02/05/2026 updated

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Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Netherlands
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Netherlands

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Cv Sebastian Hendrickx English.pdf

About me

I’m a DevOps / Platform Engineer with over 10 years of experience building, migrating, and operating large-scale platforms. I combine a strong engineering mindset with leadership experience — I’m comfortable operating both deep in the stack and at architectural level.

Amazon Web ServicesAutomationCloud ComputingConfiguration ManagementComputer ProgrammingDatabasesContinuous IntegrationDevOpsElasticsearchMySQLAnsiblePrometheusWorkflowsScriptingSaltStackGrafanaGitGitlab-ciKubernetesInfrastructure Automation FrameworksCassandraGithub EnterpriseHashicorpPuppetTerraformSoftware Version ControlDatabase AdministrationDockerGolang
Cloud Infrastructure Management
Expertise in managing cloud infrastructure, deployments, and automation using AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes

DevOps and CI/CD Implementation
Comprehensive experience in implementing DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation solutions

Monitoring and Observability
Advanced skills in implementing monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting systems

Container Orchestration
Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and container management across multiple environments

Configuration Management
Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack, and infrastructure as code practices

Database Management
Knowledge of Cassandra, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and database scaling optimization

Secret Management
Implementation of HashiCorp Vault for secure credential and secret management

Version Control and Collaboration
Expertise in Git, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CI, and collaborative development workflows

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2024

Languages

EnglishFluentDutchNative speakerTurkishGood

Project history

Freelance DevOps Engineer

Edomatch
Providing ongoing DevOps support for small production environment, managing cloud infrastructure, deployments, and automation. Implemented Prometheus for monitoring and refactored Helm charts.

Freelance DevOps Engineer

Logius
Implemented Hashicorp Vault integration with GitLab CI pipelines, Kubernetes and Ansible. Refactored Flux CD repository and Ansible codebase, setup monitoring stack with Prometheus.

Senior Engineering Manager

Adevinta/eBay
Senior engineering manager for First Party Advertising tribe, overseeing 3 teams with 25 people total. Led 2-year cloud migration project and technical direction towards Golden Images and Terraform.

Engineering Manager

Adevinta/eBay
Hands-on Engineering manager for Platform team covering First party advertising domain. Migrated applications from legacy hardware to private OpenStack cloud and implemented various DevOps improvements.

Senior SRE

eBay
Part of small team handling infrastructure components for 5 different products. Created Golang applications, upgraded infrastructure, and setup Vault installations for secret management.

Consultant

Conclusion X Force
Consultant placed at different companies including Klaverblad verzekeringen, Bol.com, and eBay/Marktplaats, working on CI/CD solutions, infrastructure management, and cloud migrations.

IT Specialist

EuroCCP
Worked at small company with IT team of 7 engineers, improving infrastructure management processes and setting up central server for credential management.

Systems and Application Engineer

Wehkamp
Part of team managing infrastructure for Reblaze environment with about 10 people. Created automation scripts and contributed to Ansible codebase for AWS infrastructure management.

System Engineer

Ordina
Initially part of internal team managing SaaS product environments, later placed at ING as part of monitoring and metrics team managing large central Graphite setup.

Junior System Engineer

Hostnet
Started as help desk employee, promoted to Senior role and then moved to Operations department. Provided support on managed VPS, installed hardware, and contributed to Puppet implementation.

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