Teemu Suvanto
SRE
Experience
SRE
E.On SE
- Maintained a SaaS billing platform on AWS as part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.
- Played a key role in an AWS cloud migration project, implementing Terraform (IaC), creating CI/CD processes and pipelines, hardening images, upgrading tool versions, and developing scripts.
- Wrote documentation.
AWS Cloud migration:
- Design and implement CI/CD for deploying AWS resources using GitLab CI, Terraform, and GitOps.
- Create and configure DevOps toolchain including Jenkins, Harbor, and Vault.
- Deploy billing application, microservices, and supporting infrastructure services to Nomad clusters.
- Re-designed TLS/mTLS certificate management using Vault and Lambda.
Security (Infrastructure Hardening & Patch Management & Vulnerability Scanning):
- Managed multiple AWS accounts for Consul/Nomad/Traefik clusters (10–20 EC2 instances/account, ASG) and DevOps toolchain accounts (Harbor, Jenkins, Vault).
- Created hardened AMIs via Packer based on CIS benchmarks for Nomad, Jenkins, Harbor, and Vault; deployed using Terraform.
- Integrated Trivy via Harbor plugin for container image scanning.
- Implemented strict AWS VPC security group rules.
- Developed and maintained patching process across environments using Qualys and Wiz.
- Deployed Qualys Cloud Agent to all EC2 instances, tracked CVEs and tested patches in lower environments before rollout.
- Automated patch deployment across all AWS accounts using Terraform and GitLab CI and verified patch compliance via Qualys/Wiz dashboards.
DevOps Engineer
Dr. Glinz Covis GmbH
- Supported product rollout to Azure Cloud and AKS.
- Refactored deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps.
- Troubleshot and fixed problems in CI/CD context.
DevOps Engineer
BNP Paribas S.A.
- Member of the IT-Engineering team and contributor to a datacenter migration project.
- Wrote and maintained Ansible playbooks and modules, configured Ansible Tower, and managed Red Hat Satellite Content Views (CV) and Composite Content Views (CCV).
- Conducted connectivity testing and submitted firewall requests.
- Configured Icinga2 for new system setups.
- Migrated Jenkins pipelines and transitioned from Subversion to Git.
DevOps Engineer
B. Braun SE
- Designed and implemented pipelines for SCA and building project artifacts.
- Built devcontainer Docker images; designed build versioning and packaging.
- Deployed Jenkins server.
Azure DevOps Engineer
WS Audiology
- Member of eSW Infrastructure team.
- Implemented IaC for build/test agents and Azure Cloud resources.
- Implemented pipeline scripts and troubleshot problems with developers.
- Implemented build versioning and packaging.
DevOps Engineer
CARIAD SE
- Member of Release & Integration team.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD processes.
- Enhanced test automation and release process.
DevOps Engineer
Allianz SE
- Member of Data Science Platform team, improving high availability of services.
- Tested and deployed a new DNS solution; created test cluster for HashiCorp stack.
- Upgraded versions of HashiCorp Consul, Nomad, Python, and Ansible.
- Implemented Nexus apt repositories and maintained ELK stack.
- Created GitLab CI pipelines and documentation for internal processes and tool usage.
- Interviewed new candidates.
- Configured Prometheus retention, storage, rules, and re-labeling; configured exporters and created Grafana dashboards.
- Participated in Azure Cloud migration: created Jenkins pipelines and shared pipeline library (Job DSL & scripted syntax), implemented Terraform code, deployed Helm charts to AKS, created support requests, and maintained Jenkins in OpenShift.
DevOps Engineer
eBay Inc.
- Member of the Engineering Support team administering and maintaining internal CI infrastructure and Atlassian stack for eBay Classifieds Group.
- Researched, implemented, and troubleshot build and test solutions.
- Coached developers and SREs on provided tools.
- Developed Ansible playbooks for deploying instances on OpenStack Cloud.
- Led reimplementation of monitoring system including alerting rules and Grafana dashboards.
- Reduced technical debt by migrating to newer or more efficient tools and platforms.
Configuration Manager
Sony Mobile Communications
- Worked as a Configuration Manager in Android platform CM team.
- Maintained Android software builds and created system branches.
- Hosted CM education courses and deployed test automation systems.
- Wrote test cases, conducted code reviews, and contributed to an open-source project.
Specialist
Haltian
- Worked as a build engineer in a multinational project.
- Responsible for software releases and daily software builds.
- Managed configuration, deployed services, and implemented improvements to ease software development.
- Conducted problem solving, scripting, process definition, and smoke testing.
Specialist
Elektrobit
- Member of Continuous Integration team, ensuring CI system functionality and high-quality software builds.
- Performed daily Jenkins and Gerrit administration.
- Developed scripts for build/release automation and visualized commit metrics.
Senior SW Designer
Nokia
- 2007–2011: Software configuration management at platform-wide level; prepared sources and binaries, built, tested, and released deliverables; supervised a small group of build engineers; provided onsite support in Paris.
- 09/2011–02/2012: Worked as a build engineer and tested package-based releasing tool; designed and implemented release test functionality using Python.
- 03–06/2012: Tools developer responsible for metrics scripts and Gerrit plugin design and implementation; acted as local Gerrit administrator.
- 07–12/2012: Software developer in internal projects; designed and implemented Android applications for smartphones.
SW Designer
Ixonos
- 04/2006–09/2007: External employee at client premises performing software configuration management, build, test, and release deliverables; developed build tools and troubleshooting.
- 10/2005–04/2006: Developed a Java-based UI design/customization tool using Xuikon/S60 framework; ported engine and UI components.
- Ported a Symbian C++ application to Maemo platform, redesigning UI to support pen input.
- Developed a mobile multimedia application for S60 terminals.
SW Engineer
Alfame Systems Oy
- Co-founder and software engineer developing a Business Plan Development System.
Trainee
IT-media laboratory
- Worked in an experimental software project at IT-media laboratory.
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Experienced in Information Technology (9 years), Telecommunication (6 years), Retail (4.5 years), Energy (2 years), Utilities (2 years), and Automotive (1.5 years).
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Experienced in Information Technology (19.5 years), Product Development (9.5 years), Quality Assurance (5 years), Operations (4.5 years), and Business Intelligence (1.5 years).
Summary
Helping organizations modernize their infrastructure through DevOps and cloud solutions.
20+ years in IT across automotive, banking, e-commerce, energy, insurance, healthcare, and telecommunications; freelancing since 2014.
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Education
University of Oulu - The Department of Information Processing Science
Master of Science, Software Production · Software Production · Oulu, Finland
Central Ostrobothnia Adult Education Institute
Vocational Qualification · Computer Programming · Kokkola, Finland
Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, Major in Electrical Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Kokkola, Finland
Certifications & licenses
Terraform Associate
Hashicorp
Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
Microsoft
DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
Microsoft
Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Microsoft
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
The Linux Foundation
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