DevOps Engineer - Azure (Contract)

• Jun 2023 - Present

DevOps Engineer - Azure (Contract)

• Sep 2019 - May 2023

Infrastructure Automation Engineer (Contract)

• Nov 2018 - Sep 2019

PowerShell Automation Developer (Contract)

• Sep 2017 - Nov 2018

Automation Principal Support Engineer

• Mar 2016 - Jul 2017

- PowerShell and Automation specialist for the UKCloud customer service team - Automated day-to-day operational tasks using PowerShell, PowerCLI, REST APIs etc. - Responsible for the management, maintenance and support of UKCloud's Secure/Accredited Cloud Infrastructure Platform (VMware vCloud and OpenStack) in a 24/7 ITIL environment - Escalation point for difficult customer issues relating to VMware, API/Scripting, Networking and Storage - Utilised the Atlassian software suite including Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence to collaborate with colleagues on projects Show less

Cyber Infrastructure & Virtualisation Engineer

• Jan 2012 - Mar 2016

- Infrastructure engineer working across several secure projects delivering high secure solutions for clients such as MOD and NATO - Responsible for all aspects of infrastructure and development from conception through to delivery and support - Designed and developed bespoke VMware deployment script utilising PowerCLI. This provisioned and configured VMs reducing build time from a week to a day - Subject matter expert for PowerShell and general Windows Scripting within the team having designed, tested and deployed scripts to automate manual work - Extensive engineering of vSphere environments ranging from small single host environments to large multi-host, multi-site configurations - Provided 3rd line support for the NATO NCIRC 2nd line support team from general Virtualisation and OS level problems to bespoke application issues. - Designed, delivered and maintained Windows 2008R2/2012R2 systems with in-depth experience of Windows components such as AD, GPO, DNS etc. Show less