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Hursley, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I was part of the API production service operations, upholding high levels of availability and reliability by deploying monitoring systems and automated notifications.Selected Accomplishments:* Minimised customer downtime by efficiently resolving critical issues under pressure, leading to swift restoration of online services.* Received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for preventing upgrade-related issues by creating a pluggable Python application test framework that ensured systems were consistently prepared, ensuringany subsequent issues were not caused by the upgrade.* Enhanced accessibility to key information and customer-specific logs by developing an internal web portal that consolidated data from multiple sources, including Kubernetes clusters.* Boosted update efficiency, speed, and accuracy by directing the development of Python automation tooling for cloud services and Kubernetes objects

Hursley, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I worked closely with application and infrastructure teams to design and enforce security controls, delivering effective protection and aligning with testing protocols.Selected Accomplishments:* Reduced deployment times and minimised manual intervention by implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Python, and Ansible for virtual machine provisioning on IBM Cloud.* Boosted system reliability and performance through Ansible automation of programme tooling re-deployment onto refreshed platforms, and enabled Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by developing scripts and Jenkins jobs that allowed seamless stack creation using Terraform with a single command.* Facilitated job creation and execution by developing and sustaining Jenkins servers.

Hursley, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I managed a team, including university placement students, responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and surveillance of approximately 1,500 test servers spanning a range of operating systems such as AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, various Linux distributions, different Windows Server versions, and Z systems.Selected Accomplishments:* Improved the speed and reliability of application testing by writing a client-server test framework in Perl that supported multiple platforms, making cross-platform testing more straightforward.