Freelance remote
Cloud Automation engineer
Specialist in designing and implementing IT infrastructure automation, continuous integration and delivery.
I dream automation. I am self-motivated creative determined problem solver.
10 years experience designing and automating business critical, complex, high available infrastructures
- Automate and config as code everything
- Ahead of the usual always keeping skills up to date with recent
- Learn something new every day.
Passion for inventing, exploring and building event driven automation
I value quality, creativity, freedom, sharing
I love being active, motor cycle adventure, learning, cooking, reading, nature, tinkering
- Willemsma IT innovation
- Martin Willemsma
- +31643444157
- [email protected]
- Purmerend, NL
- KVK 77516249
- BTW ID/VAT NL003205143B34
- NL57 KNAB 0402895460
17600
Working Hours200
Total projects12
Years handson engineering75
Total ClientMy Resume
Kubernetes engineer
CM.com (Jun 2022 - Aug 2022)
Secret management with Hashicorp Vault on Kubernetes- Build and demo Proof of concept for different usecases
- Manage Vault deployment with ArgoCD
DevOps engineer
Qardio, Inc. (Mar 2022 - May 2022)
Deploying a highly available, elastic, scalable WordPress environment on AWSKubernetes engineer
University of Twente (Mar 2022)
Optimization of the Kubernetes platform- Implemented Rancher HA setup using kube-vip
- Implemented gatekeeper and baseline security policies to improve cluster and workload security
- Implemented harbor private registry and enable CVE scanning of docker images
- Knowledge share new components and features with the team
AWS Cloud engineer
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute - KNMI (dec 2020 - dec 2021)
Part of Cloud Platform Team- Migrating multiple apps to AWS
- Deployments, automation on AWS
- Troubleshooting AWS apps on AWS
- Automating Route53 hostedzones multi-account management
- Improvements multi-account attribute-based access control
- Daytime support to internal devops teams
- 24/7 oncall engineer
Security engineer
City of Amsterdam (Jan 2020 – Nov 2020)
Continuous improvement & DevSecOpsProjects and responsibilities:
Secret management:
- Design and implement Hashicorp Vault cluster "as-code"
- Migration of secrets from legacy password manager to Hashi Vault
- Design and implement Vault operations pipeline using Gitlab CI GitOps
- POC design Vault dynamic secrets database engines
- Docker security and life-cycle management
Tools: Terraform, Ansible,Hashicorp Vault, Docker, Gitlab CI, Stackstorm, Slack Slash commands, webhooks, Jenkins, Git, Minikube, Kubernetes, Helm
DevOps engineer
City of Amsterdam (Jan 2019 – Jan 2020)
Successfully migrated 60 REST APIs as microservices to new secure platform based on Openstack and Docker.- Working Agile/Scrum/Devops in infrastructure team delivering devops and infrastructure building blocks to customer teams and developers in sprints
- As infrastructure specialist responsible for managing and building infrastructure and applying infrastructure and DevOps knowledge to a multitude of customer projects
- Automating delivery of secure environments for data scientists based on Terraform, Ansible, Openstack, Docker
- Introduce and deliver CI pipelines for automated testing and verification of Ansible infrastructure code using molecule and GitlabCI
- Continuous improvement on automating manual procedures and standardization of workflows
- Responsible for managing, preparing and verification of infrastructure changes with internal organization and 3rd party vendors
Sr. Continuity engineer
Sentia (Jan 2016 - Jan 2019)
Projects and responsibilities:- Key role in onboarding and migration of leading retail company to Sentia Cloud.
- As Lead engineer responsible for customer projects, coordinating operations, work preparation for the customer team.
- Automate and config as code "everything"
- Automated manual deployments and achieved Continuous Deployment using Ansible and Rundeck for 15 PHP business critical applications
- Setting roadmap of future improvements
- Continuous improvements/architecture redesign leading retail company landscape
- Responsible for organizing and leading team meetings
- Training and coordination of both engineers and developers
- Member of internal Ansible steering group to represent customer team, share ideas, goals and accomplishments with my team.
Sr. Linux sytem engineer
SaaSplaza (Dec 2014 – Dec 2015)
Projects and responsibilities:- Configuration management: Creating roles and profiles for server functions
- Design, Implement User and Group management on platform nodes
- Design, Implement and maintain security and hardening configuration (NIST) on platform nodes
- Implementation and management of office network NL HQ
- Training and coordination of Junior and Intern Infra engineers
Platform/Network Engineer
SaaSplaza (Sep 2011 – Dec 2014)
Responsibilities:- Allround Linux Engineer
- Puppet specialist
- Maintainer of distros on SaaSplaza platform (Ubuntu,CentOS)
Projects:
- Improve automatic deployment of Linux VMs on Xenserver
- Design and Implement Puppet infrastructure and manage baseline configuration
- Design and implement Linux Auto update strategy
Operations Engineer
SaaSplaza (Jul 2010 – Sep 2011)
Responsible for the daily operations on the SaaSplaza platformBSc in ICT
University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam (2006 - 2009)
Advanced System and Network Engineering & Forensic Intelligence and SecurityMBO ICT Network administration
Friesland College Leeuwarden (2004 - 2006)
MBO ICT System administration
Friesland College Leeuwarden (2002 - 2004)
MBO Electrical engineering
Friesland College Leeuwarden (2000 - 2002)
switch to ITVBO Electrical engineering
Anne Maria van Schurman (1996 - 2000)
AWS 80%
Linux 95%
Ansible 90%
Terraform 80%
Kubernetes 80%
Troubleshooting 80%
Infrastructure as code 85%
Integration testing 75%
TCP/IP 90%
Packer 80%
Python 70%
Puppet 80%
Ruby 75%
MySQL 75%
PostgreSQL 70%
Virtualization 95%
Git 90%
ArgoCD 75%
Helm 75%
Cloudformation 75%
CI/CD pipelines 80%
Docker 90%
Firewalls 90%
Networking 85%
Blockchain 66%
IoT 60%
Openstack 70%
Loadbalancing 80%
VPN 95%
Hashicorp Vault 80%
Certifications
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Feb 2023ID b2dc2657-2e93-4ecf-bae7-2d1779123324
GitOps certified for Argo - GitOps at Scale
Jan 2023ID 63cc743ac768e0b95005bdc2
GitOps certified for Argo - GitOps Fundamentals
Jan 2023ID 63c59dba340d439b120fc389
CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025ID LF-namygjnxe9
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Sep 2020 - Sep 2023ID LF-cohcv6eq91
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Sep 2020 - Sep 2023ID LF-rqebzgdseq
Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1
Nov 2020ID 59412481af7a4d6aa775cda490e3c0d1
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C01)
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021ID X319S95C2JVE19SZ
Puppet Certified Professional
Mar 2015 - Sep 2021ID PCP0000512
CCNA Routing and Switching
Sep 2011 - Sep 2014Services
Automation and IaC
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Cloudformation
- Event Driven architectures
- Automating manual and repetative work
- Automating deployments
- Orchestrate custom workflows
AWS
- Building Proof of concepts
- Migrating apps to AWS
- Design, build and deliver solutions
CI/CD
- Pipeline development
- Implementing integration testing
- GitlabCI
- Github
- Jenkins
- CodeDeploy
- GitOps
- Implementing DevSecOps
Kubernetes
- Building Ansible based Kubernetes operators
- Deployments
- Security
- ECS
- Fargate
- Ingress
- GitOps
- Servicemesh
- EKS
Microservices
- Kubernetes
- Dockerize applications
- Serverless
Remote hands
- Troubleshooting
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- CI/CD
Training
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
Interested in working with me?
- Online intake session to get the usecase and requirements
- Define Definition of done and Estimation of work required
- My offer for the service
- When offer accepted, start my work
- Make the delivery of service or solution
- Demo solution - if applicable
- Work completed
In the case of Extra capacity in your team
- Following your company's procedure for external hires/ contracts
- Join your team
My Portfolio
What others say about me
Martin was systematically pushing the ante, coming up with new ideas for improvements or new exciting technologies.
Always aiming at the customer's best interests, he's made a great job leading the customer team towards improvements.
It's been a pleasure working along side Martin for the past year, we had a lot of discussions and he has taught me a lot.
Would definitely recommend - great value to any project.
Pedro
I had the pleasure of working with Martin for a few years at SaaSplaza Nederland B.V. collaborating on several projects. Martin is proactive, super friendly, helpful, result oriented and he takes ownership. As a former colleague, Martin earns my highest recommendation.
Rayen
I've worked with Martin on many parts and projects of SaaSplaza's infrastructure and deployment. He has a thorough understanding of Linux deployments in large virtualized environments and managing their various components (network, storage, hypervisors). He works hard and is capable of taking on complex projects or troubleshooting difficult issues. Working with him, both socially and professionally, was a pleasure.
Hans
I know Martin for 4 years now and have had the pleasure of seeing him grow from intern to Senior Linux System Engineer. Martin is very passionate about his work. I wouldn't even call it work, because I think Martin is being paid for spending time on his favorite hobby. Martin is very capable on a wide variety of subjects and goes to the bottom to find out how and why things work or don't work. Next to the technical aspect, Martin is a fun and easygoing colleague!
Tom
Martin is a dedicated professional who is able to deliver first-time-right solutions within agreed time frames. Quick learner and pleasant to work with.
Ramon
Martin is on it. Smart, reliable, personable, and with deep software/platform engineering and expertise. He could do in a day what it would take some engineers weeks to accomplish. And he's a cool guy on top of all that!
Matt
Thanks a lot for your contribution, Martin. We look forward to working with you again soon.
ubiqube
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