Andrew Waite Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

*** Top Five Housing Association in London ***- Role -Lead DevOps on a digital transformation programme, managing DevOps resource and programme commitments.Engaging with the client on best practices, ways of working, DevOps culture and Release Management; introducing an alternative lightweight release and production support process.- Highlights -Implemented Auth0 Identity SaaS platform with automation, for interactive and non-interactive resources. Integration with Azure AD and on-premises AD identities.Full CI/CD implementation from scratch using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS); including product selection and presenting to the client. Introduced development engineering practices across the programme.A wide range of Azure resources with automation, using a combination of ARM and PowerShell provisioning. Core compute using Virtual Network, subnets and a secure Azure multiple node-type Service Fabric Cluster fronted with Application Gateway.Hybrid connectivity to clients on-premises services with Azure AD Application Proxy for non-interactive flows, and single sign-on with Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA).Robust alerting, monitoring and reporting configuration using a combination of Application Insights, Azure resource native alerts, Azure Monitor, OMS and Log Analytics, Logic Apps and CloudMonix SaaS platform.*** Global Online Fashion Retailer ***- Role -DevOps engineer across multiple development teams.- Highlights -Extending the eCommerce microservices APIs to support global fulfillment centers.Migrating the eCommerce solutions from bespoke ALM framework to commercial tools - TeamCity, Octopus Deploy and ProGet.As part of mutliple delivery teams. Replatforming the clients' Bag, Checkout Services and Saved Items from managed datacentres to Azure.The team was responsible for designing, building and delivery a highly available, high throughput and low latency microservices architecture for multiple APIs.

London, United Kingdom

Global Online Fashion Retailer- Recommendation Engine -Working within a clients' agile development team. Delivering a high profile microservices recommendation engine on the Azure platform, to their 10+ million active customers.Extending the bespoke ALM framework to provision and deploy Azure resources. Working with PowerShell, Pester, TFS and ProGet. Collaborating with their central ALM team to promote changes making them available to all engineering teams.Responsible for all provisioning and deployments through the delivery pipeline including production, following Release Management and ITIL processes.

Working in a lead DevOps role as part of an Agile cloud team on the Azure platform. Supporting other DevOps Engineers with advice and guidance across multiple Agile teams.Responsible for:• Cloud environmental boundaries for operational and financial management separation• Automation, release and configuration management• Facilitating and encouraging communication between Operations and Development• Production deployments, analysis and monitoring• Supporting multiple Agile teams with operational and technical knowledge• Management reporting and partner support

Experienced infrastructure and operations engineer.Managing highly available transactional web enabled applications and server farms in-house and in the cloud.