Andy Ball Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Working as part of DevOps / Engineering team to deliver and support Azure Enterprise Scale / Landing Zone Infrastructure.Tooling: Terraform (IAC) / Github Enterprise / Actions / Powershell / Azure DevOps / Hiera / Confluence / Grafana* Engineer / Code (Terraform) Azure based modules / create GitHub Action workflow for deployment.* Create / Maintain Azure.

My House

Working as part of DevOps / Engineering team to deliver Azure Enterprise Scale / Landing Zone Infrastructure.Tooling: Terraform (IAC) / Terraform Enterprise (state) / TeamCity (CI/CD) / Bitbucket (git repos) / PowerShell (some basic Bash)/ JIRA (Agile) / Confluence* Architect / Engineer / Code (Terraform) Private Endpoint / DNS Zones / IP Groups modules.*.

My House

Short term, Statement of Work based FinOps engagement for Fortune 500 Human Resources provider with large Azure estate.* Architect / design mini business cases for automation solutions to enable consistent Azure cost savings going forward. Develop protypes using Powershell / Terraform and demonstrate to end customer. e.g Standardised budgets / alerting at.

London, United Kingdom

Short term paternity leave cover contract* Work with Infosec team to implement Cloud Security using Security Center / Sentinel. * Work with Dev teams to implement Azure B2C based Project for Customer facing web site.* Convert existing ARM template for above deployment to use Terraform.* Audit existing Azure environment and implement improvements (enabling.

Europe

Part time Azure work for Sp-index.com: - Evaluate / compose ARM template / migrate existing Infra to Azure Front Door solution. - Migrate existing Azure Monitor Alerts. - Attend Security meetings for potential clients- Travelling Europe by bike and train.- Increased FTP (Functional Threshold Power) from 255 to 280.- Complete Exploring sport coaching and.

London

Mixture of Azure Architecture, Engineering and a little bit of support:* Design / Implement Automated Azure VM Build using Powershell Module / ARM Templates - Deploy via Azure Devops* Implement Chef Extenson for above to hook into existing Config Management / Deployment Infrastructure. Implement API calls to dependent systems - i.e. call Team City jobs to.

Various

working in Project team Architecting new /Migrating existing services from On-Prem to Azure IaaS / PaaS/SaaS equivalents.* Member of Architectural Review Board - validating / challenging Architecture designs internally and Partners / Vendors. Suggest improvements - use of Windows Auth to SQL Server, use of Public Peering for secure access to Azure PaaS.

US And Europe

Sprint 1 (US) Seattle, Vancouver, Whistler, Vancouver Island, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle Sprint 2 (Europe) Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Salzburg, Kitzbuhel, Munich

United Kingdom

Technical customer facing role,accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience on the Microsoft Azure Platform. Work with customers at any level of the organisation to ensure success in their Azure journey. For example in the morning I may be presenting/talking to a CxO about the business benefits of Azure and its USP. Then in the.

London

Part of team of 2 providing SQL Server Engineering Services within Investment Banking Division with approx 3000 SQL Server instances, mainly hosted on VMWare and MS Clusters.Self fund attendance at Microsoft Ignite Conference, Chicago May 2015. Design, Test, Document Automated Deployment of SQL Server Service Packs / CU's / Security Fixes using Banks.

United Kingdom

Design External Customer Order and Internal Order Processing Portal / Infrastructure based on ASP.Net / SQL Server Evaluate Cloud Platforms - choose Windows Azure based on price and familiarity with tooling Design and build basic customer order web page based on ASP / VB.Net / Azure Cloud Services writing to Windows Azure SQL Server Database using ACS.

London

Initial 6 month contract working in the challenging retail part of the group with approx 600 instances of SQL Server. Renewed for 6 months and now part of merged team in Global Banking and Markets (GBM) with a combined total of approx 3000 instances running on HP Hardware / VMware / EMC SAN / SRDF. Windows / SQL <=2008 R2 and MS Clustering. Seconded to GBM.

Sydney, Australia

DBA in Infrastructure team managing 71 instances of SQL Server 2000/5/8 on HP Hardware / Server 2003/8 across 2 datacentres.Voluntarily perform Operational Risk Assessment / Produce report based on scripted inventory for Management of current production environment. Fix critical issues (I tend to do this for most new DBA roles)Migrate Shared SQL Server to.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney based role, performing traditional SQL Server DBA duties: - Diagnose and resolve performance issues on various mission critical systems using SQLDiag, ReadTrace, SQLNexus- Engineering new SQL Server 2005 based build. - Standardise Dev, Staging, Production environments- Streamline SQL and Windows Operational processes and Alerting- Migrate systems to.

Contract role based in Sydney, Australia. Providing support for Microsoft's Premier customers in all things SQL Server. Mentoring India based colleagues and handling escalation of cases. Visit customers on several ocassions to resolve high priority issues. Offered role on returning to Australia based on previous experience of working in the same team (see.

Project to move large estate of SQL Servers running 6.5, 7.0, 2000 to single consolidate SQL Server 2005 platform. Complete Project Lifecycle from scoping, hardware sizing, deployment and standards and migration (via SSIS and DMO Scripting) of databases.

working in Windows Engineering team in Investment Banking arm of UBS. Act as Production DBA for 7000 Server based MOM 2005 Transaction and Reporting Databases. Develop with custom Reporting Services based reports Engineer Dual Site DR Solution using SQL Server / EMC Clariion / Veritas Storage Foundation (VVM)

Permanet role based in Sydney, Australia. Providing support for Microsoft's Premier customers in all things SQL Server.

SQL Server DBA working on SQL 7.0 and 2000, supporting 50 Servers running Windows NT and 2000Provide support and advice to developers on Data Warehouse for Financial Regulatory Reporting.

Evaluate Sharepoint Portal Server 1.0 for suitability for use as Corporate Intranet platformSet up evaluation based on current site and perform gap anaylsis, including collobaration facilties with Office. Produce detailed report and presentation for Senior IT Management

SQL Server Developer and DBA for company providing facilities and matching services to building trade and suppliersAssist developers with TSQL CodingWrite scripts to stress test Application Design and Implement automated release process from Visual Source Safe to DB using SQLAgent and scripting

Provide 3rd Line Support 90 Branch based SQL 6.5 / Windows NT Servers hosting company Timesheet and Payroll systemDesign and Implement rollout of Exchange 5.5 email to branches.