Hans K.
Senior IT Operations Specialist
Experience
Senior IT Operations Specialist
Carl Zeiss Digital Innovation
- Technical and strategic support of the task force to build a globally available service unit focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud following the Follow-the-Sun principle and SAFe.
Lighthouse SRE Team Lead
Alpin Analytics Gmbh
- Built the infrastructure for a data management and analytics platform for HP Enterprises and the Foreign Office.
- Developed and deployed the kube-metal Kubernetes distribution with focus on zero trust and classified data (VSNFD).
Senior Technical Advisor and Product Owner SRE
Bundesdruckerei
- Managed the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team of 16 to implement the latest technologies under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Kubernetes).
- Coordinated and reported with internal and external stakeholders.
- Planned and developed the technical strategy for the overall PREVIEW/Crisis Early Warning (KFE/Foreign Office) project.
- Designed and implemented the on-premises cloud to run KFE as part of the federal government’s data strategy, focusing on zero trust and classified data (VSNFD).
- Planned, built, and used the SRE/service and support interfaces with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level support according to ITIL.
External Project Manager
VW Financial Services
- 2020 – Project Management | Network Security/European Central Bank (ECB):
- Analyzed, transformed, and documented ECB findings in Network Security as work packages for IT operations.
- 2019 – Subproject Lead | Mirantis OpenStack/zScaler:
- Introduced 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 Management | Network Security/Single Sign On/ADFS:
- Company-wide rollout of Microsoft ADFS/SSO as a new security standard.
- Introduced Microsoft ADFS/SSO for the on-premises OpenStack cloud.
- 2017 – Project Management | Digital Unit:
- Agile (Scrum) project management for building VW Financial Services’ Digital Unit infrastructure.
- Built WAN, LAN, and WLAN infrastructure with Cisco Meraki.
- Set up Microsoft O365 (Exchange) including MFA, BYOD, user management, and helpdesk.
- Created the “Digital Unit as a Service” blueprint for regional subsidiaries with a focus on banking security.
- Implemented identity providers and VPNs on Amazon/AWS.
- Introduced Terraform for CI/CD pipelines.
- Developed network security design for AWS/VPCs and implementation.
- Introduced FireEye for hybrid email scanning.
- 2016 – Subproject Lead | OCL (Omni Channel Layer):
- Agile (Scrum) subproject lead for the Omni Channel Layer (OCL) project focusing on Microsoft Azure and O365.
Senior Datacenter Engineer
JIntelligence GmbH
- Consulting, housing, and hosting (full service).
Senior Datacenter Engineer
JIntelligence oHG
- Software development, consulting, housing and hosting (full service).
IT Manager
Reinhard Zeilbeck Design Company
- Management of the IT and development department for clients of the Siemens Group.
Senior Developer
Active Consult (Holzbrink)
- Senior developer for financial service providers and publishing houses.
Software Developer
Isoft Gmbh
- Software developer for X.400 and X.500 for the Interior Ministries of North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg.
Summary
PUBLIC SECTOR 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 SERVICES AND INSURERS IT strategy consulting at the C-level IT consulting for technical implementation IT project planning and provider management Co-development of the Cloud Helpdesk, Cloud AWS, developers, and network infrastructure units of the Digital Unit in Berlin for VW Financial Services to digitize existing business areas
COLOCATION OPERATIONS Planning, setup, migration, and long-term operation of colocation sites in Munich and Frankfurt, handing over complete operating environments to customers as an Internet service and cloud provider.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Development and operation of the kube-metal Kubernetes distribution for public sector clients. Development of the kube-crafter Kubernetes distribution as a Community Edition for Debian and as an Enterprise Edition for Red Hat and SUSE.
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Education
Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
General Computer Science · Berlin, Germany
Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
General Computer Science · Berlin, Germany
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