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Canterbury, Gb

Senior Cloud Engineer tasked with leading the transformation for cloud uplift and modernization. I was responsible for designing, securing, building, and deploying a wide range of Azure resources and services, including Azure Firewalls, Azure container environments, and Privileged Identity Management. Terraform was utilized for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Azure DevOps was employed for CI/CD pipelines.

DevSecOps Lead and Cloud architectLeading the inhouse Devops team in maintaining and improving existing systems whilst also architecting and delivery a new Azure cloud platform system based upon Azure landing zones with Terraform, AKS, microservices, ArgoCD and much more! Very much a leading from the front role whilst growing the teams around me.Responsible for the platform infrastructure and security posture whilst working with the wider security and infrastructure teams.Finops - Cost reduction and optimisation of existing cloud systems, saving £10,000’s per month.

Design, architect and delivery of Azure Landing Zones to provide a first class secure, resilient and scalable platform for running the DCA solutions for the future. A solution that provided the right governance and technologies that allowed DCA to make the best cost effective use of the cloud. At the heart was the use of AKS(k8s) to provide a robust way of hosting and orchestrating services and environments for both new and migrated legacy services.Secure by design with governance at the heart. Key aspects• Architectural lead with hands on delivery at all stages of the project• Use of Microsoft Azure Cloud Application Framework (CAF) • IaC with Terraform (Enterprise Scale and Terraform CAF libraries) • Developed and maintained ADO yaml pipelines• Supported the wider organisation to provide improved solutions or guidance in areas such as SRE/DevOps, InfoSec and Product teams• Provided assistance with identifying security and cost improvements and sometimes helping to implement any changes• Helped provide significant cost reductions with cloud usageTechnologies used ( but not limited to) - App gateway, WAF, Firewalls, VPN, Secure networking, AKS, GitOps, ArgoCD, App services, Functions, CosmosDB, MS SQL, PaaS/IaaS, Bastion, Storage, Active directory, Api management, policies, PIM, Azure DevOps, yaml pipelines and much more!

Azure Cloud Architect and DevOps Lead within the Enterprise Architecture team that worked across the System C & Graphnet alliance ensuring the group delivers secure, efficient and cost effective cloud and application solutions underpinned by good DevOps principles.• Delivered solution POC’s including a significant migration of legacy applications to AKS using both ARM and automation• Design and Architected platform solutions ensuring resiliency, security and cost efficiency as well working with key stake holders to define and implement cloud governance models• Worked at all levels of the organisation from senior management to developers and external agencies• Azure tenant and Enterprise Agreement management• Ran workshops and delivered training around core Cloud principles• Worked with security teams to deliver robust goverance, security, and management systems including the use of Lighthouse, PIM, Defender for Cloud and Sentinel• Migrations of onpremise systems to Azure• ISO 27017• and much more!!

Technical Product owner leading a DevOps/System Team in the drive towards continuous delivery and automation. • Azure cloud administration• Responsible for the technical roadmap of the DevOps/System Team using Agile/Kanban/SAFe• Ensured the smooth running of our internal CICD services could meet the requirements of a number of distributed development teams and release cycles across geographical regions• Design and delivery of a large Azure cloud based desktop estate for geographical distributed development teams• Using lots of cool stuff like, Azure, TeamCity, TFS, Octopus Deploy, Stash/Git• Ensuring monitoring and alerting provided full visibility of the application and platform state (Elasticsearch, App insights, Azure monitor)• Performed proactive/diagnostic activities on customer deployments to help deal with issues• Member of the Emergency Escalation Team that dealt with serious platform/application problems

Development manager leading several teams of Software engineers and QA using Agile mythologies. A total of 23 direct reports delivering mostly backend services as part of a large scale enterprise system. Advocated the use of BDD/TDD and encouraged the teams to self-organise and helped to focus their personal growth as well as providing top class development solutions. All dotnet/Microsoft related technologies ( C#, MSSQL, ASP.net IIS, WCF etc)Also responsible for dev support/maintenance and TFS/CI infrastructure.

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom

Lead a team of developers and QA in the production of hospital systems using Dotnet/C++/MSSQL/MVC/WinForms.Responsible for production technical support and maintenance ensuring first line support have the right resources to address customer technical problems.

Worked on various health care projects delivering software and technical support for customers and the wider organisation.Technologies: C# / C++ / C / Pervasive SQL / MSSQL / IIS / ASP.net

Software Developer working on a leading Accident and Emergency patient and clinical system using DBase

Computer Science

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