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Ashley Van Den Berg

@ashleyvandenberg

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Cloud and VMware architect leading multi-cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering teams.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior infrastructure or cloud leadership role where I can drive platform strategy, automation, and multi-cloud operations while mentoring teams and delivering resilient, cost-effective solutions.

I am a cloud and VMware architect with extensive experience leading virtualization and multi-cloud platform engineering teams, delivering scalable private and public cloud solutions, migrations, and managed services across multiple countries.

I have led teams through product launches and operational transformations, driven infrastructure automation and IaC practices, and delivered high-availability platforms and complex migrations while aligning technical strategy with business objectives.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Infrastructure Manager

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Lead Forensics

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Lead infrastructure strategy and operations for a hybrid hosting platform, managing a team of two engineers to improve performance, reliability, scalability and cost-efficiency while supporting ISO 27001-aligned security and compliance.

Hybrid & Cloud Infrastructure Management IaC Automation Linux Windows Networking Monitoring Team Leadership

Engineer

MorpheusData

Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years)

Delivered Morpheus technical solutions including design, installation and HA implementations, provided Level 3 troubleshooting and post-sales implementation to meet customer business requirements.

Morpheus VMWare Terraform Kubernetes Ansible RabbitMQ Automation HA Architecture

Solutions Architect

SEAL Africa

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

Architected and implemented Morpheus-based cloud solutions for African customers, led go-live and onboarding processes and maintained internal SEAL infrastructure services.

Cloud Architecture Morpheus VMWare Automation CI CD DevOps Customer Onboarding HA Platform

Multi-Cloud Solutions Architect

TripleHgroup

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year)

Provided technical leadership for cloud adoption, designed and launched a multi-cloud management portal and delivered cloud, storage and DR offerings, launching a cloud product within six months.

VMWare Storage Pre Sales Technical Presentations Solution Design

ITaaS Principal Team Lead

Internet Solutions

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)

Led ITaaS operations and a nine-member engineering team supporting virtualization, storage, backups and messaging, managed budgets and SLAs, and drove operational and technology roadmaps across multiple countries.

VMWare Virtualization Storage Backup SLA Management Capacity Planning Team Leadership P&L management

Team Lead, Virtualization

Internet Solutions

Jan 2013 - Jan 2019 (6 years)

Managed a four-member team administering 16 VMware platforms (216 ESXi hosts, 5,237 VMs), delivered L3 support, wrote performance reports and drove cloud infrastructure strategy and capacity planning.

VMWare VMware ESXi Zerto Capacity Planning performance reporting L3 Support Mentoring

Senior Systems Engineer

Internet Solutions

Jan 2008 - Jan 2013 (5 years)

Designed and maintained VMware solutions, performed disaster recovery procedures and provided L2/L3 virtualization engineering support across multiple countries.

VMWare Systems Engineering Implementation Testing Troubleshooting