Description

Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer based in Zurich with 20 plus years of experience in high-reliability environments across banking and telecom. I specialise in RHEL and OpenShift platforms, automation with Ansible and Git, and observability stacks using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and Checkmk. I deliver outcomes such as zero-downtime RHEL migrations for payment services, enterprise-grade Podman adoption, and unified monitoring across Linux, vSphere, and Kubernetes/OpenShift. I bring calm incident leadership and clear communication with engineers and stakeholders.

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
Italian
Conversational
Portuguese
Conversational
Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Zürich (up to 10km)

Bank for International Settlements
Senior Linux Engineer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
February 2024 - July 2025 (1 year and 5 months)
Basel, Switzerland
Automated 70% of deployment processes through advanced Ansible Playbook workflows for 400+ Red Hat servers, reducing deployment time from days to hours
Architected and deployed enterprise Podman container platform replacing Docker, improving security compliance by 40% for financial workloads
Built comprehensive monitoring ecosystem with CheckMK serving 400+ endpoints, providing real-time infrastructure visibility for critical banking systems
Designed centralized observability stack (Grafana, Thanos, Prometheus) monitoring Linux, VMware vSphere, and OpenShift environments - reduced MTTR by 60%
Led zero-downtime migration of 100+ servers from RHEL7 to RHEL9, including critical payment processing systems
Ansible Linux Docker Prometheus
Julius Baer
Senior Linux System Engineer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
September 2023 - February 2024 (5 months)
Zürich, Switzerland
Restructured Ansible automation framework serving 1000+ servers, establishing best practices and reducing configuration drift by 80%
Modernized job scheduling infrastructure across Linux fleet, improving batch processing efficiency by 45%
Architected global RHEL9 golden image with security hardening, serving as foundation for 500+ deployments
Transformed legacy Puppet infrastructure to modern Ansible Automation Platform, reducing management overhead by 50%
Julius Bär
DevOps Engineer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
March 2022 - August 2023 (1 year and 5 months)
Zürich, Switzerland
Optimized OneTick time-series DB handling 10TB+ of daily market data, tripling query performance.
• Built Python/Bash automation for data pipelines, reducing manual intervention.
• Implemented end-to-end CI/CD with Git, Jenkins, Docker/Podman, and Octopus Deploy, enabling 15-minute releases.
• Maintained 99.99% uptime for market-data infrastructure used by 200+ traders.

Technologies: OneTick, Python, Bash, Git, Jenkins, Docker/Podman, Octopus Deploy, Linux.