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Hi I am Gizmo!

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hi, glad you decided to learn more about me I am William!

Not only do I work with computers @work but the passion continues @home playing with raspberry`s Arduino's and many more hobby's like playing guitar, riding my motorcycle, playing games, 3d printing, painting, pluming, watching series, and much more there is always something to do.

I am always open to discuss a new role so feel free to send me a email or a linkedin message.

Resume

This is my resume

Education

Certificates

  • 2022
    - RDW - A1/2/3 Drone certificate
  • 2021
    - Microsoft - Azure fundamentals
  • 2020
    - Cloud Guru - Python3 for sys admins
  • 2020
    - Cloud Guru - Reliability Engineering concepts
  • 2019
    - NedCert - Emergency Response Officer
  • 2017
    - AWS cloud practitioner Essentials (digital)
  • 2014
    - EdX - Linux
  • 2013
    - Dell - DSOD - servers, laptops and printers -
  • 2008
    - Cisco - Discovery networking for home and SB
  • 2008
    - Cisco - IT essentials
  • Secondary vocational education (MBO) & System Administration

    July 2011 - Level 4 - Diploma

    ROC A12 - Ede, The Netherlands

    Pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) & Electrician

    July 2007 - KBL - Diploma

    CSV - Veenendaal, The Netherlands

    Tools and Tech

    Operating systems

    Linux: Centos, Ubuntu, Rocky, Amazon Linux1, Debian

    Windows: 95 to Windows 11, server 2003 to 2016

    Mac Os and Dos

    Hardware

    Servers/workstations: HP, IBM, Dell, Sun, Apple

    Network: Microtik, ubiquity, Switches, Routers, san, nas

    Other: Tape robots, network printers, MFP's

    Protocols

    Network: TCP/IP, Apple talk, WiFi, IpSec, SSH, PPTP, SSL, FTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP

    Programming

    HTML, XML, CSS, Ruby, Visual Basic, PHP, C#, Batch, Python3, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, YML

    DevOps / Cloud / Other

    Docker, AKS, AWS, Azure, Rundeck, Atlassian (onprem and cloud), RDS, MongoDB, MySQL, OpenDJ, MariaDB, VmWare, Active Directory, LDAP, ITIL (2 and 3), kubectl, az cli, OpenSearch, ELK, Icinga2, Grafana, Prometheus, Git, GitHub, Sisense, Qlik, Superset, NGINX, HTTPD

    Something missing?

    Unfortunately I cannot list every thing I have ever worked with please see the PDF version of my Resume, Or shoot me a email!

    Professional Experience

    Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

    10-2019 - Present

    Precima - A NIQ company

    Precima is a company specialized in data analysis for retailers around the world, Here things like automation in Ansible, Terraform (IAAC), setting up monitoring and kanban, server performance, leading and supporting of coworkers is all in a day to day operation. Tools include Ansible, Terraform, grafana, Icinga, slack, bash, python, aws, azure, google cloud, k8s, Icinga2 and much more.

    Projects
    • Lead in the design, development, and implementation of Icinga2, with grafana and alerting to pagerduty
    • Migrate ELK with search guard to OpenSearch
    • Revise and redevelop IAAC code to be more automated with CI/CD and remove manual tasks
    • Migrate from AWS linux1 to Centos and Rocky linux 8 to be cloud agnostic
    • Develop various POC's for future business cases / costs savings
    • Setup multi cloud in Azure,AWS and Google cloud.
    • Setup and manage multiple K8s clusters.

    Linux Engineer

    03-2018 - 09-2019

    SIDN

    SIDN is the company behind the '.nl' TLD. Here I to managed various items like the Atlassian tool stack, Abusehub and work with tools like puppet and Ansible to further automate the environment in any way possible.

    DevOps Engineer / DPO

    01-2017 - 02-2018

    Lukkien

    Lukkien is a media company, they do commercials, Photo shoots and websites for customers. Here I worked as a DevOps engineer to keep the customer sites up and running and deploying new ones with the latest tools. Also implemented the GDPR here.

    DevOps Engineer

    01-2016 - 12-2016

    iWelcome

    More info about this role and other roles in the downloadable PDF

    system Engineer

    02-2014 - 12-2015

    Tricode (now dept agency)

    system Engineer

    01-2012 - 01-2014

    Hyves / TMG Online Media

    More info ?

    2009 - 2011

    Other companies

    More info is available in the downloadable PDF

    Contact

    Contact Me

    Contact methods

    Contact via email / linkedin is preferred

    Please do not whatsapp me, Github / wiki available on request.

    Connect with me on Linkedin

    - William-v-Beek

    Email Me

    w.v.b@live.nl

    Call Me

    +31611202002