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 management and operational viewpoint in product-wide decision-making;* presenting open sessions on technical topics;* enabling developers to run their own services by providing tools, documentation, knowledge-sharing fora and direct coaching.

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 build a support and training offering;* supporting my colleagues with regular 121s.

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 infrastructure (Hashicorp Terraform Enterprise, AWS, Fastly);* introducing tools for server configuration management (Puppet), image-building (Packer), cloud configuration management (Terraform) and local production-like testing (Vagrant).;* championing the concept of immutable compute nodes, making patching part of the development process;* playing a part in expanding the initial, single development team into a scaled set of agile feature teams (an agile release train) and was responsible for spreading knowledge and understanding of the infrastructure described by our source code among members of the different teams.

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 provisioning and configuration management processes for web nodes;* creating, primarily LAMP-based, re-usable infrastructure for multi-server application suites;* putting in place policies for the management of third-party hosting environments, with particular emphasis on the networking infrastructure provided by Cicsco ASA Firewalls, F5 LTMs, Alert Logic TMs and Akamai CDN configurations.

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 for automated code deployments triggered by commit messages;* devising roll-your-own configuration management and templating mechanisms for glassfish application servers.

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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