Jan Philippi
Profile
DevOps and Cloud Engineer with a strong focus on building reliable, observable, and scalable infrastructure. Experienced across the full lifecycle — from system provisioning and automation to monitoring and incident response — working with both on-premise and cloud-native environments. I enjoy designing reusable tooling and workflows that simplify operations, improve delivery speed, and reduce complexity. My background spans networking, virtualization and distributed systems, with a particular interest in observability and infrastructure as code. Outside of work, I’m passionate about exploring languages, cultures and technology — from niche EDM genres to diving deeper into infosec and running personal infrastructure projects.
Experience
GVG Glasfaser
Saarbrücken, DE
DevOps, Software & Operations Engineer
Nov 2023 - Present
- Custom Prometheus exporters to scrape ALL of the systems & network gear for a unified global metrics plane
- Ready-to-use system images for production workloads
- Re-usable software delivery workflows for custom tooling
- Python
- Golang
- Prometheus
- Gitlab
- CI/CD
- JunOS
- Nutanix
- Hycu
- A10
Platform.sh
Remote, FR
Cloud Operations Engineer
Jun 2022 - Sep 2023
- Incident Handling
- On-Call Operations
- Python
- LXC/LXD
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon Webservices
- Ceph
Key-Systems
St. Ingbert, DE
Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer
Aug 2020 - May 2022
- Containerized re-deployment of Brandshelter using Amazon ECS
- Software delivery pipelines ("build more and worry less")
- Centralized cloud-native log aggregation based on ElasticSearch & Kibana
- Infrastructure as Code
- Amazon Webservices
- ECS
- Gitlab
- ElasticSearch
- IAM
- Terraform
- Docker
- IAC
OVHcloud
Saarbrücken, DE
Operations Engineer
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
- Ansible
- Python
- Puppet
- Linux
- Desktop Workstations
IT Helpdesk
Dez 2017 - Aug 2020
- Windows
- Linux
- MacOS
- Stock Management
- Internal IT Support
Customer Advocate
Jun 2015 - Dez 2017
- Incident handling
- Network & hardware diagnostics
- General billing support
- Customer satisfaction as key priority
- VMWare
- Proxmox
- OpenStack
- SDN
- SDC
- Support
- Docker
- PHP
- Routing
- Networking
- hallo@janphilippi.de
- janphilippi.de
- Ottweiler, Germany
Languages
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GermanNative
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EnglishC2
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FrenchB1
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DutchA2
Interests
- Foreign culture
- Politics
- Longboarding
- Languages
- DJing
- Selfhosting
- Infosec
- Travelling