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Letztes Update: 28.03.2024

Franjo Horvat

Abschluss: Bachelor of Information Technology
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Sprachkenntnisse: deutsch (Muttersprache) | englisch (verhandlungssicher)

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Skills

  • IT Infrastructure architect, generalist and systems engineer, with vast experience designing, building and maintaining storage, network and compute infrastructure projects
    • Worked across various industries such as banking, telco, automotive, retail, pharma
    • Participated in design, deploy, migrate and operations projects
    • Technical project management and 3rd party coordination
    • Former Professional Services Consultant / Systems Engineer for NCR corporation, Hitachi Data Systems and StorageTek
    • Self-motivated, results-driven, attention to detail, problem-solver
    • German National; Fluent German and English speaker, experience working abroad

Projekthistorie

04/2022 - bis jetzt
Security Engineer DNS Project
SAP SE (Internet und Informationstechnologie, >10.000 Mitarbeiter)

Deployment of DNS Firewall solution (Black/Whitelisting) into Hyperscaler environments:
• Created the technical documentation: GitHub pages, Jekyll, Lucidcharts
• Automation of Test environment builds using Terraform and Ansible
• Roll-out of the solution on various public cloud environments for business units: SAP Converged Cloud, AWS, GCP and Azure

08/2023 - bis jetzt
Infrastructure Monitoring Test Engineer
Deutsche Bahn AG (Transport und Logistik, >10.000 Mitarbeiter)

Functional Testing of the DB Prisma Monitoring Environment and PKI enrollment
• Implementation of the test strategy (functional, regression, security, availability) for hardware and software component monitoring
• Define, document and manage test cases (HP ALM, Jira, Ansible Tower, Gitlab Tooling)
• Test execution, documentation, defect management

01/2023 - 06/2023
Storage Engineer
Veoneer Automotive Germany (Automobil und Fahrzeugbau, 1000-5000 Mitarbeiter)

Storage infrastructure support of the company’s globally distributed IT infrastructure:
• More than 250PB of SAN and NAS storage, spread over 20 sites globally
• Administration of Dell Isilon Clusters: upgrades, SyncIQ, migrations, break-fix, permissions, etc.
• Administration of HP Nimble and Pure storage SAN / block-based infrastructure, Brocade FC based SAN fabrics
• VMware ESX Cluster administration
• Storage migrations, SAN restructuring, Availibility and Performance monitoring
• Change Management and change coordination
• Datacentre upgrades
• Automation of SAN switch config deployments using ansible and expect scripting

08/2018 - 10/2022
Infrastructure Architect
Magna Electronics (Automobil und Fahrzeugbau, >10.000 Mitarbeiter)

Lead Infrastructure Architect for a greenfield datacentre automotive ADAS project
• Network, storage and compute architecture design: Dell and Cisco networking, VMWare ESXi / VCenter cluster, Dell Isilon storage (70PB), Synology NAS
• Requirements and performance analysis, rack architecture, cable plans, datacentre design
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• AWS direct connect / AWS S3 for data exchange with 3rd parties, AWS Beanstalk based application hosting
• Architecture of the HIL farm (“Hardware-in-the-loop”)
• Environment status and performance monitoring using Zabbix / Observium / Elasticstack
• Technical project management: project plans, task coordination amongst stakeholders and suppliers: Preparation and presentations of the project status and progress, potential risks etc to internal and external management and stakeholders
Design and Implementation of a ADAS software development environment:
• VMware ESXi cluster-based infrastructure including Cisco Nexus networking, Quantum StorNext disk and Scalar tape storage, Dell servers
• Github Enterprise and Jenkins CICD for software development, Kibana job visualization
• VM deployment automation with Ansible and AWX/Tower, libnss user AD integration
• Log aggregation with ELK Stack

03/2014 - 12/2015
Lead Infrastructure Migration
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services (Internet und Informationstechnologie, >10.000 Mitarbeiter)

Technical leadership and project management for a complex storage consolidation and tech refresh project, with the goal to significantly reduce OPEX costs. This was achieved by retiring legacy infrastructure and migrating clients to a more modern and cost-effective environment.

  • Performed infrastructure assessments and created migration plans
  • Coordinated activities across several teams, including end-customer system admins, management, datacentre technicians, and other internal resources.
  • organized meetings to discuss with the end customer’s management and admin teams, with the primary goal of minimizing downtime and risk for affected servers and applications.  Created checklists compatibility matrix charts.
  • Performed migration of approx. 700 hosts, coordinating work across several teams (datacentre ops, host admin, SAN admin, etc.).
  • Consolidated several SAN islands into a centralized fabric.

06/2006 - 08/2012
Storage Solution Architect
JP Morgan Chase (Banken und Finanzdienstleistungen, >10.000 Mitarbeiter)

Architect for various storage migrations, consolidations and tech refresh projects with the bank.

• Planned, coordinated, and carried out various storage technology refresh / data centre consolidation and migration projects across EMEA and APAC regions, leading a team of three storage engineers.
• Developed solutions to automate storage migrations between disk frames, leveraging on storage virtualization and replication features.
• Hardware capacity planning, coordination of hardware upgrades with our suppliers, work plan scheduling, and change management for internal and external stakeholders.
• Developed methods and best practices to optimize replication latency, to minimize effects of datacentre migrations and consolidations
• Helped managing the banks dedicated storage infrastructure for their trading environment.

Zertifikate

Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA)
Cisco
2021
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS
2020
VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization
VMWare
2014
EMC Information Storage Associate
Dell EMC
2013
Brocade Certified Fabric Professional
Brocade
2012

Reisebereitschaft

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