Summary
Danie De Jager is a Systems Administrator with 10 years of hands-on experience building and securing infrastructure across retail, marketing, and financial sectors. He has progressed from field service and application administration to leading operational support and Enterprise SecOps roles, now focused on systems administration at Datacentrix. Danie specializes in implementing and monitoring security solutions, improving security awareness through pragmatic, proven methods, and embedding DevOps practices to increase team efficiency. His background in global managed infrastructure gives him practical experience balancing operational reliability with security controls at scale. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he brings a pragmatic, cross-domain perspective that helps translate complex security requirements into auditable, operational processes. Notably, his career path shows a steady shift from hands-on engineering to security-focused leadership without losing technical depth.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans