Community Edition for Debian and as an Enterprise Edition for RedHat and SUSE.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1994 - Jun 1997

Technische Fachhochschule Berlin

General Computer Science · Berlin, Germany

Oct 1990 - Jun 1992

Technische Fachhochschule Berlin

General Computer Science · Berlin, Germany