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Resumes
August 13, 2026
Resume Example
Use these ATS-friendly resume examples and templates to showcase the estate you ran, the systems you integrated, and the reliability you delivered as a Systems Engineer.
Rutger Holmqvist
(651) 555-0133 ◇ St. Paul, MN
rutger.holmqvist@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/rutger-holmqvist ◇ rutgerholmqvist.com
Objective
Systems engineer with 10 years designing and running infrastructure, currently owning a hybrid estate of 1,100 virtual machines, 3 data centres, and 400 cloud accounts serving 6,000 users. Raised platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95%, cut infrastructure spend 28% by right-sizing 600 workloads, and automated provisioning so a server request takes 15 minutes rather than 9 days.
Education
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Mississippi Bluffs Line University 2011 – 2015
Coursework in Operating Systems, Networks, Distributed Systems, and Systems Programming.
Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat 2019
Also holds VMware Certified Professional and AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate credentials.
Skills
Infrastructure
Virtualisation design, storage and backup architecture, hybrid cloud, capacity planning, high availability and disaster recovery
Automation
Infrastructure as code, configuration management, provisioning pipelines, patch orchestration, monitoring as code
Operations
Incident and problem management, performance tuning, cost optimisation, migration planning, on-call leadership
Tools & Platforms
VMware vSphere, Linux and Windows Server, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana, ServiceNow
Experience
Senior Systems Engineer 04/2020 – Present
Mississippi Bluffs Crown Health System St. Paul, MN
- Own a hybrid estate of 1,100 virtual machines, 3 data centres, and 400 cloud accounts serving 6,000 users.
- Raised platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% by removing 8 single points of failure and rehearsing failover.
- Cut infrastructure spend 28% by right-sizing 600 workloads and retiring 140 idle servers.
Systems Engineer 06/2017 – 03/2020
Snelling Line Financial Group St. Paul, MN
- Designed and ran a virtualised environment of 600 machines across 2 data centres for 2,400 users.
- Automated provisioning end to end, taking a server request from 9 days to 15 minutes.
- Migrated 220 workloads to the cloud across 14 months with 0 unplanned outages.
Systems Administrator 07/2015 – 05/2017
Snelling Line Financial Group St. Paul, MN
- Administered 250 Windows and Linux servers and a backup estate covering 180 TB.
- Cut monthly patch cycle time from 4 days to 8 hours through orchestration across 250 servers.
- Recovered 3 failed systems from backup in the first year with 0 data loss.
Projects
Availability Programme. Took availability from 99.5% to 99.95% by mapping every service to its dependencies and removing 8 single points of failure that only appeared when something upstream broke. Failover is now rehearsed quarterly.
Right-Sizing Effort. Reviewed 600 workloads against 90 days of actual utilisation and found most were sized for a peak that never happened. Resizing and retiring 140 idle servers cut spend 28% with no performance complaints.
Provisioning Automation. Built a self-service provisioning pipeline in Terraform and Ansible that reduced a 9-day request process to 15 minutes, and removed the configuration drift that came from hand-built servers.
Extra-Curricular Activities
- Maintain a home lab of 12 nodes and publish infrastructure automation notes to a personal blog.
- Attend a Twin Cities infrastructure meetup monthly and presented twice on right-sizing.
- Volunteer systems support for a food bank, maintaining 3 servers and a backup routine.
Leadership
- Lead an infrastructure team of 5 and the on-call rotation for 1,100 machines.
- Set the infrastructure as code standard now followed by 3 teams and 18 engineers.
- Mentored 4 administrators into systems engineering roles across 6 years.
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