- Technical Lead for internal HR services hosting UK's largest private pension scheme- Develops & supports automation workflows using VMWare vRealize Orchestrator- Utilises agile technologies including TeamCity CI/CD, Ansible & Puppet to deliver multi-environment solutions using version controlled code- Proficient in ksh, bash, awk & sed- Identifies areas for improvement, exemplified mainly by creating and re-developing automated deployment tool artefacts & support scripts- Inspired by new technologies including automation, containers & workload management, secret management and CI/CD- Designed, planned and implemented entire rebuild of AIX suite on cross-site enterprise infrastructure- Performs on-call duties and out-of-hours work

- Seven years experience supporting over thirty Blue Chip companies in an outsourcing environment, gaining extensive skills and knowledge of many flavours of UNIX, the hardware it operates on, database & application support and customer relations- Supported AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, IRIX and Dec-Alpha, Oracle, RMAN, HACMP, COS, SSA Storage, Networking, NFS, NIM & NIS- Provided out of hours support and on-call work for over eighty 24x7 UNIX servers- Composed a suite of scripts to fully configure and automate online Oracle RMAN backups using TDP to a TSM server, Disaster Recovery utility tools and general performance statistic scripts- Planned and performed six successful Disaster Recovery tests which require full system rebuilds and data-restorations to a customer-specified point in time- Dependable and recognised individual, whose skills have been sought after- Involved with full HACMP solutions, including building, fully documenting, briefing and handing over to support staff- Good customer relations identifies the importance of the role with the customer and the service he provided