Head of DevOps

• Nov 2018 - Present

Head of DevOps

• Aug 2015 - Nov 2018

Managing, leading and working within, a small team of DevOps engineers to build, deploy and host CMS platforms, software tools and web applications for a busy software development agency primarily focused on eCommerce within the travel industry. Implementer of full-stack ALM software delivery pipelines across multiple, concurrent projects and clients, from initial check-in to live production environments.• DevOps department head, team manager and technical leader – reporting to company directors and heads of departments, managing and mentoring a small team, presenting quarterly progress updates and representing at trade shows• Research and development of new tech, systems and techniques• Migration projects: from on-premises legacy systems to modern cloud services• Design and implementation of CI/CD build chains, release processes, deployment pipelines and testing environments• Design and provisioning of hosted production environments across various hosting providers, leveraging cloud computing strategies like IaaS, load balancing, high availability, availability sets and elastic scaling• Development and productization of the company’s flagship software tools - Web Travel Platform and Full Picture• Configuring DNS records, SSL certificates, network connectivity, firewalls and uptime monitoring on hosted systems and their dependencies• Managing code releases and deployments to live environments, liaising with clients throughout• Technical support troubleshooting of hosted servers, web applications and systems• Sysadmin team manager and caretaker of cloud and on-premises user accounts, backups, security, servers, phones, networks, PCs, tech support and warrantiesTechnologies: VS2017, TFS & VSTS, Azure, AWS, Hyper-V, MSBuild, PowerShell, Web Deploy, IIS, AppCmd, MSSQL & SQL Azure, MySQL, NuGet, npm, .NET & .NET Core, DFS-R, LetsEncrypt, Windows & Windows Server, Azure Recovery Services, Application Insights, Exchange (Office 365)

Build, Integration & Release Engineer

• Sep 2006 - Aug 2015

Created what eventually became the DevOps department by introducing and integrating emergent technologies into the growing .NET development team, then built on these gains to assume full ownership of the server infrastructure and standardise the company’s software delivery process: -• Automated build & testing processes• Deployment processes and scripts• Provisioning and configuring of testing and production hosted services• Taking ownership of on-premises systems after the lead Sysadmin left the companyTechnologies: Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Subversion, CVS, FinalBuilder, CruiseControl.NET, NAnt, Windows Batch, VMWare ESX Server, Rsync, Robocopy, Linux, openssl

Graduate Web Developer

• Nov 2004 - Aug 2006

Joining the web development team and working on numerous websites for clients such as Virgin Holidays, Olympic Holidays and THS Tools.Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, XML Web Services, MSSQL, Postgres

Student Web Developer

• Sep 2001 - Sep 2002

Assisting the software architects and developers with research and prototyping within the PC Manageability department whilst living abroad and becoming proficient in German.Technologies: C#, VB.NET, .NET Framework, XML Web Services, WMI Assisting the software architects and developers with research and prototyping within the PC Manageability department whilst living abroad and becoming proficient in German.Technologies: C#, VB.NET, .NET Framework, XML Web Services, WMI