Name
Remko Lodder
Function title
DevOps (People) Manager & Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer
Summary
Experienced IT Leader and Engineer with over 20 years of experience in infrastructure, automation and DevOps. Combines technical expertise with people management and delivers scalable, secure and automated IT solutions. Proven track record in improving critical IT environments, leading of teams, implementation of CI/CD, automation and virtualization solutions.
Core skills
- DevOps & CI/CD (Azure DevOps, pipelines)
- Infrastructure as Code (Ansible)
- Virtualization (VMware/Proxmox)
- Team leadership & coaching
- IT operations & incident management
- Security & compliance
- Disaster recovery & business continuity
Working Experience
Chapterlead (Managing) Engineer Virtualization & Storage
ING Bank 2021 - current
- Lead and coach a group of 12 engineers, including performance management and recruitment. Focus on wellbeing and development of employees
- Implementation of CI/CD pipelines reducing manual operations to a bare minimum. Used to install 400 hosts and migrate 800 hosts, without incidents. Speeding up the installations of at least 50% error-free
- Design and maintain scalable infrastructure based on VMware and Azure (30.000 vm’s and 1200+ servers)
- Design and implement the automation of operational processes with Ansible, automating the commissioning of hardware from an empty host to a fully-deployed virtualization environment, reducing manual labor by at least 50%
- Early VCF Adopter, utilizing previously written automation and refactoring of the code to utilize the VCF API’s directly. Knowledge sharing ING wide to get synergy on automation, reducing the learning curve with months.
- Leading disaster recovery testing and improving recovery procedures within the team with a 100% success rate
- Responsible for the stability, security and availability of critical systems
- Setting the standards in the tribe for automation / Ansible
Important achievements:
- Continuous improvement of tribe and employees, reducing employee turnover and improving happiness in the team
- Significant reduction of deployment times through Ansible/API automation by at least 50%
- Improved collaboration between various teams, ING-wide
Field manager & IT Infrastructure Engineer
Snow B.V/Sue B.V. 2006-2021
- Coaching of 35+ technical experts in the field, optimizing their efficiency and wellbeing
- Maintain and optimize wide range of IT Infrastructure
- Implementation of networking, security, unix, and virtualization concepts
- Public speaking and author of multiple magazine printed articles
- Supporting operations and ITIL processes
Firewall & Security Engineer
ING Bank NV. 2001-2006
- Maintenance, design and implementation of firewall environments
- Maintenance, design and implementation of Unix environments
- Functional steering of operational team
- Scripting various tools to reduce manual labour
Certifications
- NLP Practitioner
- Solution Focussed Coaching
- CISSP
- CCNA + CCNP
- RHCSA + RHCE
- Various other IT and security certifications
Education
- Solution focussed coaching - Centrum voor Conflicthantering
- NLP Practitioner - BPD Training
- VCF9 - Build Manage & Secure
- VCF5 - Install Configure Manage
- VCP8 - Install Configure Manage
- LPI1 + LPI2
- Many Udemy trainings on programming, automation, wellbeing, etc.
- Many broadcom trainings on VCF, VCAP, etc.
Other information
- Strong in combining technical expertise and leadership
- Strong experience in enterprise environments
- Strong in automation, scalability and reliability