Wouter Paas

Hi, take a look around. Here you will find information about my work experience, my skills and previous educations. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.



About me


Energetic and adaptable team player with excellent communication skills. Highly driven to see tasks through to completion and skilled at building strong relationships with colleagues and customers. Flexible and proactive in tackling challenges, always striving to contribute positively to the team's success.

I like taking ownership of something complex and carrying it all the way through, from the first conversation to a solution running in production. Curious by nature, happy to dive into unfamiliar territory, and I enjoy explaining the technical side in plain language to whoever I'm working with.




Work

Experience


feb. 2025 - present
Senior Cloud Engineer

Design, build and manage Azure landing zones across ~60 CSP customers, fully in Terraform. Maintain the shared Terraform module library used across all customer environments. Design and operate customer workloads across the Azure stack — AKS, Application Gateway/WAF, Key Vault, private endpoints and private DNS, VPN and firewall, Backup, Automation, Function Apps and Policy enforcement. CSP/Partner Center operations: subscription lifecycle, tenant transfers, billing visibility and licensing. Deliver POCs from proposal to production, such as certificate automation, GitOps rollout with ArgoCD, custom database monitoring and Azure Front Door for multi-region routing and WAF at the edge. Member of the work/business council.

Tech stack: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, GitLab, Python, Bash, KQL

sep. 2024 - jan. 2025
DevOps Engineer

Development of new CI/CD pipelines and updating/maintaining existing ones, supporting developers with deployment of code to the (managed) cloud, maintaining the Elastic logging solution and managing the Jira/Confluence pages.

Tech stack: Amazee (hosting), GitLab, Elastic, Python

jul. 2019 - sep. 2024
Cloud Engineer

Set-up, updating and maintaining of AWS EC2 servers (Ubuntu/Debian), migrating live media management portals, DNS and SSL certificate management, VoIP management, Google Workspace management and Jira management.

Tech stack: AWS, Apache, PHP, HAProxy, Ansible, WordPress, Python

aug. 2022 - mar. 2023
Security Engineer - Working student

Applying security recommendations in the Azure environment, setting up custom websites with Terraform on Azure and AWS, assisting developers with deploying websites and 24/7 emergency shifts for SRE.

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Azure DevOps

aug. 2019 - mar. 2024
Owner

Front- and back-end development of the webshop, applying speed optimizations, automating order processing with Bash and PHP, automating email processing with Python, customer service and financial management.

Tech stack: Magento 2, Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Varnish, Python, GitLab

nov. 2016 - jul. 2019
Senior medewerker
nov 2015. - nov. 2016
Lead Driver
may 2010 - nov. 2015
All-round medewerker



Skills


Azure

App Gateway
Storage accounts
Backups
AKS

Databases
WAF
Front Door
App Services

Also: landing zones, Virtual Network Gateway, Key Vault, private endpoints and private DNS, firewall, Automation, Function Apps, Policy enforcement and CSP/Partner Center operations.


Platform & tooling

Terraform
Linux
CI / CD
Python
Bash

Also worked with: AWS, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, Windows Server, Elastic/Kibana, Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, PHP, MySQL.




Education


Hogeschool van Amsterdam
sep. 2019 - aug. 2024
Cybersecurity

Cum laude (8,63)
Specialization: Cloud Solutions
Minor: Big Data

Nova College
sep. 2016 - aug. 2019
ICT Beheer (niveau 4)
Mendel College
sep. 2011 - aug. 2013
HAVO
Hartelust College
sep. 2008 - aug. 2011
VMBO/T



Contact

Feel free to contact me via any of the below channels. References are available on request.

Name Platform
prive@wouterpaas.nl E-mail
watista (Wouter) GitHub
Wouter Paas LinkedIn
wouterpaas Telegram