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András Zsitko

András Zsitko

☁️ SRE | DevOps | Linux | Automation | Cloud | Platform Engineering

Vienna, Austria, AT
English, German, Hungarian, Slovak

Background


About

About

Experienced IT Engineer passionate about Infrastructure-as-Code, Platform Engineering and SRE

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer, Nets

    Jan, 2023 - May, 20241 year 4 months

    • Migration of production servers to cloud services | Azure
    • Design and deployment of highly available clusters | AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service
    • Infrastructure-as-Code & GitOps approach | Helm, Pulumi, Azure Pipelines, git

  • IT Operations Engineer, Nets

    Nov, 2021 - Jan, 20231 year 2 months

    • Automating Linux-based Infrastructure | Ansible
    • Agile IT Operations | SAFe Scaled Agile Framework
    • Azure Cloud infrastructure automation with pipelines | Azure DevOps
    • Declarative Infrastructure-as-Code deployment of Azure resources | Bicep

  • Senior IT Operations Engineer, Ericsson

    Jul, 2020 - Oct, 20211 year 3 months

    • Senior role with Infrastructure Engineering focus
    • Designing/implementing configuration management for Linux servers | Ansible
    • Promoting DevOps transformation & implementation tasks
    • Management of virtualized environments on a global scale | VMware vCenter & ESXi
    • Mentoring colleagues in best practices, tools and processes

  • IT Operations Engineer, Ericsson

    Jan, 2016 - Jul, 20204 years 6 months

    • Operation/maintenance of thousands of Linux VMs | CentOS, FreeBSD
    • Remote administration of bare metal infrastructure | Dell PowerEdge
    • Maintenance of virtualized infrastructure | VMware ESXi
    • Network Administration | Juniper Networks SRX
    • Network Access & Policies | Pulse Secure PCS, PPS/UAC
    • Security log analysis | Balabit SCB, Balabit Syslog-ng Store Box
    • Operating an IPsec VPN based remote support environment
    • Providing L2/L3 support to fellow Ericsson engineers

  • Application Support Engineer, Xanadu Consultancy

    Sep, 2014 - Jul, 201510 months

    • Operation/management of 350+ Linux VMs | Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS
    • Troubleshooting Java Application Servers | GlassFish
    • Monitoring system health/performance for proactive response | Zabbix
    • Managing a cluster of databases with replication | MySQL

  • System Administrator, J. Selye University - SELYE JÁNOS EGYETEM

    Feb, 2012 - Aug, 20142 years 6 months

    • Technical support to 300+ users
    • Linux server deployment/maintenance | CentOS, Debian
    • LAN network infrastructure

  • Technical Support Engineer, SEVENET s.r.o.

    Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20111 day

    • IT Support for clients of the Internet Service Provider
    • LAN/WAN network connectivity

Skills

Skills

  • VMware
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Helm
  • Pulumi
  • Linux
  • Servers
  • System Administration
  • Git
  • Cloud Computing
  • IoT
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Technical Support
  • Kubernetes
  • Platform Engineering
  • IT Operations
  • Hardware
  • DevOps
  • Juniper
  • WordPress
  • Bash
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Operating Systems
  • VMware ESX
  • Azure DevOps
  • Windows
  • Ansible
  • Network Administration
  • Docker
  • Troubleshooting
  • VPN
  • Site Reliability Engineering
Education

Education

  • Information Technology | English Language | Teaching, Master's Degree, J. Selye University

    Dec, 2006 - Dec, 2011

  • Information Technology, Erasmus, Eötvös Loránd University

    Dec, 2010 - Dec, 2010

Certificates

Certificates

  • MTCNA - MikroTik Certified Network Associate, Mikrotik

    Issued on:

Awards

Awards

  • Ericsson SD Applications & Platforms HERO , Ericsson

    Awarded on: Jul 31, 2019

    SD Applications & Platforms HERO Award for exemplary performance, work, ethic, commitment and contribution to Ericsson's business.

  • Extraordinary Performance Award , Ericsson

    Awarded on: Jul 31, 2019

    The CAS team lost a few members in a short succession. I was recognized for extraordinary effort in training newcomers, working long ours with them and helping them in getting up to speed by holding knowledge sharings and coaching sessions. This effort has paid off, as the team's KPIs haven't shown any loss of performace.

  • Ericsson CAS Innovathlon 1st Prize Winner , Ericsson

    Awarded on: Jun 30, 2019

    Ericsson Customer Access & Security held a hackathon for finding innovative ideas & projects. My project was using Ansible configuration management to act as a wrapper around OVFtool, which deployed fully configured virtual machines to VMware vCenter or ESXi.

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Network and Technical Support, J. Selye University - SELYE JÁNOS EGYETEM

    Sep, 2006 - Jun, 2011

    During my university studies I volunteered for technical support and network maintenance in the dormitory of the university to gain hands-on experience.

    • Desktop support for 300+ students
    • Patching network connections to dorm rooms
    • Maintenance of ethernet network cabling
    • Managing bandwidth usage via MikroTik

References

References

  • Nándor Tóth

    Andras has a very positive, can-do mindset who always try to find the solution for his task. His communication skill is over the average, which is used by him very well during the customer negotiations and solving the problems/issues. It was a pleasure to work with him.

  • Szabolcs Szallar

    Andrew has a can do attitude, he always looks for a better and quicker solution. I would like to highlight the precision of his work.