Ruud Voorjans

Cloud / DevOps Engineer

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Cloud / DevOps engineer with 15 years in IT, grown from sysadmin into building and automating cloud platforms. I design and run cloud-native infrastructure on Azure and Kubernetes, turning manual toil into IaC, CI/CD and GitOps with tools like Terraform, Bicep, Ansible and Argo CD. Outside of work I tinker in my homelab, automate the boring bits and keep learning the next thing. Happiest when everything is reproducible, version-controlled and just a git push away, and passionate about open source.

Experience

Zuyderland
Sittard
Cloud / DevOps Engineer
Aug 2025 – Present
  • Architected highly available Azure Local clusters with Rack-Aware Clustering for business continuity.
  • Built GitOps-driven AKS clusters with Argo CD for automated, reproducible deployments.
  • Automated configuration management with Ansible and AWX on Kubernetes.
  • Delivered auto-scaling CI/CD pipeline agents using KEDA.
  • Drove the shift from traditional operations to cloud-native DevOps, reducing reliance on VMs in favor of managed platform services.
  • Onboarded VMware workloads to Azure Arc for centralized governance.
  • Managed Azure Local clusters as code with Bicep.
AZL
Heerlen
Cloud / DevOps Engineer
Feb 2023 – Jul 2025
  • Built an AKS cluster meeting the strict compliance and security standards of a financial company.
  • Developed a self-service “DevOps Platform” for multiple teams with Terraform and Azure Pipelines.
  • Operated an event-driven landscape on Event Hubs, Service Bus and Kafka.
  • Designed an Azure RBAC model in Terraform to meet high-security access requirements.
KEMBIT
Wijnandsrade
DevOps Engineer
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
  • Ran containerized services across Docker and Kubernetes clusters.
  • Automated IT operations across multiple clients as an MSP.
  • Built integrations to synchronize data between information systems.
KEMBIT
Wijnandsrade
System Administrator
Aug 2018 – Dec 2021
  • Maintained on-premises and cloud (Azure) server environments.
  • Diagnosed and resolved incidents across diverse customer environments.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD for application deployment with Chocolatey for Business (C4B).
  • Planned and applied complex changes and proposed efficiency improvements.
TRUE
Beek (MAA)
Service Desk / System Administrator
Aug 2017 – Jul 2018
  • Managed on-premises Microsoft environments.
  • Maintained Debian and FreeBSD web hosting platforms.
  • Administered networking and firewalls (Juniper / pfSense / Fortinet).
MeanderGroep
Landgraaf
System / Network Administrator
Jul 2015 – Aug 2017
  • Administered Microsoft server environments.
  • Engineered and maintained Cisco networks.
Data4
Beek (MAA)
Project Engineer
Apr 2013 – Nov 2015
  • Delivered migration projects to newer operating systems and cloud across multiple companies.
  • Provided service desk support at Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC).
GETRONICS / KPN
Beek (MAA)
Service Desk
Aug 2010 – Mar 2013
  • Handled IT service desk operations (incidents, changes) for large national and government organizations.

Certifications

Feb 2016
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, Credential ID: 5617689.20506583
EXIN
Feb 2017
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching, Credential ID: 427924169524DTDF
Cisco
May 2019
Information Security Foundation based on ISO/IEC 27001, Credential ID: 6269146
EXIN
Nov 2019
MCSA: Windows 10, Credential ID: H070-9469
Microsoft
Feb 2020
Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate, Credential ID: H357-2019
Microsoft
Aug 2020
Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, Credential ID: 16560902
Microsoft
Oct 2021
Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, Credential ID: 16560902
Microsoft
Jan 2023
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Credential ID: LF-pok4t37yw6
CNCF

Education

Arcus College
Heerlen
MBO 4 ICT – System Administrator
2005 – 2010