Profile
Experienced Network Engineer with a history of working for an ISP & IXP, deploying highly reliable network solutions on a large scale.
Experiences
The previous company was bought by WIIT AG. Additionally:
- Creating training courses & materials for colleagues
- Maintaining an IPv6 mostly management infrastructure and combining the different networks of the former companies
- Interims Teamlead Network Operations
- BSI IT-Grundschutz Certification
- BSI KRITIS Certification
- ISO 27001 Certification
- Responsible for Firewalling & Network Security
- Responsible for our Infrastructure Management based on ansible
- Maintaining the MPLS ring’s betweens our datacenters
- Consulting for other Teams in regards to questions about networking, (network) security & IPv6
- Working as a technical expert during incidents as part of the companies incident response team as well as participating in the on-call schedule to satisfy our customers needs in highly reliable systems
- Developing & maintaining specialised solutions based on customer needs.
- Supporting the IT needs for small & medium NGOs
- Creating specialised tools
- Consulting on network and network security needs
- Planning and operating event networks & infrastructure
- Performing troubleshooting for Juniper-, Cisco-, and Fortinet Appliances to ensure a reliable network for our customers
- Managing Firewalls and VPN Systems, keeping up the high security demands for our customers, as well as our internal systems
- Working as a technical expert during incidents as part of the companies incident response team as well as participating in the on-call schedule to satisfy our customers needs in highly reliable systems
- Managed the web servers, hosting company owned and customer websites with Plesk, nginx and apache2
- Deployed and managed the corporates antivirus and security solution, including the whole corporates technical systems, resulting in an increased overall security for the company
- Designed, planned, deployed, and leading the implementation project of the new company network infrastructure, incorporating Juniper products, including routers, switches, and firewalls, consolidating a highly heterogeneous network into a much easier to manage setup, resulting in a increased system reliability and security
- Management of the servers, vmhosts, and virtual machines for the hosting of the web applications provided to customers, as well as internal services using state of the art technology like nginx
- Learned about security services by working in multiple implementation projects for security services, like fortigate and sophos firewalls
- Learned about network and server side automation to automatically deploy new and maintain existing applications inside the company as well as customer applications
- Deployed a new asset management solution to effectively keeping track of the companies assets across the workplaces and inside the datacenter
- Managed the Windows 7 environment inside the company
- Worked in the IT-HelpDesk for the internal staff to ensure smooth day-to-day operations of the company
Projects
These are some projects I'm currently a part of or where formerly a part of:
rC3
- Technical Lead for the rC3 infrastructure Team & the rC3 (until 2022)
RegattaTech.DE
- Applications for Dragonboat Events.
161host.NET
- Hosting for leftist groups & organisations
Event Logistics @ CCC Events
- At the on-premise events of the CCC I'm working in the internal logistics.
Jugend hackt Infrastructure
- Together with others we build a system based on open source tools for Jugend hackt Events & Labs
Extra-Curricular Activities
2015 - present
2020 - 2022
2021 - present
2024 - present