Bert Smets

Site Reliability Engineer @ Kyndryl | VMware, Microsoft-servers

Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

With over four years as a Site Reliability Engineer at Kyndryl, expertise includes developing and managing scalable, secure, and stable systems. Skilled in performance analysis, capacity management, and incident resolution, delivering solutions that optimize system reliability and efficiency. Dedicated to implementing automation projects that enhance operational processes. Proficient in VMware and Microsoft Windows Server, with a commitment to fostering secure, high-performing environments. Driven by a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement in infrastructure management and system performance.

Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer at Kyndryl
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Development and management of scalable, secure and stable systems Solutions design Performance analysis and improvement Capacity management Incident analysis, troubleshooting and root cause analysis Automation projects

  • IBM (20 yrs 8 mos)
    • Site Reliability Engineer
      Feb 2021 - Aug 2021 · 7 mos

      Development and management of scalable, secure and stable systems Performance analysis and improvement Capacity management Incident analysis Automation

    • Wintel System Engineer - Teamleader
      Aug 2013 - Jan 2021 · 7 yrs 6 mos

      Datacenter migration Project: - Build VMware infrastructure in target datacenter. - Migrate systems from source datacenter to target datacenter with limited downtime, using different migration scenario's like storage migration, long distance vMotion, P2V, P2P, ... - HA testing - DR testing, including VMware SRM Cloud migration project where all on-prem systems were migrated to the public cloud using several migration scenarios depending on the operating systems of applications. Other tasks: Root Cause Analysis Installation and management of Windows servers. Installation and management of VMware infrastructure Virtualization and consolidation. Active Directory/GPO/DNS/DHCP management Knowlegde transfer to remote teams

    • IT Specialist - Wintel System Engineer
      Jun 2004 - Aug 2013 · 9 yrs 3 mos

      Installation and management of Windows servers. Installation and management of VMware ESX servers. Virtualization and consolidation. DRP planning & Testing. Education of team members in IDC.

  • System Engineer at eni gas & power nv/sa
    2012 - Dec 2016 · 5 yrs

    On-site / third level support

  • IT Consultant at Evosoft
    Jul 2000 - Aug 2002 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Worked on 2 projects : Unix operator at DHL Operator at IBM

  • Unix Operator at DHL / Evosoft
    Jul 2000 - Dec 2000 · 6 mos

    (Working for Evosoft) Monitoring of the Unix servers, basic system management, job management. Follow-up of backups.