Benjamin Priestman Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

London, GB

As a technical lead, I focus on different things, as priorities shift. Areas I spread my energies between include:* guiding and supporting engineers to deepen and/or broaden their technical abilities;* leading a team of engineers to deliver specific goals;* roadmapping changes to systems architecture required by strategic plans;* representing the systems.

London, Greater London, GB

Working as part of a consultancy focussed on using AWS, I spent time on a number of internal projects and engagements with clients.Experiences and responsibilities included:* managing the accounts of a roster of retained clients;* conducting AWS Well-Architected reviews;* planning and overseeing remediation projects funded by such reviews;* helping to.

London, GB

Working with other web operations engineers and with development teams, I designed and managed the infrastructural components of a stable of magazine websites and their associated services.Particular projects included:* working as part of a cross-functional agile development team to help build a new publishing platform for the company using cloud.

London, GB

Specialising in Linux-based platforms, I provided operational support and management of web-based applications, in both internal and external hosting environments. Particular projects included:* migrating legacy server-bound systems to newer hosting infrastructures and management frameworks, enabling horizontal scaling;* introducing Puppet-based.

Systems Administrator for a small web agency in the 'Silicon Roundabout'. Responsible for developing and maintaining internal infrastructure, build systems, development environments and production hosting systems.Particular projects included:* migrating SVN servers;* building Xen-based hypervisor systems;* developing capistrano-based deployment techniques.

London, UK, GB

Experiences and responsibilities in this role included:* desktop imaging and deployment;* reconfiguring switch clusters;* overseeing new office provisioning (network infrastructure, IP telephones, printer, client machines, etc);* AD migrations.

London, England, GB

Experiences and responsibilities in this role included:* providing direct support to general users and to lecturers setting up laptops in the morning;* managing a fleet of laptops with GPO-enforced application settings;* Windows Domain Controller deployments;* integrating Mac clients with the overall Windows infrastructure.

London, London, GB

Experiences and responsibilities in this role included:* taking helpdesk calls;* Mac support;* developing and implementing a cross-departmental Starters & Leavers initiative;* managing the rolling replacement of PC stock.

Bsc, Physics And Philosophy

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