Maximilian Barais Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Service Manager for Cloud and On-Premise Infrastructure Operations, managing IT services operated by external service providers. Accountable for the delivery of state-of-the-art, secure, cost-effective operational infrastructure services in both the cloud environment and on-premise geographically distributed datacenters. Closely aligning with ITIL/ITSM principles to ensure efficient and effective delivery of cloud services. Defining service level agreements (SLAs) and ensuring they are met, managing incidents and service requests, coordinating change management processes to minimize disruptions, conducting regular service reviews to identify areas for improvement, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Actively involved in the Cloud DevOps activities of deployment, operations and maintenance of the Cloud ecosystem. Overseeing well functioning of the end-to-end cloud environment (PaaS/IaaS solutions, FinOps, Identity, Security, Backup, Networking, High-availability, Connectivity). Ensuring the Product Owner role for cloud and platforms transformational projects, aimed at extending and modernising the current IT products and services. Managing the Obsolescence and Lifecycle Management programmes for physical hosting infrastructure (servers, storage, virtualisation) as well as enterprise-grade software rollouts (VMware, OpenShift, RHEL).Playing a crucial role in fostering collaboration between different teams involved in delivering and supporting cloud/on-prem services, ultimately striving to enhance customer satisfaction and drive business value through optimized service delivery.

Belgium

Cloud Computing Engineer, supervising transversely all Azure cloud infrastructure operational activities and related projects and initiatives. Monitoring cloud costs and providing recommendations for financial optimisations. Member of the EUROCONTROL Cloud Team, providing guidance for building the mission-critical environment in the cloud, adhering to the “Cloud-First” long-term strategy of the Agency.Participating in the technical and operational design phases, taking the lead on DevOps, integration, lifecycle and service delivery aspects.Acting as a central point of contact between business owners, architects, security experts, financial management and external engineering teams.Fostering communication and managing interrelations between people from different organisations, nationalities and cultures.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Chapter-Lead for a software development squad in SWIFT's new Agile organization 2020-2021, managing a team of engineers specialized in architecting, developing and deploying large-scale, high-available, highly-secure, mission-critical financial systems. Coordinator, center of expertise for team members. Coach, instructor with interviewing and onboarding tasks. Experienced in Agile methodologies. Managing on-call responsibilities. Used to working in a 24/7, worldwide, multi-cultural, follow-the-sun environment.Lead Development/DevOps Engineer in the a new, modern, 24/7, mission-critical, financial service for inter-banking payments infrastructure.Active role in the architecture, design, development and deployment of the software stack in AWS Cloud. Architect and lead developer of the security model and authentication/authorization modules. Reference point for the cross-functional end-to-end integration. Lead Development/Operations Engineer for a highly-available, highly-secure resiliency solution for the real-time payments systems of several major central banks.Major contributor in both front-end and back-end components and security aspects. Holding responsibilities in CI/CD procedures, deployment and operational aspects, as well as on-call duties and crisis point of contact. Architect of the complete technology stack renewal (part of SWIFT's larger initiative to move to modern technologies). Reference point for other collateral projects and integration dependencies. On-call responsibilities.Lead software engineer for a peer-to-peer inter-bank high-resilience network instrumenting near real-time low and high value payments. Core backend designer and developer, with focus on automation, security and redundancy. Responsible for software integration with external software providers.

Postgraduate Degree In Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering

Master Of Computer Applications (Mca), Computer Engineering