24.03.2026 aktualisiert

**** ******** ****
Premiumkunde
40 % teilweise verfügbar

Network & Datacenter Architect

Oberpfaffenhofen, Deutschland
Deutschland +1
info: Deutschland, Österreich
Oberpfaffenhofen, Deutschland
Deutschland +1
info: Deutschland, Österreich

Profilanlagen

Profil-EN-Andre Schoppmeier-DEZ-2025.pdf

Über mich

More than 20 years of networking experiences , currently focusing on datacenter Cisco ACI , SDN, Network as Code , Design , Architecture

Skills

AuditsBeratungData CentersDevOpsMultiprotocol Label SwitchingRouting
Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich unter:

info\"ÄT\"as-it-consutling.de

Sprachen

DeutschMutterspracheEnglischverhandlungssicher

Projekthistorie

Cisco ACI Fabric Architecture - Teilzeit

Xcecuro / bdr - Bundesdruckerei Gruppe

Öffentlicher Dienst

250-500 Mitarbeiter


Cisco ACI Fabric Architecture
ACI Fabric Design Multipod , L3out Firewalls N/S,
Naming Convention
IP Range and VLAN/EPG concept

SDN – Based full deployment with Terraform in 2 Month Juli – August 25
Fabic implementation with Cisco NAC (Nexus as Code)
Migration of Servers from Aruba to ACI Fabric
SDN Terraform via CICD Pipeline
Troubleshooting

Cisco ACI Fabric Architecture - Teilzeit

Deutsche Renten Versicherung DRV

Öffentlicher Dienst

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Cisco ACI Fabric Architecture
  1. High Level Design based implementation of 4 ACI Fabrics within 2 Sites (Multisite) (PROD and SystemTest)
  2. SDD – Solution Design Document with Cisco CX
  3. NIP – Network Implementation Plan with Cisco CX
  4. Core Design and Implementatio
  5. with BGP georedundancy between the two locations
  6. Fabic implementation with Cisco AaC (ACI as Code) with Cisco CX
  7. ACI L3Out concepts for North / South Firewall integration for Tenant to Tenanat traffic as well legacy environmet
  8. ACI PBR concepts for East / West Firewall integration between security zones,
  9. Multisite vzany via East / West Firewall
  10. Setup of Multisite Orchastrator (NDO)
  11. Setup of ACI Fabric 2 Ops Nexus Dashboard Insight (NDI)
  12. Automation based on Cisco AaC (ACI as Code) (Ansible / Terraform / CICD)
  13. Legacy Network Firewall connections via eBGP
  14. DMVPM connection with eBGP to EIGRP redistribution
  15. Troubleshooting during POC phase
  16. EANTC Fabric Testing
  17. Fabric ACI
  18. PBR East/West policies via FW
  19. North / South policies and HW of the FW
  20. Inter Site communications
  21. CORE communications
  22. NRFU Testing with Cisco CX
  23. Preparation for Production start in 2025
  24. Migration of customer workload into Fabric

Cisco ACI Fabric Architecture and Operations - Teilzeit

Volkswagen Financial Services VWFS

Banken und Finanzdienstleistungen

5000-10.000 Mitarbeiter

Cisco ACI Fabric Architecture and Operations
Low Level Design based implementation of ACI Fabric with 3 Pods (Multipod)
Operational tasks for migration from CMO to FMO
Automation tasks based on python scripts for tenant , BDs, IPGs, EPGs, VMM, DVS, L3Out, contracts , PBRs ….
ACI Troubleshooting to PBR based L3Out FW and LB (Palo Alto , F5 )
Firewall Troubleshooting
Load balancer Troubleshooting
VMM , DVS troubleshooting
Fabric Fault analysis
Cisco TAC
VMware Vcenter , VROBS
Software upgrade
IPN Operations
SPAN , ERSPAN Fabric
some python scripts
Ansible
Tool proof of concept:
Netbrain implementation with ACI and PBR via L3Out
Test of ACI path discovery with PBR via FW and LB
Documentation
ACI Labor
Testing of new architecture requests
Software testing
Fault troubleshooting
Automation and script testing
Service Provider handover to Atos
Documentation
Workshops
Daily operations
Day2 ops
Deploy a Nexus Dashboard Insighs Cluster für Day2 operations
OOB Network Refresh
Hardware
Routing
FW Connections


Nexus Dashboard

Network Design ACI - Routing Switching Firewall

Consors Finanz - BNP Paribas

Banken und Finanzdienstleistungen

5000-10.000 Mitarbeiter

ACI Fabric PoC
  1. Develop a PoC Setup with Customer and Cisco, which covers the business requirements
  2. Multi-Pod
  3. VMWare (vCenter)
  4. Operations, Automatization with Ansible, python, Postman …
  5. Network Centric and Application Centric Approach
  6. PBR via L3Out to FW and LB
  7. 3 Tier App Service Testing with PBR

Hardware: Cisco Nexus 9xxx, ACI, Multi Pod, IPN/ISN Network,


Redesign Core Network
  1. Implement a 2 Tier DMZ DC approach
  2. Dynamic routing (OSPF) between Core Network and WAN Network
  3. Checkpoint Firewall Tier 2, Fortigate Tier 1
  4. Cisco Nexus based Datacenter
  5. WAN Routers (VSS)

Implementation of Network Access Solution based on Cisco ISE
  1. Setup the ISE 2.4 environment
  2. Create Matchgroups for Clients
  3. Authentication policies for MAB devices
  4. Authentication policies for User based on Active Directory
  5. Authentication policies based on System Certificate
  6. Monitoring Phase – Activation of NAC per floor and location
  7. Handover document for Service Desk

Install multiple Test environments for Customer based on virtual devices on ESXi
  1. ISE Lab: ISE VM , Cisco Nexus 9000v , Cisco CSR 1000v Router
  2. OSPF Routing Lab: Cisco Nexus 9000V, Cisco CRS 1000v Router, Checkpoint Gaia 80.20 Vmware instance , Fortigate VM 6.0.5
  3. Ansible Automation Lab for device configuration

DataCenter Design ACI

Allianz

Versicherungen

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

SDD with Cisco during a 12 Month PDI Phase
  1. Physical Fabric Design consideration for MuliPod/MultiSite Setup
  2. Fabric Policies (Vlan pools, Domain , AEP, Interface Policies, Global Policies
Switch Policies, Leaf Int Policies, Spine Int Policies, FEX profiles, POD Policies, System Policies
  1. Logical Fabric Design (Tenants, Contracts, Subjects Filters ..)
  2. BluePrints for Network Centric, legacy migration, Shared Services, Layer 2, Mainframe migration)
  3. Fabric External Connections: L3Out with BGP to Core, L3Out with static routing on one interface to Firewall ( Service Graph (Policy Based Redirects)
  4. ACI Integration: VMM, Container
  5. Fabric Interconnections: MultiPod, MultiSide, MSO (Site, Schemas, Templates) Disater Recover
ACI Fabric PoC
Develop a PoC Setup with Customer and Cisco, which covers the business requirements
Multi-Pod, Multi-Site setup (Scaling issues 400+ Leafs per DC)
VMWare (vCenter) , Container Platforms ,Open Shift into ACI via VMM
Operations, Automatization with Ansible, Git ; CICD , Postman …
Network Centric and Application Centric Approach

Hardware: Cisco Nexus 9xxx, ACI, Multi Pod, Multi Site IPN/ISN Network,

Greenfield – Design and Scaling
4 Datacenter Sites – with more than 70.000 Ports
2 Sites per Fabric ( 2 Pods per Site , Inter Site connection via ISN and MultiPod ( EBGP)

Cisco Customer Prove of Concept (CPOC) with Customer in San Jose with Cisco – BU Datacenter (Sep 18)

1st Phase ACI - HLD ,
2nd Phase ACI – SDD - NIP

Greenfield Implementation of ACI Fabric Datacenters

Airbus Defense and Space

Industrie und Maschinenbau

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Greenfield Implementation of ACI Fabric Datacenters (Multi-Pod, Network Centric Approach)
Capacity / DC Room planning for Server migrations
ACI Fabric Cabling planning
OOB Network Implementation
IPN Network configuration
APIC configuration (Postman XML)
Build Sheet creation for (Nodes; Tenants, VRF, Bridgedomain, EPG, Contracts)
Layer2Out configuration to Legacy Network
VMWare (VCenter) integration into ACI (VMM)

Hardware: Cisco Nexus 9xxx, ACI, Multi Pod, IPN Network, OOB Network

Network and technology migrations / consolidation of several datacenters

Allianz

Versicherungen

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Allianz, the Munich-based financial services multinational, has outsourced management and consolidation of its sprawling global data center infrastructure to IBM
The tasks of the project is to migrate / consolidate the main datacenters in Munich
(BGU) and Frankfurt, and all other European subsidiaries to the new Datacenters in Frankfurt / Paris, operated by IBM.

  1. Capacity / DC Room planning for Server migrations
  2. Cabling planning for Server migrations
  3. Layer 3 Routing between CMO and FMO DCs for Data transfers during migration
  4. Customer Support for Network topics during migration and new installation of the following Server Clusters in the nee Datacenters Frankfurt/Paris
  5. Exdata Databases (Oracle)
  6. ZFS Backup Filesystem
  7. GPFS Filesystem
  8. SAS Business Intelligence & Analytics Platform
  9. IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services

Allianz US Cloud connectivity, to Oracle Cloud Services.
Setup and migration of Service to Oracle Cloud Service (Exadata, Microstradegy, BIFI)
Preparation of network, server cluster migration scenarios, project and implementation concepts
Project scope: Responsible for network/server migration CMO/FMO, technical customer contact.
Timeframe 2016-2018
Hardware: Cisco Nexus 7xxx, 6xxx, 5xxx, 2xxx, FabricPath, MPLS, VRF,

Network and technology migrations of enterprise customer networks

AToS

Internet und Informationstechnologie

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Design and implementation of enterprise campus LAN environments based on vendor Cisco. (existing vendors Enterasys and Cisco)
As-is analysis of flat Layer 2 based network topologies with more than 30.000 ports in 24x7 production environments.
Define mile stones of new architecture, based on budget and Layer 1 Infrastructure
Transition and Migration to a high resilient/redundant hierarchical 10 Gigabit Ethernet network design (Core-Distribution-Access) with Layer 3 borders at the Distribution Layer and STP less/free Access layers.
Installation of local redundant data centers with Cisco Nexus technology, for more than 3000 production and development Servers.
Preparation of migration scenarios based on a 24x7 production, project and implementation concepts

Siemens Amberg – Elektronik und Gerätewerk - Production – ca. 12.000 ports
Siemens Erlangen/Forchheim – Healthcare – Production - ca. 30.000 Ports
Siemens Krefeld – Rail - ICE und Triebwagen – Production – ca. 10.000 Ports

Project scope: Responsible for network design and migration, coordination of implementation, technical customer contact. Timeframe 2013-2015 , 10 million Euro Hardware budget

Datacenter Interconnection setup
Design and implementation of new data center environments based on Cisco Nexus hardware with Fabric Path and VPC technology.

Data center Interconnection (DCI) Spanning Tree free Data center environments
between 3 locations (Fürth, Erlangen, Nürnberg)
Cisco Fabricpath

Network Design - Business Customer MPLS Solution

Telefonica O2 Germany

Telekommunikation

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Business Customer MPLS Solution

Compilation of a global MPLS VPN Network design, for a customer in the automotiveindustry and its components suppliers in Stuttgart.

International Locations in Europa, UK, USA, Argentina, Brazil
Global MPLS Network, with customer defined load balancing of traffic from Spoke to Hub locations.
Spoke locations with xDSL and Leased Line (1 Router , 2 Router solutions)

Concept for bidirectional load balancing from hub to Spoke , Spoke to Hub, with MPLS based Policy Based Routing (PBR) und Network Address Translation (NAT), for Traffic identification and classification inside the MPLS VPN

Presale: Customer requirement analysis , Product design
Hardware certification, NXOS/ IOS Certification, Proof of Concept Tests
Operations approval process , Operations Handover
Configuration Template for global Rollout
Post sales: Customer workshop , customer test with selected locations, customer documentation

Network / Data center and technology guidance for Commerzbank

Commerzbank

Banken und Finanzdienstleistungen

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Core & Datacenter Network Engineering / proposal creation with Cisco
Datacenter Design: VSS technology Cisco 6500, Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000
  1. Hardware certification, NXOS/ IOS Certification, Proof of Concept Tests
  2. Labor setup and testing of future productive environments

Global QoS branches to headquarter concept for different hardware types
Hardware tests, labor environment with traffic generator, to test the QoS settings of different Hardware and modules from Cisco.
Hardware verification (Switches C65xx und Module, C45xx und Module, C37xx, c3560x, sowie Router C720x, ASR100x, C76xx) check QoS Software and Hardware bugs.
Creating of QoS configuration templates (MQR Policies, Queue Limits, SRR-Parameter)
Rollout Document with QoS Config templates

Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) Cases support and handling for Commerzbank

Labor test environments and configuration test
mVPN Multicast implementation , setup of a mLDP Test environment
Cisco Nexus 5020 + 2148 connection to Cisco Catalsyst 6500 VSS system with VPC
Tacacs/Radius AAA Setup with Cisco ACS 5.1 (VMWare) und Free-LDAP to test a new setup for User Authentication to Network Devices
VMWare Server ESXi 4.1 and Cisco Nexus tests (LACP, Active / Standby)

Technology guidance for Core Implementation Team

O2 Germany / Telefonica

Telekommunikation

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Design Concept for redundant connections to application layer gateways (Hosted NAT traversal (SIP / RTP) and Session Border Controller in MPLS VPNs.

Feasibility study for MPLS Backbone enlargement for the Mobile MPLS Network.

IPv6 in MPLS Networks
  1. Test of IPv6 Internet Access to Upstream Service Providers
  2. Development of IPv6 (Dual Stack) in MPLS/VPN topologies
  3. IPv6 over PPP for xDSL Connections
Design and development of new Network technology enhancements (Products)
  1. New Detail design for End2End QoS in MPLS VPN Customer Networks ( Product Development)
  2. QoSTraffic Class definitions, matching with other carriers, reassembling of traffic classes.
  3. QoS implementation Guide for (XDSL. LL, Carrier NNI)
  4. Radius, LDAP Design for QOS Attribute for dial in connections (xDSL)
  5. Implementation Guide for MPLS/VPN Load Sharing (Multipath) with MP-BGP for multi homed customers. (Product Development)
  6. Backup Solution for Business Critial VPN Customers (Dial arround the Cloud)
  7. Definition und Labor test ,Services for Carrier NNI, Pseudo Wire Services like ATOM and VPLS. (Juniper M Series, Cisco 7600)

Analysis and evaluation of customer request for proposal.

Cisco CCIE LAB prepartation

Cisco

Internet und Informationstechnologie

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Preparation for the Cisco CCIE praxis lab in Brüssel.

Certification Number:
CCIE Routing & Switching # 23584

Presales, Post sales, Implementation

O2 Germany / Telefonica

Telekommunikation

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Design Engineering for Business Customers
Presales/Post sales
Analysis of Customer request document, feasibility studies of customer requirements after customer meetings.
Survey of presales customer solution, development of final Design for the customer based on product catalog. (rollout process , system standard configuration, operations approval)

Elaboration of company processes for new business product, dry run, product enablement, commercial launch of new business products.

Engineering:
Design of special business customer solutions (VPN, MPLS, QoS, IP-Sec, xDSL, Leases Line, Internet breakout)
Design transformation to standard rollout process.
Coordination of test implementation, and final implementation of the solution.
  1. 20 Project of Business Customer MPLS VPN Rollouts with more than 300 locations.
  2. Implementation of Bertelsmann Arvato MPLS Network
  3. (European Microsoft License authorization platform)
  4. with more than 20 locations. (multi VPN / VRF Solution, Hub and Spoke with Firewalls for traffic securement)
  5. Bertelsmann/Arvato/Sonopress Network enlargement and Customer care.

Network Engineer - Second Level

Telefonica

Internet und Informationstechnologie

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Implementation , Troubleshooting und Roll Out

Troubleshooting / Roll Out of a Customer solution with 6000 ADSL/SDSL locations
Design and Implementation of IPSec (DMVPN) Customer Solutions
Implementation of MPLS VPN Customer solutions.
Project coordination for a new DSLAM Platform (xDSL termination)

Hardware: OneAccess, Cisco, Netopia, Huawai, Juniper, Cisco
  1. IPSEC VPN
  2. MPLS VPN Rollout
  3. Major Customer Projects (> 20 locations)
  4. Cisco 72xx, LL 34 – 155 MB, OSPF, BGP, multi VPN/VRF

Network Engineer - Second Level Support

Porsche

Automobil und Fahrzeugbau

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Second Level Support / Blueprint development

Blueprint for the Layer 3 Routing migration from EIGRP -> OSPF / BGP
Hardware: Cisco Router 17xx-73xx, Switches 65xx, Cisco PIX 5xx

Development and implementation of a backup design.
Frequent inspection of WAN connections (Ethernet DDV, IP Event dampening)

Campus LAN Security: Port security 802.1x, WLAN Security, PIX Firewall,

Implementation of WLAN Environments with EAP-TLS / TKIP or WPA / TKIP
(local Radius Server and Certificate Server)


Core Network Engineering

AT&T Service Provider

Internet und Informationstechnologie

>10.000 Mitarbeiter

Core Network Engineering, Troubleshooting Layer 2/3, 3 Level Support,
Configuration

MPLS, VPN, QOS implementation of Core networks and connected regions, troubleshooting, ticket handling
Troubleshooting Tools; Cisco Works, Concord, HP Openview, MRTG
Layer3: EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-iBGP, MPLS, VPN, QOS
Layer2: IGX, BPX; ATM, Frame-Relay

Migration of 200 locations in EMEA and LATAM from ATM / Frame-Relay topology to a MPLS enabled IP / VPN Network platform.
On-site operation for Major locations during the implementation (6 Month)
BRAZIL - (Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Manaus)
ARGENTINA -(Buenos Aires )
USA – (Atlanta, Miami)

Kontaktanfrage

Einloggen & anfragen.

Das Kontaktformular ist nur für eingeloggte Nutzer verfügbar.

RegistrierenAnmelden