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Linux Kip

@linuxkip

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I am a systems engineer specializing in Red Hat, cloud, DevOps.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles designing and automating Red Hat/OpenShift infrastructures, leading cloud migrations and compliance efforts, and providing customer-facing consultancy and training in collaborative, security-focused teams.

I am a Systems Engineer with 8+ years designing, implementing, and securing enterprise IT environments, specializing in Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible, and RHEL.

I've delivered ISO/IEC 27001:2022-compliant solutions, engineered OpenStack and OpenShift deployments that improved infrastructure performance and uptime by 30%+, and automated provisioning and patching to reduce manual effort by 75%. I also led an on-prem to AWS migration that achieved 99.95% uptime and streamlined deployments with Terraform and Ansible.

I balance deep technical work with customer-facing consultancy, hands-on training, and incident response to meet SLAs and boost adoption. I hold multiple cloud and Linux certifications, am pursuing CKA, and seek to drive secure, automated, and scalable platform solutions.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Telecoms Field Engineer (Intern)

Elris Communication Services Ltd

Sep 2015 - Mar 2016 (6 months)

Configured firewalls, ACLs, and routing on Cisco and Huawei routers and implemented SNMP monitoring and PAT/NAT to improve network visibility and connectivity. Performed preventive maintenance and troubleshooting for MPLS and wireless links, enhancing link stability.

Firewalls SNMP NAT MPLS