About me
Hi, my name is Florian Grummel. I live in Cologne, Germany and am an experienced Senior Cloud Solution Architect in Azure and also well skilled in AWS. I have been working meanwhile for one year as a freelancer, after I have quit my job after 5 years as Senior Cloud Solution Architect at a consulting company based in Cologne and Hamburg. There, I have had the chance to grow and learn a lot in countless enterprise scaling customer use cases and projects as well as in building and maintaining advanced and scalable Cloud Landing Zones.
When it comes to Cloud Architecture and Day-to-Day Operations, I am always claiming to automate as much as possible (If you do something once or twice only - click it; if you do it for the third time - have a script).
Therefore, I have learned a lot about Cloud provisioning processes using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and AWS CloudFormation Services, in the first place. As I have evolved in my projects and had the chance of learning about the pecularities of both of these techniques, I have specialized on automated IT Architecture deployment processes using Terraform Engine. This goes hand in hand with advanced and well thought Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes. (CI / CD)
Personally, I have specified on Azure DevOps for automating and controlling consecutive and advanced Deployment tasks via (reusable) Pipelines and to structure project planning as a whole. I trained myself in using Azure DevOps and got the chance to drive Workshops with Hands-On experience at several of our Enterprise scaling customers (150 participants).
Security is a key benefit of Cloud Architectures. While Security of the Cloud is in responsibility of Microsoft, AWS and co, I am your go-to guy when it comes to
Security in the Cloud. I can support you in Analyzing Logs and set up propper Monitoring and Alerts of your infrastructure. In my projects, I frequently work together with your Company's IT Security Department to set up architectures that meet your compliance requirements - in the cloud as well as when it comes to securing your On Premise Data Center.
Communication is key, so let me pick you up from where you are on your cloud journey and let's build your highly scalable - and always secure - Cloud Infrastructure of tomorrow.
I am also your partner when it comes to Containerization and Kubernetes Setup. As a Certified Kubernetes Administrator, I have demonstrated my knowledge in various projects for different customers.
Qualifications and Skills
- Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Landing Zones and Hub Spoke Network Architectures
- Declarative Infrastructure Provisioning (Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, AWS Cloudformation)
- Automation: CI / CD (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Scripting (Powershell, Bash, Python)
- Project Management
- Software Engineering - the Hard Stuff ;) (.NET C#, Java Enterprise Edition, Delphi, Java Spring)
- Kubernetes and Containerization (Certifiied Kubernetes Administrator in the making)
- Speaker
- Lecturing and Traning
Certifcations
- Certifiied Kubernetes Administrator
(March 2022)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
(May 2021)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty
(April 2021)
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
(March 2021)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
(January 2021)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
(December 2020)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
(October 2022)