Senior Server Administrator & Infrastructure Specialist from Gauteng, South Africa. I keep infrastructure secure, resilient and ready to scale.
Reliability is a feature.
I’m a server administrator and infrastructure specialist based in Gauteng, South Africa. I’m experienced in Linux administration, hybrid cloud environments, security hardening, monitoring, automation and reliable production operations.
I’m currently studying Business Informatics at UNISA (expected completion 2027) and working towards the Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
The toolkit behind the uptime.
Years of keeping things running.
Managing 200+ production servers across hybrid cloud environments. Implementing zero-downtime deployments, disaster recovery and security hardening protocols.
Administered Linux-based server fleets on AWS and Azure. Built monitoring dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana and automated provisioning with Ansible.
Maintained on-premise servers, managed backup rotations, configured firewalls and provided Tier 2/3 support for production incidents.
Selected infrastructure work.
Migrated 120 on-premise production servers to AWS with zero downtime, cutting infrastructure cost by 38% while improving failover reliability.
Architected a multi-node Kubernetes cluster with autoscaling and self-healing, sustaining 99.99% uptime across 40+ microservices.
Hardened 200+ Linux servers against CIS benchmarks, closed 1,400+ vulnerabilities and passed an annual compliance audit on the first attempt.
Built an automated DR site with 15-minute RTO and near-zero RPO, including encrypted off-site backups and quarterly failover drills.
Education and certifications.
Need reliable infrastructure? Let’s talk.
Gauteng, South Africa