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Linux System Engineer

Executive Summary

DevOps system engineer with more than 25 years of hands on IT experience in UNIX/LINUX and Windows system engineering, integration and virtualization.

I’m a DevOps System Engineer with a wide knowledge of IT infrastructures, security, application services and how to integrate different computing platforms with each other. Has overall responsibility for the “blueprint” or technology architecture that drives the other services. Good communication skills preferable in the language the customer demands is necessary to understand the customer needs and implement their requirements in a practical way rather than theoretical.

Skills

Red Hat Linux	SuSe for SAP	AIX	Nutanix	Netapp Filer
Virtualization	Integration	Python	Shell scripting	Ansible
Puppet	Power VM	Oracle	MySQL	PostgreSQL
InfluxDB	Grafana	Docker	Linux-HA	Jenkins
Git	Kubernetes	Icinga	Foreman

Languages

English (Fluent), Dutch (Fluent), German (Good), French (Good)

Working Experience

Sopra Steria Urdorf, Switzerland (Senior System Engineer, 2021 - Sep. 2024)

• Operation and maintenance of road infrastructure surveillance system.
• DevOps and Cloud Engineer for External Client.
• Technical Support for Jira and Bitbucket.
• Consolidation of 7 separate Jira and Bitbucket instances into one central Instance.

Adfinis AG Bern, Switzerland (Linux System Engineer, 2019- 2020)

• Design and architect high availability solutions, applications and infrastructure, across data centers.
• Assist clients with the specific goal of increasing the automation, repeatability, and consistency of operational tasks.
• Hashicorp Vault installation and configuration on client sites.

Swatch Group Services Biel, Switzerland (Linux System Engineer, 2017 - 2019)

• Responsible for the Linux Infrastructure: RHEL, Ubuntu LTS on Nutanix, SuSe for SAP HANA on IBM Power.
• 3rd level support and document procedures for the Linux operations team.
• Participate in on-call rotation duties.

IMTF Givisiez, Switzerland (Senior Technical Integrator, 2005 - 2015)

• Planning installation, configuration and performance analysis of Document Management. Systems (Hypersuite) and Payment System (ZV/2)
• Installation, configuration and deployment of UNIX /AIX (HP, IBM, Sun) and Linux (Red Hat, Intel-Solaris) servers at client locations.
• Involvement and management of client projects.
• Technical support and client consulting.
• Installation, configuration and tuning of Oracle DBs.

IMTF Givisiez, Switzerland (Systems Administrator, 2002 - 2004)

• Responsible for the internal IT infrastructure: TCP/IP Network, Windows NT/2000/2003 servers, MS Exchange 2003, Linux (Debian, Redhat) servers.
• Deployment and troubleshooting of IPSec VPN Tunnels.
• Migration from NIS to Kerberos/LDAP authentication.
• Active monitoring of all network nodes and all servers.
• Technical support for internal users.

Ingersoll Rand, Switzerland (Manager Techical Support, 1998 - 2001)

• Responsible for the internal IT infrastructure: OpenVMS and AIX backend systems, Lotus Notes collaboration suite, Windows NT domain and workstation administration.

Ingersoll Rand, Switzerland (Unix/OpenVMS Engineer, 1995 - 1998)

• Installation, configuration and administration of UNIX (IBM AIX), Open VMS (DEC Alpha) and Linux (Redhat) servers.

Ingersoll Rand, Netherlands (Technical Support Assistant, 1989 - 1995)

• Technical Support of internal IT infrastructure: System/36, AS/400, RS/6000, Windows 3.11, Terminal Emulation and Lotus Notes.

Education & Qualifications

Analist/Programmer IBM AS/400 (Cobol) 1989
Art And Media Technologie 1988