Joseph Wagner
Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS)
Experience
Jul 2023 - May 2024
11 months Vienna, Austria
Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS)
A1 Bank (former PayBox Bank)
- Cloud solution architect
- Solution Architect
- Technical contact for 7+ vendors
- I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system. This project involves replacing our outdated in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) core banking system, which is developed and operated by a vendor as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on the AWS platform. My duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
- Additionally, a significant aspect of my role involves managing over 10 vendors and partners, which is crucial to the project's success.
- VMWare ESXi
- AWS
- EKS Kubernetes
- Mastercard payment transaction Service (MPTS)
- Avaloq
- A1 Telekom Austria (A1 Bank infrastructure provider)
- CheckPoint FW
- F5
- Site2Site VPNs
- PingID (IDP)
- Futurae SDK + Airlock
- UC4 / Automic
- Firebase
- iOS + Android Application life cycle management
- Avaloq
- AWS IAM
- AWS Appstream
- AWS S3
- AWS Transfer Family
- Vendor teams are global (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Switzerland)
- QlikView
- OpenAPI
Sep 2020 - Jul 2023
2 years 11 months Vienna, Austria
Cloud Solution Architect (AWS, Azure, OpenShift)
Allianz Technology GmbH
- Roles (from 09/2020): Cloud solution architect, Solution Architect.
- I work in a team of 8-10 cloud and solution architects responsible for major product platforms within Allianz Technology.
- Our platform is based on a hybrid, multi-vendor cloud environment to deliver a unified runtime environment for our standardized insurance applications to our worldwide acting Allianz subsidiaries.
- My team is responsible for solution designs regarding, development, build, deployment, security, permission management, operation, monitoring, integration, and maintenance of over 50 insurance applications.
- Role (from 08/2021): Cloud Solution Architect, Infrastructure automatisation architect, DevOps Engineer.
- As an infrastructure architect, I support our DevOps engineers in automating the infrastructure and application onboarding process. We continuously review our process and tools to identify opportunities to improve and optimise this process. We architects evaluate new tools, review processes, and implement POCs to support the daily business of our stakeholders (DevOps, developers, testers, and product owners).
- I reviewed technical as well as organizational aspects and recommended improvements to the managers.
- Spring Boot
- Docker
- Spring Framework
- Ubuntu
- JAVA
- Kubernetes (AWS + Azure)
- OpenShift
- CI/CD
- SonarQube
- Jenkins
- Nexus
- GitHub Enterprise
- GitHub Actions
- Apigee
- Terraform
- Kafka
- Elastic Search (ELK)
- AWS OpenSearch
- Arch42
- Domain Driven Design
- Angular
- HashiCorp Vault
- KeyCloak
- OAuth2
- OpenID
- Azure Active Directory
- DB2
- OSGI
- RabbitMQ
- MongoDB
- Oracle
- Dynatrace Monitoring and Log management
- XL Release
- ArgoCD
- Crossplane
- Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
2 years 5 months Vienna, Austria
Solution Architect & DevOps Engineer
twinformatics GmbH
- Roles: Solution Architecture - Support, DevOps Engineer, Development.
- Setup, maintenance and enhancement of development (CI/CD) and runtime infrastructure for non-sap systems.
- Support of six scrum teams on a daily basis on DevOps/operational and architectural topics.
- AWS
- Amazon EKS
- Kubernetes
- Spring Boot
- Docker
- Docker-Swarm
- Netflix OOS
- Spring Framework
- Ubuntu
- JAVA
- Microsoft MSBuild
- Postgres DB
- Redis Kubernetes
- Rancher
- CI/CD (Artifactory, SonarQube, Bamboo, Bitbucket, GitLab)
- Google Anthos
- Apigee
- OpenAPI 3.0
- Ansible
- Terraform
- ActiveMQ
- Min.io (S3)
- Kafka
- Elastic Search
- Arch42
- Domain Driven Design
Jul 2015 - Mar 2018
2 years 9 months Vienna, Austria
Solution Architect
LKW Walter
- Project: Introduction Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 (Logistics - January 2016 - March 2018)
- Solution Design
- Consulting & Troubleshooting
- Support (business analyst, development, sourcing partners)
- Solution Design, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM (2016)
- Windows Server
- MS SQL
- Project: Software Development (Logistics - July 2015 - December 2016)
- Solution Design
- Consulting & Troubleshooting
- Support (business analyst, development, sourcing partners)
- JE22
- WebSphere
- JPA
- AS/400
- SCRUM
- Rational
Jan 2007 - Apr 2015
8 years 4 months Vienna, Austria
Freelancer Software Architect / Factory Architect, Business Analyst / Solution Designer
A1 Telekom Austria
- Telecommunication - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Requirements engineering
- Solution design
- Release management
- Development / development support
- JAVA
- OSGI
- JIRA
- Agile
- Scrum
- Oracle
- JPA
- Amdocs CRM
- Spring
Jan 2004 - Dec 2008
4 years Vienna, Austria
Architect
Konnex GesmbH
- Definition of architecture & guidelines
- Solution design
- Support (business analyst, development)
- Operational support (trouble shooting, defects analysis)
- Single point of contact for technical demands
- Solution & software quality representative
Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
2 years Vienna, Austria
Software Development
Dox applied technologies
- Document output management
- Solution design
- Development
- Testing & documentation
- JAVA
- Client-server
- PostScript
- IBM AFP
- Spool mgmt.
Jan 2001 - Dec 2004
3 years Cologne, Germany
Senior Consultant
Steria Mummert Consulting
- Public insurance sector project for SUVA - Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt.
- Development
- Testing & documentation
- COBOL
- IBM
- DB2
- Spool mgmt.
- Reporting
Jan 1998 - Dec 2002
4 yearsConsultant, Software Developer
BEKO Engineering Informatik AG
- Consultant role for SUVA - Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt (Public insurance sector).
- Software Developer role for PSK Datendienst (banking).
- Development
- Testing & documentations
- COBOL
- PL/1
- IBM z/OS
- DB2
- IMS
- Y2k
- Euro introduction
Summary
I’m committed to simplicity with a focus on details & clean design. I care about details without losing the big picture. Day by day I devote all my energy to providing simple solutions for the best user experience. My motto is “Do what is right, not what is easy”. I’m pursuing my career to become an experienced cloud solution architect, as one of the most exciting areas in IT. I see myself as an all-rounder involved from the beginning to the end.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 2003 - Jun 2007
Technikum Wien
Graduate Engineer DI(FH) - Thesis: Web Service Security · Computer Science · Vienna, Austria
Oct 1993 - Jun 1998
HTBLVA Spengergasse
Engineer (Ing.) · Computer Science & Applied Technologies · Vienna, Austria
Certifications & licenses
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
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