• Integrating within a clients team to plan and create a cloud platform, be it a landing zone or continued improvement to an existing platform and its components. Implementing this through use of Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management technologies and creating solutions for challenges were none existed.• Evaluating the requirements of a client to ensure that the work being refined and prioritised delivers the expected outcome the client requires.• Utilising agile methodologies of either Kanban or Scrum to facilitate structuring the work as part of a projects requirements. Enabling teams to make changes faster, evaluate upon a previous iteration to recognise were improvements can be made, and most importantly incorporating clients and their requests throughout the development decisions and process.• Championing best practices throughout the software development life-cycle to ensure that a well architected platform is built. • Contributing to internal and client facing technical knowledge sharing forums and events, focusing on the cultural aspect of the DevOps movement.

• Integrating within a clients team to plan and create a cloud platform, be it a landing zone or continued improvement to an existing platform and its components. Implementing this through use of Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management technologies and creating solutions for challenges were none existed.• Evaluating the requirements of a client to ensure that the work being refined and prioritised delivers the expected outcome the client requires.• Utilising agile methodologies of either Kanban or Scrum to facilitate structuring the work as part of a projects requirements. Enabling teams to make changes faster, evaluate upon a previous iteration to recognise were improvements can be made, and most importantly incorporating clients and their requests throughout the development decisions and process.• Championing best practices throughout the software development life-cycle to ensure that a well architected platform is built. • Contributing to internal and client facing technical knowledge sharing forums and events, focusing on the cultural aspect of the DevOps movement.

As the sole member of the DevOps team I tend to wear many hats ranging from network administrator, internal IT support, all lines of support for an offline device serving core services and finally DevOps where my key responsibilities are:- Building and extending the evolving continuous delivery platform using free open source software with the goal of moving towards faster and safer releases, while ensuring best operational practices are adhered to.- Provisioning and maintaining development environments for all stages in the development life cycle with the goal of reducing fragmentation in technologies and procedures found within previously created environments and providing declarative, self-healing environments.- Fulfilling an operational point of contact for development, operations and testing.- Working as part of an agile team taking on a key role in the agile ceremonies.- Providing documentation for disaster recovery procedures and escalation levels and expected actions.- Liaising with contractors to acquire the peripherals and hardware for conferences and exhibitions.- Liaising with partners in America and the UK to help configure Shibboleth SP, a single sign on secure service. Main Technical Skills:- Languages: Bash, Python, HTML, CSS- Development Frameworks: Django- Databases/Caching/Storage: MySQL, S3, AWS RDS, NoSQL (Mongo), Redis, Memcached- Continuous Deployment/Integration: Shell, Ansible, Fabric, Jenkins, Docker, Docker Hub, Git, Kubernetes- Testing: ServerSpec, Apache Benchmark, Locust- Project Management: JIRA, Redmine, Github- Operating Systems: CentOS 6 & 7, Ubuntu, Windows, Mac OS X- Virtualisation Technologies: VirtualBox, Vagrant, Docker- Disk Imaging Technologies: Clonezilla

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