Experience

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  Claremont - Oracle Managed Services

  • WFH

  • Infrastructure Delivery Consultant

    • Jul 2021 - Present
    • WFH

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  Shell Energy UK

  • Coventry, England, United Kingdom

  • Linux Engineer

    • Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
    • Coventry, England, United Kingdom

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  Available now (Perm/Contract)

  • West Midlands/Birmingham Area

  • Looking for work

    • Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
    • West Midlands/Birmingham Area

    Experienced Linux/AIX/Unix Specialist looking to evolve into DevOps/SecDevOps roles. 25 years IT experience, fast learner.

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  IBM

  • SENIOR LINUX & AIX TECHNICAL SPECIALIST, working on the Lloyds Banking Group contract for IBM UK Ltd

    • Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

    Working as a Senior UNIX Technical Specialist, working on the IBM Hybrid Cloud (Linux) estate and the LBG legacy AIX estate. Creating and utilising workflows in BigFix, manipulating and utilising HPSA to upgrade AIX servers to remediate vulnerabilities and keep the estates up to date. Firmware upgrades (BIOS/ILO/SmartArray Cards) to reduce security vulnerabilities.My role also incorporates training of colleagues in automation and cloud.

  • LINUX Team Lead for IBM Hybrid Cloud, working on the Lloyds Banking Group contract for IBM UK Ltd.

    • Sep 2018 - Aug 2019

    1 year as Team Lead (IBM Hybrid Cloud Linux – Future Operating Model) this was a hands-on role creating and utilising workflows in BigFix, keeping the Hybrid Cloud estate current and remediating vulnerabilities.Created scripts and workflows for BigFix, to enable the Team to keep the Hybrid Cloud estate current, remediating vulnerabilities on a monthly basis.Managed the monthly rollout to over 4000 Linux instances, training up my Team to take over the work.Established the monthly procedure for patching the Hybrid Cloud Estate. Created the Analyses on BigFix to test the rollout in-flight, to ensure real-time compliance and completion verification.Tested and refined these processes over a number of months.

  • SENIOR AIX TECHNICAL SPECIALIST, working on the Lloyds Banking Group contract for IBM UK Ltd.

    • Sep 2017 - Sep 2018

    Senior UNIX Technical Specialist, working on the LBG legacy AIX estate. Creating and utilising automation workflows in HPSA, to upgrade AIX servers to remediate vulnerabilities and keep the estates up to date.

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  • United Kingdom
  • Financial Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • TUPE'd to IBM

    • Sep 2017 - Jul 2020

    TUPE'd to IBM

  • Senior AIX Technical Specialist

    • Feb 2017 - Sep 2017

    As a senior member of the UNIX Maintenance Team, my role is to plan and implement remediation of Security/Network vulnerabilities on the AIX estate. Utilising Automation technologies (HPSA, Scripting) to help upgrade large scale AIX/PowerHA (HACMP)/VIO/HMC upgrades across the LBG estate, comprising of over 3500 AIX instances running AIX 7.1, 6.1 & 5.3. Red Hat Linux and Solaris work remediating security vulnerabilities on servers.

  • Solaris Currency Lead

    • Oct 2011 - Feb 2017

    Team Lead for the Solaris Maintenance Team, my role was to plan upgrades, manage team workloads and escalations. Our primary focus was to remediate security vulnerabilities. Working with Solaris 11, 10, 9 & 8, ldoms, zones and VCS clustering.

  • UNIX Technical Specialist

    • Oct 2004 - Oct 2011

    Support and maintenance of the entire AIX, Linux and Solaris estates. 24/7 On-Call support. Root Cause Analysis, troubleshooting and performance management. On-site and Off-site DR testing.

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  BMW HAMS HALL MOTOREN GMBH

  • West Midlands

  • Unix Engineer

    • Feb 2002 - Oct 2004
    • West Midlands

    24/7 On-call support for BMW Hams Hall. Support for AIX, Solaris and Linux systems. HACMP, Tivoli, MQ, Connect Direct. Support of Oracle and SAP Basis. Backup & Recovery Manager and Disaster Recovery operations.

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  LogicaCMG Limited

  • Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom

  • IT Support Specialist

    • Feb 2000 - Dec 2001
    • Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Working for a Telecoms Software House. Support and maintenance of AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Compaq Tru64 and SCO servers. NT server and NT desktop support, MS Exchange server. 2nd line Global support for over 30 servers and the bespoke Customer Care Billing Software (eppix). Internal and External support for Informix and some Oracle exposure.