Mohammed A.

Starting a Business and Further Education

Frankfurt, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
9 months

Starting a Business and Further Education

Career reorientation and development in the field of IT and artificial intelligence.

  • Evaluating training opportunities in artificial intelligence
  • Developing a business plan for self-employment in the AI field
  • Developing an offline chatbot for Excelsior GmbH
  • Preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification to expand cloud skills
Sep 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 4 months

Site Reliability Engineer

BMW Group

Optimizing and monitoring system reliability and performance using modern DevOps practices and monitoring technologies.

  • Co-leading the cross-team rollout of Dynatrace for over 90% of all Connected Car microservices
  • Defining and configuring reliability SLIs and SLOs for 36 critical service chains in the Connected Car context (Dynatrace, Terraform)
  • Configuring Dynatrace and maintaining Terraform templates for the service chains (Dynatrace, Bitbucket, Terraform, Jenkins)
  • Responsible for generating and sending SLO reports (Terraform, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
  • Writing and reviewing user stories for implementing functional and non-functional requirements (Jira, Confluence)
  • Designing, implementing, and maintaining dashboards for critical service chains (Dynatrace)
  • Developing and supporting a training program (4 times a year) to train all product teams (Dynatrace, Confluence, PowerPoint, MS Teams)
  • Supporting regular DevOps processes for developing and deploying company-wide monitoring services (including troubleshooting in Kubernetes)
  • Designing and implementing Dynatrace integrations with third-party systems (Dynatrace plugins, AWS CloudWatch)
Feb 2021 - May 2021
4 months

Site Reliability Engineer

Commerzbank AG

Stabilizing and optimizing the online banking system by improving monitoring, alert processes, and infrastructure management, and supporting incident analysis and resolution.

  • Co-responsible for stabilizing the online banking system
  • Developing strategies to improve online banking stability
  • Optimizing monitoring and alert processes (Dynatrace)
  • Defining procedures for handling production incidents
  • Supporting cross-functional teams in root cause analysis (Dynatrace)
  • Administering and maintaining infrastructure for a .NET application (Windows Server, IIS web server, MS SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio)
  • IT provider management
May 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year 8 months

IT Operations Manager

Hyundai Capital Bank Europe GmbH

Responsible for operating and monitoring IT infrastructure, as well as managing IT providers.

  • Ensuring availability and performance of IT infrastructure (Cisco ISE, Active Directory, Lansweeper, MS Server)
  • Executing and monitoring software upgrades and integration projects (e.g., DATEV)
  • Managing and ensuring quality of external IT service providers
  • Supporting IT security measures and audits
  • Contributing to the company-wide Windows 10 rollout through planning, coordination, and technical problem-solving
  • Providing first and second level support
  • Reporting to management to support decision-making
Oct 2018 - May 2019
8 months

IT Infrastructure Teamlead

GEA Group

Leading the strategic migration of Windows servers and related applications to the Azure cloud.

  • Leading project teams of up to three people
  • Conducting comprehensive analyses of MS Windows servers and SQL servers to prepare for migration
  • Developing and executing migration plans for Windows servers to the Azure environment
  • Prioritizing and assigning tasks to ensure efficient project workflows
  • Creating and presenting status reports to management for decision support
Apr 2013 - Oct 2018
5 years 7 months

IT Administrator/ Team Lead

Commerzbank AG

Implementation of complex IT projects focusing on infrastructure, application integration, and development support.

  • Project support from planning to implementation (setting up MPLS links, Microsoft Surface Hub, etc.)
  • Building and managing infrastructure for third-party applications (F5 BIG-IP, MS server and network setup in DEV/Test/Prod)
  • Integration and deployment management of specialized software solutions (IIS web server, PKI management)
  • Administration of Windows servers and SQL servers
  • Technical support for the development and testing team (Eclipse IDE rollout, IDE troubleshooting, firewall exceptions, etc.)
  • 2nd level support for the production team

Languages

Arabic
Native
German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Apr 2005 - Aug 2012

Technical University of Cologne

Diploma · Business Informatics · Cologne, Germany

Oct 2002 - Apr 2005

University of Cologne

Business Informatics · Cologne, Germany

Oct 2001 - Jul 2002

Preparatory College at the University of Potsdam

Potsdam, Germany

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Certifications & licenses

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

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