Amsterdam Area
Niek is an expert in managing secure, high-performance IT operations for mission-critical workloads. He specializes in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, working closely with leaders and engineers in finance, trading, and digital-native companies to build resilient, secure, and scalable platforms, processes, and teams. Niek’s practical, no-nonsense style and engaging delivery help technical leaders effectively navigate the complex balance between reliability, security, and delivering business value.
Bringing enterprise-grade Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps to Dutch SMBs at pricing that actually fits an SME budget. Growing companies often inherit infrastructure that's brittle, expensive, or both, but can't justify a full SRE team or enterprise consulting engagements. RLL closes that gap with focused, fixed-fee assessments and courses: the same technical rigor you'd find in enterprise environments, scaled for SME reality. Focus areas: reliability practice, observability, incident response maturity, (cloud) cost discipline, and the DevOps fundamentals that quietly determine whether a platform scales or stalls.
Working as Tech Lead and Mission Critical Engineer within a dedicated customer team for a global commodities trading organization. Responsible for the technical vision, quality, and long-term direction of their IT platform, ensuring business-critical systems remain secure, available, and performant. What I do: - Guide the technical direction for a mission-critical Azure environment supporting commodities trading operations, balancing resilience, security, compliance, and cost - Act as the technical point of contact within the account team, translating complex cloud infrastructure decisions into clear business language for stakeholders - Design, build, and run business-critical cloud systems following a plan-build-run model where one team owns the full lifecycle - Drive automation, CI/CD, observability, and security best practices across the platform - Mentor and coach fellow engineers, support aspiring Tech Leads, and contribute to Schuberg Philis's company-wide Tech Lead community - Participate in presales and sales activities, assessing scope, complexity, and team composition for new engagements About Schuberg Philis: A Dutch IT services company specializing in mission-critical IT. Engineers work in self-steering, cross-functional customer teams with full ownership.
Through Junglux, I help customers to build happy, healthy, and high-performing teams. I focus on helping you to get the most out of technical initatives such as DevOps, SRE, and Cloud transformations.
At Xebia, Niek helped customers adopt new working methods like DevOps, Agile, and Lean. Niek also drove innovation projects for both Xebia and its clients. Niek held a combination position containing client work, work as a trainer, and commercial responsibility within the Xebia DevOps and IT Architecture practice. Some of Niek's engagements: - Ad interim product manager for an SD wan implementation at a large television organization - Designed and delivered an award-winning SRE training program for a major container shipping organization - DevOps coach leadership and teams at multiple companies across different industries, including railway, banking, and insurance - Engineering and infra-architect on large-scale Kubernetes project - Led both technically and commercially in the Development of Xebia's Serious gaming and gamification products