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Willmund van Aarde

Systems Administrator (DevOps) at BetTech Gaming

Cape Town, South Africa

Work Experience

  • Systems Administrator (DevOps)Full Time

    BetTech Gaming

    Jul 2016 - Present -8 yrs, 11 months

    South Africa , Cape Town

    • Job Details:• Manage and patch cloud based server infrastructure, including OS and MySQL databases • Manage relationship with cloud providers • Setup secure access control measures to BetTech servers and databases as well as access management to the internal cloud-based e-mail system, Jira and Confluence systems. • Procure new server infrastructure • Implementation of the BetTech application on CentOS 6.8/9 servers (manually as well as automation with Ansible) • Monitor server infrastructure and provide support as and when needed • Provide infrastructure documentation • Ensure scalability and performance of infrastructure • Implementation of backup strategy with AWS S3 & Glacier, as well as replication of MySQL databases.
  • Configuration and Release Manager (DevOps)Full Time

    EOH Microsoft Coastal

    Nov 2015 - Jun 2016 -7 months

    South Africa , Cape Town

    • Job Details:DevOps: • Build and maintain development, acceptance, pre-production and production environments • Automation of builds, CI and deployment processes (TeamCity & Octopus Deploy) • Provisioning and configuring of all servers on bCloud (Barclays internal Cloud infrastructure) • Owned and administered databases for development teams • Provisioning and ownership of AD functional groups and system accounts – manage secure access to servers Configuration Management: • Identification, structuring, linking and owning of all data throughout SDLC • Version control to ensure trace-ability to requirements Release management • Set up of all aspects of a release framework compatible with Agile development methodologies
  • Configuration Manager & DevOpsFull Time

    Visa Digital and Mobile Products (Visa Card)

    Jan 2013 - Sep 2015 -2 yrs, 8 months

    South Africa , Cape Town

    • Job Details:• Application Technical Contact / Technical Contact for all Visa DMP team servers, CI and development tools. Responsible for the overall Operational Risk Assessment. • Facilitate efficient environment management and handling of VISA communication and process. • DevOps function: Administration of Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux hosts • Configuration management: Admin on SVN, Jenkins, Confluence, Artifactory, Sonar, FishEye/Crucible and JIRA.
  • Configuration Manager & DevOpsFull Time

    Visa Digital and Mobile Products (Visa Card)

    Jan 2013 - Sep 2015 -2 yrs, 8 months

    South Africa , Cape Town

    • Job Details:• Application Technical Contact / Technical Contact for all Visa DMP team servers, CI and development tools. Responsible for the overall Operational Risk Assessment. • Facilitate efficient environment management and handling of VISA communication and process. • DevOps function: Administration of Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux hosts • Configuration management: Admin on SVN, Jenkins, Confluence, Artifactory, Sonar, FishEye/Crucible and JIRA.
  • Education

    • High School - Other

      Damelin College

      Jan 1987 

    Skills

    • System Administration
    • Configuration
    • microsoft server
    • Linux
    • AWS
    • DevOps
    • MySQL

    Languages

    • English

      Fluent

    Training & Certifications

    • CMIIP - Professional Configuration Management

      Institute of Configuration Management / National American University·2015
    • Toastmasters

      Toastmasters International·2015
    • Chef Fundamentals Workshop

      Chef (GetChef.Com)·2014
    • PRINCE2 Practitioner

      APM Group Limited·2014
    • Unix/Linux Shell Scripting Course

      Verhoef Training·2013
    • Programme in Project Management

      University of Stellenbosch Business School - Executive Development·2010
    • PMBOK - Diploma in Advanced Project Management

      Damelin Education Group·2004
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