Karl Hampel
DevOps Cloud engineer
WAKERLEY,QLD
Summary
Cloud Systems Engineer, AWS certified and extensive AWS and Linux systems engineering gained in international Investment Banking environments as well as within local Australian AWS based software development agile and DevOps focused environments.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
DevOps Cloud Systems Engineer
RG Group
03.2016 - Current
- Day to day support of AWS services – EC2, RDS,VPC,Redshift,S3, ControlTower,Landing Zone,Organisations,SCP, guardrails, IAM and Identity management
- Responsible for end to end automation across all server builds built in AWS/Linux/Puppet/Git
- Atlassian data centre product suite Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket/Bamboo – SME / Infrastructure build and ongoing upgrades and support
- Working within agile environment with tasks managed through scrum/sprint methodology with active participation in sprint planning and retro sprints.
- Automating AWS cost analysis, remediation and audits through code
- AWS Instance scheduler deployment to automate EC2 and RDS scheduling
DevOps Cloud Systems Engineer
Core Group
06.2012 - 03.2016
- Lead engineer on designing and building the centralised product software release menu which controls the automated software releases across 34 products, each product with multiple environments prod/uat/test/dev
- Lead DevOps engineer on automation analysis, design and development across all existing and new products within our private (VMware) and public (AWS) cloud environments
- Lead engineer in designing and developing a process to automate and orchestrate outage less software releases of multi node products running behind our F5 load balancers ensuring zero outage and zero impact to product end users.
- Lead engineer on a project to design and build the corporate website within Amazon AWS
- Successfully migrated several production environments to AWS auto scaling technology including automated software releases within the autoscaling groups.
- Lead engineer responsible for delivering automated software releases on all products running in Amazon AWS.
- Completed AWS essentials training course and the AWS Systems Operations training course
- UNIX/Linux server engineering on both the private VMWare cloud and AWS public cloud environments.
- Responsible for defining and implementing build standards in compliance with SOX regulations and automating provision of all new servers.
- Responsible for Linux/UNIX server security hardening using automated puppet configurations.
- Responsible for rolling out Puppet configuration management to +- 600 servers and automating Linux/UNIX build configuration standards centrally.
- Linux server provisioning, design, build, documentation and ongoing support
- Apache web server and Tomcat server design, provisioning, performance tuning, documentation and ongoing software releases Linux resource
- Responsible for Linux server rollouts to Amazon AWS and server integration with our existing puppet environment
- Responsible for monitoring and pro-actively managing capacity, server loads and server performance
- Database server builds, performance tuning, database layout and disaster recovery design, configuration, documentation and ongoing support
- Successfully migrated all local Unix user accounts to being centrally managed under puppet control and implemented privileged UNIX user account access controls achieving SOX compliance for UNIX user management requirements
- Responsible for defining and automating controls to maintain Amazon AWS server and database backups, snapshots and general audit requirements to ensure the AWS infrastructure remains cost effective
Team Lead Systems Engineer
Mac Group Ltd.
07.2010 - 11.2012
- Server design, build and operational UNIX/Linux server support
- Responsible for requirements gathering on new project initiatives while meeting with business stakeholders on new Linux and Oracle Solaris (x86 / sparc / VMware) infrastructure builds
- UNIX\Linux solutions design, costing, planning, server builds, disaster recovery planning, testing, documenting and ensuring delivery of work to meet tight project deadlines
- Responsible for ensuring new solutions are built according to banking UNIX\Linux security build standards.
- Database server builds, performance tuning and production banking support
- Capacity and performance planning for MFG & CAF UNIX\Linux servers
- Responsible for planning, co-ordination, scheduling, implementing, testing, and documenting change on the UNIX/Linux infrastructure
- Responsible for quality control of planned changes across the UNIX/Linuxructure
- Responsible for business UNIX/Linux user support and incident requests.
- Responsible for implementing, support and maintaining production critical UNIX\Linux that are expected to operate on a 24x7 basis
- Redhat and Oracle Solaris patching and upgrades
Oracle Solaris UNIX/Linux Engineer
JPMorgan Chase
07.2005 - 11.2008
- Responsible for building, configuring and operationally accepting all new Oracle Solaris and Linux servers for the Futures and Options line of business according to the UNIX security standards of the Equities UNIX department (+-50 servers)
- Equities EMEA Projects team – responsible for new Oracle Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux Veritas application cluster builds for various lines of business
- Responsible for designing and implementing a upgrade procedure to patch all Redhat Enterprise Linux across all lines of Business within the Equities line of business
- Worked closely with the Oracle and Sybase DBA’s on designing new database server layouts as well as troubleshooting and performance tuning
- BAU and Production support:
- Production server support and administration in the Equities UNIX/Linux team.
- Senior Oracle Solaris UNIX/Linux administrator for the Futures and Options line of business.
- Responsible for holding a weekly meeting with the Futures and Options department managers to report on and discuss all work being done across their Oracle Solaris and Linux servers
Oracle Solaris UNIX Consultant
Sun Microsystem's Professional Services
05.2004 - 04.2005
- Provided Oracle Solaris UNIX SunFire15/25K domain and system controller administration support in a 24x7 mission critical environment to the Citigroup fixed income trading and equity trading UNIX teams and their customers.
- Capacity monitoring and server resource allocations, testing and domain installations
- Application readiness testing and handover to Citigroup administrators
- SunFire15/25K Skills transfer to Citigroup onsite system administrators
- Documenting procedures, configurations and best practice’s
- SMS upgrades
- Veritas Volume Manager and Oracle Solaris volume management and troubleshooting
- Oracle Solaris UNIX domain and system controller server patching
- Responsible for Implementing UNIX server security hardening on domains and system controllers
Sun Solaris UNIX System Engineer
Commerzbank Investment Banking
09.2001 - 05.2004
- Enterprise platform administration in one of the world’s largest SAN environments.
- UNIX/Linux system builds, configuration to banking security standards
- Production support and on call duties
Education
B.Com (BIS) Software Engineering - Business Information SystemsInformation Systems Technology
University of Natal
Natal Senior Certificate with Exemption - undefined
Kearsney College
Skills
AWS Solutions Architect
AWS System Operations
AWS Developer
Extensive knowledge of all main Linux distributions
Linux engineering
Server deployments
Configuration management
Infrastructure as code
Linux security best practices and audit management
Automation analysis
Automated software releases
Continuous integration on products within the private and public (AWS) cloud environments
AWS Management and Governance
Multi account management best practices - Control tower, Landing Zone, Organizations and identity manager
It Certification
- Sun Certified System Administrator - SCSA Solaris 10 (UK, London)
- Sun Certified System Administrator - SCSA Solaris 8 (Germany, Frankfurt)
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Level (Brisbane Australia)
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate level (Brisbane Australia)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate level (Brisbane Australia)
It Training
- AWS Systems Operations, 3 days, Australia, Brisbane
- AWS Essentials, 1 day, Australia, Brisbane
- Solaris 10 New Features, 5 days, UK, London
- Redhat Enterprise Linux, 5 days, UK, London
- Veritas Volume Manager, 5 days, Germany, Düsseldorf
- Veritas Cluster Server, 5 days, Germany, Wiesbaden
- Veritas Volume Replicator, 2 days, Germany, Frankfurt
- Sun Fire 25K Server Administration, 5 days, Germany, Munich
- Enterprise 10K Server Administration, 5 days, Germany, Cologne
- IBM Shark Training (ESS), 2 days, Germany, Frankfurt
- Solaris System Administration 1 Solaris 8, 5 days, Germany, Frankfurt
- Solaris System Administration 2 Solaris 8, 5 days, Germany, Frankfurt
Personal Information
- Nationality: South African / German
- Visa Status: Australian Permanent Resident
References
Available on request.
Timeline
DevOps Cloud Systems Engineer
RG Group
03.2016 - Current
DevOps Cloud Systems Engineer
Core Group
06.2012 - 03.2016
Team Lead Systems Engineer
Mac Group Ltd.
07.2010 - 11.2012
Oracle Solaris UNIX/Linux Engineer
JPMorgan Chase
07.2005 - 11.2008
Oracle Solaris UNIX Consultant
Sun Microsystem's Professional Services
05.2004 - 04.2005
Sun Solaris UNIX System Engineer
Commerzbank Investment Banking
09.2001 - 05.2004
B.Com (BIS) Software Engineering - Business Information SystemsInformation Systems Technology
University of Natal
Natal Senior Certificate with Exemption - undefined
Kearsney College