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Hello, I am Jeroen

Jeroen Zaal

Cloud Solutions Consultant at Zaal.io

I am an enthousiastic solutions consultant with over 20 years of working experience. I have worked with a wide range of IT-related products and infrastructures for both public, private and hybrid Cloud environments in multiple roles. I like to keep learning new skills and work with modern techniques. I have a strong passion for automation and Cloud native solutions. I love to deploy Infrastructure as Code and help organizations to deploy their infrastructure fast, secure and consistent.

Analytical
Team Work
Learn Fast
Perseverance
Innovative

Skills

Experiences

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Huisman Equipment

May 2020 - Present

Schiedam

Huisman is an international company and provides engineering solutions to organizations active in oil and gas, renewable energy, recreation and civil works.

Cloud Solutions Consultant

May 2021 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Design and implementation of the Azure landingzone explicitly with Infrastructure as Code, consisting of Azure virtual WAN spread across multiple Azure regions, containing multiple spoke VNets, Network Virtual Appliances and ExpressRoute Circuits to various geographical locations.
  • Designed and developed CI/CD pipelines using Azure Devops and Jenkins.
  • Deploy and maintain Kubernetes Clusters and setup Continuous Delivery with a GitOps approach using ArgoCD.
  • Migrating workloads to Azure Cloud from on-premise and other Azure Cloud environments.
  • Deployment and configuration of Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Application Proxy and Azure Front Door.
  • Developed ARM-templates and PowerShell scripts for deploying and migrating Azure resources.
  • Implementing compliance rules with Azure Policies.
  • Aiding teams with Cloud adoption and defining a Cloud management model.
  • Design of a new off-site backup strategy with Commvault and Metallic Cloud Storage.
  • Elaborate business impact analysis and backup/disaster recovery strategies.
  • Creating high and detailed level architectural designs.
  • Develop and nominate improvement proposals.
IT Systems and Cloud Engineer

May 2020 - May 2021

Responsibilities:
  • (Re)design and optimize Active Directory.
  • Identified and secured vulnerabilities in Active Directory.
  • Migrating on-premise Exchange to Office365.
  • Performing re-host and re-platform migrations to Azure Cloud.
  • Design and deploy a new and more secure enterprise (CA) certificate authority.
Royal BAM Group

Dec 2016 - Apr 2020

Bunnik

BAM_ICT provides ICT services to the entire BAM organization from a continually broadening perspective. More and more new services are being added to the portfolio. With the strategic objective OneBam! BAM group realizes broad and international ICT solutions and functionalities from the ICT organization.

IT Infrastructure Cloud Consultant

Dec 2017 - Apr 2020

Responsibilities:
  • Manage a comprehensive hybrid Cloud application hosting platform containing more then 2000 servers and applications.
  • Act as technical project engineer or lead.
  • Provision infrastructure as code on Azure using Azure DevOps.
  • Automating of Azure resource deployments using PowerShell and ARM templates.
  • Configuration management and desired state configuration with Ansible.
Server and Virtualization Specialist

Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

Responsibilities:
  • Manage a comprehensive hybrid Cloud application hosting platform with more then 2000 servers and applications.
  • Support and supervise application administrators.
  • Advise and support in the technical set-up of large and complex application environments.
  • Designed and implemented Microsoft Failover Clustering platform for organization wide Enterprise Service Bus solution.
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Previder

Jul 2012 - Nov 2016

Vianen

Senior Systems and Project Engineer

Jul 2012 - Nov 2016

Responsibilities:
  • Management and optimization of ICT infrastructures consisting Windows and Linux servers, including several Exchange servers. Citrix and Remote Desktop Server environments and SQL Servers. Mainly virtualized environments using clustered VMware vSphere and Hyper-V platforms linked to various SAN solutions, including HP StorageWorks Fibre SAN and Dell Equallogic iSCSI SAN Storage Arrays.
  • Act as technical project engineer.
  • Architecture design or review architecture.
  • Technical application management, testing new releases, solving incidents and problems, deploying updates, performing migrations.
  • Building and managing OTA environment for functional administrators and application developers.
  • Manage various backup and DR solutions (VEEAM, SAN Replication, DPM2010, Symantec);
  • Manage and optimize Group Policies and Active Directory.
  • Management of network components: DMZ, (W)LAN and WAN (Cisco, Dell, Juniper, HP, Barracuda and Aruba Networks).
E-Tech

Sep 2004 - Jun 2012

Capelle aan den IJssel

IT Specialist

Sep 2004 - Jun 2012

Responsibilities:
  • Management and optimization of ICT infrastructures.
  • Act as technical project engineer or lead.
  • Architecture design or review architecture.
  • Technical application management, testing new releases, solving incidents and problems, deploying updates, performing migrations.
  • Quoting and ordering hardware and software.
  • Implementing and configuring NAS and SAN systems.
  • Designing (Web)Applications and Databases.
  • Implement and manage various web servers.
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Education
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
2003 -2008
B.Sc Graphimedia Technology
Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
1999 -2003
MBO IT-Media Production
Zadkine College
1996 -1999
MBO Biological and Chemical Analist
Thorbecke Lyceum
1992 -1996
Secondary School (MAVO)

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills, knowledge and competencies to perform the responsibilities of a Kubernetes Administrator. Earners demonstrated proficiency in Application Lifecycle Management, Installation, Configuration & Validation, Core Concepts, Networking, Scheduling, Security, Cluster Maintenance, Logging / Monitoring, Storage, and Troubleshooting.

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Azure Certified Solution Architect Expert
Azure Certified Solution Architect Expert

Certification demonstrates skills and knowledge to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance–this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution.

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Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

Earners of this designation demonstrated a basic knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, including how to deploy an application using basic kubectl commands, the architecture of Kubernetes (containers, pods, nodes, clusters), understanding the cloud-native landscape and projects (storage, networking, GitOps, service mesh), and understanding the principles of cloud-native security.

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Professional Scrum Master I
Professional Scrum Master I

Certified to fulfill the role of Scrum Master.

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VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization
VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization

Certification validates that a badge earner can implement, manage, and troubleshoot a vSphere infrastructure, using best practices to provide a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that can accelerate the transformation to cloud computing.

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MCSE - Core Infrastructure
MCSE - Core Infrastructure

Earners of the MCSE: Core Infrastructure certification have demonstrated the skills required to run a highly efficient and modern data center with expertise in identity management, systems management, virtualization, storage, and networking.

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