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System and Solution Architect

Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional) | Russian (Elementary)

Keywords

Skills

  • Datacenter Virtualization automation and implementation: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox, Linux KVM
  • Software development/forking of tools, web, client and server software to improve productivity using common programming and scripting languages: C#, Perl, Ruby, PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash, Batch, PowerShell, Python, …
  • SQL database cluster setup and administration: MS SQL, MySQL
  • Webserver configuration, load balancing and caching technologies for distributed and high-performance systems: Apache, nginx, haproxy, IIS, IBM WAS
  • Server/hardware installation and troubleshooting: HPE ProLiant / BladeSystem / Synergy, Dell PowerEdge, IBM Power / System x, Sun, Oracle
  • Storage Systems configuration and administration: HPE EVA / 3Par / D2D, NetApp, EMC Isilon, BlueArc, Synology, VMware vSAN
  • Monitoring infrastructure implementation: Micro Focus SiteScope, Check_MK, Paessler PRTG
  • Network infrastructure planning and implementation: HP ProCurve, HP IMC, Cisco Catalyst, Dell Networking, Mikrotik RouterOS, Fortinet Fortigate
  • Storage infrastructure administration: Brocade FabricOS Fiber Channel, iSCSI, HP SANXpert
  • Backup tools implementation and administration: HP Data Protector, Bareos, ReaR, Synology Hyper Backup, Symantec / Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam
  • IP Address Management and Design (IPAM): Infoblox DDI, Microsoft DHCP, Microsoft DNS
  • Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Apps Scripts, Scaleway Cloud Platform, Lambda Functions, Serverless, Mailjet, Amazon SES
  • Email system setup, administration, troubleshooting: Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), qmail, dovecot, spamdyke, IMAP, SRS, SPF, DMARC, DKIM, horde webmail, Mailjet, Amazon SES

Project history

02/2020 - 12/2020
Interim System and Solution Architect
Nintendo of Europe

Role: Ensuring and optimizing the stability of the internal cloud platform, refresh the backup and recovery concept + monitoring. Planning of upgrades/hardening/virtualization of legacy systems. Coordination of maintenance work / communication with those responsible at remote locations. Analysis of the existing infrastructure and suggest improvements or immediate implementation / planning / coordination of these.
Tools: VMware ESXi, vSAN, HCIBench, PowerShell, Ansible Tower, PowerCLI, Checkmk, Netapp e-Series, HPE Synergy, Linux, Veeam, AWS S3, Brocade SAN, CodeIgniter

06/2019 - 10/2019
Interim System and Solution Architect
***abu GmbH

Role: Ensuring and optimizing the stability of the core network, challenging the backup and recovery concept + monitoring. Planning of upgrades/hardening/virtualization of legacy systems. Coordination of maintenance work / communication with those responsible at remote locations. Analysis of the existing infrastructure and suggest improvements or immediate implementation / planning / coordination of these.
Tools: Veeam, Kaspersky, VMware, Hyper-V, Backup Exec, PRTG, Synology, Cisco Catalyst, VLAN, VSS, STP (Spanning Tree), Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL, IBM WAS (WebSphere Application Server)

02/2018 - 03/2019
System and Solution Architect
Micro Focus

Problem: When HPE Software and Micro Focus merged, all systems had to be reconfigured (VMware, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, network switches, storage systems, ...). There was no configuration management system shared by all departments.
Role: Decision about make-or-buy, followed by architecture, planning (roadmap, effort, resources), management (5-member development team in England, Germany, Australia), development, and documentation of the system for the automated migration and reporting of the basic system configurations of all systems in the environment. For this purpose, the development team was set up after interviews, an Ansible/Puppet/Chef-like framework was developed and used in several project phases by the project and analyst team against ~70,000 systems. Communication, exchange and coordination with all departments and senior management was the basis of every project phase.
Tools: PowerShell, SSH, Bash, PowerCLI, HTTP, JSON, git, NoSQL memcached, BITS, HPE DataProtector, SiteScope, Infoblox IPAM / DDI, DNS, DHCP, PowerPoint, Visio, OneNote, SharePoint, Windows Server, Linux

08/2016 - 02/2018
Systems Architect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Role: Development of a tool to automatically install, configure and integrate VMware ESXi Server on HPE Proliant Server into the VMware vCenter.
Tools: VMware vCenter, HTTP, HP ILO, PowerShell, PowerCLI, pexpect, Python

Role: Architecture, construction, documentation and move-to-production of a distributed, high-availability file version management system
Tools: VisualSVN Server, SVN, haproxy, keepalived, nginx, Windows Server, Linux Server, HPE Data Protector.

Role: Interim management and consulting of the internal Infoblox DDI IPAM team. Communication with the manufacturer, resellers, the site managers and the upper management were the core of the task next to documentation, analyse current setup, further development and optimizations in order to save costs.
Tools: Infoblox IPAM / DDI, DNS, DHCP, Visio, PowerPoint, OneNote

Role: Consulting, planning and partial configuration for the replacement of the core network switches (Cisco)

Role: Set-up, documentation, and delivery of a global high-available McAfee ePO antivirus solution for ~15 sites.
Tools: McAfee ePO, Microsoft IIS, Windows Server, HP SiteScope, PowerShell, SCCM, GPO

Role: Development, documentation, and rollout of a tool for automated configuration of HPE ILO configuration using PowerShell.
Tools: HPE ILO, RIBCL, HTTP, PowerShell

06/2014 - 07/2016
Systems Architect
Mackevision Medien Design GmbH

Role: Inventory, expansion and documentation of the network infrastructure in order to guarantee performance and network stability for the growing company. The core of the project was troubleshooting the intermittent errors of the core network, bug-reporting and analysis with the manufacturer, negotiations with the manufacturer, replace the faulty components and the development of a new Core-Spine-Leaf network architecture.
Tools: Dell Network switches, VLAN, Spanning Tree (STP), LACP, Fortinet FortiGate

Role: Further development of the backup infrastructure for all existing systems in the company such as servers, network components, storage and end-user systems.
Tools: Bareos, ReaR, Confluence, Symantec Backup Exec, Linux, Windows Server

Role: Evaluation and feasibility study of several solutions to make central storage resources available to several locations. Test hardware was provided by Avere Systems, which was first tested for feasibility on site using network latency simulations and then was provided to other sites for on-site user-acceptance testing.
Tools: Avere Systems Edge Filer, EMC Isilon

Role: Evaluation and test implementation of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) using Teradici PCoIP for the visual effects artists activities which required low latency.
Tools: VDI, Teradici PCoIP

Role: Further development of a monitoring solution to monitor worldwide resources and to enable faster response times.
Tools: Check_MK, Nagios, git

08/2010 - 05/2014
IT Systems Administrator
Hewlett Packard

Role: Architecture, management (3-member development team) and development of a self-service portal for the automated provisioning of VMs, hard disk storage and network resources. This became a private cloud used by the global software development team and replaced the manual provisioning process.
Tools: VMware PowerCLI + PowerShell (Backend), CakePHP (Frontend), Apache (Webservice), git, HP EVA storage, SSSU, Brocade SAN, Windows Server, Linux

Role: Scaling the VMware virtualization platform to HP ProLiant and c7000 Blade Enclosures to allow the global team access to the newly developed provisioning platform.
Tools: VMware ESXi, HP c7000 Blade Enclosures, HP ProLiant, HP ProCurve, VLAN, LACP

Role: Building a highly available Microsoft SQL cluster which was provided as a service for the internal development teams.
Tools: Windows Server, MS SQL Server, VMware ESXi

Role: Management (2-member development team) and development of a process and tools to distribute large files (VM templates) to internal teams worldwide and to enable fast synchronization.
Tools: PowerShell, git, Windows Server

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