* Develop and implement the AWS cloud strategy for the managed services practice, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and best practices.* Continuously evaluate and optimize AWS resources to ensure cost-effective and efficient use of cloud infrastructure.* Act as the primary technical advisor for key clients, providing strategic guidance on AWS adoption, migration, and optimization.* Collaborate with AWS and other technology vendors to select and deploy the best tools and platforms for managed services.

* Lead a team of DevOps engineers in designing and implementing scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions Primarily on AWS and Orange Cloud* Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software development and deployment processes.* Establish and maintain configuration management processes and tools for efficient infrastructure management.* Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery of software products.* Implement and manage containerization technologies, including Docker for application deployment and orchestration.* Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability through automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.* Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.* Automated installation of AWS cloudwatch agent on Linux environments for effective monitoring of disks, memory and network speeds* Use of SSM for patch management on AWS hosted environments and the spearheaded the company to use Canonical Landscape to remotely manage and apply patches on Linux (Ubuntu servers)* Led a project to revoke root access to SSH account for security purposes and ensure any breach sends an alert via cloudwatch* Manage cloud costs and provide cost optimization recommendations.* Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the DevOps team.

* Managing the newly restructured team* Working on revamping internal processes around incident management, Business continuity, knowledgeable gatekeeping and gardening and escalation processes.* Spearheaded the migration of our monitoring tool from Nagios on-premises to Newrelic (cloud-based). This helps the company saves over 50% in cost* Worked with the management team in re-structuring the team for better team performance and efficiency towards our customers* Drafted a playbook for migration of customer data from on-premise to cloud and vice-versa

Main Duties:* Service strategy * Strategically develop and administer the Valiantys Cloud infrastructure and services.* Researches topics related to current and emerging technology for cloud and networks* Continually review and analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems* Project & change management * Provide technical support on outages and issues * Work closely with the Head of Managed Services and support on escalations * Performing root cause analysis to increase system availability, submitting requests for change as required to resolve system issues* Communicating experience and knowledge to other members of the team to improve support capabilities* Shaping incident response policies and managing recovery for major outages or infrastructure events* Responsible for the security and integrity of the Cloud infrastructure

Consulting* Work with customers to define and assess their requirements* Advise clients on best way to solve business and technical problems through the use of Atlassian tools* Translate business requirements into a functional and technical implementation* Provide in depth knowledge of Atlassian platform and products* Carry out technical audits, functional auditsImplementation* Support successful project implementation phase on time and on budget* Application deployment and configuration (upgrades, new deployments, custom plugin developments and data migrations)* Software Integration and test environment configuration and maintenance* Identification of areas for process improvement, * Analysis and troubleshooting* Design methodologies, tools and scripts to speed-up deployment, integration and adoptionKnowledge Management* Help the sales team with technical questions during the pre-sales process* Contribute to knowledge base and blog

Main Duties:* Taking ownership of the Atlassian suites (JIRA software and Bitbucket) and overseeing the daily scrum * Designed from scratch the company's functional test using the python selenium library.* Implemented Apache JMeter script for testing th performance of the platform* Implemented a site scrapper that will check products on the ecommerce platform that have 404 pages and products without images. This was done with python beautifulsoup library with mongodb as the backend.

Main Duties:​* Started by designing the git flow to be used by all the development team* Configured the continuous integration based on shippable. A cloud based CI. During the course of this task, I have contributed immensely to the shippable project by pinpointing bugs and areas of improvements. You can view my open and closed tickets at https://github.com/Shippable/support/issues/created_by/smaiyaki* I have configured and design the deployment infrastucture using AWS services. Primarily using services like elastic beanstalk, EC2, RDS, IAM, Route53 and S3. * I have also done the same deployment to AWS of a project build with PHP* Design and run unit & functional test using the selenium framework.Initiated the process of ensuring front end optimizations. In this task, I used automation tools like GulpJS to ensure that the UI is optimised and performs better* Work on the development of key features of the product. The development is done primarily with Python. We used the django framework in conjunction with Django rest framework to expose the APIs. The UI is done with AngularJS* Designed pipeline based on semaphoreCI

Duties include:* Working primarily on Atlassian developer tool products; Bamboo, Fisheye, Bitbucket and Clover* Perform tests on the beta releases before their birth to the outside world.* Mentor Junior Engineers on how to use and troubleshoot Atlassian Products* Bug fixing of the products

Worked primarily on Atlassian products and in particular JIRA and Confluence