Marius Antonsen
Engineering teams. Running platforms.
Platform Engineering Manager at Crayon. Ten years building cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and observability across Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes at MSP scale. Currently leading platform engineering and rolling ML-driven anomaly detection into Crayon's monitoring stack to catch incidents before they page.
Professional Journey
Platform Engineering Manager
CrayonLead platform engineering across the Crayon and SoftwareOne ecosystem. Own the roadmap for internal platforms, focused on developer velocity, system reliability, and cloud-native standards.
AI Monitoring & Insights Lead
Crayon · parallel trackBuilt and deployed ML-driven anomaly detection into Crayon's monitoring stack, integrating models with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus across customer environments on Azure and AWS.
Senior Cloud Consultant
CrayonOwned cloud service delivery and technical management for a portfolio of enterprise customers on Azure and AWS. Led the shift from reactive ops to platform thinking by standardising Kubernetes workloads, Terraform modules, and AVD deployments across the customer base.
Senior Cloud Engineer / Platform Engineer
FortytwoDesigned and implemented cloud-native solutions on Azure using Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, Bicep, and ArgoCD. Contributed to solutions published in the Azure Marketplace.
Senior Cloud Consultant & DevOps Team Lead
CrayonDelivered Azure and AWS infrastructure for enterprise customers, then promoted to DevOps Team Lead in June 2022. Managed six engineers while staying hands-on, and built out the Terraform pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and Helm-based CI/CD that still underpin cloud operations today.
Senior Consultant
CapgeminiDevOps engineer and cloud architect for enterprise customers on Azure. Designed landing zones and CI/CD pipelines, and moved teams from manual deployments to Infrastructure as Code and Docker-based workloads.
Support Analyst
Brady PLCLead contact for Scandinavian energy customers. Managed support requests and ran recurring customer reviews. Drove the local and global rollout of new support processes.
IT Consultant / Support Analyst
Sopra Steria NorwayDelivered technical support and user administration for large enterprise clients including Trondheim Municipality and the Norwegian Tax Administration. Managed Active Directory, Exchange, and Office 365 across Sopra Steria and its customers.
Early Career
Retail, Customer Service, Call CentreCustomer service, retail, and part-time work alongside studies (Transcom, Elkjøp, and others).
Core Stack
Certifications
Education
Bachelor's Degree — Digital Media Production
Høgskolen i Østfold (HiØ)IT & Leadership
Høgskolen i Østfold (HiØ)Open Source & Projects
stackd
GitOps daemon for Docker Compose. Watches Git repos, pulls changes, injects secrets via Infisical, and applies stacks automatically. Think ArgoCD for Docker Compose, without the YAML sprawl.
Chrome Gestures
Chrome extension for mouse-gesture navigation with live path drawing. 500+ installs and steady monthly active users.
This Blog
Writing about Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, AWS, and the operational details that don't make it into the official docs.
Let's talk.
Open to conversations about engineering leadership, platform strategy, or just comparing notes.