About

Here is a little background

Experienced Cloud DevOps engineer with a genuine passion for technology. Happiest when using DevOps tools and processes to help organisations realise the benefits of automation and process improvements. Firm believer that anything and everything can be automated. The tech space is rapidly transforming and I am continuously horizon scanning for new cloud-based technologies. This will benefit my technical skills alongside any Cloud related projects I am working on.

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Capital On Tap

Apr 2021 - May 2023

Maintaining and deploying cloud services to Azure using CI/CD. Using Terraform as Infrastructure as code. Using technologies such as Azure DevOps, Team City and Octopus Deploy. Azure DevOps for repos, pull requests and YAML pipelines for deployments. Team City for creating artifacts and deploying these via Octopus for CD. Deploying to Development, Pre-live and finally Production/Production DR to UK/US/ES

Some Projects: Migrating from Azure Application Gateways to NGINX Plus instances: This involved creating Terraform Modules for NGINX VMs, bash scripts to bootstrap the VMs and to install relevant software such as NGINX, DataDog, ACME, configure default NGINX config. This also involved deploying new VNETS, peering, VPN connections etc. Migrating from SQL VM to SQL MI: This involved work around Kerberos Authentication to SQL MI (Large investigation work and troubleshooting). Creating Terraform modules which creates SQL MI and the relevant pre-requirements such as VNETS/Subnets, NGS’s, UDR’s etc.

Infrastructure Engineer

CGI (Defence Project)

November 2019 - Apr 2021

Working on DMICP (Defence Medical Information Capability Programme). Managing and sustaining the infrastructure where the MOD (Ministry of Defence) can access medical and dental health records, a system accessible from any military location, anywhere including operational theatres and at sea.

Working in an agile environment enables me to learn on the go and pick up different skills in order to complete tasks. Ensuring that tasks/bugs get completed within the time frame so they can be tested and pushed to the live environment. Completing numerous tasks that have different priorities, therefore it is essential to organise my time effectively and efficiently so that deadlines are met. This enables me to focus and get the job done. Tasks can vary from as simple as applying a security fix via a GPO to more of a lengthy task such as upgrading domain controllers.

Linux/Windows Sys Admin

Memset

Sept 2018 - Oct 2019

Working with cloud products – Maintaining customer servers:

Day to day activities include monitoring alerts with the use of Nagios, any servers that are down, disks that are failing. Responding to emergency calls and tickets from customers. Reviewing policies ensuring that they are up to date and they are followed. Responding to customers via ticketing system ensuring SLA’s are being met. Setting up dedicated customer servers upon request and internal host servers for our infrastructure, Debian and Centos servers. Analysing log files trying to troubleshoot customer issues.