Livhuwani Netshiumoni
Johannesburg
Summary
Solution-oriented, analytical, and critical thinker with extensive experience in the banking, pay-TV, and IT retail sectors. Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing applications to enhance performance and stability while ensuring business continuity. Leading the adoption of site reliability engineering principles across multiple business units for on-premise and multi-cloud solutions (Azure/AWS). Proven track record as a DevOps engineer, specializing in creating CI/CD pipelines and reducing human error for improved software delivery. Strong advocate for innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration to deliver value on key business objectives. Builds strategic relationships with stakeholders and partners to implement cutting-edge tools and best practices. Dedicated, adaptable professional with strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head SRE
NEDBANK
Johannesburg
07.2021 - Current
- Lead the transformation of observability and reliability through Site Reliability Engineering practices
- Hosting and facilitating masterclasses to scale out knowledge sharing and derive the adoption of SRE
- Create guardrails to influence, enhance, and implement principles to improve availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency to solutions hosted on cloud and on premise
- Align and collaborate with other capabilities such DevOps, FinOps, Release Intelligence, and Cloud CoE to accomplish a resilience view from multiple areas to avoid a silo approach
- Establish relationships with other stakeholders and portfolios to foster collaboration across the organization
- Liaise with vendors to drive the selection and procurement of SRE enabling technologies and services
- Leading, mentoring, and developing talented SREs providing technical and non-technical support, and embracing a continuous learning culture
- Derive SRE capabilities to help teams understand the importance of improved business continuity and being proactive to reduce business disruption through metrics
- Assess teams' maturity in the enterprise and assist them with steps to improve their software delivery and monitor production performance
- Manage multiple objectives, projects, groups, and/or activities, with the view of making effective judgments when prioritizing
- Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security, and regulatory standards
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems through agile thinking
- Stay abreast of best industry practices, competitors, and emerging trends in SRE
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives, and values
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
Engineering Coach
Standard Bank
04.2019 - 06.2021
- Manages, coaches and executes the skills and competency development of Technology Engineering staff across group that spans across all Software Engineering disciplines
- Builds future, world class IT Engineering technical capabilities, develops frameworks and models that will enable and support the continuous development of technical skill across GT
- Defining, developing and implementing IT Engineering standards
- Shapes the future IT landscape and leads the Engineering transformation journey through the center of excellence
- Defining minimum standards for on premise and cloud on-boarding solutions
- Engagement with CIO's and senior management to communicate IT engineering standard strategy to make sure teams enhance productivity and quality
- Defining solution architecture and developing custom application to assist in measuring maturity
- Designing application and presenting to product owner to align with the requirements
- Defining minimum standard for Site Reliability Engineering and assisting team to comply and implement
- Builds an environment where continuous improvement of the technical competency development process is in focus, builds engineering excellence capability for the Group
- Mentoring and guiding fresh talent to get them future ready for bank and industry
DevOps Technical Lead
ABSA
01.2018 - 03.2019
- Build enterprise infrastructure to support development and continuous deployment
- Implement and maintain DevOps enterprise solutions for the bank
- Analyze and tackle all technical issues and risks in the entire DevOps estate
- Liaise with architecture in solution design to make sure a properly engineered environment is designed
- Engaging with external vendors in finding solutions and resolving technical issues and queries
- Responsible for designing and reviewing handover technical documentation from third parties
- Facilitate load balancer configuration, ensuring DNS and clustering are done accordingly in order to be able to distribute and provide a resilient platform
- Test the newly built environment before handing it over to teams within group IT
- Write and review implementation plans for the team in terms of upgrades or new installations
- Guide teams to use the strategic tools defined for the organization and improve DevOps maturity
- Working closely with off-shore teams and providing technical support towards their deliverables
- Facilitate data migration from a third-party data center to an on-premise data center
- Led a team for over 6 cross-functional skills and fostering a collaborative environment with focused deliveries
Solutions/DevOps Engineer
Multichoice
10.2015 - 12.2017
- Install build agent, manage access, configure IIS, build clustered deployment environment
- Administering Team Foundation Server (TFS) source control tool for code repository and deployments
- Coaching and supporting teams on code quality improvement using Sonarqube code
- Ensuring that builds are automated, all DevOps tools are available and in usable state by also administering windows servers
- Improving the build and automation processes by ensuring each team automates the deployment in all environments, from dev to production
- Implement and maintain build quality gates and standards with the aim of ensuring builds are monitored by using a custom build dashboard
- Active participant in regular Scrum of Scrum meetings, discussing issues related to deployment productivity, work flow and qualities
- Communicate priorities and limitations of build process to internal development team and external operation team
- Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions with the off-shore team and continuous enhancement and adoption of DevOps
- Do research on tools that could improve strategies for development and deployment
Developer
Multichoice
03.2013 - 09.2015
- Developing and maintaining web services, windows apps and Web applications
- Collaborate with test engineers on completing testing and writing TCR's
- Configuring business rules and products on IBS 5.4 configuration module
- Administering TFS and performing related task such as upgrade from 2010-2012
- Managing Team Foundation Server (TFS) Process Template and reporting services are running
- Responsible in resolving builds errors, and supporting fellow developers in troubleshooting
- Collaborate with off-shore team and resolve dependencies on time
- Adopt the scrum and agile software development methodologies
- Collaborate with senior developers to design and implement web and mobile applications from concept to delivery
Junior Web Developer
Pinnacle Africa
11.2011 - 02.2013
- Collecting user requirements, documenting them, and designing use-cases
- Developing and maintaining web, and application software modules based on business requirements
- Developed databases to store data and configure backups as part of the DR process
- Testing and bug fixing on new and existing applications
- Assisting internal and external users on all application related queries
- Training users on all new system and guidance
- Adopting and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) distinct phases to deliver project
- Adherence to policies and procedures of ITIL based processes
- Continuous businesses support on the subsidiaries of the organization
Junior Developer
GIJIMA
11.2010 - 10.2011
- Interpret the user requirements specification and translate it into functional design
- Embracing the SDLC approach for project delivery and web application development/maintenance
- Perform manual system testing on web-based applications and user acceptance testing on mobile applications
- Compile user manuals and train users on newly built systems
- Use logs/records so that actions and occurrences may be verified to have happened and should not be denied later
IT LAB Technician
Vaal University of Technology
01.2010 - 10.2010
- Accountable for ensuring the lab is always in a usable state and reporting any incidents in the lab
- Responsible for configuring Linux virtual machines and teaching students Linux administrative commands
- Conducting classes according to curriculum
Education
PGDip - Business Administration
Johannesburg Business School
Johannesburg01.2023
Advanced Diploma - Information Resource Management
UNISA
12.2021
National Diploma - Computer System Engineering
Vaal University of Technology
12.2011
Matric -
Tshilala Secondary School
12.2006
Skills
- Management
- Governance
- Finance
- Accountability
- Automation
- Business Continuity
- Cloud Technologies
- DevOps
- High Availability
- Operations
- Information Technology
- Technical Management
- Talent Management
- Team Leadership
- Relationship Building
- Mentorship
- Disaster Recovery Plan
- Disaster Recovery
- Service Level
- Root Cause Analysis
- Release Management
- Incident Management
- Vendor Management
- Service Improvement
- Leadership
- Communication Skills
Certification
- TOGAF 9.1 Foundation, Open group
- Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability, Google
- CISCO IT Essentials, CISCO
- Scrum Fundamentals, Scrumorg
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft
Timeline
Head SRE
NEDBANK
07.2021 - Current
Engineering Coach
Standard Bank
04.2019 - 06.2021
DevOps Technical Lead
ABSA
01.2018 - 03.2019
Solutions/DevOps Engineer
Multichoice
10.2015 - 12.2017
Developer
Multichoice
03.2013 - 09.2015
Junior Web Developer
Pinnacle Africa
11.2011 - 02.2013
Junior Developer
GIJIMA
11.2010 - 10.2011
IT LAB Technician
Vaal University of Technology
01.2010 - 10.2010
- TOGAF 9.1 Foundation, Open group
- Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability, Google
- CISCO IT Essentials, CISCO
- Scrum Fundamentals, Scrumorg
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft
PGDip - Business Administration
Johannesburg Business School
Advanced Diploma - Information Resource Management
UNISA
National Diploma - Computer System Engineering
Vaal University of Technology
Matric -
Tshilala Secondary School
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