Nico Smuts Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Remote

Somerset West Area, South Africa

Co-founded a niche hosting business in the micro-lending industry.

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Head of DevOps, leading the following teams:- DevOps- Networking & Security- Internal IT- Technical Lead for the Development/Engineering teamsMy role has me doing to following and more:- Architect & design scalable infrastructure and applications/services- Finding and eliminating SPOF (single point of failure)- Design and implement a secure global mesh network & VPN- Enable the business in all it's functions by implementing modern digital systems- Guide the Big Picture & Roadmap by bringing deliverables together across multiple teams- Chair regular Technical Meetups & Problem Solving Sessions

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Building the DevOps team and culture from the ground up by automating all things possible.- Implement a solid tech stack : AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Consul, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc- Migrating legancy/long running systems to Kubernetes- Scaling up the team for around the clock support and standby- Guide/lead roadmaps to align with overall business goals- Provide infrastructure support to Product teams- Decoupling a monolithic application into microservices

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Implement DevOps technologies to enable the business to grow.- Scale and fine tune e-commerce platform/systems for large scale traffic & performance- Setup Kubernetes infrastructure to enable microservices deployments, autoscaling, and developments- Setup GitHubActions CI/CD workflows for containerised applications across environments- Initialise Terraform IaC to reduce technical dept on hand-built infrastructure- Provide infrastructural support for internal applications and API's/services- Setup infrastructure around observability, monitoring and logging of services & applications

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I build scalable, cost-effective systems for our various Gaming Platforms using Cloud Native and open-source tools.- AWS- Kubernetes- Grafana- Prometheus- Terraform- Vault

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Full time remote working employee, working with the following platforms and services:- Terraform- AWS- Elastic Beanstalk- OpsWorks- RDS- Route53- Grafana- Jenkins- Atlassian Suite- Alert Logic

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Working daily with one of our Developer Business Units.- Team Foundation Server - Repliweb - Team City - ServiceFabric - Environment Architecture- Scaling - Load Balancing- Elasticsearch- Kibana- Jira- Git- RabbitMQ- MongoDB

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I am currently working in the Deployment Profile.SME (Subject Matter Expert): AWS OpsWorks - ChefSome of the services I work with daily:- OpsWorks- Elastic Beanstalk- Code Commit- Code Deploy- Code Pipeline- RDS- EC2- VPC- IAM

134 Upper Waterkant Street, Green Point, Cape Town

Manage and maintain customer server and network infrastructure.Latest skills and experience:- MS Exchange Server 2013- Active Directory- Terminal Services- File sharing and security- Proactive monitoring- Patch management

Manage & Maintain WebsitePanel Shared Hosting Environment.Skills:- Windows Shared Hosting - WebsitePanel (Design, Management, Growth, Upgrades, etc)- Linux Shared Hosting - cPanel (Limited)- Hyper-V - Xen Server - VMWare - Microsoft Exchange - SharePoint - SmarterMail - SimpleDNS- Active Directory - PowerShell scripting - Microsoft System Center 2012 - Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012 - SQL Server 2008 / 2012 / 2014 - MySQL - CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 - Ubuntu server 10 - 14 - Data Protection Manager - FortiGate - MikroTik- Observium (device monitoring and graphing) - PRTG - NetApp - Highly Available storage - SuperMicro en Dell servers - Data-center Management and Planning - WHMCS

Network & Server MonitoringServer & Network GraphingServer MaintenanceBackup AdministrationServer RepairsDedicated & Virtual Server Support/Setups

Hypervizor: Manage all virtual infrastructure (Xen Server & MS Hyper-V)Server Maintenance: Keeping all server up to date, creating and scheduling backups.Network Monitoring: Make sure that all network probes are working and sending out notifications when errors occur.Server Setups: Install OS and required applications on new servers.Server Management: Manage internal and client servers.Research and Development: Always on the look out for some new product or program that can improve performance and productivity.

Hosting & ADSL SupportWireless InstallationsMikrotik Configurations