Welcome to Rick's freelance profile!
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Location and workplace preferences
- Location
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Remote only
- Primarily works remotely
Preferences
- Project length
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- ≤ 1 week
- ≤ 1 month
- Between 1-3 months
- Between 3-6 months
- ≥ 6 months
Verifications
Freelancer code of conduct signed
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Categories
Skills (11)
- Containerization
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- Operating system
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- Cloud
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- IT automation
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- Monitoring
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Rick in a few words
technical professional. Boasting over 16 years’ experience with an
impressive array of technologies. In that time, Rick has developed his
specialised skillset in roles including:
• 3 years as heading up an operations team at an International Airport
• 4 years as the Head of I.T. at a multi-national manufacturing group
• 6 years consulting, predominantly in the Financial Services, Telco and Healthcare industries
• 2 years spent as the Platform Engineering Lead at one of the “Big Four” South
African banks.
• 3 years teaching Red Hat courseware at customers throughout the US and Canada
Rick is also a Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure - Level VI. This was achieved through gaining the following Red Hat certifications:
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• Red Hat Certified Engineer
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Best Practices
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Server Security and Hardening
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Security: Linux
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Security: Containers and OpenShift Container Platform
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization
Rick has also over the years earned the following other technology certifications:
• VMware VCP5
• LPI - LPIC1
• CompTIA Linux +
• Novel Certified Linux Administrator 11
• SUSE Certified Linux Administrator 12
Experience
ABSA Bank
Banking & Insurance
Lead Platform Engineer
NixRepublic
Consulting & Audits
Principal Consultant
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