Patrick Riegler - DevOps Engineer

Q: Where is Patrick based?

Patrick is based in Reichenburg, Switzerland and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Patrick speak?

Patrick speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), French (Intermediate), Hungarian (Intermediate) .

Q: How many years of experience does Patrick have?

Patrick has at least 31 years of experience. During this time, Patrick has worked in at least 12 different roles and for 10 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 2 months . Note that Patrick may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Patrick's latest experience?

Patrick's most recent position is DevOps Engineer at Swisscard AECS AG .

Q: What companies has Patrick worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Patrick has worked for Swisscard AECS AG and Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) .

Q: Which industries is Patrick most experienced in?

Patrick is most experienced in industries like Automotive , Information Technology (IT) , and Banking and Finance . Patrick also has some experience in Aerospace and Defense and Education .

Q: Which business areas is Patrick most experienced in?

Patrick is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Product Development , and Project Management . Patrick also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA) , Accounting , and Procurement and Purchasing .

Q: Which industries has Patrick worked in recently?

Patrick has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance .

Q: Which business areas has Patrick worked in recently?

Patrick has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Operations .

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Reichenburg, Switzerland

Experience

Nov 2021 - Present

4 years 3 months

DevOps Engineer

Swisscard AECS AG

PoC for various platform integration functionalities using Backstage and Crossplane
Implementation of improvements of developer experience with Azure AVD and DevSpace
Manage application deployment infrastructure on Kubernetes clusters
Manage CI/CD platform
Manage deployments into Kubernetes (Rancher and AKS) and into Azure
Act as security champion of the DevOps team
Manage vulnerabilities and support dev teams to manage third-party vulnerabilities using JFrog Xray
Support building the platform team
Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Atlantis
Build and integrate a platform and IDP using Crossplane

Aug 2020 - Oct 2021

1 year 3 months

DevOps Engineer

Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB)

Manage CI/CD platform and tools (GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar, JIRA, Confluence, Harness)
Upgrade and improve handling of CI/CD platform using Ansible
Implement Jenkins builds in Docker to increase flexibility of build pipelines
Manage Jenkins pipeline library
Build standard container deployment pipeline using Harness, Helm and Kubernetes
Support developers to use and interact with the pipeline tools
Manage vulnerabilities and support dev teams to manage third-party vulnerabilities with Black Duck
Resolve major instability and performance issues of ZKB JIRA and Nexus

May 2019 - Sep 2020

1 year 5 months

Zürich, Switzerland

Managing Director / Senior Consultant

kreuzwerker Switzerland AG

Provide Atlassian consulting
Provide DevOps consulting
Provide cloud consulting on AWS
Provide agile coaching
Establish kreuzwerker Switzerland AG

Mar 2018 - Apr 2019

1 year 2 months

DevOps, Cloud and Agile Consultant

RiPro GmbH

Provide Atlassian consulting
Provide DevOps consulting
Provide agile coaching

Jul 2015 - Feb 2018

2 years 8 months

Application Engineer / DevOps Engineer

SIX Group Services AG – Division Global IT

Contribute to the “Dockerized Development” project replacing DEV and TEST infrastructure with virtualized environments
Foster 400+ developers to apply container practices and assist teams in migration to Docker and OpenShift
Build new CI/CD workflows and assist development teams to migrate to OpenShift CI/CD Jenkins pipelines
Establish and implement DevOps standards and tools
Continuously optimize and update development tools
Support developers to integrate with SIX continuous integration
Support SIX DevEnv (centralized development environment)
Manage application stack for Atlassian development tools (Crowd, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Stash, Fisheye, Crucible)
Evaluate new tools and technologies
Improve operability of tool stack by using dockerized tool components and DevOps practices
Support migration to strategic tools in tool harmonization project
Support developers of PASS, SWX and SIX Financial Information to improve development processes and deliver major improvements across the organization

Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

9 months

Freienbach, Switzerland

Software- / Enterprise Architect

EurotaxGlass's International AG

Align IT strategy and planning with company business goals
Optimize information management approaches
Hold long-term strategic responsibility for IT systems
Promote shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs
Manage risks associated with information and IT assets through standards and security policies
Define development policies, standards and guidelines

May 2009 - Sep 2014

5 years 5 months

Freienbach, Switzerland

Technical Product Manager (Service / Application Manager)

EurotaxGlass's International AG

Act as technical product manager for seven products across 20+ European countries
Align support processes to the ITIL framework
Define requirements and technical specifications
Own end-to-end software change and release processes
Lead continual service improvement (CSI) process
Define architecture of complex software projects and components
Manage development and quality cycles with external suppliers
Ensure high-quality service including SLA reporting
Consult sales and customers to identify the right solutions for their business

Mar 2004 - Apr 2009

5 years 2 months

Freienbach, Switzerland

Project Manager

EurotaxGlass's International AG

Plan projects, make strategic decisions and manage budgets for internationally distributed internet applications and services
Select and implement project management tool and processes
Manage project budgets
Define requirements and technical specifications
Define architecture of complex software projects and components
Manage development and quality cycles with external suppliers
Integrate products at customer sites
Consult sales and customers to identify suitable solutions for their business

Oct 2001 - Oct 2002

1 year 1 month

Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland

Teacher in a WebPublisher SIZ course

H.B.S.

Define and compose educational material
Teach students programming
Prepare students for the exam

Feb 1999 - Feb 2004

5 years 1 month

Freienbach, Switzerland

Team Leader Client Development

Eurotax International AG

Build and lead a development department for internet applications
Define architecture and assign tasks
Support business in defining requirements
Lead small projects in an international environment

Apr 1998 - Jan 1999

10 months

Freienbach, Switzerland

International Hardware and Network Support

Eurotax International AG

Connect 20+ country organizations to a shared network
Create an internet server farm
Support centralized email and web servers
Migrate to Windows NT domain

Aug 1997 - Mar 1998

8 months

IT Production Accountable

Autoweb AG (now Car4you AG)

Lead team of system support, development and product training
Develop the Car4you platform and its background processes and tools
Support growth of startup from 4 to 26 employees

Jan 1996 - Aug 1997

1 year 8 months

Freienbach, Switzerland

Apprentice Commercial Clerk (KV)

Eurotax International AG

Perform accounting, purchasing and administration tasks

Aug 1994 - Nov 1995

1 year 4 months

Feusisberg, Switzerland

Apprentice Commercial Clerk (KV)

Hemair AG

Perform accounting, purchasing, logistics and administration tasks

Summary

German saying: „Arbeit ist das halbe Leben“ - „Work is half of our life“ è I think it’s more than just that. Work is a very important and vital part of our life. This is why work shall be diversified, interesting, demanding but also satisfying. You offer an interesting opportunity? I will offer you my tireless dedication, my profound experience and my keen perception. Also typically for Swiss I offer you my reliability, my feeling to making everything the right way and my sharp business sense. Achieving my targets is my daily business – nevertheless I am happy to bring my knowledge and experience into a team to achieving our targets together. I enjoy if my efforts help a company to being successful. I need this satisfaction to be happy in my life.

Sports
Tennis
Soccer / Football
Cycling
Running
Learning
All about computers
I love it to learn and inform myself about new technologies and to evaluate whether I can use it in my job
Cultural
Learning new languages and cultures
Cooking (still beginner, but it’s just getting more and more fun ;-))
Social
I enjoy discussions and exchanges with my friends and family
And last but not least my family

Skills

Functional And Technical Leadership
Internet-application-development (Open-source Lamp Stack, E-commerce Products, Api Development)
Managing External Suppliers (As Am, Pm)
Devops Practices
Project-management (Agile, Prince2, Scrum Master, Product Owner)
Technical Architecture (As Am, Pm And Technical Architect)
Business Analysis / Requirements Engineering (As Am, Pm)
Continuous Service Improvement
Atlassian Product Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Etc.)
Containerisation Practices (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)
Personal And Functional Leadership Of Teams
Project Management (Prince2 And Scrum)
Managing External Suppliers
Java
Php
Javascript (Nsca Certified)
Mustache (Javascript Templating)
Jquery
Html (Incl. Html5)
Css (Incl. Css 3)
Twitter Bootstrap
Webscraping / Mashup’s
Cloud Development (Aws) - Lamdba
Shell Scripting
Soa (Service Oriented Architecture)
Event Driven Architecture
Api Development (Rest/json)
Soap Webservices (Xml)
Requirements Engineering / Management
Machine Learning
Ansible
Terraform
Suse Linux
Redhat Linux (Centos And Rhel)
Vmware
Nagios Monitoring
Appdynamics
Prometheus / Grafana
Elastic Stack
Aws (Amazon Web Services)
Microsoft Azure
Redhat Openshift / Kubernetes
Helm Charts
Docker / Docker-compose
Apache
Microsoft Windows (Client And Server)
Microsoft Office Power User (Siz Supporter Certified)
Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Stash, Bamboo, Confluence)
Mysql
Informix
Postgresql
Oracle
Elastic Stack (Database Usage)
Talend Data Integration
Talend Mdm (Master Data Management)
Search Engine Optimisation
Google Analytics
Selenium (Automated Testing)
Soapui (Automated Testing)
Loadui (Load/stress/performance Testing)
Jenkins (Continuous Integration)
Bamboo
Artifactory
Bitbucket
Gitlab
Prince2
Scrum Master (Certified)
Scrum Product Owner (Certified)
Bonita Open Solution (Business Process Management)
Business Process Management Notation (Bpmn)
Wso2 Esb, As, Api, Ds, Bam
Itil (It Infrastructure Library)
Service Level Agreements (Definition, Realization And Reporting)
Devops Practices
Platform Engineering
Crossplane
Backstage
Devspace
Azure Avd

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

French

Intermediate

Hungarian

Intermediate

Education

Jun 2001 - Apr 2003

Degree in Business Informatics (University of Applied Sciences)

Apr 1994 - Apr 1997

Apprenticeship as commercial clerk (KV)

Jul 1991 - Jun 1994

Secondary School

Freienbach, Switzerland

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Certifications & licenses

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

DevOps Foundation (the DevOps Institute)

Certified “Scrum Master”

Scrum Product Owner (Certified)

Google Analytics – Mobile App Analytics Fundamentals

Responsive Web Design

Become Exceptional In HTML And HTML5 / HTML5 Course

Comprehensive JavaScript Programming / JS And jQuery Official NCSA Certification For JavaScript Experts

Google Analytics – Ecommerce Analytics – From Data To Decisions

Google Analytics – Platform Principles (with 100%)

Google Analytics – Digital Analytics Fundamentals

ITIL Version 3 (2011) – Foundation Certificate (IT Service Management)

ITIL – Foundation Certificate (IT Service Management)

SuSe Linux System Administration

SIZ Supporter (Hardware, Software And Network-Support)

Profile

Created

October 2025

Last Update

October 2025

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Patrick based?

Patrick is based in Reichenburg, Switzerland and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Patrick speak?

Patrick speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), French (Intermediate), Hungarian (Intermediate).

How many years of experience does Patrick have?

Patrick has at least 31 years of experience. During this time, Patrick has worked in at least 12 different roles and for 10 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 2 months. Note that Patrick may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Patrick be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Patrick would be well-suited for roles such as: DevOps Engineer, Managing Director / Senior Consultant, DevOps, Cloud and Agile Consultant.

What is Patrick's latest experience?

Patrick's most recent position is DevOps Engineer at Swisscard AECS AG.

What companies has Patrick worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Patrick has worked for Swisscard AECS AG and Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB).

Which industries is Patrick most experienced in?

Patrick is most experienced in industries like Automotive, Information Technology (IT), and Banking and Finance. Patrick also has some experience in Aerospace and Defense and Education.

Which business areas is Patrick most experienced in?

Patrick is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Product Development, and Project Management. Patrick also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA), Accounting, and Procurement and Purchasing.

Which industries has Patrick worked in recently?

Patrick has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance.

Which business areas has Patrick worked in recently?

Patrick has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Operations.

What is Patrick's education?

Patrick attended Degree in Business Informatics (University of Applied Sciences).

Does Patrick have any certificates?

Patrick has 16 certificates. Among them, these include: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and DevOps Foundation (the DevOps Institute).

What is the availability of Patrick?

Patrick is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Patrick?

Patrick's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.