
Christian Hangi
DevOps Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Pretoria, South Africa
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of expertise in infrastructure automation, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines. Specialized in Linux administration, ELK stack, Ansible automation, and network security implementation. I deliver scalable cloud solutions and robust monitoring systems that optimize performance and reduce deployment overhead for growing businesses.
Work experience
DevOps Engineer
Imagine Interactive Systems
Nov 2021 - Present
5 years
Pretoria, South Africa
- Software Development - Web Applications Monitoring - IT Infrastructure Management and Maintenance (IaC, DevOps) - Software and Web Automation Testing - Database Management
DevOps Engineer
Southern Cross Solutions
Nov 2021 - Present
5 years
Pretoria, South Africa
IT Network Trainee
WD, a Western Digital company
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
1 year
Bangpa In, Thailand · On-site
• BUILDING, CONFIGURATION, DEPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE BACKEND FREERADIUS SERVER SYSTEM TO IMPROVE NETWORK ACCESS PRIVILEGES TO NETWORK DEVICES (SWITCHES, ROUTERS, WORKSTATIONS, ETC.) AND SECURITY OF THE COMPANY INTERNAL NETWORK TO PREVENT ILLEGAL ACCESS FOR UNAUTHORIZED USERS. TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS USED: SECURE SHELL (SHELL), EAP, IEEE 802.1X, EAD, UAM & AAA PLATFORM. • IMPLEMENTATION OF DALORADIUS WEB MANAGEMENT APPLICATION ONTO THE FREERADIUS SYSTEM TO PROVIDE USER MANAGEMENT, GRAPHICAL REPORTING, ACCOUNTING AND BILLING ENGINE. IT HAS A WEB USER INTERFACE AND WAS USED TO MANAGE THE FREERADIUS DEPLOYMENT. TECHNOLOGIES USED: HTTP, PHP AND MySQL (TO RECORD THE NETWORK ACCESS AND RESOURCE USAGE ACTIVICTIES); • BUILDING, CONFIGURATION, DEPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CACTI LOG SERVER SYSTEM TO MONITOR, ADMINISTER AND CONTROL THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMPANY’S NETWORK DEVICES (SWITCHES, ROUTERS, WORKSTATIONS, ETC.). THE SYSTEM PROVIDES FEATURES SUCH AS CPU USAGE, MEMORY USAGE AND TEMPERATURE USAGE. THE SYSTEM WAS LATER IMPLEMENTED WITH FEATURES SUCH AS EVENT LOGGING MANAGEMENT AND THRESHOLD ALERT TICKETING TO TRACK AND REPORT ACTIVITIES AND ANOMALIES IN THE NETWORK. TECHNOLOGIES USED: SYSLOG, SMTP, HTTP, PHP & MySQL. • BUILDING, CONFIGURATION, DEPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF SPLUNK AND IMC (INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT CENTER) ONTO THE NETWORK FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE. • ESTABLISHING REMOTE ACCESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN COMPUTER SYSTEMS via FTP, SSH and VNC. • TROUBLESHOOTING AND NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF NETWORK DEVICES via PUTTY SOFTWARE: LINUX SERVERS, WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS, H3C & 3COM SWITCHES AND ROUTERS; • NETWORK BUILDING, CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT: LINUX SERVERS, WINDOWS STATIONS, H3C & 3COM SWITCHES, SERVERS (APACHE, MySQL Database, FTP, etc.). • CABLE BUILDING AND TESTING (TWISTED PAIR AND CROSSOVER). • TROUBLESHOOTING AND SOLDERING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS ON PCBs.
Education
Durban University of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree
2015 - 2017
2 years 1 month
Durban University of Technology
National Diploma
2010 - 2013
3 years 1 month
Malula High School
Grade 12
2003 - 2009
6 years 1 month