Establishment of strategies, company building and governance, business growth strategies.

In the context of its digital projects the GEA Group Services GmbH required consultancy of an Azure Cloud Architect. In the context of the project it was required to review and enhance the architecture for all existing Azure workloads associated with digital services in GEA. Additionally consulting and coaching of internal and external stakeholders in order to design and implement the concept of targeted landing zones to accelerate new digital services was required. Furthermore, withing the project the advise of Azure developers and owners to understand their business requirements and enable them to convert these into technical requirements. In that context i was coaching und supporting the Azure developers into using best automated deployment practices and monitoring standards in the area of cloud infrastructure and applications. Coordination on the project level with the operational- and security roles to design and implement solutions that address availability, security, performance monitoring and alerting for cloud-based workloads. Furthermore, in this project it was required to continually evaluate new emerging cloud technologies and look for ways to evolve and enhance existing workloads to either save costs, simplify administration or offer additional functionality. Lastly, i was the technical lead of the Azure landing zone project in all phases to design, develop and deploy enterprise-scale, complex Azure solutions withing the Azure landing zone. The overall goal of my engagement for GEA was the provision of consultancy services regarding the enhancement of GEA’s cloud architecture.

Resource-conserving development (based on a minimum of necessary request units in Microsoft Azure) using sophisticated multithreading strategies as well as adherence to the security concepts applicable in the group when using cloud technologies. Ensuring the necessary high availability of the developed microservices.

Design and implementation for the landing zone architecture of the Microsoft Azure environment for the complete BMW Group with focus on the security of the Hybrid Cloud environment as well as adopting a hyperscaler network strategy.

During the project, the fully automated deployment via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), including an automation strategy covering the network sections (Hub-Spoke) and IT security, was performed conceptually at the beginning and then, in a further step, also the implementation within a hardened environment.