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Ralf Ramge

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Last update: 28.03.2024

Cloud Architect, Terraform Specialist & IT Consultant

Company: ICT.technology
Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional)

Attachments

Ralf Ramge - Zertifikate und Referenzen.pdf
Ralf Ramge - References.pdf
ICT-technology-2023-english_201123.pdf
Ralf-Ramge-Profil-Deutschsprachige-Fassung_281223.pdf
Ralf-Ramge-Profile-International-Version_140324.pdf

Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems
Oracle Solaris 7/8/9/10/11  (21 years)
Oracle Autonomous Linux  (1 year)
Oracle Linux / Red Hat Enterprise Linux   (4 years)
Debian / Ubuntu Linux / Gentoo / Linux from Scratch  (17 years)

Cloud Architecture
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect (4 years)
Amazon Web Services (1 year)
Microsoft Azure (1 year)
Integration of public, private and hybrid clouds for enterprises  (4 years)

Automation
Infrastructure Provisioning (Continuous Deployment, Infrastructure-as-Code)  (3 years)
Service Discovery & Service Meshes, Microservices  (2 years)
Secrets Management & Data Protection (Security-as-Code)  (2 years)
Application Deployment & Management (Container, Batch, Legacy)  (1 year)
Implementation & Enforcement of Enterprise Policies (Policy-as-Code)  (1 year)
CI/CD Pipeline Automation, Continuous Deployment (2 years)

IT Management
Organizational and Cultural Transformation of Enterprises towards DevOps / Agile / Scrum (3 years)
Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (1 year)
Project Management (PMBOK) (12 years)

Tools
Terraform, Vault Consul (Open Source and Enterprise)  (3 years)
Nomad, Boundary, Waypoint (1 year)
CI/CD Pipelines, Git, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, Azure Devops, etc. (5 years)
Container (Docker), Kubernetes (2 years)
Atlassian Jira & Confluence Datacenter) (5 years)
RESTful APIs (via bash, jq, etc.) (3 years)


SOFT SKILLS
Methodical Skills
IT Service Management (ITIL)  (12 years)
Project Management (Project  Management Institute)  (2 years)
DevOps (Implementation, Training)  (6 years)
SCRUM  (6 years)
Agile principles  (6 years)
Service Design  (9 years)

Social Skills
Technical guidance, coaching and training  (11 years)
Customer point of view  (8 years)
Working in teams (primary role according to Belpin: Shaper)  (13 years)
Time Management  (10 years)
Recipient-oriented Communication  (4 years)

Leadership Skills
Technical leadership (10 years)
Personnel Leadership (2 years)
Decision-making and priorization  (9 years)
Continuous Improvement  (12 years)

Personal Traits
Able to work independently
Strong sense of responsibility
Proactive thinking and working style
Strong empathy for customer
Highly reliable
Cross-cultural Mindset

Project history

06/2023 - 12/2023
HashiCorp Consultant
E.ON SE (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)

  • Time-critical Migration of 16 Nomad clusters from an external CSP to in-house operations
  • Improvement of the production clusters concerning stability, availability and security
  • Enabling the in-house ops team to understand; operate and maintain the involved HashiCorp tools

06/2023 - 10/2023
AWS Cloud Architect & Terraform Consultant
Porsche AG (via Rackspace) (Automotive and vehicle construction, >10.000 employees)

  • Designing of an AWS Landingzone & Infrastructure for a 3D Modeling Software Project
  • Implementation  / Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

10/2022 - 01/2023
HashiCorp Expert (Terraform, Vault)
DEVK Deutsche Eisenbahn Versicherung Sach- und HUK-Versicherungsverein a.G. (Insurance, 5000-10.000 employees)

• HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Plus Pre-Sales and Consulting concerning Implementation and Integration
• Development of Terraform Modules for provisioning the Vault Cluster configurations and data, State Management implementation, Consulting

04/2022 - 09/2022
HashiCorp Terraform Expert
T-Systems (Switzerland) SA (Internet and Information Technology, >10.000 employees)

• Development of foundational dynamic Terraform modules for Open Telekom Cloud
• Development of Packer templates for creation of Custom Images RHEL 7/8/9, Windows Server 2022/2019/2016

08/2021 - 06/2022
OCI Architect / Terraform Expert
OPITZ CONSULTING Germany Ltd.

• Upgrade of the existing Terragrunt-based production environment from Terraform OSS 0.12 to 1.1, approx.. 450 Terraform state files with 1800 Terraform resources
• Analysis of the current Terraform environment including CI/CD processes
• Design and implementation of a cloud environment based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Design and implementation of automation processes based on Ansible
• Design and implementation of CI/CD processes based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

06/2019 - 09/2021
ICT Specialist
Federal Department of Defense (Switzerland) (Public service, 5000-10.000 employees)

• Design and introduction of a fully automated Continuous Deployment on-premise solution
• Assisting the transition of the IT department from waterfall to agile project management
• Training of federal employees

04/2021 - 08/2021
Head of Managed Cloud Services
Diso AG (Internet and Information Technology, 50-250 employees)

• IT leadership after the CIO left the company
• Design of business cases and migration scenarios of Managed Cloud Services based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• ISO 27001:2013 re--certification

01/2018 - 02/2019
Cloud Architect
BearingPoint Software Solutions Ltd. (Banks and financial services)

• Automation of a CI/CD environment for Abacus 360 banking software using Terraform
• Benchmarking and migration of IaaS Bare Metal environments from IBM Softlayer to Oracle Cloud

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
2023
AWS Partner Technical Accreditation
Amazon Webservices
2022
Vault: Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP)
2022
Microsoft Certified: Azure Foundations
2022
Terraform: Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP)
2021
HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate
2021
HashiCorp Certified Vault Associate
2021
HashiCorp Certified Consul Associate
2021
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Architect Associate
Oracle
2021
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Cloud Operations Associate
Oracle
2021
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Solution Engineer Specialist
Oracle
2021
LFS261: DevOps and SRE Fundamentals - Implementing Continuous Delivery
2021
LFS258: Kubernetes Fundamentals
2021
LFS253: Containers Fundamentals
2021
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2021
LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator
Linux Foundation
2020
Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)
2020
Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration
Oracle
2015

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