Dean Van Zyl Email & Phone Number

Porto, Portugal

As Principal Consultant, I orchestrated a monumental cloud migration for a Fortune 500 leader, shifting their entire South American and Chilean operations to Azure. My expertise in Azure infrastructure spearheaded the project, ensuring a smooth transition and optimized performance across regions. As Principal I lead a team of 25 engineers.Key Contributions:Project Visionary: Led strategy & execution, managing cross-functional teams & fostering seamless stakeholder communication.Collaboration Champion: Worked closely with application & security teams to optimize deployments & ensure compliance.Impact & Results:Cloud Triumph: Successful & efficient migration, reducing on-prem costs & boosting IT agility.Performance Peak: Optimized performance & scalability across regions, supporting business growth.Future-Proof Foundation: Established a solid cloud foundation for future innovation & application modernization.Internal Consulting focus:Serve as Observability expert and further Cloud Native Capabilities for the consultancy to leverage across our customer base and form part of the Technical Leadership team responsible for driving technological direction in the business.

Porto, Portugal

- Senior technical contributor for our Observability management- Multi cloud ES cluster, ingestion and cost management- AIOps Observability deployment (Moogsoft)- AWS Cloud Infrastructure management with Terraform- Agile driven environment (Jira) - Multi region/tenant/cloud infrastructural and application monitoring- Opentelemetry as data standard and collector implementation- Kubernetes driven data ingestion, data scraping and data manipulation workloads - Grafana cloud (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) architect

Porto, Portugal

- Observability Engineering Manager- Enable a dynamic team of engineers to remain hyper focussed and outcome driven to produce high value observability business value milestones- I am responsible for crafting and defining team wide goals and translating business needs into actionable solutions- Cross team function influencing department wide solution decisions while ensuring compliance and security requirements are met- Designing and implementing industry best practice tools in order to monitor and alert with the highest level of accuracy across our thousands of customer infrastructures- Responsible for managing a team of engineers to deliver highly scalable and resilient observability solutions- Supercharge performance and growth in the team while fostering a great culture that has openness and freedom to explore the best possible solution- Ensure the team has context around issues that arise and remain focussed on getting our goals across the line

Cape Town Area, South Africa

- Started the SysOps team in 2018- Responsible for designing and implementing IT Infrastructures to service the business- Focussed a lot on SSO and SAML (OKTA)- Design and manage global Corporate network infrastructure- Implement solid business processes to optimise IT workflows and cost- Drive change in the business for the better by implementing well designed third party applications into the IT eco system- Automate user onboarding processes- Manage user data syncs across all integrated 3rd party applications- Maintained all hosted infrastructure with Terraform

Cape Town Area, South Africa

- Big data | Elasticsearch subject matter expert- Partner with customers to assist with Architecture design regarding Big Data technologies- Dive deep into service/customer outages and assist with future mitigation- Formed part of internal team to improve customer experience and identify problem areas within teams- Participated/Presented internal team training sessions- Technical interviewer for potential candidates- Exposed to a magnitude of technologies and services while working at AWS

Technopark, Stellenbosch

Claremont, Cape Town

Stellebosch

Stellenbosch