2020-01-01-adfinis.md (3253B)
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>Products, technologies & protocols</h2> 46 Unforgivably unstructured tag cloud {% octicon tag %} {% octicon 47 cloud %} ..buzzwords: 48 <p><pre class="tag-cloud">MariaDB, MaxScale, ProxySQL, PostgreSQL, Keepalived, 49 DRBD, Pacemaker/Corosync, Ansible, CloudNative, HashiCorp (Vault, Consul, 50 Terraform, Boundary, Nomad, Packer), Kubernetes, Velero, Cilium, CSI, CNI, 51 OpenShift, RHEL, Debian, Linux, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, (mutual) TLS, Helm, 52 ArgoCD, YAML, Git(Lab), more YAML, Jenkins, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google cloud, 53 cloudscale, Exoscale, Nine, Icinga2, Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki, (client) 54 certificates, cert-manager, encryption, HSM, PKI, KMS, KMIP, HYOK, BYOK, key 55 management & brokering, Keycloak, IdP, ACME, IAM, PAM, Splunk, audit, 56 governance, self-service, API-first, REST, SSH, Socks, Proxy, Firewall, TOTP, 57 OAuth & OpenID Connect, JWT, LDAP, VPN, NFS, S3, MinIO, etcd..</pre></p> 58 <p>{% octicon file-badge %} Technology & product <a href="{{ '/#certs' | 59 relative_url }}">certifications</a></p> 60 61 <h2>Industries</h2> 62 <p>Banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, wholesale, 63 public administration, software development, telecommunications, etc.</p>