DevOps Technical Lead

• Jan 2023 - Present

DevOps Engineer

• Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

At Synthesis as a Managed Service Cloud/DevOps Engineer, we provide support to various customers, especially in Financial Services Institutions where we manage their AWS Cloud workloads. Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system. Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems. Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems. Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products. System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms. Pre-production acceptance testing for quality assurance. Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions. Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements including cost Optimisation Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on the AWS platform. Designing, maintaining, and management of tools for the automation of different operational processes.

DevOps Engineer & AWS APN Alliance Lead

• Jan 2019 - Aug 2021

- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system. - Provisioning new AWS Account for customers (Separation of concerns & multi-account strategy) - Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems. - Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform - Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements - Deploy new modules and upgrades and complete fixes within the production environment. - Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other teams members. - Participate in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings to provide guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits. - Performing routine upgrades and maintenance tasks - Migration of company applications & Domains to the AWS Cloud as well as managing company DNS Records through AWS Route 53. - Deployment of the Ticketing system (HelpDesk) AWS Resources/ Stack CloudFormation. CloudWatch, Developer Tools(CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline), Control Tower, Single Sign-on, S3, EC2, RDS, ECS (Fargate), ECR, SNS, SES, PinPoint, ChatBot, Virtual Private Cloud, Cloud Trail Route 53,

Front-end Developer

• Dec 2018 - Apr 2019

I was the team captain, responsible for: - Helping both Front end and Backend developers when stuck - Assigning tasks to the team members - To monitor the progress of the team (Development) - Reporting to the team leader We were developing an application store (Internal App Store) which was going to showcase all the Applications developed under The Digital Academy (in-house), that was developed previously by other teams using: Angular 6+, Bootstrap, SCSS, Node.js, MySQL, Docker

Full-stack Developer

• Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

- Team Leader for ICEP interns (Equipping them with the latest Technology stack and Emerging Technologies) - Establish team relationships governance rules for the dev team. - Guiding Interns from various projects mainly focusing on MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular & Node.js - Responsible for updating ICEP Website and Designing Graphics - Responsible for deployment on AWS platform during the Hackathon which was sponsored by AWS. - Facilitated the first annual KASI-CAT hackathon that was hosted by the faculty of TUT ICT powered by Amazon Web Services - Attendant Agile Africa Conference to gain knowledge in agile Methodologies.

Success Rate Coordinator

• Jan 2018 - Jun 2018

The programme was introduced by the Tshwane University of Technology, Faculty of Information Communication Technology to facilitate the relationship between Students, Academic Mentors and Lecturers while the end goal is to improve the Success Rate and Pass Rate of the faculty. The programme was introduced by the Tshwane University of Technology, Faculty of Information Communication Technology to facilitate the relationship between Students, Academic Mentors and Lecturers while the end goal is to improve the Success Rate and Pass Rate of the faculty.