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Daniel Schwartz

SRE MANAGER | IT INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST

99.9%
Uptime Target
5y+
Leadership

Leading SRE teams since 2021 to ensure mission-critical banking stability. I combine a collaborative leadership style with deep technical expertise in observability and system reliability.

Professional Experience

Jan 2021 - Present

Head of Unit Site Reliability Engineering

Value Transformation Services | Munich

  • Lead a unit of 50 employees across Italy, Austria, and Germany.
  • Build and sustain a scalable, high-performance infrastructure by applying SRE principles to improve system reliability and reduce operational issues.
  • Act as the first point of contact for critical situations and major incidents.
  • Focus on automation to reduce manual tasks and deliver improvements that optimize operations and strengthen IT resilience.
Sep 2013 - Dec 2020

Technical Team Leader Site Reliability Engineering

Value Transformation Services | Munich

  • Led and managed technical projects and teams
  • Acted as Critical Situation Manager, leading troubleshooting and debugging of complex runtime problems in the on-call service.
  • Drove continuous improvements to applications and IT infrastructure.

Technical Skills

Expertise

Docker | Podman
Splunk
Linux
Wireshark
JVM troubleshooting

Experience

Google Cloud
Python
Git
Kubernetes
Openshift
Ansible
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana

Learning

Github Actions
ArgoCD
AI Engineering

Certifications

Professional DevOps Engineer

Issued: 2025

Professional

Associate Cloud Engineer

Issued: 2024

Associate

Cloud Digital Leader

Issued: 2022

Foundational

System Administrator Linux 7

Issued: 2018

Foundational

ITIL Foundation v3

Issued: 2011

Foundational

Projects

Splunkbase Published

PCAP Analyzer for Splunk

A Splunk application designed to parse, and visualize Wireshark PCAP files for deep packet inspection and network security auditing.

Published 2015

Splunk SPL Python PCAP / Wireshark Data Viz
Finished

CEE2020 New Banking Infrastructure - Technical Leader

UniCredit has launched a special program, "CEE 2020" which aims at new ways to generate growth and value creation and to develop a future-proof customer business.

2015-2020

Architecture Java Troublshooting Project Organization