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International Data Center Crisis Specialist | VMware, Enterprise Storage, Linux & Kubernetes |
Villars-sur-Glâne, Schweiz
Weltweit
Skills
LinuxDisaster RecoveryWindows-ServerAnsibleVirtualizationVmware VsphereKubernetesTerraformCiscoVMware
Senior Infrastructure and Data Center Consultant with over 18 years of experience designing, operating, troubleshooting, and securing complex enterprise IT environments.
Specialized in VMware vSphere/ESXi, enterprise storage, Cisco UCS, Linux, Windows Server, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform.
Previously worked at Dell Technologies in senior engineering and customer-facing incident management roles, supporting business-critical enterprise environments.
Experienced in resolving complex virtualization, storage, networking, and infrastructure incidents, coordinating technical escalations, and delivering infrastructure modernization projects.
Available for international freelance assignments from December 2026, including on-site deployments, data center migrations, disaster recovery projects, emergency infrastructure troubleshooting, and night/weekend maintenance windows.
Based in Switzerland, Dutch EU citizen, available for short-notice travel across Europe and internationally.
Erfahrung
Berufserfahrungmehr als 10 Jahre
Freelancer seit2026
Sprachen
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Projekthistorie
Responsible for business-critical enterprise infrastructure across VMware vSphere/ESXi, Cisco UCS, enterprise storage, Linux, Windows Server and Kubernetes environments.
Investigated complex VMware snapshot consolidation failures, storage I/O errors, Fibre Channel connectivity issues and backup-related infrastructure incidents.
Performed root-cause analysis involving ESXi hosts, SAN connectivity, storage systems, backup platforms and virtualization components.
Coordinated safe VM migrations, workload recovery, maintenance operations and technical escalations to restore service availability.
Designed, deployed and maintained highly available Kubernetes/K3s environments, including a customer production cluster with 3 control-plane nodes and 7 workers.
Managed enterprise automation and Windows patch operations using Ansible AWX across approximately 700 Windows hosts.
Implemented monitoring, incident alerting and technical remediation workflows using Grafana, Prometheus, LogicMonitor and Jira.
Supported VMware lifecycle operations, infrastructure security, network troubleshooting and production change management.
Delivered enterprise infrastructure engineering, systems integration and security hardening for large-scale VMware, Linux and Windows environments, including security-sensitive government and defense projects.
Supported infrastructure security activities in an enterprise VMware environment containing approximately 4,000 Linux and Windows virtual machines.
Implemented CIS-aligned system hardening, access controls, patching and configuration remediation.
Contributed to ISO 27001 technical control implementation and audit documentation.
Worked on Dell VxRail infrastructure projects in a German defense environment.
Contributed to an on-premises OpenStack and Kubernetes architecture for a German federal authority.
Supported secure Linux infrastructure and operating system hardening in a maritime technology project.
Performed technical risk assessments, troubleshooting, infrastructure configuration reviews and controlled changes in complex enterprise environments.