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Senior Infoblox DDI SME

London, United Kingdom
Worldwide
London, United Kingdom
Worldwide

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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)Technical SupportInformation Technology ConsultingConsultingDynamic Host Configuration ProtocolDevOpsDomain Name System (DNS)IPv4IPv6Network SecurityNetwork TestingData Protection
As a Senior Infoblox DDI SME, I provide expert IT support globally, on a consultancy basis for numerous Big and Enterprise Businesses in various industries. I have over ten years of experience in this role.

My core competencies include IPv6 and IPv4 migrations, IPAM DNS and DHCP management, network testing and troubleshooting, and network security and data protection. I have successfully redesigned, implemented, and optimized multiple Infoblox DDI grids for different clients, using the latest technologies and best practices. I have also supported DevOps teams for API-based management and enabled iBGP Anycast service for enhanced performance and availability.
I am passionate about delivering high-quality solutions that meet the clients' needs and expectations, and that align with the industry standards and regulations.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since1999

Languages

GermanNative speakerEnglishFluent

Project history

Senion Infoblox DDI SME

Debeka

Insurance

500-1000 team member

- Redesign of existing Infoblox DDI Design in relation to legal requirements - Provide DDI knowledge for DDI automatisation
- Retire old Bind9 Infrastructure and migrate to Production DDI
- Support DEV/Ops for API based Management
- Analyse and troubleshoot DDI Grids

Solution Architect and technical lead Infoblox DDI

LSEG

Banking & Financial Services

1000-5000 team member

- Redesign AWS located Infoblox Grid (Nios 8.4.x) for extension to on-prem - Design HA capabilities for Prod, Preprod and DEV Grids
- Implement iBGP Anycast service for the client
- Optimise DNS traffic flows regarding existing forwarder layer
- Retire old Bind9 Infrastructure and migrate to Production DDI
- Support DEV/Ops for API based Management
- Analyse and troubleshoot DDI Grids
- Migration of multiple Infoblox Grids into one management Grid
- Design and Implement Infoblox Network-Insight

Infoblox DDI Engineer

LSEG Data & Analytics

Banking & Financial Services

1000-5000 team member

- Support DEV/Ops for API based Infoblox Management
- Analyse and troubleshoot DDI Grids
- Provide support for internal Customer

Infrastructure Specialist & SysOps Engineer

ORANGE BUS LIMITED

Internet & IT

50-250 team member

• Served as Infrastructure Architect and SysOps Engineer to Design, build and deploy a centralized DNS, DHCP and IP address management solution (IPAM).
• Creation and implementation of a distributed MySQL database cluster and automatic backup functions.
• Development and setup of a high available Authentication and Authorization Platform with LDAP/ Radius.
• Implementation of a Central Monitoring System for Performance and Alarming and as well for Infrastructure Monitoring with SNMP
• Creation of an AWS architecture to support the customer's own Datacenters and establishment of a VPN / IPSec backbone network for management communication. Development and implementation of basic AWS security features, routing and access control policies.
• Creation of AWS launch templates and setup of an ECS-Docker Cluster and applications running on it. • Creation of a certification authority (rootCA) for x509 certificates with OpenXPKI and generation of all necessary certificates for the complete infrastructure management system.

Tools: PowerDNS, phpIPAM, Kea-DHCP v4/6, Percona XtraDB Cluster, XEN, Proxmox, Debian
Linux, RHEL7, Zabbix, NetXMS, Freeradius, OpenLDAP, HAProxy, dnsdist, AWS, ECS, VPC. EC2, Strongswan IPSec, Cisco ASA, VPN, OpenXPKI, x509, RSA Certificates, PKI, IPv4, NTP, Jira, Confluence

Senior Core Network Analyst

Signal Iduna Group

Insurance

1000-5000 team member

• Delivered expert support (Agile/Scrum) for various technical projects management
• Assisted with the planning and implementation of IPv6 migration and a planned IPv4 / IPv6 Network Migration
• Gave instructions on topics specific to IPv6 VPN Access (NCP, Lancom, IPSec)
• IPv6 implementation in the IT enterprise environment systems
Tools: Scrum, Kanban, Agile, Efficient IP IPAM DDI, IPv6, IPv4, Wireshark, VPN, IPSec, NCP VPN, Lancom VPN, RIPE NCC LIR, Linux, MS Office, OmniGaffle, Visio

Senior Core Network Engineer

Fraunhofer Institute

Other

>10.000 team member

• Provided guidance to the team to deliver IP address management (IPAM)
• IP address management (DNS / DHCP) support in daily operations for Core Network Services
• Developed IPv4 / IPv6 network applications, including IP address management systems, DNS/DHCP, Network Monitoring and NTP

Tools: Bluecat Address Manager (DDI), Linux, VMware ESXi, OSX

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