Ethan Favis — IT Systems & DevOps

01 — About

A systems person who likes things to just work.

I'm an IT systems & DevOps generalist who's happiest across the whole stack — from the OS and the network up to the services and the code running on top.

I was always pulled toward IT. While studying Wood Science at Stellenbosch, the computers, networks and servers were the part I couldn't put down — so I moved into infrastructure full time rather than finish the degree.

At Dijiti Solutions I came in as the first dedicated ops hire and built the company's IT, cloud and networking stack from the ground up — then ran it day to day for a 25-person team. I like tracing a problem across layers and joining up systems that need to talk to each other, whether that's AWS, a Proxmox host, a database or a misbehaving DNS resolver.

I'm recently off the back of my time at Dijiti and looking for my next systems, infrastructure or networking role — with the range to take on development work alongside it.

Based in

Stellenbosch / Cape Town,
South Africa

Studied

BSc Wood Science, Stellenbosch
(incomplete — moved into IT)

In progress

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Languages

English (fluent) · Afrikaans (conversational)

02 — Experience

Where I've worked.

Jun 2025 —
May 2026

IT Systems & DevOps Lead

Dijiti Solutions · Full-time

Built and ran the company's full IT, cloud and networking stack as Dijiti's first dedicated DevOps hire, supporting ~25 staff (6 engineers, leadership and operations).
Managed AWS across ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM and VPC — deployments, account administration and ongoing cost optimisation.
Administered Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 (provisioning, access, licensing) and managed company domains, cPanel and web hosting.
Ran virtualisation for the dev team alongside internal hosting, proxy services and password management; supplied and maintained compute across the business.
Set up and maintained PostgreSQL databases and backend services; built internal tooling and automation scripts.
Owned reliability — monitoring, backups, access control and incident response — and provided full-suite technical IT support.
Expanded into application development alongside the systems role, shipping production code with the engineering team.

2024

Security Camera Installation

Holzbau CPT · Contract, while studying

Installed CCTV and security-camera systems end to end — planning camera placement, running and terminating cable, mounting and aligning units, and configuring the recorder and live-view software.

2020

IT Support

Highway Safety Products · Part-time, while studying

Provided technical support to staff across day-to-day computer, software and hardware queries.

03 — Technical development

Ethanet — my homelab.

A production-grade home infrastructure I designed, built and run end to end. It's where I learn the things I bring to work — documented as code, zero public ingress, two years uptime.

github.com/EthanFavis/Ethanet

Internet

public — untrusted

Tailscale only · no open ports

Tailscale mesh VPN

zero public ingress

Nginx Proxy Manager

reverse proxy · Let's Encrypt (DNS-01)

routes to LXC services

Proxmox VE 9 — single node · 35 W mini PC

LXC 01

LXC 02

LXC 03

LXC 04

LXC 05

LXC 06

LXC 07

LXC 08

LXC 09

LXC 10

LXC 11

LXC 12

Raspberry Pi 1B · 2012

Pi-hole + Unbound — recursive DNS

0

LXC services
on one node

0W

Total power draw,
always on

0yrs

Continuous uptime,
5 users

0

Open ports —
zero public ingress

Proxmox VE 9 LXC Tailscale Nginx Proxy Manager Let's Encrypt Pi-hole Unbound Proxmox Backup Server Bash

04 — Skills

What I work with.

Strongest in Linux, virtualisation and networking — comfortable across cloud, data and the scripting that ties it together.

Linux & Virtualization

Core strength

Proxmox VE 9LXCKVM / QEMU DockerUbuntuDebian systemdcronWindows support

Networking

Core strength

TCP/IPVLANsDNS · DHCP · NAT Firewall rulesTailscaleNginx Proxy Manager HTTPSUnbound

Cloud & Hosting

Strong

AWSECS · EC2 · RDSS3 · IAM · VPC Cost optimisationcPanelDomain mgmt

Infrastructure & Ops

Strong

SSH key authReverse proxyingTLS certs Backups (PBS)Terraform (IaC)Google WorkspaceMicrosoft 365

Data & Backend

Working

PostgreSQLSetup & adminBackend services

Scripting & Tooling

Daily

BashGit / GitHubPython MarkdownVS CodeClaude Code

05 — Off the clock

What I'm into.

Running

Out on the road regularly — it's how I clear my head and reset between deep-focus stretches.

Coffee

A genuine enthusiast — chasing a good cup is half the reason I know every café worth its salt in town.

Building the homelab

Always tinkering — adding a service, tightening the network, or rewriting the bootstrap so the whole thing rebuilds itself.

06 — Contact

Let's talk.

Recently finished at Dijiti and looking for systems, infrastructure or networking work. If that sounds like your team, I'd love to hear from you.

Email ethan@favis.co.za → Phone +27 71 673 9842 → GitHub github.com/EthanFavis → LinkedIn /in/ethan-favis →

Location Stellenbosch / Cape Town, ZA

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