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Head of IT Infrastructure and Operations with extensive experience across on-premise and cloud platforms plus networks, end-user devices, people leadership and project management.Key recent achievements include: Migrated all servers and services from datacentre to Azure using Terraform and DSC giving a fully automated build and configuration process across Development, UAT and Production with zero downtime of business critical systems.Built a cross-skilled platform team with a DevOps/SRE mindset incorporating infrastructure, data and software development to provide core services to the wider IT teams to allow them to focus on business requirements and ensure a consistent approach to implementation of technologies.Coached and developed the platform team senior engineer to the point where he could lead the team and independently make good technology and prioritisation decisions for both other IT teams and the business overall.Defined and managed a £2m technology budget including related procurement, contract negotiations and full review of licensing to ensure appropriate use and value for money.Implemented Autopilot and Intune for 200 devices as part of migrating from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory to improve security, compliance and user experience.Rebuilt Remote Desktop systems into Azure Virtual Desktop with FSLogix.Wrote and implemented various policies and procedures for ISO 27001 accreditation including access reviews, system ownership, asset management, backup testing and system resilience.Managed the team that built our new Google Cloud based Kubernetes stack incorporating Istio, Datadog monitoring and Mongo Atlas database.Improved incident management to fully incorporate post-mortems and prioritisation of post-incident problem management.Rolled out SSO across multiple third party systems using Azure AD as authentication.In addition, I have particular interest in managing IT budgets to provide detailed forecasts and actuals in close collaboration with Finance teams.Considerable experience in retail financial services.

Listed skills include Sdlc, Project Delivery, Solution Architecture, Agile Methodologies, and 15 others.

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  University Of Staffordshire

  Computer Science