Dean S. Email & Phone Number

An Experienced Senior Linux Operations / DevOps Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in sectors such as live entertainment, market research and Human Resources SaaS to name a few. Skilled in Linux, Automation and Cloud Technologies (AWS Certified Solutions Architect | Terraform Certified | Certified Kubernetes Application Developer ). Strong information technology professional with an Engineer's Degree (BEng Hons) focused in Chemical Engineering from University of Bradford.He has extensive experience of more than 10 years in designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS; exposure in AWS deployment and management services; ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application.Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform; understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud; knowledge of the AWS global infrastructure; understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWSSound understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services; proven experience assessing clients workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap. As has been seen with multiple large scale migrations at previous companies and building out global hybrid solutions.In his spare time Dean likes to get hands-on with various IoT projects and has built several test environments utilising over 30 single-board computers (such as Raspberry pi’s and SoPine cluster boards). These are used for testing various Kubernetes installations including k3s and rancher, gitlab, chef and ansible. Dean is also a member of the AWS Customer council which gives him early access to AWS services prior to public release and is able to offer feedback directly to AWS regarding these.Dean has designed and implemented scalable, solutions that utilise microservices architectures for multi-tenant global ticketing systems thats called up to support millions of transactional users along with hybrid-cloud solutions utilising multiple geolocated datacenter housing thousands of physical servers, thousands of virtual machines running on CloudStack, and AWS Public Cloud.Key Skills: IaC, CI/CD, Docker, DevOps, Linux, Kubernetes, HCI, Python, IoT

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  University Of Bradford

  Chemical Engineering