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Dean Van Zyl is listed as AWS Certified Principal Consultant @ Expert Thinking | Cloud Native Practice Lead | DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Expert at Expert Thinking, a company with 3 employees, based in Porto, Portugal, Portugal. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Dean Van Zyl.
Dean Van Zyl previously worked as Principal Consultant | Cloud Architect, Squad Lead, Tech Lead at Expert Thinking and Principal Software Engineer | Cloud Architect, Tech Lead, Observability Platform Engineer at Outsystems. Dean Van Zyl holds Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science from Stellenbosch University.
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Cloud Architect & IT Leader (10+ Years)Led a monumental Azure cloud migration for a Fortune 500: Successfully transitioned entire South American & Chilean operations, reducing on-prem costs and boosting IT agility. Designed & implemented secure, scalable Azure infrastructure (VMs, ExpressRoute, Storage, AD, Monitor) for business continuity & growth.Built & Led High-Performing Cloud native Teams: Cultivated dynamic teams focused on delivering impactful observability and cloud solutions. Translated business needs into actionable strategies & goals. Delivered highly scalable & resilient observability solutions for clients.Championed Modernization & Automation: Implemented industry-leading monitoring & alerting tools across thousands of customer infrastructures. Pioneered use of AIOps platforms for advanced observability. Streamlined user onboarding & managed data sync across integrated applications using automation (Terraform).Architected & Implemented Cloud & Observability Solutions: Managed multi-cloud ES clusters. Built Grafana cloud architecture (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) for comprehensive monitoring. Designed & managed global corporate network infrastructure.Key Skills:Cloud Architecture (Azure, AWS)Observability (ES, AIOps, Monitoring)Infrastructure Automation (Terraform)Team Leadership & ManagementBusiness Process OptimizationSecurity & Compliance
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Dean Van Zyl is listed as AWS Certified Principal Consultant @ Expert Thinking | Cloud Native Practice Lead | DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Expert at Expert Thinking.
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Dean Van Zyl has worked for Expert Thinking, Outsystems, Luno, Amazon Web Services, and Experian.
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