Alexander Meise

Recent Experience

Set up a new environment from scratch on GCP with GKE, Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana …
Testing different tools and finding the best technological product for each task (traefik vs nginx ingress for example)
Implementing solutions with a focus on efficiency and security. (Secret management for example).
Running monolithical applications as containers and creating statefullset manifests from zero with sub-optimal documentation on a tight schedule.
Setting up a monitoring system with dedicated application metrics/alerts while prioritizing high availability and uptime.
Revisiting decisions with a focus on pricing and security.
Automating where possible.

Achieving Goals own my own with little to zero guidance/support.
Navigating areas out of the confort zone with profesionality and dedication.
Working in a remote-first lean, agile team as a Contractor/Partner while maintaining an ethical approach to workload management.
Allways keeping the DevOps principles in mind specially around IaC and Configuration Management. Do it once as code and then repeat.
Maintaining a “lets be ready to scale” approach with documentation and setups.
Ready to help team mates and handover information as needed.
Self-critical, Responsible, Engaged.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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)

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