2020-01-01-adfinis.md (3243B)
1 --- 2 layout: post 3 title: "Senior System Engineer, Adfinis AG, Zurich" 4 nicedate: Dec 2018 – Dec 2024 5 description: "Senior System Engineer, Adfinis AG, Zurich" 6 categories: [professional] 7 keywords: "occupation adfinis zurich linux engineering cloudnative hashicorp" 8 --- 9 10 Senior System Engineer at [{% octicon link-external %} Adfinis AG](https://adfinis.com) 11 12 <h2>Responsibilities</h2> 13 <ul class="list"> 14 <li><u>Project manager and tech lead</u> of small teams (3 to 4 people {% 15 octicon people %}) for multiple projects at the customer site</li> 16 <li><u>Technology owner for HashiCorp Vault</u>: Product documentation, best 17 practices, security issues, roadmap & service development, coordination 18 & communication with vendor and Adfinis teams</li> 19 <li>Operations, incident management, on-call and technical support</li> 20 <li>Pre-sales (offers & estimations) and solution architecture support</li> 21 </ul> 22 23 <h2>Activities</h2> 24 <ul class="list"> 25 <li><u>Automation and secrets management projects</u> (e.g., GitLab, Vault): 26 Requirements engineering, architecture & design, self-service, client 27 integrations in various {% octicon cloud %} environments (hybrid cloud, 28 on-prem, AWS, Azure, Google, etc.), platforms (VM, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and 29 industries with <u>DevOps methodology</u> (e.g., GitOps and CI/CD)</li> 30 <li>Build and introduce MaxScale and MariaDB {% octicon database %} <u>database 31 architecture</u> on RHEL at Swiss telco</li> 32 <li>Architecture & design, development and operations of a computing 33 platform for a Swiss school {% octicon mortar-board %} (Nextcloud, Collabora 34 Online, ProxySQL, MariaDB, Galera)</li> 35 <li><u>Maintenance and support for customer SLA</u> {% octicon goal %} systems 36 and services</li> 37 <li>Contributions (code, support) to various <u>upstream open source 38 projects</u></li> 39 <li><a href="{{ '/#speaking' | relative_url }}">Public talks</a> at various 40 meetups & conferences, customer presentations, demos {% octicon gift %}, <a href="{{ 41 '/#blogposts' | relative_url }}">blog posts</a></li> 42 </ul> 43 44 <h2>Products, technologies & protocols</h2> 45 Unforgivably unstructured tag cloud {% octicon tag %} {% octicon 46 cloud %} ..buzzwords: 47 <p><pre class="tag-cloud">MariaDB, MaxScale, ProxySQL, PostgreSQL, Keepalived, 48 DRBD, Pacemaker/Corosync, Ansible, CloudNative, HashiCorp (Vault, Consul, 49 Terraform, Boundary, Nomad, Packer), Kubernetes, Velero, Cilium, CSI, CNI, 50 OpenShift, RHEL, Debian, Linux, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, (mutual) TLS, Helm, 51 ArgoCD, YAML, Git(Lab), more YAML, Jenkins, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google cloud, 52 cloudscale, Exoscale, Nine, Icinga2, Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki, (client) 53 certificates, cert-manager, encryption, HSM, PKI, KMS, KMIP, HYOK, BYOK, key 54 management & brokering, Keycloak, IdP, ACME, IAM, PAM, Splunk, audit, 55 governance, self-service, API-first, REST, SSH, Socks, Proxy, Firewall, TOTP, 56 OAuth & OpenID Connect, JWT, LDAP, VPN, NFS, S3, MinIO, etcd..</pre></p> 57 <p>{% octicon file-badge %} Technology & product <a href="{{ '/#certs' | 58 relative_url }}">certifications</a></p> 59 60 <h2>Industries</h2> 61 <p>Banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, wholesale, 62 public administration, software development, telecommunications, etc.</p>