Kabelo Shongwe

I break things for a Living

• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing microservices on production systems to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
• Building Machine learning Mordels • Create Azure Repos • Creating Azure Pipelines • DevOps engineering for large enterprises or public sector.
• Implementing best practices regarding system security measures • Build solutions and services on Microsoft Azure Cloud platforms • Working with containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker) • monitoring tools (Datadog/Graphana/Prometheus/AppOptics) • Ability to build release and configuration management of production systems.
• Pre-production Acceptance Testing to assure the quality of products/services.
• Ability to work on Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins.
• Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements, evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
• Ensuring critical system security using best in class cloud security solutions • Writing Scripts to handle automation/ administration using Shell scripting.
• AWS.
• Deploying using Urban code deploy.
• Patching using saltstack.
• Alerting integration.
• Create Rundeck jobs for repeated procedures.
• Building monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana + alertmanager via Docker and Kubernetes.
• Perform root cause analysis to detect possible system issues.
• Works closely with project and development teams transitioning production releases.
• Interact with third party systems and other Lines of Business for avoiding Build/ Release conflicts into target servers.
• Use for task master and project status tracking and ticketing mechanism.
• Ability to practice DevOps and Agile culture to support continuous integration.
• Conduct Technical knowledge sessions to entire team on new improved process established along with tools exposure.

Tools & Technologies: Agile, ICP, Linux, Unix, Urban Code Deploy, Open Stack, Shell scripting, Prometheus, Azure Git, Juju, Nodejs, Datatrace, AppDynamics, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, CyberArk, Jira, saltstack, Rundeck, OpsGenie, F5, RocketChat, AWS, API’s, and Terraform.

Application and Database specialist IBM Africa