Cloud Solutions Architect | DevOps Engineer | Networking Background

YannickVranckx

Freelance cloud native engineer and solutions architect. Building and designing platforms for business-critical applications on AWS and Azure.

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// About

As a Cloud Solutions Architect and Cloud Native Engineer, I specialize in architecting and engineering secure, highly scalable cloud environments. My transition from a Data Center Network Architect to a Cloud Competence Lead has given me a distinct edge: because networking is often the biggest bottleneck in cloud adoption, my deep networking DNA allows me to successfully tackle one of the cloud's most complex challenges — networking within the cloud and cross-platform.

Working extensively in customer-facing professional services, I am passionate about bridging the gap between business strategy and technical execution.

  • Architecture & Engineering: Seamlessly combining enterprise-level architectural design with hands-on implementation across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
  • Cloud Migrations & Developer Enablement: Driving application migrations to the public cloud by rethinking and modernizing architectural designs. I act as a key enabler for development teams, providing the platforms, tools, and guidance they need to accelerate delivery.
  • Customer & Stakeholder Collaboration: Translating complex business requirements into effective, secure, and cost-efficient technical solutions.
  • Automation & Optimization: Driving significant cost savings and operational efficiency through DevOps best practices and platform engineering.
  • Global Cloud Networking: Utilizing my traditional LAN/Data Center background to design robust global cloud network infrastructures, untangle complex routing, and build seamless hybrid migration strategies.

Driven by a promise to never stop learning, I continuously broaden my scope through new AWS and Azure certifications, ensuring I always bring the most modern, effective solutions to my clients and teams.

AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform GitOps Agentic AI
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Experience

Feb 2025 — present
CM
Brussels · Freelance

Cloud Solutions Architect | DevOps Engineer

  • Developed and maintained Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and CloudFormation to automate resource provisioning and management across AWS and Azure
  • Worked with GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitLab and GitLab CI — migration from AzureDevOps and Jenkins
  • Building with Azure and AWS Services: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS
  • AWS Services: VPC, TGW, Control Tower, AWS Organizations, Lambda, API Gateway and more
  • AWS Security Services: AWS IAM Identity Center, Security Hub, GuardDuty and more
  • Azure Services: VNETs, Entra-ID, Azure Front Door, Functions, Azure API Gateway and more
  • Azure Security Services: EntraID, SAML, OIDC, Zero Trust and more
  • Containerized workload onboarding with EKS and AKS — blueprints for migrating on-prem workloads to Kubernetes; SRE for troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch
  • Solution architecture for internal projects moving to cloud, facilitating internal teams — translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Collaborative mindset across Cloud Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, and Software Engineering
  • Enablement in Cloud Platform Engineering for development teams
  • FinOps procedures to control cloud spend with AWS Budgets, budget accounting and metrics
  • Collaboration with IT Security on security benchmarks in Azure and AWS
  • Proficient in Atlassian Jira, Confluence — Agile mindset
  • LLMs with Claude Code, Kiro, Bedrock, Azure AI
Apr 2022 — Jan 2025
Luminus
Brussels · Freelance

Cloud Solutions Architect | DevOps Engineer

  • Lead architect on Cloud Landing Zone for AWS and Azure — AWS Control Tower, Azure CAF
  • Engaging with stakeholders and business owners to evaluate cloud migration strategies — in-depth analysis of PaaS, IaaS, SaaS on both AWS and Azure, considering migration strategies
  • Developed and maintained IaC with Azure DevOps, GitLab SaaS, Terraform, Bicep, OpenTofu, CloudFormation and ARM templates
  • Infrastructure engineering for a variety of web applications on AWS and Azure using API Gateway, CloudFront, Azure Front Door, Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cosmos
  • Building a Cloud Center of Excellence for AWS and Azure and leading the competence center
  • AWS Data Lake services: Glue, Redshift, Snowflake and S3
  • Azure Data Lake services: Azure Data Factory, ETL, Databricks
  • Connecting on-prem with cloud via Entra-ID, Azure RBAC, AWS Organizations, Active Directory
  • Close collaboration with IT Security on cloud security benchmarking — CIS Benchmarks, AWS Security Best Practices, Azure Policies, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Security Hub, GuardDuty
  • Network security: east-west inspection models using AWS Firewall, Azure Firewall, and Palo Alto — Network Security Groups management
  • Collaboration with Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF principles and Archimate
  • Proficient in Atlassian Jira, Confluence
  • Familiar with outsourcing, suppliers, and nearshore development for partners of Luminus
2019 — 2022
NTT Europe
Brussels · Freelance

Cloud Network Architect | Network Engineer

  • Working in Professional Services for customers of NTT Europe
  • Migrating customers from on-prem to AWS or Azure
  • Working together with customer architects as a subject matter expert on implementation, architecture, and aligning their needs with the technology
  • Building AWS infrastructure with heavy focus on networking — bridging the on-prem DC to workloads in the cloud with AWS Direct Connect and Megaport
  • On-premises DC with Cisco ACI, multi-region deployments with connectivity to Azure and AWS via Azure VPN and ExpressRoute
  • DevOps for networking with Terraform, Python, and Ansible
  • Security posture checks and network security inspection flows
  • ITIL processes for customers
  • Setting up POCs and evaluation of POCs
  • Part of the customers' enterprise architecture team to build a reference architecture
  • Virtualization technologies with VMware, Hyper-V, Active Directory, Linux Server
2017 — 2019
Proximus
Brussels · Freelance

Cloud Data Center Network Engineer

  • Working on keystone accounts for Proximus
  • Building OpenShift and Kubernetes infrastructure on Cisco ACI and AWS
  • Technical architect for on-prem data center networking with Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, and AWS
  • Competence center leader for Cisco NX-OS, Cisco ACI, Azure networking, and AWS
  • Automation of day-to-day deployments with Ansible, Terraform, and Python
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Skills

Category Skills
Cloud Platforms AWS, Azure, GCP (Minor)
DevOps Tools Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bicep, ARM Templates, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Pulumi
Kubernetes EKS, AKS, Istio Service Mesh, Blueprints, Docker, Karpenter, OpenShift
Monitoring & Logging Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch
Programming / Scripting Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell
Operating Systems Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL), Windows Server
Networking AWS VPC, TGW, DirectConnect, Security Groups, ACLs, Azure VNET, Peering, Azure Firewall, AWS Firewall, Network Security Groups, VPN Services
Agentic AI & LLMs Claude Code, Kiro, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI
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Certifications

AWS
Solutions Architect Associate
2024 – 2027
AWS
Solutions Architect Expert
Working on renewal
AWS
Advanced Networking Specialty
2022 – 2025
AZ
Azure Solution Architect
2022 – 2025
AZ
Azure Solution Architect Expert
2022 – 2025 · Working on renewal
AZ
Azure Developer
2024 – 2027
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Languages

Dutch
Native Speaker
French
Professional
English
Native Speaker
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Education

2010 – 2014
Graduate Telecommunications
Groep T, Leuven
2008 – 2009
Network & System Engineer
Cevora
2005 – 2008
Bachelor Informatics
KH Mechelen