Simon Buob
Linux System Administrator

Contact Info

  • +41 79 371 01 61
  • simon@buob.wtf
  • Langnau i. E., Switzerland

Education

  • 2005 - 2007

    Swiss Federal Certificate Computer Science, System Engineering (Way-Up)

    Gewerblich Industrielle Berufsschule Bern

  • 2000 - 2003

    High School / Secondary School

    Gymnasium Interlaken

Certificates

  • 2015

    Advanced Level Administration (LPIC-2)

    Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

  • 2011

    Junior Level Administration (LPIC-1)

    Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

Languages

  • German
  • French
  • English
  • Spanish

Profile

A Senior System Administrator with 10+ years of professional experience, specializing in Linux Engineering & Administration, IT Infrastructure & Services, Automation and Monitoring with a strong background in Open-Source Software and Security.

Professional Experience

2018 - Present
NetModule AG
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System Administrator & DevOps Engineer

  • Datacenter migration
  • Build infrastructure migration from VMware to Proxmox
  • MS Teams Telephony rollout
  • Server & Network Monitoring solution with LibreNMS
  • Implement IT Automation with Ansible AWX
  • Implement internal ACME PKI

2013 - 2016
Tamedia AG
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System Engineer

  • Implementation & Maintenance Tamedia Paywall
  • Server Monitoring solution with CheckMK

2008 - 2011
GARAIO AG
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System Administrator

  • HA and secure Messaging infrastructure (Postfix, Qmail, Exchange)
  • Server & Network Monitoring solution with Zabbix

2004 - 2005
LAN Services AG
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Customer Support Engineer

Other Experience

2023 (5 months)

Crossing the Alps by foot (Via Alpina)

2016 - 2017

Backpacking through Central America from Mexico to Colombia

2011 - 2013

Living in Colombia and backpacking through South America

Professionals skills

Linux Server Administration

RHEL, CentOS/Rocky Linux, Debian, Ubuntu

Virtualization & Container

Proxmox PVE, KVM, VMware, Docker

Automation

Ansible & Ansible AWX, Jenkins, Rundeck, Puppet, BASH, Python, PowerShell

Monitoring

LibreNMS, Nagios/CheckMK, Zabbix, Grafana, Uptime-Kuma, Graylog

Web Technologies

NginX, Traefik, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, HAproxy

DB Admninistration

MySQL/MariaDB, PostGreSQL, SQL Server, NoSQL

Messaging

Postfix, Qmail, Exchange, Proofpoint

VCS / SCM

Git (GitLab, Gitea, BitBucket), Subversion

Interests

  • Photography
  • Outdoor
  • Reading
  • Music