Christian Hangi

DevOps Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Pretoria, South Africa

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Remote only

Skills

DevOps

Languages

EnglishFrenchLingalaSwahili

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.

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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

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