Jan Philippi

Profile

DevOps and Cloud Engineer with a strong focus on building reliable, observable, and scalable infrastructure. Experienced across the full lifecycle—from provisioning and automation to monitoring and incident response—across 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 am passionate about exploring cultures and technology — from niche music genres to diving deeper into infosec and running personal infrastructure projects.

Experience

GVG Glasfaser

Saarbrücken, DE

DevOps, Software & Operations Engineer

Nov 2023 - Present

  • Developed custom Prometheus exporters to unify metrics across systems and network infrastructure, improving observability and reducing incident response time
  • Built automated workflows to produce production-ready system images for consistent deployments
  • Designed reusable CI/CD pipelines to standardize and accelerate internal tooling delivery
  • Golang
  • Prometheus
  • GitLab
  • CI/CD
  • Ansible
  • JunOS
  • Nutanix
  • HYCU
  • A10

Platform.sh

Remote

Cloud Operations Engineer

Jun 2022 - Sep 2023

  • Managed incident response across cloud infrastructure, ensuring timely resolution and service reliability
  • Participated in on-call rotations, diagnosing and resolving production issues in distributed systems
  • LXC/LXD
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Ceph

Key-Systems

St. Ingbert, DE

Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer

Aug 2020 - May 2022

  • Led the containerization and redeployment of the Brandshelter platform using Amazon ECS
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and automated software delivery
  • Implemented centralized logging using Elasticsearch and Kibana to improve system visibility and troubleshooting
  • Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform for scalable and reproducible environments
  • Amazon Web Services
  • ECS
  • GitLab
  • Elasticsearch
  • IAM
  • Terraform
  • Docker

OVHcloud

Saarbrücken, DE

Operations Engineer

Nov 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Automated operational tasks and system configuration using Ansible and Puppet
  • Supported and maintained Linux-based desktop systems in an internal environment
  • Developed internal tooling and scripts in Python to automate repetitive tasks
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Puppet
  • Desktop Workstations

IT Helpdesk

Dec 2017 - Aug 2020

  • Provided internal IT support across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments
  • Managed hardware lifecycle and inventory for employee workstations
  • Diagnosed and resolved system, network, and user-related issues
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Customer Advocate

Jun 2015 - Dec 2017

  • Handled customer incidents across hosting infrastructure and services
  • Diagnosed and resolved network and hardware-related issues
  • Supported billing and account-related requests
  • Ensured high customer satisfaction through effective communication and problem-solving
  • VMware
  • Proxmox
  • OpenStack
  • SDN
  • SDDC
  • Docker
  • PHP
  • Routing
  • Networking

Languages

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

Interests

  • Cross-cultural exploration
  • Politics
  • Longboarding
  • DJing
  • Selfhosting
  • Infosec
  • Travelling