Alex Hooper Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Leading a team of four infrastructure engineers, I am accountable for the continuous and performant operation of BMJ’s in-house developed products in production, and for the pipeline from development through to production. Championing the transformation to DevOps/SRE culture, and an engineering approach to Operations, I have been instrumental in achieving significant reductions in infrastructure provisioning times and maintenance overhead by implementing automation across every aspect of our estate.Key responsibilities:* the architectural design, deployment and maintenance of the company’s operational ecosystems, which currently comprise over 300 compute nodes across several datacentres and deliver all BMJ’s online applications.* co-ordinating the day-to-day running and technical support of the company’s products in their production and other environments - proactively monitoring the digital estate to ensure it remains performant, secure and delivers to customers 24x7x365* leading the Operations team in providing the above* working with the Head of Product Architecture and others in Technology to plan and develop a delivery architecture that aligns with the Group’s technical strategy* supporting the Service Delivery Manager in ensuring that BMJ as an organisation remains secure and performant in its operations at all times

London, United Kingdom

Leading the Operations team. Key responsibilities:* operational integrity of production, staging, and other infrastructure responsible for service delivery* developing strategy for web-based delivery architecture and managing its implementation* monitoring and alerting solutions for these ecosystems* capacity management* release management* refining and managing the support function

Managed day-to-day running of production, staging, and dev environments for a set of java-based webapps. Designed and implemented various systems to handle routine tasks from code deployment to data migrations. Supported a team of around a dozen developers.

5eye was a small company which hosted and developed web-based applications for several high-profile clients.* development of ecommerce solution (as Java plugin for ColdFusion application server) for high profile web site with throughput in the £100,000s per year)* responsible for continual availability of hosted websites* with a co-director, responsible for the design and administration of the hosting infrastructure, including system administration, monitoring and alerting, database administration,

* oversee day-to-day running of development and production servers* install and administer Oracle* extensive Perl development for website backends

Education record

Demonstrated my dwindling enthusiasm for badly tested rote learning by getting only one 'A' level and starting a (unlucrative) career.

Education record

Grabbed a bundle of 'O' levels before my interest in academia waned.