Clemens Kaserer

Manager · Cloud Engineering at Avanade
Profile

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.

Experience

Manager — Cloud Engineering

Dec 2023 — Present
Avanade · 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
Avanade · 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)
Experience (continued)

Cloud Architect

Oct 2019 — Feb 2022
Gepardec IT Services GmbH · 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

Cloud Analyst → Senior Cloud Analyst → Cloud Specialist

Aug 2017 — Sep 2019
Accenture · 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

Technical Student (Internship) — System Administration

May 2015 — Jun 2016
CERN · 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