Laris Cools

Freelance Azure Cloud Architect & Engineer @ Manuchar

Antwerp, Belgium

Laris is a highly motivated IT Infrastructure Specialist with over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, migrating and optimizing infrastructure solutions. Recognized for his collaborative approach, Laris excels in mentoring colleagues, leading discussions, and driving strategic decisions. He is deeply committed to ensuring that IT infrastructure supports applications and services with high availability, security, and optimal performance, always keeping end users in focus. His recent years have been dedicated to public cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure, where he has earned multiple certifications and gained hands-on expertise. His skill set extends to containerization and orchestration, with practical experience in Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), enabling scalable, resilient cloud solutions. Now, Laris is ready to advance his career as a Platform Engineer or Solutions Architect, where he can leverage his deep technical knowledge and leadership skills to design innovative, future-proof IT solutions that enhance efficiency and drive business success.

Top roles

Developer / Programmer> 10 years

Network / Telecom Engineer< 2 years

System Engineer / Administrator2 - 5 years

Cloud

Azure

Kubernetes

Back-end

Bash

PowerShell

Miscellaneous

DevOps

Language

Native Dutch

Dutch

Native

English

Good

French

Average

German

Average

Work experience

Since 2011

Freelance Azure Cloud Architect & Engineer @ Manuchar

01 January 2019 - 01 October 2023

Architecture and deployment of an Azure Landing zone in the hub-spoke model for all affiliates to be migrated to. Assistance with the redesign and migration of current environment to the Landing Zone.

Freelance Azure Cloud Platform Engineer @ Kion / Dematic

01 January 2011 - 01 October 2023

Solutions Architecture for the in-house developed robotics applications to promote them from R&D phase to Enterprise-ready standards-based production Solutions. Technical Architecture and deployment of the new Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) based platform.

Azure Cloud Engineer @ Circet

01 January 2020 - 31 December 2020

Architecture for and migration itself to the new, mainly on Platform as a Service based environment for the in-house developed .NET applications.

Azure Cloud Engineer @ MSC

01 January 2019 - 31 December 2019

Technical Lead for the migration of all North West Continent IT Infrastructure to the mainly Infrastructure as a Service components of Azure.

Infrastructure Team Lead/System Engineer @ TABAKNATIE

01 January 2013 - 31 December 2016

Leading the Infrastructure and Support Teams, consisting of in total 9 members. Responsible for the platform that hosts the company's critical applications.

Network and System Administrator and Support @ Zespri

01 January 2011 - 31 December 2013

Employed from the company's Europe headquarters in Antwerp together with a Senior Network and Systems Administrator. Improve IT Infrastructure accordant with the goals of Global IT in New Zealand.

Education experience

Laris Cools

Top roles

Cloud

Back-end

Miscellaneous

Welcome back

Welcome on board!