Jonathan Aerts

Hired to build POST Luxembourg's cloud foundation — Grand Duchy telecom operator and postal bank, supervised by the CSSF. Mission: host the critical banking workloads on Azure under a compliant Cloud Outsourcing framework. No prior cloud footprint. 2 years and 1 month of continuous delivery, managing a €1.5M cloud budget.

• Designed and delivered an Enterprise-Scale Azure Landing Zone across 26 subscriptions, multi-region, aligned with Microsoft CAF and Azure Verified Modules — then replicated it into a second, near-identical landing zone: only six parameters change (subscription, addressing, naming, pipeline identity).
• Aligned the platform with regulatory requirements: controls derived from CSSF Circular 22/806 (Cloud Outsourcing), DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001, CIS Microsoft Azure baselines, zero persistent secrets (OIDC / Workload Identity end-to-end), Private Endpoints across all PaaS, customer-managed encryption everywhere.
• Ran IaC as a product: 75+ production-ready Terraform modules — per-module CI, Renovate, security scans, Azure service-retirement watch — single Terragrunt pipeline on Azure DevOps (OIDC service connections, per-environment approval gates), generation and reviews assisted by specialised AI agents.
• Built the multi-tenant GitOps platform (private AKS, Argo CD): AppProject isolation, OPS/DEV split, automated team onboarding — zero kubectl, zero secrets. 5 POST teams onboarded (~20 developers), workloads in production.
• Put Azure Virtual Desktop in service (Host Pools, FSLogix ZRS, Private Endpoints, golden image) plus enterprise observability: managed Prometheus + Grafana, 20+ dashboards, AMBA alerts aligned with Microsoft production guidance.
• Formalised internal governance: 20 ADRs, 6 SRE runbooks, 10K-line enterprise wiki, strict naming / tagging / RBAC conventions — audit and onboarding foundation for future teams.
• Designing the multi-cloud strategy: multi-account AWS Landing Zone in design (Control Tower, SCPs, IaC) to address resilience and supplier diversification requirements imposed by DORA.

Consulting mission via Alten for the IT modernisation of Luxembourg Airport — 24/7 critical infrastructure of Luxembourg air transport. Goal: create the airport's Microsoft 365 / Entra ID foundation from scratch — no existing tenant — secure it, migrate the mail, and lay the first cloud foundations.

• Created the Microsoft 365 / Entra ID tenant from scratch, then migrated 500+ on-premises Exchange mailboxes — hybrid coexistence, progressive cutover, on-prem decommissioning, zero service loss.
• Designed and deployed the airport’s first Azure Landing Zone — modular foundation aligned with Microsoft CAF, ready to host the IT department’s future workloads.
• Industrialised an initial library of reusable Terraform modules — IaC baseline that shaped the group’s cloud deployment strategy.
• Hardened the M365 security posture: Conditional Access, MFA across the board, CIS Microsoft 365 baselines, sensitivity labels, retention policies and Compliance Center.
• Migrated identity services to Entra ID — RBAC convention, SSO for the airport’s business applications.

Global IT infrastructure modernisation at Astorg — European Private Equity fund, 250 users, 6 international offices (LU, FR, UK, DE, IT, US), supervised by the CSSF under AIFMD. Transformation from a legacy environment to a compliant hybrid Azure / Entra ID architecture.

• Led the global IT transformation across 6 international offices — on-site deployments (servers, storage, network, endpoints), inter-site network unification via Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, standards harmonisation.
• Designed the hybrid Azure architecture: VNETs, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Entra ID — Terraform foundations developed from scratch.
• Deployed unified endpoint management: 250 endpoints and 100+ mobile devices via Microsoft Intune, compliance and configuration policies aligned with CIS.
• Aligned the platform with PE regulatory requirements: CSSF AIFMD, ISO 27001, CIS Microsoft baselines, RBAC + PIM governance, systemic Azure Policy.
• Managed the infrastructure renewal budget (~€500K): vendor selection, negotiation, multi-country procurement.

Sole IT/OT administrator for a Guardian Industries industrial site — 24/7 continuous-production glass manufacturing, ~100 users. Mission: guarantee IT continuity under production constraints, with zero tolerance for outage.

• Single-handedly operated the production VMware environment: 10+ ESXi hosts, RDS/VDI infrastructure for operations, backups and recovery plan.
• Ran the Cisco network infrastructure: LAN/WAN, IT / OT segmentation, perimeter security for the industrial site.
• Deployed line-edge thin clients: hardened solutions for the industrial environment, integration with production business applications.
• Guaranteed 24/7 operational continuity: zero IT-attributable outage over 2 years, permanent on-call support under continuous production constraints.

Systems engineer at GMS-it (<strong>Luxembourg MSP</strong>) — delivered end-to-end Microsoft 365 and infrastructure projects for <strong>7 Luxembourg SMB and trust company clients</strong>. Full ownership: technical design, deployment, support.

• Led Exchange on-prem to Microsoft 365 migrations: coexistence analysis, tenant setup, mailbox cutover, legacy on-prem decommissioning.
• Designed and delivered client infrastructure projects: network modernisation, virtualisation, perimeter security, backups.
• Industrialised M365 deployment standards: Conditional Access, MFA, RBAC, hardening baselines — rolled out across the 7 client environments.
• Ensured run & continuous evolution: L3 support, critical incident management, infrastructure roadmap planning.

Consulting mission via Computacenter for <strong>TI Automotive</strong>’s global virtualisation project — tier-1 automotive supplier with multiple international plants. Multicultural and distributed environment, multi-country travel.

• Led the global VMware virtualisation project: 200+ ESXi hosts across all international production sites.
• Performed P2V migrations: legacy physical server cutover to vSphere, on-site deployments in multiple countries.
• Administered large-scale vSphere infrastructure: provisioning, performance troubleshooting, resource optimisation across the global perimeter.

System and network administrator at <strong>ETNIC</strong> — public IT operator of the <strong>Wallonia-Brussels Federation</strong>, supporting the Belgian French-speaking education system (schools and institutions). Broad infrastructure scope: Cisco network, VMware virtualisation, 100+ Windows servers.

• Administered the Cisco network: switching, routing, VLAN segmentation at organisation scale.
• Managed the VMware infrastructure: ESXi host management, VM provisioning and maintenance.
• Maintained a fleet of 100+ Windows servers: system administration, support for schools and institutions of the French-speaking Community of Belgium.