2020-01-01-adfinis.md (2230B)
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>Vault subject matter expert (technology owner)</u>: Product 17 documentation, best practices, security issues, roadmap & service 18 development, coordination & communication with vendor and Adfinis 19 teams</li> 20 <li>Operations, incident management, on-call and technical support</li> 21 <li>Pre-sales (offers & estimations) and solution architecture support</li> 22 </ul> 23 24 <h2>Activities</h2> 25 <ul class="list"> 26 <li><u>Automation and secrets management projects</u> (e.g., GitLab, Vault): 27 Requirements engineering, architecture & design, self-service, client 28 integrations in various {% octicon cloud %} environments (hybrid cloud, 29 on-prem, AWS, Azure, Google, etc.), platforms (VM, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and 30 industries with <u>DevOps methodology</u> (e.g., GitOps and CI/CD)</li> 31 <li>Build and introduce MaxScale and MariaDB {% octicon database %} <u>database 32 architecture</u> on RHEL at Swiss telco</li> 33 <li>Architecture & design, development and operations of a computing 34 platform for a Swiss school {% octicon mortar-board %} (Nextcloud, Collabora 35 Online, ProxySQL, MariaDB, Galera)</li> 36 <li><u>Maintenance and support for customer SLA</u> {% octicon goal %} systems 37 and services</li> 38 <li>Contributions (code, support) to various <u>upstream open source 39 projects</u></li> 40 <li><a href="{{ '/#speaking' | relative_url }}">Public talks</a> at various 41 meetups & conferences, customer presentations, demos {% octicon gift %}, <a href="{{ 42 '/#blogposts' | relative_url }}">blog posts</a></li> 43 </ul> 44 45 <h2>Industries</h2> 46 <p>Banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, wholesale, 47 public administration, software development, telecommunications, etc.</p>