Carel Lubbe Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Lemongrass through our Intelligent Cloud Platform (LCP), we migrate, manage and automate SAP systems on AWS Google and Azure. I was tasked to develop, build and manage monitoring of Lemongrass customer's SAP estates using ELK. I Started this role as the sole Monitoring team member but have grown the team to 4 team members. We are currently monitoring 42 customer estates managing a 42 node ELK cluster. Monitoring development has successfully integrated monitoring with LCP, SNOW and the Lemongrass business analytics platform, sharing metrics with customers as well as our SAP and Infrastructure consultants working on our customer's SAP estates.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As a Sysadmin and Infrastructure designer with real world work experience ranging from small and highly talented and dynamic development teams for both web and mobile application developers as well as large distributed cloud based infrastructure, security audits and PCI compliance and large customer base installations such as universities and manufacturing plants with high customer, security , automation and availability focus, I can assist you in building, implementing and securing your Linux infrastructure.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As the Linux Systems Administrator for Clickatell, I facilitated the Technology team in planning, organising, controlling, and the management of all of Clickatell's platforms, also assisted with the implementation of infrastructure automation using Ansible, Teraform and Gitlab. One of my latest projects completed was a full stack infrastructure migration to the AWS cloud from Clickatell's in-house self hosted physical environment.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

EC2 Instance Quality is at the heart of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 team and we operate, maintain and engineer systems on a truly massive and dispersed scale. In this fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up that allows for true innovation to thrive, I am part of a team that has a passion for massive platforms, absolute reliability and uncompromising customer focus. Our aim is to zero the impact of hardware failures on our customers by using a service-oriented approach to large-scale systems management. We understand operating systems, networking, software and services and speak the language of massively large scale systems administration. We have a passion for systems automation and we live and breathe operational risk management. Our team's technical depth is unmatched but ultimately we know our success is measured and voiced by our customers.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

AWS has a growing global customer base that builds mission-critical applications using AWS services. As part of the AWS Developer Support Team I'm supporting these customers to build and migrate their mission-critical applications using AWS services. We help companies take their computing infrastructure and applications into the AWS cloud and help them architect their Amazon cloud infrastructure to scale.Some of our every day challenges:• Learn and teach how to use and apply groundbreaking technologies• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques and provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs• Interact with leading technologists around the world and architect unique solutions to help resolve customer issues• Provide feedback to other AWS teams on how to improve our services and drive customer communication during critical events

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Being the sole infrastructure and systems support for a highly talented and dynamic development team at Yakimbi Sdn. Bhd. responsible for designing and operating our own distributed office network as well as our highly secure, high-traffic production IT infrastructure and our development infrastructure. Responsibilities include hardware and software deployment, up-time and reliability, scalability, monitoring and incident response, security, intrusion detection, load balancing, CDN deployment, PCI compliance.My areas of focus:-Translate the ongoing business needs of the company into a suitable IT infrastructure.-Software and hardware deployment and management of our worldwide network of servers, as well as our office networks in Malta and Malaysia.-Monitoring and incident response for our production servers for performance and stability, and taking proactive and reactive measures to correct and improve these.-Security, intrusion detection, DDoS protection, PCI compliance, of all our deployed servers.-Disaster planning and recovery.-Working closely with the IT Development team to meet their requirements in terms of hardware capacity, scalability, reliability, as well as providing them with adequate development environments and staging/testing environments.Systems inplemented:-Network services DHCP, Split horizon DNS, Squid proxy, Spamassin-IPTABLES firewalls-Network usage logging-VPN-GIT-Web servers build on Apache, PHP, Mysql, MongoDB Important functional relationship management-External:Vendors of products and servicesOpen Source groups, IT standards regulators and technology organizationsPeers in other professional and industry organizations-Internal:Yakimbi department managers and usersYakimbi development team Yakimbi customers

Being part of an Linux System Administration team who is responsible for designing and operating our global office networks as well as our high-end, high-traffic production IT infrastructure. Responsibilities include hardware and software deployment, up-time and reliability, scalability, monitoring and incident response, security, intrusion detection, load balancing, CDN deployment, PCI compliance, as well as compliance with the IT requirements laid down by the gaming regulators in Malta and the Isle of Man.My areas of focus:-Translate the ongoing business needs of the company into a suitable IT infrastructure, in team collaboration with our COO (Chief Operating Officer) and CTO (Chief Technology Officer).-Software and hardware deployment and management of our worldwide network of servers, as well as our office networks in Malta and Malaysia.-Monitoring and incident response for our production servers for performance and stability, and taking proactive and reactive measures to correct and improve these.-Security, intrusion detection, DDoS protection, PCI compliance, of all our deployed servers.-Disaster planning and recovery.-Working closely with the IT Development team to meet their requirements in terms of hardware capacity, scalability, reliability, as well as providing them with adequate development environments and staging/testing environments.-Working with our Quantitative Analysis team (financial mathematics team) to provide them with the computational and simulation platforms that meet their requirements.Important functional relationship management-External:Vendors of products and servicesOpen Source groups, IT standards regulators and technology organizationsPeers in other professional and industry organizations-Internal:RMG department managers and usersRMG Quantitative Analysis teamRMG IT Development team RMG Client Services team

As member of the IS Infrastructure team my role as Linux Solutions Engineer I'm responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure solutions as well as advanced service delivery and support functions. My areas of focus: -Perform advanced planning and management activities to support ongoing reliable high-performance infrastructure service delivery -Plan, design and implement infrastructure enhancements and upgrades to meet future business requirements -Provide third level support for escalated user issues relating to desktops, IS platforms and infrastructure -Provide technical leadership and mentioning within the Infrastructure team Important functional relationship management -External: Vendors of products and services IS professional and technology organizations Peers in other professional and industry organizations -Internal: Open Polytechnic business managers and users IS Client services team members IS Business Solutions team members IS Strategy and Programme team members and staff Project staff

System administration of the Red Hat Linux servers as well as MS windows / Linux systems integration. The Red Hat servers are used to serve Oracle 10g, our own spin of Linux to serve up Moodle and other student & content management systems here at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.

Managed and maintained both Linux and MS servers as well as desktop support to the users @ the Saldanha Steel plant.

Administered and maintained open source printing solutions at Saldanha Steel in the Western Cape, South Africa.

N6, Radar Electronics

Matric, Technical School, Electronics