Experience

Methods Analytics

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Mar 2023 - Present



Animal Friends

• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Sep 2022 - Feb 2023



Capita

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Dec 2018 - Sep 2022

  Home Based Senior member of the Platform Operations and Engineering Team responsible for onboarding customers to Capita's OneCloud Platform. Deploying IaC to Microsoft Azure using terraform. Liaising with customers to establish VPN connectivity back to customer premises from Capita's Cloud. Successfully completed a VPN Migration to a new solution. Collecting technical requirements and writing Solution Specification documents. Implementation of Solution Specifications. Troubleshooting Docker… Show more Senior member of the Platform Operations and Engineering Team responsible for onboarding customers to Capita's OneCloud Platform. Deploying IaC to Microsoft Azure using terraform. Liaising with customers to establish VPN connectivity back to customer premises from Capita's Cloud. Successfully completed a VPN Migration to a new solution. Collecting technical requirements and writing Solution Specification documents. Implementation of Solution Specifications. Troubleshooting Docker Enterprise and Kubernetes Show less



Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Azure Cloud Deployment as Infrastructure as code.

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2018

  Swansea, United Kingdom Member of the new Azure Cloud Enablement Team responsible for defining patterns for future deployments, looking at deploying Infrastructure as code to the Microsoft Azure Platform. Currently using Terraform, Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes to deploy immutable infrastructure with a view to achieving Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment in a Devops/Webops Environment as part of transforming systems and replatforming onto new technologies



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• Senior Wintel Technical Support Specialist

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2017

  Swansea, United Kingdom Lead Senior Wintel Technical Services Specialist providing Project Build and Release activities and Support as well as providing out of hours on call cover for an enterprise level organisation. Supporting in excess of 700 servers varying from Windows 2003 through to Windows 2012R2 offering multiple applications in both a non clustered and clustered environment. I am also recognised as being the Subject Matter Expert on PKI infrastructure and Microsoft Active Directory Certification Services.… Show more Lead Senior Wintel Technical Services Specialist providing Project Build and Release activities and Support as well as providing out of hours on call cover for an enterprise level organisation. Supporting in excess of 700 servers varying from Windows 2003 through to Windows 2012R2 offering multiple applications in both a non clustered and clustered environment. I am also recognised as being the Subject Matter Expert on PKI infrastructure and Microsoft Active Directory Certification Services. I have been appointed as lead infrastructure engineer on a SHA-1 to SHA-2 Migration project. Show less



Fujitsu

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Technical Service Specialist

  • Jun 2010 - Sep 2015

  Swansea, United Kingdom Lead Technical Service Specialist at Fujitsu Services based in Swansea. Working as a member of the Wintel Projects Team building servers and generally taking on any project according to customer requirements



MDB IT Consulting

• Director

  • Mar 2007 - May 2010

  IT Consulting company providing support and contracting services



Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• T4 Project Engineeer

  • Aug 2009 - Feb 2010

  T4 technical refresh of all desktop systems used by the Welsh Assembly Government



UK Ministry of Defence

• United Kingdom
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• IS Support Technician

  • Jul 2008 - Jun 2009

  Design new standardised Windows XP build for MOD St Athan Learning Centre. Setup Group Policy on St Athan Learning Suite Servers Server Support and Maintenance Network Infrastructure Support – Cisco Switches. Support to MoD St Athan SANLAN users.



Fujitsu

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Exchange Administrator

  • Dec 2007 - May 2008

  Monitor exchange links between MoD Sites. Exchange 5.5 and 2000 and 2003 Mailbox Restores. Monitor MTA Queues on MoD Exchange Servers Exchange Incident Management and troubleshooting mailbox issues.. Support MoD Exchange users on DIIC, CHOtS, CASH and Open



Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend

• Desktop Support Technician

  • Oct 2007 - Dec 2007

  Provide desktop support services to hospital computer users. Rollout new desktop pc’s running Windows XP to replace outdated equipment.



UK Ministry of Defence

• United Kingdom
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Storage Administrator

  • Jun 2007 - Sep 2007

  Monitor backups on NT4, 2000, 2000 Advanced and 2003 servers. Schedule restore jobs of user data to servers and Exchange 5.5 Mailbox restores Quota Management, Shared Area Management and User permissions on NT4 Domains Data storage incident management



Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Engineer

  • Oct 2006 - May 2007

  • Audit desktop and laptop computers in preparation for new hardware installation Build PC's and laptops with standard image Customise built PC's and laptops for use by Assembly Members and Support Staff Deploy PC's and Laptops to Assembly Members and Support Staff Migrate user data from old PC's to newly deployed hardware



IT Support Services

• Senior Support Engineer

  • Feb 2004 - Oct 2006

  Build, configure, install and administer Windows 2003 SBS and Windows 2003 Servers Remote support using Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Protocol and VPN Connections Set up and administration of users, groups and permissions using active directory. Installing networks, routers and firewalls to client sites and configuring gateway to gateway VPN connections and Authentication. Exchange 2003 Server configuration, installation and management. Advising clients on hardware and… Show more Build, configure, install and administer Windows 2003 SBS and Windows 2003 Servers Remote support using Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Protocol and VPN Connections Set up and administration of users, groups and permissions using active directory. Installing networks, routers and firewalls to client sites and configuring gateway to gateway VPN connections and Authentication. Exchange 2003 Server configuration, installation and management. Advising clients on hardware and software ICT Strategy Acting as 3rd line support to helpdesk staff and 2nd line engineers Netware 4 and 5 user administration using Novell Directory Services and Microsoft Exchange 5.5. administration. Show less