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| Address: | Neumuehlstr. 15, 65510 Huenstetten, Germany |
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| Website: | https://dominik.wombacher.cc |
| Email: | dominik@wombacher.cc |
| Matrix: | @wombelix:matrix.org |
| Github: | wombelix |
| LinkedIn: | dominik-wombacher |
| Languages: | English (fluent), German (native) |
Personal
- Enjoying my side projects and open source contribution
- Troubleshooting and solving tricky, almost unsolvable issues
- Learning new things and improving Skills
- Spending time with my family and my dog
Summary
My current Position is Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. I'm an Open Source Enthusiast and Contributor, Dog Person, Passionate Engineer who loves solving tricky issues and always eager to learn new things. My professional career started in 2002 and has always been IT-centric, distinguished by broad knowledge of different technologies and fields.
- Since 2002 experience in IT support, engineering, consulting
- 2nd and 3rd level support
- Project and people Management
- ITIL based Operations, Incident and Change handling
- DevOps, Automation and Software development
- Virtualization, High-Availability and Storage
- Datacenter, Hosting and IT-Outsourcing
- Various certifications from Red Hat, SUSE, SAP, Cisco, NetApp and others
- Quick comprehension, team worker, conscientious, service and solution oriented
Open Source
Open Source and contributing / being involved in the community of different projects, became an important part of my life. Following some of the projects I'm most interested and involved in and an Overview of some code contributions during the last year.
Own Projects / Forks
- jDeepL - Unofficial DeepL App for Linux based on JavaFX
- ansible-molecule-container: Collection of Dockerfiles for Container to test Ansible Roles with Molecule.
- moinmoin-pypy2-container - MoinMoin wiki container image, powered by openSUSE Leap, PyPy, nginx and uwsgi.
- static.sh (Fork)
- ansible-sshjail (Fork)
Job History
October 2022 - present
Position: Sr. Partner Solutions Architect - SUSE | PermanentCompany: Amazon Web Services (AWS) | EMEASector: Cloud Computing
August 2020 - September 2022
Position: Principal Engineer & Head of Infrastructure Operations | PermanentCompany: NTT Germany AG & Co. KG | Bad HomburgBusiness Unit: MANSector: Network & IT ServicesSummary:
- Datacenter Infrastructure responsibility
- Lead of Operations Team (L1, L2, L3) located in DE and CZ
- 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) | PermanentCompany: NTT Germany AG & Co. KG (formerly Dimension Data) | Bad HomburgBusiness Unit: MANSector: Network & IT ServicesSummary:
- 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 - present
Position: Self-Employed / Company owner / FreelancerCompany: variousSector: variousSummary:
- 2nd / 3rd Level Support
- ITIL / Operations
- DevOps / Software Engineering
- Virtualization / Storage
- Datacenter / Hosting
- IT Outsourcing
- Onsite 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: SystemadministratorCompany: IT-Service M+W Grossostheim GmbHSector: IT & TelecommunicationShort Summary
- 2nd Level Support
- ITIL / Operations
- IT Outsourcing
August 2003 - July 2006
Position: Apprentice Computer Science Expert (System Integration)Company: IT-Service M+W Grosostheim GmbHSector: IT & TelecommunicationShort Summary
- 1st / 2nd Level Support
- End-User Helpdesk
- Onsite Support
January 2002 - July 2003
Position: Support EngineerCompany: Prosol Spraytechnik GmbH | KleinostheimSector: Aerosol manufacturingShort Summary
- 1st Level Support
- End-User Helpdesk
- Onsite Support
Project History
Extract from the last few years
August 2016 - February 2019
Position: Service Delivery Support Engineer (L2) | FreelancerCompany: Dimension Data Germany AG & Co. KG | Bad HomburgBusiness Unit: MANSector: Network & IT ServicesSummary:
- 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 | FreelancerCompany: CGM Deutschland AG | KoblenzSector: Medical IT ServicesShort 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 GmbHCompany: JTL-Software GmbH | RemoteSector: 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 GmbHCompany: MAIREC Edelmetall GmbH | AlzenauSector: precious metals tradeShort 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