Resume: Dominik Wombacher

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About me

To be at my best, I need complex technical problems and challenges were I can bring in my 20+ years experience as technology generalist. I'm an Open Source Enthusiast and Contributor. A Passionate Engineer with a strong hands-on mentality. A problem solver, experienced Architect and People Manager. A Leader who takes Ownership and is always eager to learn and adapt. My Super Power is the ability to equally work Strategic and Operational. Seamlessly from the Big-Picture down to technical implementation details.

My professional career started in 2002 and has always been IT focused. I have a strong background in Architecture, Engineering and Operations. Adopting new Technologies and DevOps paradigms as well as Automation, Programming and Mentorship are an integral part of my work.

I'm passionate about Linux, Kubernetes, Infrastructure, Coding and Automation. I know multiple programming languages and dive deep into a new codebase quickly. I systematically troubleshoot issues and debug code and prefer to automate re-occurring tasks. I'm a generalist with a very broad skill set. I would describe myself as an expert engineer and intermediate software developer.

Learning and Development is important for me, technical trainings and certifications allow me to to improve and validate my skills. In recent years I became 18x SUSE, 7x AWS, 3x Kubernetes, 5x Red Hat, 2x Linux, 2x Azure and 5x SAP certified. With a track record of more than 70 technical certifications throughout my career.

Key Skills

Cloud Automation Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
AWS Ansible OpenTofu / Terraform
  AWX AWS CloudFormation and CDK
Programming CI / CD Pipelines Container
Python AWS CodePipeline Kubernetes
Go (Golang) GitHub Actions Rancher
TypeScript Jenkins NeuVector
Java builds.sr.ht Open Shift
Operating Systems Logging and observability Soft Skills
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Fluent Bit Systems thinking
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Prometheus Problem solving
openSUSE Grafana Adaptability
Fedora AWS CloudWatch Communication
Debian AWS CloudTrail Collaboration
FreeBSD   Mentoring
ML / AI    
Prompt Engineering Amazon Bedrock Amazon SageMaker

Job History Summary

  • Sr. Partner Solutions Architect (SA III, L6) | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Oct 2022 - present
  • Principal Engineer & Head of Infrastructure Operations (L4) | NTT | Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
  • Lead Engineer Operations (L3) | NTT | Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
  • Service Delivery Support Engineer (L2) | Dimension Data | Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
  • Owner / Self-employed | Wombacher.IT | Jan 2007 - Mar 2019
  • System Administrator | IT-Service M+W Grossostheim GmbH | Jul 2006 - Jul 2007
  • Apprenticeship: IT Specialist | IT-Service M+W Grossostheim GmbH | Aug 2003 - Jul 2006
  • Support Engineer | Prosol Spraytechnik GmbH | Jan 2002 - Jul 2003

Contact

Address:Sonnenblick 34, 36251 Bad Hersfeld, Germany
Website:https://dominik.wombacher.cc
Email:dominik@wombacher.cc
Matrix:@wombelix:matrix.org
LinkedIn:dominik-wombacher
Github:wombelix
Languages:English (fluent), German (native)

Job History

October 2022 - present

Position: Sr. Partner Solutions Architect (SA III, L6) - Linux (SUSE & Red Hat) | Permanent
Company: Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Remote
Sector: Cloud Computing

Highlights:
  • Packaging AWS Software for openSUSE, Fedora and EPEL
  • Developing internal tooling in Python and Bash for Doc and ADR writing
  • Infrastructure Automation with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK and OpenTofu / Terraform
  • Programming third-party integrations with AWS Services in Golang
  • Feature and Bugfix contributions to Open Source projects
Summary:
  • Supporting and growing the SUSE / Red Hat Partnership.
  • Working closely with AWS product and service Teams, SUSE / Red Hat Solutions Architects, Sales, and Senior executives.
  • Help customers to migrate and modernize SUSE / Red Hat container and Linux workloads.
  • Solving complex, technical challenges and building Proof of Concepts.
  • Architecting technical solutions with the SUSE / Red Hat field teams.
  • Driving technical solutions discussions also diving deep into the details with customer, product, and service teams.
  • Thought leader in the wider open source community in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
  • Trusted advisor for AWS / SUSE / Red Hat Customers to identify challenges and solutions on their Cloud Journey.
  • Shaping the direction of AWS products and services through gathering feedback from customers whilst collaborating with AWS engineering and service teams.
Technologies, Products, Tools (Extract):
  • Amazon Web Services (e.g. EC2, EBS, EFS, ALB, NLB, EKS, ECS, ROSA, CloudFormation, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, Route 53, VPC), SUSE SLES 12 / 15, Red Hat 7 / 8 / 9, openSUSE Leap 15, openSUSE MicroOS, SUSE Manager 4 / Uyuni, GitLab, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform / AWX, Kubernetes, Rancher by SUSE, Red Hat OpenShift, K3s, RKE / RKE2, SUSE NeuVector, AWS CDK, AWS SDK, TypeScript, Go, Python, Terraform / OpenTofu, Ansible, Bash scripting
Amazon internal Trainings and Programs (Extract):
  • Making Great Hiring Decisions, Certified AWS Senior Speaker, AWS Technical Professional, Content Guardian, Open Source Champion, AWS Social Media Training, Amazon GitHub Training, Safety Ambassador, Lead with Empathy, Travel Security, AWS GameDay Training, Inclusive Interviewing Training, Effective @Amazon, ECS Workshop Contributor, AWS Well Architected, Amazon Writing, Blog Bar Raiser, SAP Technical Field Community Member, Linux Technical Field Community Founding Member, Container Technical Field Community Member


August 2020 - September 2022

Position: Principal Engineer & Head of Infrastructure Operations (L4) | Permanent
Company: NTT Germany AG & Co. KG | Remote
Business Unit: MAN
Sector: Network & IT Services

Highlights:
  • Ansible based Automation for Server and Storage provisioning and decomissioning
  • Automation of reporting activities with Ansible, AWX and Java
  • Transforming the Engineering Team towards DevOps methodology and GitOps mindset
  • Development and maintenance of internal Web and CLI tools for re-occuring administrative tasks
Summary:
  • Datacenter Infrastructure responsibility
  • Lead of Engineering and Operations Team located in Germany and Czech Republic
  • Support and coordinate global delivery units
  • Acting as emergency support and escalation contact
  • Mentoring, knowledge transfer and Documentation
  • Insourcing, Budget Planning and Cost Optimization
  • Configuration and Patch Management
  • Automation and Development
  • ITIL based Ticket and Incident handling
  • Establishing and optimize operational processes
Technologies, Products, Tools:
  • VMware vSphere, Cisco (UCS, Nexus, Catalyst, MDS, ASR, ASA), F5 Big-IP LTM, NetApp (ONTAP 9 - FAS, AFF, Metro Cluster), SAP HANA TDI, SUSE SLES 12 / 15, Red Hat 7 / 8, Oracle Linux 7 / 8, openSUSE Leap 15, openSUSE MicroOS/ JeOS, Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016, SUSE Manager 4 / Uyuni, Red Hat Satellite 6, AWX, Gitea, Jenkins, iTop / TeemIP, TeamPass, NetBox, Observium, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, NetApp SnapManager / SnapCenter (Oracle Database, SAP HANA Database), Commvault (Files, Oracle Database, SAP HANA Database, Microsoft SQL), Sophos Anti-Virus, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco vWSA, Cisco ISE, Tufin, Microsoft Active Directory and DNS, Python, Ansible, Scripting (Bash, Powershell), F5 iRules, RPM Packaging, TCPdump / Wireshark, BGP, HSRP, LACP, IPSec VPN, Microsoft Azure, Jira, Confluence, Service-Now, HP Service Center, Cisco UCS Manager / Central, Sharepoint, BMC Control-M, Seal Systems Plossys


March 2019 - July 2020

Position: Lead Engineer Operations (L3) | Permanent
Company: NTT Germany AG & Co. KG (formerly Dimension Data) | Bad Homburg, Hybrid
Business Unit: MAN
Sector: Network & IT Services

Highlights:
  • Design and building of a Universal API in Python as standardized wrapper across internal services
  • Troubleshooting, Debugging and Patch creation to stabilize large SUSE Manager environment
  • Development and maintenance of internal Web and CLI tools for re-occuring administrative tasks
Summary:
  • ITIL based Operations Support, Ticket and Incident handling
  • Establishing and optimize operational and deployment processes
  • Datacenter Infrastructure Support, Optimization and Architecture
  • Knowledge transfer and Documentation
  • Configuration and Patch Management
  • Automation and Development
  • 24/7 On-Call support
Technologies, Products, Tools:
  • VMware vSphere, Cisco (UCS, Nexus, Catalyst, MDS, ASR, ASA), F5 Big-IP LTM, NetApp (ONTAP 9 - FAS, AFF, Metro Cluster), SAP HANA TDI, SUSE SLES 12 / 15, Red Hat 7, Oracle Linux 7, Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016, SUSE Manager 4 / Uyuni, Red Hat Satellite 6, Jenkins, iTop / TeemIP, TeamPass, Observium, Grafana, NetApp SnapManager (Oracle Database), Commvault (Files, Oracle Database, SAP HANA Database, Microsoft SQL), Sophos Anti-Virus, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco vWSA, Cisco ISE, Tufin, Microsoft Active Directory and DNS, Python, Ansible, Scripting (Bash, Powershell), F5 iRules, TCPdump / Wireshark, BGP, HSRP, LACP, IPSec VPN, Jira, Confluence, Service-Now, HP Service Center, Cisco UCS Manager / Central, Sharepoint


Januar 2007 - March 2019

Position: Self-Employed / Company owner / Freelancer
Company: various
Sector: various

Summary:
  • 2nd / 3rd Level Support
  • ITIL / Operations
  • DevOps / Software Engineering
  • Virtualization / Storage
  • Datacenter / Hosting
  • IT Outsourcing
  • On-site Support
  • Consulting
  • Project Management
  • People Management
Technologies, Products, Tools:
  • openSUSE (42, Leap 15, Tumbleweed - MicroOS, JeOS), FreeBSD (12), Debian (7 - 10), Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04), CentOS (7), Oracle Linux (7 / 8), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7 / 8), Windows Server (2000 - 2016), Windows (2000 - 10), Proxmox, KVM, FreeBSD Jails, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes (k8s, k3s), LXC, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, MySQL / MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL, Bareos, Icinga, Check_MK, Microsoft Remote Desktop, Python, Ansible, Scripting (Bash, PowerShell), PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, C#, VB.Net, Java, Make, Wireguard, IPSec, OpenVPN, Puppet / Foreman, DRBD, Pacemaker, Corosync, DHCP, DNS (Bind, PowerDNS, Windows), Microsoft Exchange (2000 - 2013), Stratus everRun, OTRS, OPSI, Securepoint UTM, JTL Wawi, Lexware, Datev, MailStore, Git, Gitea, Gitlab, Github, Pagure, Cgit, Open Build Service, RPM Packaging, FreeBSD Ports, Container Images (OCI), VIM, Screen / Tmux, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code / VSCodium

July 2006 - July 2007

Position: System Administrator
Company: IT-Service M+W Grossostheim GmbH | Grossostheim
Sector: IT & Telecommunication

Short Summary

  • 2nd Level Support
  • ITIL / Operations
  • IT Outsourcing

August 2003 - July 2006

Position: Apprenticeship - IT Specialist, System Integration
Company: IT-Service M+W Grossostheim GmbH | Grossostheim
Sector: IT & Telecommunication

Short Summary

  • 1st / 2nd Level Support
  • End-User Helpdesk
  • On-site Support

January 2002 - July 2003

Position: Support Engineer
Company: Prosol Spraytechnik GmbH | Kleinostheim
Sector: Aerosol manufacturing

Short Summary

  • 1st Level Support
  • End-User Helpdesk
  • On-site Support

Project History

Extract before I moved to a Permanent position


August 2016 - February 2019

Position: Service Delivery Support Engineer (L2) | Freelancer
Company: Dimension Data Germany AG & Co. KG | Bad Homburg
Business Unit: MAN
Sector: Network & IT Services

Highlights:
  • Sharepoint based workflow to handle complex Server provisioning tasks and depdencies
  • Jenkins pipelines as self-service platform for orchestration and automation tasks
  • Development and maintenance of internal Web and CLI tools for re-occuring administrative tasks
Summary:
  • ITIL based Operations Support, Ticket and Incident handling
  • Establishing and optimize operational and deployment processes
  • Datacenter Infrastructure Support, Optimization and Architecture
  • Knowledge transfer and Documentation
  • Configuration and Patch Management
  • Automation and Development
  • 24/7 On-Call support
Technologies, Products, Tools:
  • VMware vSphere, Cisco (UCS, Nexus, Catalyst, MDS, ASR, ASA), F5 Big-IP LTM, NetApp (ONTAP 9 - FAS, AFF, Metro Cluster), SAP HANA TDI, SUSE SLES 11 / 12, Red Hat 7, Oracle Linux 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 / 2016, SUSE Manager 3, Red Hat Satellite 6, Jenkins, TeemIP, TeamPass, Observium, NetApp SnapManager (Oracle Database), Commvault (Files, Oracle Database, SAP HANA Database, Microsoft SQL), Sophos Anti-Virus, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco vWSA, Cisco ISE, Tufin, Microsoft Active Directory and DNS, Python, Ansible, Scripting (Bash, Powershell), F5 iRules, TCPdump / Wireshark, BGP, HSRP, LACP, IPSec VPN, Jira, Confluence, Service-Now, HP Service Center, Cisco UCS Manager / Central, Sharepoint


June 2015 - August 2015

Position: Datacenter Engineer, Consultant | Freelancer
Company: CGM Deutschland AG | Koblenz
Sector: Medical IT Services

Short Summary

  • Monitoring System (Check_MK)
  • Linux High-Availability Cluster (Ubuntu, Pacemaker, Corosync, DRBD)
  • Configuration Management (Puppet / Foreman)
  • Backup (Bareos)

February 2015 - May 2015

Position: Datacenter Engineer, Project Management | CEO Wombacher.IT GmbH
Company: JTL-Software GmbH | Remote
Sector: Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

Short Summary

  • Proof of Concept & Project Management: Private Cloud Hosting for End-User
  • Private Cloud Environment (Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express and Remote Desktop Services)
  • Deployment Automation with Ansible and Powershell

November 2014 - January 2015

Position: Consultant, Project Manager | CEO Wombacher.IT GmbH
Company: MAIREC Edelmetall GmbH | Alzenau
Sector: precious metals trade

Short Summary

  • Physical to Virtual Migration (Stratus everRun fault-tolerant Cluster)
  • Deployment and Migration (Microsoft Windows 2012 R2, Exchange Server 2013, Sharepoint, CentOS, Ubuntu, OTRS, OPSI)
  • Migration of ERP System based on RedHat Linux to CentOS
  • Firewall High-availability Cluster (Securepoint)
  • CMDB and Ticketsystem (OTRS)
  • Software Rollout (OPSI)
  • ITIL based Support

Certifications

Credly Badges

SUSE Badges

03/2025:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager
03/2025:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Edge
10/2024:SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Longhorn 1.5 - Cloud native Storage
09/2024:Red Hat Certified Specialist in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
08/2024:AWS Certified AI Practitioner
06/2024:SUSE Certified Engineer in SLES High-Availability 15
05/2024:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SLES High-Availability 15
03/2024:AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
03/2024:AWS Devops Engineer Professional
08/2023:CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
08/2023:CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
07/2023:CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
07/2023:Linux Professional Institute LPIC-2
06/2023:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
06/2023:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in Rancher Manager 2.7 for Rancher Prime
06/2023:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2
06/2023:SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE NeuVector 5
06/2023:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE NeuVector 5
02/2023:SUSE Certified Engineer in SLES for SAP Applications 15
12/2022:AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
12/2022:AWS Certified Developer – Associate
11/2022:AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
11/2022:SUSE Support Accreditation - SUSE Rancher
11/2022:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes Distributions
11/2022:SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE Rancher 2.6
09/2022:SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Manager 4
09/2022:SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SLES for SAP Applications 12
09/2022:SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12 and 15
09/2022:SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) and Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 15
08/2022:SUSE Sales Specialist & SUSE Technical Sales Specialist in SUSE NeuVector
07/2022:Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator
07/2022:AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
07/2022:Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
06/2022:SUSE Partner Support Accreditation - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
04/2022:SUSE Sales Specialist & SUSE Technical Sales Specialist in SLES, SLES for SAP, SUSE Manager and SUSE Rancher
09/2021:SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE Manager 4
09/2021:Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
06/2021:Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices - Ansible 2.8, Tower 3.5 & Enterprise Linux 8
05/2021:Red Hat Certified Engineer - Ansible 2.8 & Enterprise Linux 8
05/2021:Red Hat Certified System Administrator - Enterprise Linux 8
11/2020:SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP ASE) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5
11/2020:SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (Oracle DB) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5
10/2020:NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer, ONTAP (NCSIE)
10/2020:NetApp Certified Technology Associate (NCTA)
10/2020:SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP Max DB) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5
02/2020:Understanding of Cisco Network Devices - Level 200
05/2020:SUSE Certified Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 12
11/2019:SAP Certified Technology Associate - System Administration (SAP HANA) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5
10/2019:SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS/DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.52
09/2019:Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1
08/2019:Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA)
06/2019:Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT)
06/2019:ITIL Foundation v4 Certificate in IT Service Management
08/2019:SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Enterprise Linux 12
02/2019:VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundations
01/2019:CyberArk Certified Trustee - Level 1
12/2018:SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Systems Management / SUSE Manager 3
02/2015:Securepoint UTM Advanced Certified Engineer Platinum Level
07/2014:Microsoft Certified Professional (Exam 410 - Windows Server 2012)
04/2014:Securepoint UMA Certified Engineer Gold Level
02/2014:Auerswald PBX Level 3
11/2013:IHK Aschaffenburg Ordinance on Aptitude of Instructors (Ausbildereignungspruefung)
04/2013:Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (SBS 2011)
10/2012:Securepoint Certified UTM Engineer Gold Level
10/2012:Securepoint Certified UTM Engineer Silver Level
10/2012:Securepoint UTM Network Expert Bronze Level
08/2009:Agfeo PBX Smart Home (WAC / EIB / KNX)
10/2008:Agfeo PBX ISDN over IP
08/2008:Agfeo PBX Gold Level
06/2008:Agfeo PBX Silver Level
04/2008:Agfeo PBX Bronze Level
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