Conor Appleton
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Egress Software Technologies- Claim this Profile
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LinkedIn User
It has been a pleasure to watch Conor's career flourish over the last few years. Conor immediately showed value whilst working for EE and consistently went above and beyond in his duties improving patch management, automation and overall security. He genuinely cares about his subject and I would have no hesitation to recommend Conor for any senior technical role.
LinkedIn User
It has been a pleasure to watch Conor's career flourish over the last few years. Conor immediately showed value whilst working for EE and consistently went above and beyond in his duties improving patch management, automation and overall security. He genuinely cares about his subject and I would have no hesitation to recommend Conor for any senior technical role.
LinkedIn User
It has been a pleasure to watch Conor's career flourish over the last few years. Conor immediately showed value whilst working for EE and consistently went above and beyond in his duties improving patch management, automation and overall security. He genuinely cares about his subject and I would have no hesitation to recommend Conor for any senior technical role.
LinkedIn User
It has been a pleasure to watch Conor's career flourish over the last few years. Conor immediately showed value whilst working for EE and consistently went above and beyond in his duties improving patch management, automation and overall security. He genuinely cares about his subject and I would have no hesitation to recommend Conor for any senior technical role.
Credentials
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VMware VCA
VMwareSep, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Guardicore Certified Segmentation Administrator
GuardicoreJul, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Guardicore Certified Segmentation Engineer
GuardicoreJul, 2022- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Egress Software Technologies
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Sep 2022 - Present
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Next
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United Kingdom
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Infrastructure Security Engineer
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Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
- Responsible for high risk vulnerability remediation across major sectors of the company - Patch management, software management and automation using SCCM - Internal and external certificate authority management - De-risking and replacing legacy systems - Stakeholder management with multiple departments - VMware vCenter and SCVMM management of production clusters - Mentoring junior members of staff - Responsible for high risk vulnerability remediation across major sectors of the company - Patch management, software management and automation using SCCM - Internal and external certificate authority management - De-risking and replacing legacy systems - Stakeholder management with multiple departments - VMware vCenter and SCVMM management of production clusters - Mentoring junior members of staff
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Sytner Group
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United Kingdom
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Retail Motor Vehicles
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700 & Above Employee
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Infrastructure Engineer
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Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
- Responsible for backups and health of core infrastructure and car dealership servers - Management of both production VMware vSphere clusters - Management of Zerto replication platform - Patch management for all core infrastructure services - Documenting core infrastructure and de-risking single points of failure - Network automation (Cisco switches and ASA firewalls) using Ansible - Lead the drive for a production monitoring platform to monitor all core services - Covering the leadership role for the operations team whilst the manager is away from the business - Project management and delivery using Agile within Azure DevOps - Assisting security team with cybersecurity incidents - Presenting new technologies and updates to senior stakeholders monthly Show less
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Abtec Network Systems
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Infrastructure Engineer
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May 2018 - Jun 2019
- Responsible for daily maintenance, backup, security and monitoring checks of customer systems - Mentored junior infrastructure engineers and supported them through qualifications - Lead the standardisation for systems documentation - Implemented a password management solution to ensure the security of sensitive customer data - Disaster recovery planning for customer business-critical systems - Responsible for stakeholder communication during projects - Responsible for daily maintenance, backup, security and monitoring checks of customer systems - Mentored junior infrastructure engineers and supported them through qualifications - Lead the standardisation for systems documentation - Implemented a password management solution to ensure the security of sensitive customer data - Disaster recovery planning for customer business-critical systems - Responsible for stakeholder communication during projects
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European Electronique
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior IT Technician
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Jan 2015 - May 2018
- Managed the service desk, closing 100+ tickets per week whilst supporting 1500+ users daily - Automated workstation and server patching using PowerShell and WSUS - Responsible for SCCM server and desktop golden image creation and deployment as well as software packaging and deployment - Supported and mentored the IT technician apprentices - Automated student workstation power management, ensuring workstations were powered on when required, increasing energy efficiency - Presenting IT resource to new members of staff Show less
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