Cloud / DevOps Consultant

• Sep 2023 - Present

Senior Devops Engineer(contract)

• Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

Helped the satellite communications company keep legacy monitoring system alive until modern incumbent was implemented. Implemented the infrastructure side of ServiceNow. - created a lot of python 2 and 3 CLI scripts - wrote Puppet modules - created a python application to monitor Satellite hubs - wrote Jenkins and Gitlab pipelines Tooling used: Puppet, Shinken, VMWare, Centos 6 and 7, python 2.7 and 3.9: requests, pytest, click, SOAPpy, TSDB REST API Helped the satellite communications company keep legacy monitoring system alive until modern incumbent was implemented. Implemented the infrastructure side of ServiceNow. - created a lot of python 2 and 3 CLI scripts - wrote Puppet modules - created a python application to monitor Satellite hubs - wrote Jenkins and Gitlab pipelines Tooling used: Puppet, Shinken, VMWare, Centos 6 and 7, python 2.7 and 3.9: requests, pytest, click, SOAPpy, TSDB REST API

AWS DevOps Engineer(contract)

• Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

Helped ICE deliver a platform for dealing with international copyright issues and distributions of royalties - migrated CDK stacks to Terraform - Slack integrations for ChatOps in python - CI/CD pipelines in ConcourseCI Tooling used: terraform, CDK(java), docker, lambda, ConcourseCI, python 3.9: boto3, JIRA, moto, pytest Helped ICE deliver a platform for dealing with international copyright issues and distributions of royalties - migrated CDK stacks to Terraform - Slack integrations for ChatOps in python - CI/CD pipelines in ConcourseCI Tooling used: terraform, CDK(java), docker, lambda, ConcourseCI, python 3.9: boto3, JIRA, moto, pytest

DevOps/Python Engineer(contract)

• Mar 2022 - Oct 2022

Helped the global risk intelligence company set up and optimise their new data platform - created python tools for data / environment migrations - created and optimising gitlab pipelines - python package builds and version management - deployed services on ECS / Fargate Tools: CDK / Typescript, SAM, python 3.9, gitlab pipelines, docker, prefect, metaflow, Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, Cloudformation, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB Helped the global risk intelligence company set up and optimise their new data platform - created python tools for data / environment migrations - created and optimising gitlab pipelines - python package builds and version management - deployed services on ECS / Fargate Tools: CDK / Typescript, SAM, python 3.9, gitlab pipelines, docker, prefect, metaflow, Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, Cloudformation, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB

DevOps Engineer(contract)

• Sep 2021 - Mar 2022

Helped Hong Kong's crypto exchange migrate to containers and Terragrunt. Tooling used: docker, ECS, Jenkins, Terraform, Terragrunt, lambda, python3, packer, ansible Helped Hong Kong's crypto exchange migrate to containers and Terragrunt. Tooling used: docker, ECS, Jenkins, Terraform, Terragrunt, lambda, python3, packer, ansible

DevOps/Python AWS Engineer(contract)

• Apr 2021 - Jun 2021

Helped the challenger bank launch a new credit card product - Created backend python APIs used to drive the credit card journeys - Serverless microservices in python3 using SAM, Lambda and API Gateway - Unit tests in pytest, integration test in postman Tooling used: python 3.8, pytest, postman, OpenApi, github, AWS Step Functions, Lambda, SAM, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, API Gateway Helped the challenger bank launch a new credit card product - Created backend python APIs used to drive the credit card journeys - Serverless microservices in python3 using SAM, Lambda and API Gateway - Unit tests in pytest, integration test in postman Tooling used: python 3.8, pytest, postman, OpenApi, github, AWS Step Functions, Lambda, SAM, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, API Gateway

DevOps Engineer(contract)

• Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

Worked for a healthcare client on a patient registration system, sitting in Django 2 - Backend API development for a new clinical mobile application in python 3.7 - Serverless microservices in python3, c# and nodeJS - Integration test using postman + Django REST framework Tooling used: python 3.7, Django, docker compose, Azure DevOps, bitbucket, ARM, Azure App Service, swagger, postman, Azure Database(postgres), Azure Funtions, nodejs, c# Worked for a healthcare client on a patient registration system, sitting in Django 2 - Backend API development for a new clinical mobile application in python 3.7 - Serverless microservices in python3, c# and nodeJS - Integration test using postman + Django REST framework Tooling used: python 3.7, Django, docker compose, Azure DevOps, bitbucket, ARM, Azure App Service, swagger, postman, Azure Database(postgres), Azure Funtions, nodejs, c#

DevOps Engineer(contract)

• Dec 2018 - Mar 2020

- Greenfield build of data warehouse in AWS - Image bakery in AWS + core DevOps infrastructure - Migrating Java and Node applications to AWS ECS Tooling used: AWS CDK(Typescript), Redshift, Glue, python, ansible, Docker, ECS, Fargate, Jenkins, Cloudformation, AWS SAM, DMS - Greenfield build of data warehouse in AWS - Image bakery in AWS + core DevOps infrastructure - Migrating Java and Node applications to AWS ECS Tooling used: AWS CDK(Typescript), Redshift, Glue, python, ansible, Docker, ECS, Fargate, Jenkins, Cloudformation, AWS SAM, DMS

Devops Consultant(contract)

• Apr 2018 - Oct 2018

- Acting as a Senior AWS Consultant/SME in the DevOpsGuys team - Creating tooling(troposphere, Cloudformation, sceptre, Ansible) to enable high velocity migrations - Fixing existing Teamcity and Octopus Deploy pipelines to work with new stacks - Changing production .Net code and writing unit tests, shipping production code for API consumed at 300+ queries/second -Helping Skyscanner close data centres by migrating services to AWS, using AWS SMS and Cloudendure - Acting as a Senior AWS Consultant/SME in the DevOpsGuys team - Creating tooling(troposphere, Cloudformation, sceptre, Ansible) to enable high velocity migrations - Fixing existing Teamcity and Octopus Deploy pipelines to work with new stacks - Changing production .Net code and writing unit tests, shipping production code for API consumed at 300+ queries/second -Helping Skyscanner close data centres by migrating services to AWS, using AWS SMS and Cloudendure

Lead Cloud Engineer(contract)

• Oct 2017 - Apr 2018

Building core AWS capabilities, cloud governance and compliance.

Devops Engineer(contract)

• May 2017 - Oct 2017

Moving old fashioned applications to the cloud, creating tools and using Ansible to build.

Cloud Architect

• Oct 2016 - May 2017

- Consulting for leading brands and enterprises: Three.co.uk, TfL, Prudential, HMRC and more- Technical and thought leadership, infrastructure architecture and design- Mentoring, deep technical knowledge of all Cloud things

Cloud Systems Engineer

• Oct 2014 - Oct 2016

- Greenfield deployments of AWS and Azure infrastructures- Devops consultancy- Custom system integration work with orchestration frameworks- Selected projects: -- Datacentre migration for Delaware North, AWS -- All service cloud enablement for BP, AWS -- Full stack e-commerce application for River Island, AWS -- CI/CD pipeline for Microservices stack for PhilipMorris International, AWS and Azure -- Digital sites migration for PenguinRandomHouse, AWS -- DR implementation for Moonpig.com, Azure Show less

Systems Manager

• Jun 2013 - Oct 2014

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

• Dec 2010 - Jun 2013

Creating tools and intelligent, multi-threaded systems aiding automation, management and deployment of 1000+ VMs-strong private cloud and Skyscanner's native application. Sysadmin of VMware estate, Network and Application stack. Fun with firewalls, switches, multihomed layer 7 loadbalancers, loads of Powershell and crazy scripting as well as working late on Friday nights and swearing in many languages. Creating tools and intelligent, multi-threaded systems aiding automation, management and deployment of 1000+ VMs-strong private cloud and Skyscanner's native application. Sysadmin of VMware estate, Network and Application stack. Fun with firewalls, switches, multihomed layer 7 loadbalancers, loads of Powershell and crazy scripting as well as working late on Friday nights and swearing in many languages.

Technical Specialist

• Sep 2010 - Nov 2010

Designed and built a complex Production, Demo, Support and Testing virtual environments on VMWare vSphere 4.1 with a layered, segmented virtual network. Responsible for mentoring and technical coaching of 1st/2nd line engineers and participating in Beta and pre-release product testing. Designed and built a complex Production, Demo, Support and Testing virtual environments on VMWare vSphere 4.1 with a layered, segmented virtual network. Responsible for mentoring and technical coaching of 1st/2nd line engineers and participating in Beta and pre-release product testing.

MS Exchange Operations Lead

• Jun 2010 - Sep 2010

Global responsibility for messaging solution.Managing, administering and overseeing critical Exchange deployments located in datacentres in UK and Canada.Strategic planning, licensing and capacity management.Ownership of all 3rd line incidents across all regions. Ownership of all messaging related changes.

Senior IT Service Delivery Analyst

• Jan 2009 - May 2010

Monitoring and supporting essential Data Centre operations, systems, services and databases.Building and maintaining test environment built on VMWare ESXi 3.5.Maintenance and administration of MS SQL 2005 Databases.Active Directory, designing and deploying Group Policy Objects

IT Service Delivery Analyst

• Nov 2007 - Jan 2009

1st/2nd/3rd line support and Sysadmin of 30+ remote sites spread throughout UK& Europe.Application Support for in-house developed software,Sage CRM, Navision and variety of SQL Server implementations.Windows XP desktop and Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 server support.Troubleshooting desktop, application, routing, networking and DNS issues.Software and hardware builds.Setting up Cisco and HP switches and many flavours of Sonicwalls.

1st Line Support Engineer

• May 2007 - Oct 2007

1st Line Support for NHS Scotland contract. 1st Line Support for NHS Scotland contract.