Ndidzhiani Mberegeni
Sandton,South Africa
Summary
A highly accomplished and well-established individual with over 10 years of rich professional industry experience. Experienced in leading network operations within fast-paced corporate ecosystems, optimizing and transforming network infrastructure to support business-critical services, triaging, and mitigating high-impact issues, using a logical approach to resolve network challenges and embedding industry best practices into ways of working.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Network Engineer
Absa Bank
Sandton, South Africa
01.2016 - 12.2024
- Company Overview: Financial Services Company
- Successfully led network engineering operations for a major financial services company with a ZAR 6 billion revenue
- Pioneered network installations and network configurations and managed network equipment testing
- Developed enterprise-level high-level designs and delivered logical detailed specifications for network infrastructure
- Enhanced logical and physical network designs and optimized deployment, monitoring and administration features
- Troubleshooted complex network infrastructure and remained a key focal point for network issue escalation
- Worked with Python, VLAN's, VxLAN, EVPN LAN, WAN, BGP, EIGRP, STP, ACL and TACACS+ in network infrastructure
- Utilized the OSI model within troubleshooting processes and led change implementation and incident management
- Monitored networks to ensure the availability of business critical systems and ensured compliance with policies
- Responsible for 24/7 network Engineer, conducted infrastructure improvements and troubleshooted data Centre issues
- Triaged BGP, IBGP and OSPF between Campuses and Data centers on LAN/WAN ecosystems
- Identified and resolved BAU network issues and improved network operations by using the DNA orchestrator tool
- Functioned ISP on TCP/IP, MPLS, IPsec tunnel, LTE and troubleshooted WAN Links
- Financial Services Company
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
ITHUBA LOTTERY
Sandton, South Africa
01.2025 - Current
- Company Overview: Gaming Company
- 24/7 Engineering Infrastructure
- Engineering Infrastructure Security
- Gaming Company
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Richfield College
01-2025
Grade 12 Qualification -
Lwamondo High School
01.2011
System Support Qualification -
CTU Training Solutions
Skills
- 24/7 Support for Network Infrastructure
- DevOps
- DevNet
- Route Exchange Protocols BGP
- Route Exchange Protocols OSPF
- REST APIs
- Python Language
- Ethernet
- TCP/IP Protocols
- Python Programming
- LAN Implementation
- WAN Implementation
- LTE Implementation
- Multi-Vendor WAN
- Multi-Technology WAN
- Network Routing
- Network Switching
- Network Monitoring
- Network Troubleshooting
- Routing Protocols OSPF
- Routing Protocols BGP
- Routing Protocols MPLS
- Cisco DNA Orchestrator
- YAML
- JSON
- Data Serialization Formats
- Network Security
- FortiGate Firewall
- Enterprise Architecture
- Network Design
- IPsec Tunnel
- ISP Implementation
- BAU Project Lifecycle
- Network L2-L3 Network Protocols
- AWS Solution Architecture
Certification
- System Support Qualification | CTU Training Solutions
- Grade 12 Qualification | Lwamondo High School
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
- Network Security Professional Fortinet NSE 4
- CCNA (Routing and Switching, Security, Data Centre, Wireless and Voice)
- Automating and Programming Cisco Enterprise Solutions (ENAUTO)
Hobbies and Interests
- Media Volunteer
- Marathons & Fitness
Academic Excellence
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Richfield
Timeline
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
ITHUBA LOTTERY
01.2025 - Current
Senior Network Engineer
Absa Bank
01.2016 - 12.2024
Grade 12 Qualification -
Lwamondo High School
System Support Qualification -
CTU Training Solutions
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Richfield College