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Keroles Khalil

Linux System Administrator | HPC Cluster Administrator at Tübingen AI Center

Location:Rottenburg / Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (Germany)
Timezone:Europe/Berlin
Experience:8 Years
Direct Rate
$55–$115/ hour (USD)
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About & Engineering Approach

Linux infrastructure and cluster system administrator. Specializes in designing, deploying, and maintaining virtual environments on Proxmox VE, building fault-tolerant Ceph storage, automating configurations via Ansible and AWX, and managing infrastructure as code (Terraform). Ensures stability of bare-metal server nodes, network equipment (VLAN, pfSense, MikroTik), and monitoring systems.

Core Technologies & Competencies

Primary Specializations

Server Administration

All Technologies & Tools

Server Administration
Linux
Debian
Ubuntu Server
Rhel
Proxmox Ve
Proxmox Backup Server
Openstack
Ansible
Awx
Terraform
Iac
Bash
Python
Vlan
Pfsense
Mikrotik
Openldap
Firewalls
Ceph
Cephfs
Rgw
Lustre
Weka
Prometheus
Grafana
Influxdb
Collectd

Commercial Experience

HPC Cluster Administrator @ Tübingen AI Center (Full-time)

2024-06-01 — Present

Developing Ansible playbooks, administering Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server, building Ceph storage, configuring network switches and routers, supporting GPU nodes.

Managed Service Engineer L2 @ NTT Germany AG & Co. KG (Full-time)

2023-02-01 — 2024-05-01

Operating and supporting UNIX / Linux-based platforms, writing Ansible playbooks, documenting engineering procedures.

Selected Portfolio & Deliverables

Virtualization and storageScience and education

Proxmox Ceph Virtualization Platform

Building a fault-tolerant virtualization platform on Proxmox VE with distributed Ceph storage for research center GPU nodes.

proxmox-ve
ceph
proxmox-backup-server
debian
Infrastructure automationArtificial intelligence

GPU Cluster Automation Playbooks

A set of Ansible and AWX playbooks for automatically configuring NVIDIA drivers, job queues, and GPU node monitoring.

ansible
awx
terraform
prometheus
grafana
Network securityInformation technology

Office Network Segmentation

Segmenting office and server networks into isolated VLANs with a pfSense firewall, VPN access, and centralized OpenLDAP authentication.

pfsense
vlan
mikrotik
openldap

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Code & Architecture AuditAssessed on production code standards and type safety.
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