My name is Frank Reimer. I am an IT specialist and freelanced IT consultant based in Schleswig-Holstein close to Hamburg, Germany. I have more than 20 years of professional IT experience focused on IT Infrastructure Architecture and Systems Engineering.

Mostly I’m working with Linux (Red Hat certified) and Opensource tools used in modern IT datacenter.

Beside conservative environments with traditional IT silos with dedicated teams for network, storage, compute, operating system support etc. I have established and worked with cross functional global working teams to build new agile IT platforms ( e.g. with Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift) to support DevOps teams with their fast development cycles.

I am familiar with building an on premise Coporate Private Cloud with IaaS and PaaS components including Software Defined Storage and Software Defined Network. Always with focus on Software Defined Datacenter.

I have also experiences in DevOps engineering with CI/CD pipelines running on Jenkins and Git as well as Python scripting and automation with Ansible and Terraform or traditional configuration management with Puppet.

Graduation:

  • High school in Hamburg
  • Professional education as “Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration”
  • Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Administration at Fernuniversitaet Hagen (parallel to the full time job)

Previous activities:

  • Teamled IT Infrastructure Architects (Solution Engineering) at Kühne + Nagel
  • Infrastructure Consultant at Red Hat
  • Senior Linux Systems Engineer at Wincor Nixdorf Global IT Operations GmbH
  • IT specialist and trainer for IT trainees at ISA Internet Service Agentur GmbH

Certificates:

  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer
  • Red Hat Certified Security Specialist
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization
  • Red Hat Certified Architect (currently under recertification)
  • KMK foreign languages certificate English
  • IT instructor degree at Handwerkskammer Hamburg
  • ITIL v2

Red Hat certification ID:

Red Hat certification number: 120-048-434 (click here to verify)