Alexander Meise

Previous Experience - 2019-2022

Technical

• Support heterogeneous client’s CLOUD infrastrucure: whole lifecycle. Mainly AWS but also GCP.

• Deploy new infrastructure environments and solve complexities, find solutions to technical problems with creativity. Maintain/Take On cloud infrastructure and try to automate everything.

• Setup, secure, configure and maintain Kubernetes clusters and Modules. Upgrade clusters and addons. Fight with deprecations. Evolve systems and solutions, share the knowledge.

• Strong focus on infrastructure as code and Configuration Management. Not only deploy infra as code but also make it easy for someone else to repeat. Document your decisions.

• High Availability, Monitoring, build reliable systems that auto scale and auto heal.

Soft

• Lead Projects and areas of expertise when needed and be able to transfer the knowledge during the process/afterwards.

• Reliability and accountability: I need to get involved.

• Teamwork: discuss solutions with team mates to find the best way forward. collaborate, mentor, help, participate, learn.

• Maintain a good and healhty relationship between technical and business/comunication skills.

Previous Experience - Until 2019.

Technical

• Migrating hundreds of IIS websites
• Migrating applications from Red Hat 5 to Red Hat 7 from windows 2003 to windows 2012
• Setting up new environments with puppet
• Migrating Applications between Data Centers
• Migrating w2000 legacy applications to w2012 with no documentation
• Scripting and automating commond Run & Maintain Tasks
• Experience being ONCALL for High Availability Environments

ITIL

• Change Management -> Creation of changes, defending changes, implementing them.
• Problem Management -> Creation of Problems, Follow-up and closure (whole lifecycle), implementation of directives.
• Incident Management -> Creation, Resolution and prevention of Incident Tickets. Reports.
• Kwoledge Management -> Lyfecycle of the documentation, Runbooks, etc ..
• Risk Managemenent.

Business

• Travelling on site to help on migrations, analyse problems and present solutions
• Practicipated in several transformations and leaded the way in most of them
• Survived transformations and start-from-scratch roles

TeamWork

• Communication Skills
• Integration in new teams
• Participation in the creation of new teams
• Communication with other teams
• Work with a globally-distributed team
• Work in a multi-cultural environment
• Work Remotely

Roles

• SysAdmin (Run & Maintain, Documentation, work offshore)
• Continuity and Improvement team member (Incident, Problem and Risk, Documentation, multicultural team)
• SME Microsoft Applications (Migrations and new insfrastructure Projects, Documentation, team work, travel on site)
• DevOps (Automation and support, work remote, work on site)