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Mandatory national service at the Royal Norwegian Navy's smoke-diving and damage-control school at KNM Tordenskjold. Certified as a solo instructor after a six-month qualification programme. Taught recruits, officers, coast-guard and naval-officer trainees through live-fire drills, smoke dives and damage-control simulations.

Designed and rolled out the security baseline for the unit's digital examination workstation fleet, which had been operating without centralised Group Policy and with end-user accounts running with local administrator rights. Implemented a GPO-driven hardening profile (privileged-access removal, account lockout enforcement, password policy enforcement) via PowerShell, bringing the fleet in line with standard workstation policy. Replaced manual account provisioning and status reporting with automated PowerShell tooling that the unit owns going forward.

Kept a self-hosted Kubernetes, GitOps and CI platform running across the conscript year as continued engineering practice, building the foundation the current Homelab platform sits on.

System Consultant on Orange Service Delivery 3, holding a parallel consulting portfolio across roughly seven clients in aviation (PCI and non-PCI), transport, healthcare (two), B2B SaaS and public sector. TAM on two of them, de facto technical owner on others where the engagement model required it. Consulting work centred on Linux and RHEL platforms, Kubernetes, automation and networking, extending to Windows Server and full infra-team scope where the customer required it. Norsk Helsenett (NHN, the regulated clinical network with strict peering and compliance controls) integrations for clinical data exchange were a recurring cross-customer dependency.

Migrated a transport-sector customer's production Kubernetes platform off a major public cloud provider to on-prem Kubernetes for GDPR and data-residency compliance. Chose a blue-green strategy with storage rebuilt on NetApp NFS, covering the two clusters (test and prod) that made up the internal developer platform and resulting in a clean cutover. The customer fleet under operational management was five clusters of six nodes each.

Ran a Puppet-to-Ansible configuration management migration at a B2B SaaS customer, writing all Ansible roles solo, stored in GitLab on-prem and deployed via Jenkins, replacing mail, application, jump-host and Postgres servers. Ran a parallel RHEL7-to-RHEL8/9 blue-green redeploy of the application fleet at the same time. Both tracks ran concurrently through the pre-service engagement.

At a patient-facing healthcare customer, built a custom Prometheus-to-TICK access-log bridge that fed the customer's preferred Prometheus data model into the centralised TICK stack. Also deployed eight new VMs alongside the existing fleet and redeployed the F5 WAF with policy migration onto a cleaner network segment.

On two other healthcare customers, owned the Postgres host stack with a full RHEL7-to-RHEL9 redeploy followed by a TLS connection-string migration with certificates, and ran the Kubernetes core services (Traefik, Fluent Bit) plus OS-level cluster operations (CoreDNS overrides, ulimit tuning) across their environments. NHN integration for clinical data exchange was an active dependency at both.

For a Norwegian public-sector customer, owned the self-hosted Atlassian platform (Jira, Confluence, MySQL), delivered major version upgrades, and ran the surrounding F5 and Cisco network edge with TICK-based monitoring.

Daily stack: Kubernetes, RHEL, Ansible, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, PostgreSQL, F5 BIG-IP, TICK (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor), GitLab (on-prem). Python, Bash and PowerShell where needed.

Operations Center role at Basefarm, later Orange Business. First line for around 250 customers across Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, covering incidents, change requests, alarms, and the full ITIL event, incident, change and service-request flow across the OSI model.

Within five months of joining, took on the Incident Team (INO) lead role (a rotating internal role on the OC team), later also Change Team (CNO) lead. In the final phase of the role, moved into the senior shift rotation, which meant sole first-line responsibility overnight across all 250 customers.

Front-line operational exposure to customer environments spanning on-prem, Azure and AWS, covering platform monitoring, alarm response and change execution across the 250-customer estate.

Carried multiple internal responsibilities beyond the shift desk, including maintenance manager for larger CAB-approved infra changes overnight (roll-back decisions, escalation calls and hourly status reporting), CMDB administration, and onboarding plus CNO-team intro training for around 25 new hires.

Standalone deliverables across the period included an AWS-hosted shared-secret tool adopted across the operations centre (replacing a manual handoff process), a Squid forward proxy built from scratch via Ansible while on loan to an internal development department, and a fallback SMS provider sourced and integrated to remove a single-provider dependency on RSA-token delivery and password resets.

Daily stack: Linux and Windows Server, VMware ESXi, NetApp and Rubrik, Cisco firewalls and switches, F5 BIG-IP, SolidDNS, Digicert, Squid, Ansible, Azure and AWS. AWS Fundamentals certification during the period.