Fairbanks
Eric Kessels is an accomplished technology professional with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and IT management. Currently serving as CTO and CISO at Fairbanks International Group since March 2013, Eric Kessels leads a team of high-tech solution experts, focusing on OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes to create innovative cloud solutions. As a member of the OpenInfra Advisory board, Eric Kessels actively promotes and organizes technical events for the OpenInfra foundation in Europe. Previous roles include ownership of Share-It, consultancy at ABP Dynamics B.V. and XBI, and management of IT infrastructure at Prime Champ B.V., showcasing a strong background in business process analysis, project management, and systems implementation across various sectors. Eric Kessels holds degrees in Electronics, IT, and Management from the Royal Dutch Navy, along with a Mavo degree in Mathematics.
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Fairbanks
Run your own private cloud, remain vendor independent, become free of infrastructure and operational concerns, avoid the need for high end infrastructure knowledge, free up operational resources for added value, add power to a shrinking infra team, provide 24*7 support to your customers. We @Fairbanks and @42on manage and support highly complex infrastructures like cloud orchestration and virtualization (OpenStack), Containers (K8s / Kubernetes, OKD, OpenShift, Kata), cloud storage (Ceph) and cloud networking (Cumulus, NFV, MANO). We provide (in your datacenter on your hardware) Managed OpenStack, Managed Ceph, Managed Kubernetes / Managed K8s, Linux Platform as a Service. We can also support your teams operating such platforms planning and executing complex changes, upgrades, optimizations and resolve emergencies and disasters on your platforms. Also: #wearehiring: Looking for some excitement in your job? You think you can keep your cool resolving emergencies at customers around the world? Are you ready to dive into your open source infra expertise as never before? Do you think you can be a hero to save the day? We are hiring Ceph, K8s and OpenStack expertise! We work from Europe, for our global clientele. Get in contact now.