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West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Designed, implemented and manage CI/CD pipelines.Automate infrastructure deployment and management using tools like Terraform, Ansible.Monitor and ensure the health and performance of applications and infrastructure.Implemented security best practices in cloud environments (AWS, Azure), including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and network security.Collaborate with development teams to ensure that systems are secure, scalable, and efficient.Extensive use of AWS EC2, VPC, S3 bucket, Security group load balancer & CloudWatch.Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to deployment and infrastructure.Conduct security assessments and vulnerability scans with SonarQubeWorked on Jenkins installation, configuring and maintaining for the purpose of continuous integration (CI) and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.Installed and Managed Jenkins and AWS Code Deploy, Code pipe line for CI and Sharing Artifacts respectively within the company.Hands on experience in delivering container based deployments using Docker-Compose in AWS services. Working knowledge of resources creation in AWS like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, Cloud Formation, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, Lambda, Dynamo DB though UI and through Terraform.Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment.Extensive experience in setting up the Kubernetes for the docker to handle cluster based containers.Implemented testing environments for kubernetes and administrated the kubernetes clusters.Deployed and orchestrated the applications with Kubernetes.Integrated Kubernetes with network, storage, and security to provide comprehensive infrastructure and orchestrated container across multiple host.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Managing infrastructure using code and automation rather than manual processes.Implementing and maintaining CI practices to ensure code is integrated into a shared repository several times a day.Automating the deployment process to make sure that code changes are safely and quickly delivered to production.Implement and manage containerization technologies using Docker Ensure infrastructure scalability and availability.Design and maintain the infrastructure that supports application deployment, including servers, storage, and networks.Works with the team to implement DevOps strategies and roadmaps in line with business goals.Integrated Kubernetes with network, storage, and security to provide comprehensive infrastructure and orchestrated container across multiple host.Extensive use of Docker containers, Docker Compose, Kubernetes and TerraformUtilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, tests deploy.Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security to AWS account and its resources.Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests.Created snapshots to take backups of the volumes and also images to store launch configurations of the EC2 instances.Extensive use of AWS, RDS, Vault, GitLab, ELK.Configured and deployed applications through Ansible and CI/CD pipelines, blue/green and canary dropsExtensive use of CI/CD Jenkins pipeline for code deployment onto various environments Involved in Build and Release management and spun up VM's using Vagrant

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Managing infrastructure using code and automation rather than manual processes.Extensive use of AWS EC2, VPC, S3 bucket, CloudWatch & RDSExtensively involved in various infrastructure set ups like SIT, UAT & Prod.Develop and maintain IaC using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible, ensuring that infrastructure is version-controlled and replicable.Good knowledge of monitoring tools and practices, including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK Stack.Managing permissions, roles, and security policies to control access to database resources.

London

Designed, implemented and manage CI/CD pipelines.Used monitoring, logging, solutions through CloudWatch.Worked with platforms like AWS, Azure to set up servers, databases, and other services.Implementing and managing monitoring tools to track system performance and uptime, and setting up logging mechanisms for tracking and debugging issues.Managing and versioning configuration files, scripts, and infrastructure as code (IaC).Automating repetitive tasks, such as deployment, scaling, and backups, using scripting languages like Python, Bash.Understand and applied basic security principles to protect infrastructure and data.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

SQL Server DBASetting up and configuring Azure SQL databases, including scaling, managing resources, and selecting appropriate performance tiers.Implementing strategies for backup, disaster recovery, and high availability using Azure's built-in features like Geo-Replication, Azure SQL Database Auto-Failover Groups, and more.Managing permissions, roles, and security policies to control access to database resources.Mirgated On-premises server to cloud using Azure virtual machines and managed instance Installation configuration and management of SQL SERVER 2005 to 2019 Software upgrades applying patches configuration and maintenance,Extensive experience in MS-SQL server DBA activities like working with backups/ restoration, type of backups, log files, working with profilers, reporting services, Log shipping, Disaster Recovery, Replication Installing/upgrading/configuring, Monitoring and troubleshooting SQL agent Jobs.Good Understanding of Microsoft Azure, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS.Experience on working change requests and follow ITIL standards.Experience in Azure SQL Database MigrationsHands on in Azure HA-DR Activities in Azure SQL Database including Geo Replication and Server FailoverMigrated On-premises server to cloud using Azure virtual machines and managed instanceHands on experience of working within the public cloud such as AWS and Azure and DBaaS technologies.

Worcester, United Kingdom

Currently working as a DBA in Sanctuary Housing, working on a consolidation project and involve in BAU activities.  Worked as a SQL DBA administrator on various versions of MS SQL Server ranging from SQL 2008 to SQL server 2016 & 2017. Supported various applications within Sanctuary Hosuing .  Worked on consolidation project to consolidated number stand alone and clustered server to consolidate in a large cluster. Worked on capacity planning and impacting. Closely worked with share point team. Configured Always On High Availibility for oltp database and share point databases. Managed high availability and scalability of databases by using Database Mirroring, AOAG. Dealt with performance issues through SQL native tools like DMV, Profiler, Perfmon etc. Expertise in handling production database support and maintenance on large set of databases and kept databases and server for optimal performance.  Handled ad-hoc request with in the IT department in a timely fashion. Created SSIS packages for Dev and pre prod refresh routine from production.  Assigned permissions and maintain security in reporting services.  Have some exposure on power Bi, like designing and publishing Power Bi report etc. Excellent Team player with good communication

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Working as a DBA for HPE now DXC supporting MOD Applications.

Telford, United Kingdom

Worked as a DBA for HMRC through Capgemini, the role involved BAU and Migration projects. Successfully delivered couple of migration projects...The roles and responsibilities were as follows ...Worked as a SQL DBA administrator on various versions of MS SQL Server ranging from SQL 2000 to SQL server 2014.Supported various applications within HMRC. Migrated SQL Farms to virtual cloud environment.Moved multiple instances from a single physical machine to multiple VM.Followed various considerations while migrating from datacenter to datacenter like consolidation strategy, H/W requirement, High availability requirements, server edition selections etc.Worked on capacity planning and impacting.Worked with share point 2007 databases migration too.Converted 2 node clusters to standalone machine.Migrated live databases moved logins and configured reporting services.Configured database mirroring from SQL 2008 enterprise edition to SQL 2012 Standard edition.Implemented & managed high availability and scalability of databases by using Log shipping and Database Mirroring Worked on always on high availability.Dealt with performance issues through AppDynamics and SQL native tools like DMV, Profiler, Perfmon etc.House Keeping activities of Archive logs and Trace files, user management and security of the databases. Expertise in handling production database support and maintenance on large set of databases and kept databases and server for optimal performance. Worked with the third party venders in couple of projects.involved in SAN upgrade work on a 2 node cluster in collaboration with various team and applications.Handled ad-hoc request with in the IT department in a timely fasion.Created SSIS package using table variables to get the disk info across the server Assigned permissions and maintain security in reporting services. Handled multiple migration projects simultaneously in agile environment to achieve deadlines.

United Kingdom

Responsible for the design, installation, development, maintenance, migration, security and recovery of all database servers for 8 NHS trusts and hospitals.Migration, service pack up gradation, high availability solutions, DR recovery.

Stockport, United Kingdom

Responsible for the design, installation, development, maintenance, migration, security and recovery of all databases servers, strong knowledge in SSIS and SSRS.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Database Administration of MS SQL Server 2005/2008 & R2. Disaster prevention and recovery, Backup options, Strategies, restoring databases. Full, Differential and Log backups. Point in time restores. Handled performance issues through SQL native tools and by using spotlight. Created Database Maintenance Plans for various types of tasks. Resolved issues related to replication and DB mirroring. Involve in database deployment. Keeping databases and server for optimal performance. Interacted with client in various queries and requests. Resolve users queries for any application functionality related DB. Performed data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) between system using SQL SSIS. Used SSIS control/data flow task to Extract, Load data, SSIS transaction to maintain data integrity, run SQL Agent jobs, link child/parent SSIS package, Send Mail, Database maintains task and etc. Designed and deployed various types of report like drill down, drill through, drop down and linked reports in SSRS. Assigned permissions and maintain security in reporting services. Managed the security and permission of the reports

United Kingdom

Responsible for the design, installation, development, maintenance, migration, security and recovery of all databases servers, strong knowledge in BI stack.Good exposure in Oracle 10g &11g servers.