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

Languages

  • German
    Native
  • English
    C2
  • French
    B1
  • Dutch
    A2

Interests

  • Foreign culture
  • Politics
  • Longboarding
  • Languages
  • DJing
  • Selfhosting
  • Infosec
  • Travelling