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William van Beek

@williamvanbeek

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Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 15+ years building automated multi-cloud delivery.

Netherlands

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to new opportunities, ideally a permanent in-house position. I want to build and automate reliable multi-cloud infrastructure, strengthen monitoring/CI-CD, and lead practical PoCs that improve scalability, security, and delivery speed.

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with 15+ years of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure, automation, and continuous delivery. I design and implement scalable solutions across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, containerization, monitoring, and CI/CD.

At Precima (now NIQ), I’ve driven full automation with CI/CD pipelines and redeveloped Infrastructure as Code for end-to-end delivery. I led Icinga2 monitoring with Grafana dashboards and alerting to PagerDuty and Teams, migrated ELK with Search Guard to OpenSearch, and architected and deployed high-availability Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions (EU, US, APAC), while also implementing cost optimization strategies.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Current

Precima (NIQ)

Oct 2019 - Present (6 years 7 months)

Designed and implemented centralized environment management (React + AI) and led multi-cloud infrastructure architecture across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Built and operated multi-region (3 regions) high-availability Kubernetes clusters, modernized observability with Icinga2/Grafana, and automated infrastructure with CI/CD using Terraform and Ansible.

Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Grafana OpenSearch GitHub Actions Jenkins

Linux Engineer

SIDN

Mar 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 6 months)

Managed and optimized the Atlassian tool stack (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) for 100+ users while maintaining critical systems for domain abuse reporting. Automated environment provisioning with Puppet/Ansible and implemented monitoring and alerting for critical infrastructure.

Atlassian JIRA Confluence Bitbucket Puppet Ansible LDAP OpenShift PostgreSQL

DevOps Engineer / DPO

Lukkien

Jan 2017 - Feb 2018 (1 year 1 month)

Managed high-availability hosting infrastructure for 50+ client websites and implemented automated deployment pipelines that reduced deployment time by 70%. Led the company-wide GDPR compliance program as Data Protection Officer and developed disaster recovery and backup procedures.

Docker AWS Nginx MySQL WordPress Python Linux GDPR Compliance

DevOps Engineer

iWelcome (Ping Identity)

Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 (11 months)

Supported IAM SaaS infrastructure handling 1M+ daily authentications by maintaining cloud infrastructure and deployment automation. Developed automation scripts to streamline deployments and improved performance and cost-efficiency of production environments.

Ansible Docker Python BASH Zabbix Grafana RabbitMQ Linux

System Engineer

Tricode (Dept Agency)

Feb 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 10 months)

Managed Linux-based hosting infrastructure with 24/7 support for e-commerce and corporate websites, maintaining high availability and performance. Upgraded server and networking components to improve uptime and implemented monitoring to proactively identify and resolve issues.

Linux Apache Nginx MySQL PHP VMWare Icinga Nagios Network Troubleshooting

System Engineer

Hyves / TMG Online Media

Jan 2012 - Jan 2014 (2 years)

Helped operate production infrastructure for a Dutch social network serving millions of daily users, progressing from support desk to systems operations. Supported and maintained Linux and virtualization environments used for large-scale service delivery.

Linux OpenStack Apache MySQL MemCached Windows Server WSUS