Senior DevOps Engineer

8/2020 – 10/2023

• Responsible for the entire global Hawk:AI Infrastructure -
this includes Cloud, K8s, security, reliability, automation
processes and system health
• Leading a team of eight people in three different time
zones and empower them to automate every single aspect
of our day-to-day business
• Introduced GitOps principles Companywide, utilizing a
wide variety of cutting-edge technologies
• Operating eight production and three non-production k8s
environments around the globe on AWS and Azure and
ensure seemingless releases of new versions to them
• Introduced Chaos Engineering and dynamic Loadtesting
strategies to proof 100% resiliency even on Availability
zone level outages
• Convinced multiple high-class banks and financial
providers to trust Hawk:AI with their most valuable assets
– their customer transactions

Container Management, Apache Kafka, DevOps, Cyber Security, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Cloud (allg.), Infrastrukturarchitektur, Kubernetes

2/2019 – 8/2020

• Responsible for the strategic alignment and further development of the business intelligence department
• Leading a team of nine people from descriptive Analytics to prescriptive Analytics
• Providing companywide insights and intelligence based on various technologies and data
• Successfully operate several hundred microservices on several Kubernetes environments in AWS

Container Management, Data Science, Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Apache Kafka, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Kubernetes

5/2017 – 2/2019

• Maintaining and developing the production environment based on Docker and Rancher (Cattle) as container orchestrator in AWS and in our own data center
• Maintaining a Big Data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka
• Established a real time analytics cluster with Apache Druid and Apache Superset
• Securing services with advanced monitoring and alerting using Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana and Slack
• Set up a continuous deployment pipeline using GitLab/Sonarqube/Nexus to ensure several deployments a day in production
• Introduced a resilient DevOps approach. Goal: To make our microservices robust and self-healing

Container Management, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Infrastrukturarchitektur, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Software Architecture