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Johannesburg, GP, ZA

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Technical Direction: Provided strategic technical direction to align with the company's goals and future growth.
• Industry Partnerships: Collaborated with key industry partners to build and enhance the company's tech stack and service offerings.
• Service Offerings Development: Developed and fleshed out comprehensive service offerings to meet market demands and support business expansion.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Strategic Planning: Developed and executed a strategic roadmap for cloud architecture, ensuring alignment with future technology trends and business needs.
• Best Practices Implementation: Championed industry-standard practices and innovative solutions for scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Provided technical direction and mentorship to teams, ensuring projects met design specifications and were delivered on time.
• Secure & Compliant Infrastructure: Led the design and deployment of secure, compliant enterprise servers and cloud architectures with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked closely with client product teams and engineers to automate and maintain secure cloud-hosted infrastructure across environments.
• Optimization & Management: Configured cloud tools, managed cost, security, and compliance to ensure efficient and effective cloud operations.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Built out cloud solutions and offerings.
• Assisted and provided SME input in proposals that required Cloud, SRE, DevSecOps and DevOps expertise.
• Assisted in building learning and development plans and road maps for Cloud and DevOps engineers within the organisation.
• Architected solutions for cloud based projects with automation using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Lead technical implementations and teams within the cloud, building solutions for investment and banking clients.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Deploying, managing and improving microservice infrastructure within AWS EKS using various AWS services.
• Gathering application and infrastructure metrics to alert/monitor the status of web applications and cloud infrastructure using AWS Cloudwatch, Splunk, Fluentd and Grafana.
• Creating, monitoring and improving application cloud infrastructure making use of various AWS services that were deployed as Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Cloudformation.
• Creating and supporting configuration management using Chef and Packer.
• Creating, improving and maintaining CI/CD automation workflows making use of AWS Codepipeline, GoCD, Jenkins and Harness.
• Creating and improving automation scripts, using Ruby and Python.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Monitoring, managing, maintaining and providing support for existing systems.
• Debugging and maintaining existing code.
• Training interns
• Providing guidance on how to navigate and make use of Mac OS and Ubuntu.
• Detailing tasks with milestones to facilitate familiarity on technologies used within the company, allowing for transitioning into more real-world tasks.
• Instructing recent hires on the company’s use of PHP, Java and Bash to build, maintain and debug issues/tasks.