Junior IT Administrator.
AXA
Preparing the infrastructure for a migration that later became the AXA + UNIQA merger, plus day-to-day operations at a large insurer. My first real IT job.
When two large insurers merge, IT feels it first: two systems that were never built to meet each other suddenly have to behave like one. AXA was where I met that kind of work for the first time — keeping things running, reacting when something went down, and fixing it quickly.
The main piece of work that stuck was preparing the IT infrastructure for a migration ahead of a merger with another company. That meant sitting down with both systems, understanding them, and finding the places they would either meet or fight.
The migration itself went without too much drama — which in this kind of project is the highest praise you can give it.