
Willmund van Aarde
Systems Administrator (DevOps) at BetTech Gaming
Cape Town, South AfricaWork 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 CollegeJan 1987
Languages
English
Fluent
Training & Certifications
CMIIP - Professional Configuration Management
Institute of Configuration Management / National American University·2015Toastmasters
Toastmasters International·2015Chef Fundamentals Workshop
Chef (GetChef.Com)·2014PRINCE2 Practitioner
APM Group Limited·2014Unix/Linux Shell Scripting Course
Verhoef Training·2013Programme in Project Management
University of Stellenbosch Business School - Executive Development·2010PMBOK - Diploma in Advanced Project Management
Damelin Education Group·2004