Senior DevOps Engineer
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Senior DevOps Engineer at Herotel (2026-04 – Present)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting the Azure &
• GCP environment. Working with AKS, Azure Monitor, Databases &
• VMs, mostly Linux systems (Docker &
• Kubernetes). Also manage Cloudflare.
• Loki) to monitor all the services on Azure &
• GCP. Making use of Terraform to deploy infrastructure.
Jira, Confluence + SharePoint for documentation.
Github for pipelines and deploys. Assisting developers with issues with code changes, mostly PHP. Scripting with Bash &
• Python.
Senior DevOps Engineer at OneDayOnly (2024-07 – 2026-03)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting the Azure environment. Working with AppGWs, WebApps, Monitor, Databases &
• AKS, mostly Linux &
• Windows systems (Docker &
• Kubernetes). Working with GCP as well. Also manage Cloudflare as well. Used Grafana (Prometheus, Loki, APM &
• RUM) to monitor all the services on Azure.
• Terraform to deploy infrastructure.
• Confluence as well as BitBucket for code.
DevOps for pipelines and deploys. Assisting developers with issues with code & infrastructure.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Lulalend (2023-09 – 2024-06)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting the Azure environment. Working with AFD, WebApps, Monitor, Databases & AKS, mostly Linux & Windows systems (Docker & Kubernetes). Working a bit with AWS & GCP as well. Used Grafana (Prometheus & Loki) to monitor all the services on Azure. Making use of Terraform & Azure Bicep. Using Jira & Confluence as well as BitBucket for code & using OpsGenie for alerts. Also doing a on call rotation.
Site Reliability Engineer at CloudSmiths (formally dotModus) (2021-04 – 2023-08)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting Linux systems (Docker & Kubernetes), Microsoft (Azure – WebApp, AFD & AKS), AWS (Compute, Networking & Databases) & GCP (Compute Engine & App Engine). Used Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos & Loki for monitoring metrics and services for performance & issues. Managing and maintaining code via GitHub and used Terraform for deployment. Sprints & issues tracking on Atlassian stack. Also doing on-call rotation for clients.
DevOps Engineer at Digitas Liquorice (2020-02 – 2021-03)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting Windows & Linux servers (SSH, cPanel, CWP & WHM), Microsoft Products (Microsoft 365, Azure – WebApps & VM's), Amazon (AWS), Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, OpenVPN), Atlassian (Bitbucket, Jira & Confluence) and Virtualization Technologies (ProxMox), Web Servers (Apache & Nginx), Monitoring tools (Nagios & Zabbix) & Automation tools (Docker, Jenkins & Gitlab). Experience with BASH scripting & Python.
Systems Administrator at Stone Three (2018-04 – 2020-01)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting hardware and software systems, Windows & Linux Servers (SSH, RDP, cPanel & WHM), Microsoft Products (Office 365), Amazon (AWS), Backups, Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, OpenVPN), Helpdesk (Support requests, Jira / Confluence) and Virtualization (OpenVZ & LXC - ProxMox Technologies) & VOIP (Asterisk). Liaising with service providers. Experience with BASH scripting & Python.
Systems Administrator at Sharenet Pty (Ltd) (2016-01 – 2018-03)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting hardware and software systems, Windows & Linux Servers (SSH, cPanel & WHM), Microsoft Products (Office 365), Backups, Networking (IPv4, DNS, DHCP, etc.) and Virtualization (OpenVZ & oVirt Technologies). Maintaining, managing & supporting in-house IT as well as daily tasks with servers, networks and systems. Liaising with Service Providers on all products & documentation. Basic shell scripting.
Support Engineer & Production at VASTech (2013-07 – 2015-12)
Maintaining, managing, upgrading & supporting hardware and software designed by VASTech. Travelled to countries all over the world, setting up, installing & configuring VASTech Systems (Hardware & Software), containing Dell Hardware & Software, Nexsan Hardware, GHIP Systems, GigaMon Systems, Transition Networks, and NetMechanica & Quintech Systems. Installed, configured & supporting hardware & software at Telco's & on client's sites, in a list of countries.
IT Diploma – IT Business Campus, Bellville (2009)
Certificates in IT Essentials, CCNA & Web Design – South Cape College, Oudtshoorn (2005)
Matric Certificate – Agricultural High School, Jacobsdal (2004)
