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I am a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for creating and improving solutions in the best way possible, I like to find ways to break the systems that I work with so that I can make sure that it never happens again. I have been working in the IT/Tech industry for almost 10 years, and have valuable experience and expertise in many different areas. I enjoy working in well functioning teams, and always strive for improvements.
As one of the initial DevOps engineers I joined the team at Infogrid at the end of 2020. My role at the company involves (but not limited to): - Continuing to produce state of the art IaC, using Terraform. - Automation of the infrastructure and all of the CI/CD. - Being involved in the design and optimisation of the system and improving scalability. - Implementing a monitoring solution for the system. (Including load/performance testing). - Contributing to security best practices, and always looking for improvements. - Making a difference!
At CGI I was working on the Nerimnet project. Nerimnet is the single national nuclear emergency monitoring solution for the United Kingdom. As part of the 4-person DevOps team, I was involved with using Terraform to stand up the multiple continuously-delivered and continuously-integrated environments within AWS, configuring Jenkins to enable the CI/CD functionality and building Docker images and deploying them onto the various Docker Swarms as per standard in an n-tier application. In addition to this visible work, I was heavily involved in identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities in the solution, both before and after a PenTest was conducted. Due to our proactive involvement, there were no critical findings from the PenTest - a key piece of evidence to allow accreditation of the environments at Official level. I achieved a promotion from Senior DevOps >> Principal DevOps during my time at CGI.
I joined the QA team at the beginning of August 2016 and began training at the academy based in Manchester. I have been trained in Enterprise Architecture, Python, MySQL, DevOps and Big Data. Some of the technologies included Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Microsoft Azure. After completing my training I worked on-site at the Office for National Statistics. I contributed to the design, development and deployment of a number of services, mainly using the Python Flask web framework. I ensured that the 12 Factor Application principals were followed by reviewing code; Wrote unit, integration and feature test code; and worked on a number of different CI/CD pipelines for services using tools such as TravisCI, Concourse and Jenkins and Docker. Whilst on site I was involved in multiple other technologies such as Django, Java, Postgres, AWS (EC2, ECS), Splunk, RabbitMQ and CloudFoundry, all while working in an agile environment.
Whilst working in a school as an assistant network manager I have gained many different skills both personal and technical which include maintenance of hardware and software throughout the school and keeping a good relationship with external parties that the school are required to work with and provide support. Product ordering was part of my responsibilities and by cutting costs, I was able to save money for the school for other purposes.