Clemens Kaserer — Manager · Cloud Engineering at Avanade

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Years in Cloud & DevOps

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AI-augmented delivery speed

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Active Microsoft Certifications

Azure

Cloud Platform of Choice

About

Engineering leader, Azure architect, AI-first in delivery.

Cloud Engineering Manager at Avanade with a decade in Azure. I lead engineering teams, design Azure platforms — Landing Zones (CAF and Sovereign), AKS/OpenShift, Functions and Web Apps — and embed AI-augmented delivery on top. As one of the people responsible at Avanade for the GitHub Copilot rollout, I make AI tooling production-safe for enterprise teams. Latest project shipped at ~3.2× the speed of a traditional engagement.

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Engineering Leadership

Building, growing, and steering cloud engineering teams; running architecture reviews and shaping delivery across enterprise accounts.

Azure Platform Design

CAF and Sovereign Landing Zones, AKS / OpenShift platforms, Functions and Web Apps — engineered with standardization and automation as the foundation.

AI-Augmented Delivery

GitHub Copilot rollout (compliance, licensing, enablement) and Claude Code in delivery — latest project landed at ~3.2× the speed of a traditional engagement.

How I work with AI

Spec-first

Clear intent and acceptance criteria — not just clever prompts.

Pair, never autopilot

AI accelerates engineers; humans stay on the critical path.

Compliance from day one

Governance, licensing and data boundaries baked into the workflow.

Measurable uplift

Track delivery time and quality — replace gut feel with numbers.

Career

Experience

A decade of shipping cloud infrastructure and building engineering teams.

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Avanade

Manager — Cloud Engineering

Current

Dec 2023 — Present · Vienna, Austria

Lead cloud engineering delivery for enterprise clients. One of the people responsible at Avanade for the GitHub Copilot programme — compliance, licensing, enablement.

Lead Azure Landing Zone delivery (CAF, Sovereign LZ) for regulated clients
Own GitHub Copilot compliance, licensing and enablement at Avanade
Embed AI-augmented engineering in delivery — latest project at ~3.2× speed
Standardize AKS/OpenShift, Functions and Web Apps delivery on IaC + pipelines
Build the cloud engineering practice; mentor and run architecture reviews

Senior Consultant — Cloud Engineering

Feb 2022 — Dec 2023 · Vienna, Austria

Delivered Azure platform and DevOps transformation for enterprise clients.

Designed Azure Landing Zones (CAF) for regulated-industry clients
Built AKS platforms with Terraform/Bicep and GitOps delivery
Established trunk-based dev and pipeline-as-code (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

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Gepardec IT Services GmbH

Cloud Architect

Oct 2019 — Feb 2022 · Vienna, Austria

Designed and operated container platforms and CI/CD for SaaS and enterprise customers.

Architected multi-tenant Kubernetes / OpenShift platforms for production
Automated provisioning with Terraform and Helm — environments in minutes, not days
Introduced GitOps and pipeline-driven delivery across product teams

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Accenture

Cloud Analyst → Senior Cloud Analyst → Cloud Specialist

Aug 2017 — Sep 2019 · Vienna, Austria

Progressed from Cloud Analyst to Cloud Specialist delivering Azure platform and DevOps engagements across the DACH region.

Led Azure migration and modernisation workstreams for enterprise clients
Designed Azure topologies and CI/CD on Azure Pipelines and ARM templates
Mentored junior cloud analysts on Azure fundamentals and DevOps practices

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CERN

Technical Student (Internship) — System Administration

May 2015 — Jun 2016 · Geneva, Switzerland

Operated HPC clusters with RDMA 10 Gbit interconnects in support of research workloads.

Puppetised an HPC cluster and built a job-performance feedback framework

Expertise

Skills & Technologies

From Azure Landing Zones to GitHub Copilot rollouts — the toolbox I work with day-to-day.

Azure Platform

Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) DesignSovereign Landing Zone (SLZ)Azure Policy & GovernanceAzure NetworkingAzure Monitor

Cloud-Native & Containers

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)OpenShift / AROKubernetesAzure FunctionsAzure Web AppsAzure Container Apps

Automation, CI/CD & Scripting

TerraformBicepGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsHelmGitOpsPythonPowerShellBash

AI-Augmented Engineering

Spec-driven developmentAgentic workflowsMCP (Model Context Protocol)Prompt engineering for engineersCopilot enablement at scaleAI governance & complianceClaude CodeGitHub Copilot