Design & setup of global corporate Azure environment
Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer
Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer
Assessed the newly built ?beta version? of the global enterprise Azure environment to extend / improve it to become truly enterprise ready and scalable to fit all new cloud native application needs and to migrate off all workloads from on-premise data centers.
Based on Microsoft Enterprise Scale Framework: revisited / redesigned / reengineered:
Management Groups and Landing Zone design
Infrastructure as code / cloud automation stack & reusability across the organization
Central logging solution incl. SIEM (Sentinel)
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model incl. Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Cloud governance enforcement using Azure Policies
Cloud Security Posture Management using Azure Defender
Hub & spoke networking & on-prem connectivity
High availability / Disaster Recovery capabilities
Established cloud cost transparency via reporting and defined cloud cost management tactics (right-scaling, reserved instances, auto-scaling, auto-shutdown, etc.)
Designed / setup the new global Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) with its processes and shared responsibility model for decentral DevSecOps application teams
Consulted, advised and accompanied application teams to design cloud native application architectures and to migrate into the new Azure cloud environment
Designed / engineered dozens of reusable Terraform code modules to deploy the complete cloud platform and to deploy various Azure IaaS and PaaS in application projects
Guidelines and Guardrails to integrate Azure PaaS / IaaS offerings into corporate cloud environment & global Cloud Automation Platform
Senior Cloud ArchitectAzure IaaS and PaasTerraformAzure Policies
Senior Cloud Architect
Designed / defined the binding guidelines and guardrails to integrate Azure PaaS / IaaS offerings into the corporate cloud environment. Focus hereby on Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL, Azure App Service, Azure Virtual Machine and the topics Backup & Restore, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Scalability, Networking, Governance via Azure Policies
Designed global Cloud Automation Platform and collaboration processes based on Terraform and vRealize to allow decentral DevSecOps Teams and central Managed Service Teams to jointly develop and reuse code and patterns
Redesigned and engineered the global corporate Azure environment for IaaS and PaaS/cloud native workloads based on Microsoft Enterprise Scale Framework
Designed and engineered infrastructure as code / cloud automation
Designed and engineered central logging aggregation solution for SIEM integration
Designed and engineered cloud governance using Azure Policies
Designed and engineered corporate firewall and network automation for zero-trust hub & spoke networking
Designed and engineered cloud infrastructure monitoring and alerting
Consulted, advised and accompanied global application teams in their migration efforts into the new Azure cloud environment
Worked in the global Architecture Review Board to ensure that applications are built in a cloud first / cloud native manner
Helped to setup the new global Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) and led the Cloud Architecture Team within the CCoE
Microsoft Enterprise Scale FrameworkMicrsoft Well-Architected FrameworkAzure PaaS / IaaSPowershellARMTerraformAzure PoliciesCloud Automation / Infrastructure as CodeAgile Engineering using Scrum
Insurance
München
3 Jahre
2018-01 - 2020-12
Design and setup new global corporate Data & Analytics environment on Azure
Senior Cloud Architect for Data & AnalyticsAzureData LakeBig Data & Analytics...
Senior Cloud Architect for Data & Analytics
Worked as Lead Architect and designed the new Azure cloud based corporate Data Lake / Big Data & Analytics platform to make it truly globally distributed and scalable to meet local data residency and regulatory compliance needs
Designed the infrastructure as code / cloud automation
Designed & managed the migration of the existing on-premises big data environment to the new cloud platform
Managed a Scrum team of DevSecOps team with 15 engineers on a daily basis as Tech Lead to build the cloud platform
Mentored and coached several junior colleagues
AzurePowershellARMAzure DevOpsADLS Gen1/Gen2DatabricksHDInsightAzure SearchAzure Cosmos DBAzure SQLAzure Data FactoryCosmos DB
AzureData LakeBig Data & AnalyticsPowershellARMCloud Automation / Infrastructure as CodeAgile Engineering using Scrum
Insurance
München
1 Jahr 4 Monate
2016-09 - 2017-12
Design and setup of corporate Data Lake
Big Data EngineerData Lake designData Intake / ETLAutomation...
Big Data Engineer
Designed the corporate data lake
Engineered the automation of the data lake areas
Designed and engineered a dockerized Java microservice framework for data intake into the data lake
Managed a Scrum team of 8 developers on a daily basis as Tech Lead to build the above
HadoopHDFSHiveSparkHDInsightJava SpringPythonDockerHadoop ecosystem (HDFSSpark) on-prem and HDInsight on Azure
Data Lake designData Intake / ETLAutomationAzureAgile Engineering using Scrum
Designed multiple solutions with a contract volume between EUR 5-10m for German DAX companies in different industries for big data and data warehouse solutions
Designed the technical solution and estimated the effort to build it in numerous sales / pre-sales engagements
Engineered the designed solutions with teams of 5-15 developers (on-/off-/near-shore) and managed them daily as a Tech Lead
Mentored and coached several junior colleagues
Primary industry and subject area focus: Automotive (Supply Chain Analytics), Chemicals (Smart Farming Analytics), Travel and Transportation (IoT, Predictive Maintenance, Customer Loyalty)
Engineer / Architect for ETL, Data Warehouse, Big Data, Data & AnalyticsData WarehouseData LakeETL...
Engineer / Architect for ETL, Data Warehouse, Big Data, Data & Analytics
Designed & engineered various solutions for medium size and large size (German DAX) companies in different industries for big data, data lake, ETL, data warehouse and reporting solutions
Worked in different roles hereby: started as Engineer / Developer, continued to Architect and finally progressed to helding the Lead Architect role, being responsible for managing development teams of 5-15 developers (on-/off-/near-shore)
Data WarehouseData LakeETLData ModellingData Quality ScorecardsAutomationReporting / DashboardingAgile Engineering using Scrum
Various customers in different industries
Germany / Austria / Eastern Europe
2 Jahre 3 Monate
2009-06 - 2011-08
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solutions
Senior ConsultantSSISTalendERWin...
Senior Consultant
Designed multiple solutions with a contract volume between EUR 1-5m for German DAX companies and medium sized business in different industries for corporate reporting and ETL architectures
Designed the technical solution and estimated the effort to build it in numerous sales / pre-sales engagements
Engineered the designed solutions with teams of 10 developers (on-shore) and managed them daily as Tech Lead
Primary industry and subject area focus: Automotive (After Sales Optimization), Telecoms (Enterprise Data Warehousing), Public Sector (Federal Budget Planning & Controlling)
SSISTalendERWinOracle IBM Cognos
Woodmark Consulting
Munich
3 Jahre 6 Monate
2005-12 - 2009-05
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solutions
ConsultantSSISERWinTeradata...
Consultant
Designed and engineered ETL processes for populating data warehouses
Designed and engineered BI reports
Engineered the designed solutions with teams of 3-5 developers (on-/off-/near-shore) and managed them daily as Tech Lead
Primary industry and subject area focus: Public Sector (Federal Budget Planning & Controlling, Data Warehouse), Telecoms (Churn prediction, Call Detail Record (CDR) integration)
SSISERWinTeradataOracleSQL ServerIBM Cognos
Siemens IT Solutions and Services
Vienna
Aus- und Weiterbildung
Aus- und Weiterbildung
1 Monat
2023-09 - 2023-09
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Certification number: I402-5942
1 Monat
2023-07 - 2023-07
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Certification number: I612-4240
3 Jahre 11 Monate
2001-09 - 2005-07
Information Management
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), University of Applied Sciences Graz
Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
University of Applied Sciences Graz
Position
Position
IT Cloud Architecture (Azure)
IT Cloud Engineering / Automation
Data & Analytics Cloud Architecture (Azure)
Data & Analytics Engineering
Kompetenzen
Kompetenzen
Top-Skills
AzureCloud automationCloud native application designEnterprise cloud architectureOn-premises application migration to the cloudCloud governance / securityCloud cost optimizationInfrastructure as codeSystem to system automationIaaS and PaaS solutions in AzureBig Data AnalyticsETL / data integrationAgile software development (Scrum)CI/CDAzure DevOpsPowershellPythonARMTerraformMicroservice architectures & containerizationData Lake
Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden
.
Profile:
I am a seasoned IT architect and engineer who has spent his entire professional life designing and delivering IT solutions
My career started in the field of data & analytics in traditional on-premise environments and progressed to enterprise cloud environments and infrastructure as code in 2017
I have 6+ years full-time experience in building corporate cloud environments and cloud solutions on Azure ? from small to very large globally distributed ones
While I enjoy doing the design work for cloud solutions, I am also passionate about actively building them ?hands-on? in DevSecOps teams
Having worked as IT consultant delivering projects to customers for 11 years as well as having held senior inhouse positions in a big international company in the financial industry for more then 6 years, I offer a solid track record and extensive experience to successfully deliver IT solutions at any scale
Core Competencies:
Cloud
Enterprise cloud architecture
Designing and engineering of enterprise cloud environments in Azure based on Microsoft Enterprise Scale Framework for large scale corporations (> 10.000 employees)
Cloud application solution design
Designing cloud native applications (leveraging PaaS/containerization) in Azure using Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
On-premises application migration to the cloud
Migrating existing IaaS workloads to the cloud and/or rearchitecting the solutions to become cloud native
Cloud governance / security
Designing and engineering cloud governance / security management and enforcement using Azure policies, Azure Monitor, cost management, Resource Graph Explorer, etc.
Infrastructure as code & cloud automation
Designing and engineering idempotent cloud automation using Powershell, ARM. Azure Blueprints and Terraform
System to system automation
Designing and engineering (REST based) automation using Powershell and Python to integrate various IT systems (e.g. firewalls, IP address management systems, DNS, configuration management databases, etc.)
IaaS and PaaS solutions in Azure
Broad knowledge of Azure services to design and build cloud native solutions
Data
Big data / data lake / data warehouse architectures
Designing and engineering data lakes and federated enterprise data warehouse systems
ETL / data integration
Designing and engineering batch and micro-batch data integration jobs using SQL and ETL tools
Data modelling
Designing data models based on 3rd normal form, star/snowflake and data vault design principles
Data quality scorecards
Designing and engineering data quality rules and scorecards to constantly manage and track the state of data quality to improve it
Relational databases
Developing solutions based on SQL Server and Teradata
Software Engineering
Agile software development
using Scrum
CI/CD
Designing and engineering build/release pipelines using GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps
Source code management
using Git
Microservice architectures & containerization
Designing and building Docker containers for REST based microservices using Java Spring Boot
Day-to-day management of engineering teams
Managing engineering teams (on-/near-/offshore) on a daily basis as Tech Lead
Mentoring and coaching
training, mentoring and coaching of junior colleagues/consultants
Programmiersprachen
Powershell
Python
SQL
Java
ARM
Terraform
Branchen
Branchen
Insurance
Automotive
Chemicals
Travel and Transportation
Telecoms
Public Sector
Einsatzorte
Einsatzorte
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich
Projekte
Projekte
6 Monate
2023-04 - 2023-09
Design & setup of global corporate Azure environment
Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer
Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer
Assessed the newly built ?beta version? of the global enterprise Azure environment to extend / improve it to become truly enterprise ready and scalable to fit all new cloud native application needs and to migrate off all workloads from on-premise data centers.
Based on Microsoft Enterprise Scale Framework: revisited / redesigned / reengineered:
Management Groups and Landing Zone design
Infrastructure as code / cloud automation stack & reusability across the organization
Central logging solution incl. SIEM (Sentinel)
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model incl. Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Cloud governance enforcement using Azure Policies
Cloud Security Posture Management using Azure Defender
Hub & spoke networking & on-prem connectivity
High availability / Disaster Recovery capabilities
Established cloud cost transparency via reporting and defined cloud cost management tactics (right-scaling, reserved instances, auto-scaling, auto-shutdown, etc.)
Designed / setup the new global Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) with its processes and shared responsibility model for decentral DevSecOps application teams
Consulted, advised and accompanied application teams to design cloud native application architectures and to migrate into the new Azure cloud environment
Designed / engineered dozens of reusable Terraform code modules to deploy the complete cloud platform and to deploy various Azure IaaS and PaaS in application projects
Guidelines and Guardrails to integrate Azure PaaS / IaaS offerings into corporate cloud environment & global Cloud Automation Platform
Senior Cloud ArchitectAzure IaaS and PaasTerraformAzure Policies
Senior Cloud Architect
Designed / defined the binding guidelines and guardrails to integrate Azure PaaS / IaaS offerings into the corporate cloud environment. Focus hereby on Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL, Azure App Service, Azure Virtual Machine and the topics Backup & Restore, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Scalability, Networking, Governance via Azure Policies
Designed global Cloud Automation Platform and collaboration processes based on Terraform and vRealize to allow decentral DevSecOps Teams and central Managed Service Teams to jointly develop and reuse code and patterns
Redesigned and engineered the global corporate Azure environment for IaaS and PaaS/cloud native workloads based on Microsoft Enterprise Scale Framework
Designed and engineered infrastructure as code / cloud automation
Designed and engineered central logging aggregation solution for SIEM integration
Designed and engineered cloud governance using Azure Policies
Designed and engineered corporate firewall and network automation for zero-trust hub & spoke networking
Designed and engineered cloud infrastructure monitoring and alerting
Consulted, advised and accompanied global application teams in their migration efforts into the new Azure cloud environment
Worked in the global Architecture Review Board to ensure that applications are built in a cloud first / cloud native manner
Helped to setup the new global Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) and led the Cloud Architecture Team within the CCoE
Microsoft Enterprise Scale FrameworkMicrsoft Well-Architected FrameworkAzure PaaS / IaaSPowershellARMTerraformAzure PoliciesCloud Automation / Infrastructure as CodeAgile Engineering using Scrum
Insurance
München
3 Jahre
2018-01 - 2020-12
Design and setup new global corporate Data & Analytics environment on Azure
Senior Cloud Architect for Data & AnalyticsAzureData LakeBig Data & Analytics...
Senior Cloud Architect for Data & Analytics
Worked as Lead Architect and designed the new Azure cloud based corporate Data Lake / Big Data & Analytics platform to make it truly globally distributed and scalable to meet local data residency and regulatory compliance needs
Designed the infrastructure as code / cloud automation
Designed & managed the migration of the existing on-premises big data environment to the new cloud platform
Managed a Scrum team of DevSecOps team with 15 engineers on a daily basis as Tech Lead to build the cloud platform
Mentored and coached several junior colleagues
AzurePowershellARMAzure DevOpsADLS Gen1/Gen2DatabricksHDInsightAzure SearchAzure Cosmos DBAzure SQLAzure Data FactoryCosmos DB
AzureData LakeBig Data & AnalyticsPowershellARMCloud Automation / Infrastructure as CodeAgile Engineering using Scrum
Insurance
München
1 Jahr 4 Monate
2016-09 - 2017-12
Design and setup of corporate Data Lake
Big Data EngineerData Lake designData Intake / ETLAutomation...
Big Data Engineer
Designed the corporate data lake
Engineered the automation of the data lake areas
Designed and engineered a dockerized Java microservice framework for data intake into the data lake
Managed a Scrum team of 8 developers on a daily basis as Tech Lead to build the above
HadoopHDFSHiveSparkHDInsightJava SpringPythonDockerHadoop ecosystem (HDFSSpark) on-prem and HDInsight on Azure
Data Lake designData Intake / ETLAutomationAzureAgile Engineering using Scrum
Designed multiple solutions with a contract volume between EUR 5-10m for German DAX companies in different industries for big data and data warehouse solutions
Designed the technical solution and estimated the effort to build it in numerous sales / pre-sales engagements
Engineered the designed solutions with teams of 5-15 developers (on-/off-/near-shore) and managed them daily as a Tech Lead
Mentored and coached several junior colleagues
Primary industry and subject area focus: Automotive (Supply Chain Analytics), Chemicals (Smart Farming Analytics), Travel and Transportation (IoT, Predictive Maintenance, Customer Loyalty)
Engineer / Architect for ETL, Data Warehouse, Big Data, Data & AnalyticsData WarehouseData LakeETL...
Engineer / Architect for ETL, Data Warehouse, Big Data, Data & Analytics
Designed & engineered various solutions for medium size and large size (German DAX) companies in different industries for big data, data lake, ETL, data warehouse and reporting solutions
Worked in different roles hereby: started as Engineer / Developer, continued to Architect and finally progressed to helding the Lead Architect role, being responsible for managing development teams of 5-15 developers (on-/off-/near-shore)
Data WarehouseData LakeETLData ModellingData Quality ScorecardsAutomationReporting / DashboardingAgile Engineering using Scrum
Various customers in different industries
Germany / Austria / Eastern Europe
2 Jahre 3 Monate
2009-06 - 2011-08
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solutions
Senior ConsultantSSISTalendERWin...
Senior Consultant
Designed multiple solutions with a contract volume between EUR 1-5m for German DAX companies and medium sized business in different industries for corporate reporting and ETL architectures
Designed the technical solution and estimated the effort to build it in numerous sales / pre-sales engagements
Engineered the designed solutions with teams of 10 developers (on-shore) and managed them daily as Tech Lead
Primary industry and subject area focus: Automotive (After Sales Optimization), Telecoms (Enterprise Data Warehousing), Public Sector (Federal Budget Planning & Controlling)
SSISTalendERWinOracle IBM Cognos
Woodmark Consulting
Munich
3 Jahre 6 Monate
2005-12 - 2009-05
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solutions
ConsultantSSISERWinTeradata...
Consultant
Designed and engineered ETL processes for populating data warehouses
Designed and engineered BI reports
Engineered the designed solutions with teams of 3-5 developers (on-/off-/near-shore) and managed them daily as Tech Lead
Primary industry and subject area focus: Public Sector (Federal Budget Planning & Controlling, Data Warehouse), Telecoms (Churn prediction, Call Detail Record (CDR) integration)
SSISERWinTeradataOracleSQL ServerIBM Cognos
Siemens IT Solutions and Services
Vienna
Aus- und Weiterbildung
Aus- und Weiterbildung
1 Monat
2023-09 - 2023-09
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Certification number: I402-5942
1 Monat
2023-07 - 2023-07
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Certification number: I612-4240
3 Jahre 11 Monate
2001-09 - 2005-07
Information Management
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), University of Applied Sciences Graz
Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
University of Applied Sciences Graz
Position
Position
IT Cloud Architecture (Azure)
IT Cloud Engineering / Automation
Data & Analytics Cloud Architecture (Azure)
Data & Analytics Engineering
Kompetenzen
Kompetenzen
Top-Skills
AzureCloud automationCloud native application designEnterprise cloud architectureOn-premises application migration to the cloudCloud governance / securityCloud cost optimizationInfrastructure as codeSystem to system automationIaaS and PaaS solutions in AzureBig Data AnalyticsETL / data integrationAgile software development (Scrum)CI/CDAzure DevOpsPowershellPythonARMTerraformMicroservice architectures & containerizationData Lake
Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden
.
Profile:
I am a seasoned IT architect and engineer who has spent his entire professional life designing and delivering IT solutions
My career started in the field of data & analytics in traditional on-premise environments and progressed to enterprise cloud environments and infrastructure as code in 2017
I have 6+ years full-time experience in building corporate cloud environments and cloud solutions on Azure ? from small to very large globally distributed ones
While I enjoy doing the design work for cloud solutions, I am also passionate about actively building them ?hands-on? in DevSecOps teams
Having worked as IT consultant delivering projects to customers for 11 years as well as having held senior inhouse positions in a big international company in the financial industry for more then 6 years, I offer a solid track record and extensive experience to successfully deliver IT solutions at any scale
Core Competencies:
Cloud
Enterprise cloud architecture
Designing and engineering of enterprise cloud environments in Azure based on Microsoft Enterprise Scale Framework for large scale corporations (> 10.000 employees)
Cloud application solution design
Designing cloud native applications (leveraging PaaS/containerization) in Azure using Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
On-premises application migration to the cloud
Migrating existing IaaS workloads to the cloud and/or rearchitecting the solutions to become cloud native
Cloud governance / security
Designing and engineering cloud governance / security management and enforcement using Azure policies, Azure Monitor, cost management, Resource Graph Explorer, etc.
Infrastructure as code & cloud automation
Designing and engineering idempotent cloud automation using Powershell, ARM. Azure Blueprints and Terraform
System to system automation
Designing and engineering (REST based) automation using Powershell and Python to integrate various IT systems (e.g. firewalls, IP address management systems, DNS, configuration management databases, etc.)
IaaS and PaaS solutions in Azure
Broad knowledge of Azure services to design and build cloud native solutions
Data
Big data / data lake / data warehouse architectures
Designing and engineering data lakes and federated enterprise data warehouse systems
ETL / data integration
Designing and engineering batch and micro-batch data integration jobs using SQL and ETL tools
Data modelling
Designing data models based on 3rd normal form, star/snowflake and data vault design principles
Data quality scorecards
Designing and engineering data quality rules and scorecards to constantly manage and track the state of data quality to improve it
Relational databases
Developing solutions based on SQL Server and Teradata
Software Engineering
Agile software development
using Scrum
CI/CD
Designing and engineering build/release pipelines using GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps
Source code management
using Git
Microservice architectures & containerization
Designing and building Docker containers for REST based microservices using Java Spring Boot
Day-to-day management of engineering teams
Managing engineering teams (on-/near-/offshore) on a daily basis as Tech Lead
Mentoring and coaching
training, mentoring and coaching of junior colleagues/consultants
Programmiersprachen
Powershell
Python
SQL
Java
ARM
Terraform
Branchen
Branchen
Insurance
Automotive
Chemicals
Travel and Transportation
Telecoms
Public Sector
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