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Peter Fosseus

@peterfosseus1

Senior DevOps Engineer at SILICON OVERDRIVE who helped 30+ clients move applications to AWS and cut cloud costs by over 20%.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

My ideal job would be full of challenging issues that use my varied skills and experience to solve, creating cost-effective, well-documented, shareable solutions.

At SILICON OVERDRIVE, I helped more than 30 clients move applications into the cloud, translating their requirements into implementable AWS architectures and Terraform deployments. Cost optimisations helped many clients save more than 20% on monthly bills.

I created application pipelines for multiple environments, enabling clients to deploy quickly and reliably, and implemented AWS Account Factory for Terraform for a university. I also worked with developers on deployments to EC2, ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes environments.

At CLICKATELL, I led a team of four DevOps engineers and helped convert a monolithic application to a micro-service architecture. At ZAILAB, I led a team of five and supported a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster running the Call Center SaaS product.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior DevOps Engineer

Silicon Overdrive

Feb 2022 - Jul 2026 (4 years 5 months)

Owned projects from concept to completion, analyzing and improving AWS architectural diagrams, deploying cloud solutions, and creating pipelines for multiple environments. Achieved cost savings of over 20% for clients and helped more than 30 clients migrate to the cloud.

Linux AWS Terraform CI CD Docker Kubernetes Networking Elasticsearch Redis Kafka MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB DocumentDB AWS CodePipeline GitHub Actions Gitlab Pipelines Bitbucket Pipelines OIDC Secrets Manager

Senior DevOps Engineer

Clickatell

Sep 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 4 months)

Led a team of 4 DevOps engineers, converted a monolithic application to microservices, and built multi-environment GitLab pipelines with auto-deploy for dev, manual QA, and approval for production. Deployed and monitored multiple AWS EKS clusters.

Linux AWS Amazon EKS Gitlab Jenkins Docker Kubernetes Maven Jira Confluence

Senior DevOps Engineer

Zailab

Apr 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year 2 months)

Led a team of 5 DevOps engineers, managed a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster running 100+ pods, and created/maintained minikube clusters for developer sprints. Scripted an in-pod memory logger and improved observability and documentation.

AWS Kubernetes Gitlab Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Elasticsearch Fluent Bit Fluentd

Technical Director (CC Member)

Evolt

Sep 2014 - Mar 2018 (3 years 6 months)

Served as Technical Director and member of the Close Corporation, overseeing technical direction and operations.

Senior VOIP/IT Engineer

Clarotech Consulting

Jul 2012 - Aug 2014 (2 years 1 month)

Provided senior-level VOIP and IT engineering support and solutions.

Technical Team Lead

Zapop

Aug 2010 - Jul 2011 (11 months)

Led a technical team, coordinating tasks and ensuring project delivery.

IT Manager

Cape Herb and Spice

Jan 2008 - Jul 2010 (2 years 6 months)

Managed IT operations and infrastructure for the company.

Programmer | Linux Sysadmin | Co-Owner | Technical Director

Silicon Overdrive

Feb 1995 - Dec 2007 (12 years 10 months)

Held multiple roles including programmer, Linux sysadmin, co-owner, and technical director, contributing to the company's technical and business growth.