Koen Vanoppen

DevOps Engineer / Linux System Engineer / Cloud Architect

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Address: Sint-Jozefstraat 5, 1840 Londerzeel
Phone: +32 489 94 68 51
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Koen-Tuxito
GitHub: koen-venly

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Profiles

• GitHub: Koen-Tuxito
• LinkedIn: Koen-Tuxito

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Skills

Linux

• General Linux System Administration
• Rhel Based, Debian Based, Arch Based, Wide Range of Open Source Software

Virtualization

• VMware, oVirt

Monitoring

• ELK-Stack, Datadog, New Relic, Nagios, Grafana

Configuration Management

• Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform

Atlassian Tools

• Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence

Networking

• CompTIA+

Cloud Management

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty
• Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Architect (course)

Version Control

• GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket

Container Management

• Docker, Docker Swarm, ECS

Package Management

• Nexus, Artifactory

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Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

  • AWS, November 11, 2021
  • View Certificate

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

  • View Certificate

• AWS Certified Security - Specialty

  • View Certificate

• CompTIA Network+ ce Certification

  • View Certificate

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Languages

• Dutch: Native
• English: Fluent

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Experience

Venly

DevOps Engineer
January 2022 to Present, Belgium
Venly

• Overseeing comprehensive AWS infrastructure management.
• Administering standalone Linux servers.
• Establishing new AWS accounts through AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Executing the migration of applications from legacy AWS accounts and on-premise servers to new AWS Organizations managed accounts.
• Managing the entire AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts.
• Ensuring account security utilizing AWS managed services.
• Implementing infrastructure as code across all accounts using CloudFormation.
• Utilizing Terraform for infrastructure as code (in limited scope).
• Performing day-to-day DevOps tasks including CI/CD pipeline development and management in Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Assisting developers with deployment tasks.
• Transitioning from Jenkins to GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment.

Mazda Europe

DevOps Engineer
February 2021 - January 2022, Belgium
Mazda Europe

• Managing AWS environment utilizing CloudFormation.
• Performing day-to-day DevOps tasks including CI/CD pipeline development and management in Jenkins.
• Administering Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
• Assisting developers with deployment tasks.
• Contributing to an EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) project by conducting test phases, deploying EKS clusters using eksctl, and implementing Ingress Controllers with Nginx and Traefik.
• Managing certificates with cert-manager.
• Handling DNS management with external-dns.
• Utilizing Helm charts for application deployment.

Agfa

Linux System Engineer
October 2020 - February 2021, Belgium
Agfa

• Transitioning from a completely manual infrastructure setup to an automated environment using Ansible, Foreman, and GitLab CI.
• Implementing a GitLab CI landscape for Docker.

Brussels Airport Company

DevOps Engineer
March 2019 – October 2020, Belgium
Brussels Airport

• Team collaboration on key projects including CI/CD management with the Atlassian Stack (Bitbucket/Bamboo).
• Coordinated code pushes on Bitbucket by developers.
• Initiated builds on Bamboo.
• Automated deployments to development environments.
• Updated the Brussels Airport website with a push of a button upon successful build and test.
• Developed websites for promotional campaigns organized by Brussels Airport.
• Fully automated deployments to Docker Swarm using CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket and Bamboo.
• Created CloudFormation templates for AWS infrastructure.
• Deployed infrastructure components including ELB, ECS on EC2, Amazon Aurora database, EFS shared file system, S3 storage, AWS Certificates, Route 53, SES, IAM users and roles.
• Website monitoring with New Relic, collected data on potential bugs affecting website performance, identified most visited pages, and set up alerts for website downtimes and performance issues.

Brussels Airport Company

Linux System Engineer
July 2013 – March 2019, Belgium
Brussels Airport

• Conducted regular updates and troubleshooting for Linux servers.
• Installed and configured server hardware.
• Managed open-source applications including Wildfly, AWX, Tomcat, Nextcloud, Gluster, and Pulp repository management.
• Performed initial setup and ongoing maintenance of virtualization platforms (Ovirt).
• Automated server provisioning using Puppet and later migrated to Ansible.

Serco

1st Line Support
Jan 2012 - July 2013, Belgium
Serco

• Provided 1st line support for internal Brussels Airport Company employees.

Stefanini Tech Team

1st Line Support
Jan 2012 - July 2013, Brussels
Stefanini

• Provided 1st line support for employees of the company for day-to-day Windows issues.

Protec

Expert Powder Coater
Jan 2012 - July 2013, Belgium
Profel

• Responsible for 5 employees and direct contact with the boss for orders and quality.

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Education

• ASO Don Bosco College Hechtel
  Human Sciences
• Hoger Instituut Kempen
  1 year, Applied Computer Sciences
• Global Knowledge
  • Red Hat Training Certification: Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift
  • ITIL V3 Foundation
• New Relic
  • New Relic Performance Pro Certified
• Udemy Online
  • Learn DevOps: The complete Kubernetes course
  • Python 101: Beginners course
  • DevOps Series: Server automation using Ansible
• Firebrand
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
  • AWS Certified Security Specialty
  • Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator
  • CompTIA Network +

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Contact Information:

• Phone: +32 489 94 68 51
• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: Koen-Tuxito
• GitHub: koen-venly