Hi, my name is

Pieter.

Here I talk about my work, studies and hobbies

A passionate Linux System Administrator always trying to learn new things

About Me

I found linux in 2019 and fell in love with it. I started my journey with Hardware passthrough to enable 165FPS gaming in a Virtual machine. Now my graphics card goes mostly unused while I continue to enhance my system administration skills.

My Current goals are to take a deep dive into Kubernetes and Infrastucture as Code with Ansible and Terraform.

In my free time I enjoy building and talking about custom keyboards, listening to music with HighFi headphones and most importantly practicing IT.

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:
  • kubernetes
  • Ansible AWX
  • github actions
  • Proxmox
  • Debian
  • Alma Linux
  • HAproxy
  • Nginx
  • MySQL
  • Fortigate Firewall
  • Juniper
  • Zabbix

Experience

Junior Mission Critical Engineer - Conclusion Mission Critical
Nov 2024 - present

At Mission Critical I am part of the Linux / Automation team. Here we manage the management environment so our customer facing teams can offer the best support possible.

  • Managing configurations through Puppet
  • Deploy infrastructure through Terraform
  • Utilising Ansible to automate tasks.
  • Using the Elastic stack and Zabbix to monitor the performance and reliability of the environment.
Linux Engineer - Bizway
Sep 2022 - Okt 2024

I have worked as a Linux Engineer at Bizway to offer managed hosting services to our customers. Besides managing the Linux servers and supporting our customers, me and my team also maintain multiple Proxmox clusters and the network across two datacenters."

  • Deployed Zabbix as monitoring solution
  • Automated processes with Ansible
  • Offered Support on Linux servers
  • Managed and configured networks and hardware in the datacenter and at customer locations
Support Engineer - H en R Business IT solutions
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

I provided end users support and offered hardware repair services for HP and HPE devices.

  • End user Support
  • Hardware repair services