Senior System Engineer at Adfinis AG

Responsibilities

  • Project manager and tech lead of small teams (3 to 4 people ) for multiple projects at the customer site
  • Vault subject matter expert (technology owner): Product documentation, best practices, security issues, roadmap & service development, coordination & communication with vendor and Adfinis teams
  • Operations, incident management, on-call and technical support
  • Pre-sales (offers & estimations) and solution architecture support

Activities

  • Automation and secrets management projects (e.g., GitLab, Vault): Requirements engineering, architecture & design, self-service, client integrations in various environments (hybrid cloud, on-prem, AWS, Azure, Google, etc.), platforms (VM, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and industries with DevOps methodology (e.g., GitOps and CI/CD)
  • Build and introduce MaxScale and MariaDB database architecture on RHEL at Swiss telco
  • Architecture & design, development and operations of a computing platform for a Swiss school (Nextcloud, Collabora Online, ProxySQL, MariaDB, Galera)
  • Maintenance and support for customer SLA systems and services
  • Contributions (code, support) to various upstream open source projects
  • Public talks at various meetups & conferences, customer presentations, demos , blog posts

Products, technologies & protocols

Unforgivably unstructured tag cloud ..buzzwords:

MariaDB, MaxScale, ProxySQL, PostgreSQL, Keepalived,
DRBD, Pacemaker/Corosync, Ansible, CloudNative, HashiCorp (Vault, Consul,
Terraform, Boundary, Nomad, Packer), Kubernetes, Velero, Cilium, CSI, CNI,
OpenShift, RHEL, Debian, Linux, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, (mutual) TLS, Helm,
ArgoCD, YAML, Git(Lab), more YAML, Jenkins, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google cloud,
cloudscale, Exoscale, Nine, Icinga2, Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki, (client)
certificates, cert-manager, encryption, HSM, PKI, KMS, KMIP, HYOK, BYOK, key
management & brokering, Keycloak, IdP, ACME, IAM, PAM, Splunk, audit,
governance, self-service, API-first, REST, SSH, Socks, Proxy, Firewall, TOTP,
OAuth & OpenID Connect, JWT, LDAP, VPN, NFS, S3, MinIO, etcd..

Technology & product certifications

Industries

Banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, wholesale, public administration, software development, telecommunications, etc.