Mark Ross Email & Phone Number

Leicester, Gb

Bezons, France, Fr

Global Chief Architect, leading the global architecture and engineering for the Eviden’s OneCloud AWS portfolio across end to end services including Cloud Advisory, Professional Services, Build and Run.Recognised by AWS as an AWS Ambassador and AWS Community Builder for business and community contribution, won award as #1 Global AWS Ambassador in 2022.Leader of the Eviden AWS Coaching Hub, supporting colleagues in their ambition to upskill / reskill in AWS technologies and land themselves an AWS related role within Atos.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Global Chief Architect, leading the global architecture and engineering for the Atos’ OneCloud AWS portfolio across end to end services including Cloud Advisory, Professional Services, Build and Run.Recognised by AWS as an AWS Ambassador and AWS Community Builder for business and community contribution, won award as #1 Global AWS Ambassador in 2022.Leader of the Atos AWS Coaching Hub, supporting colleagues in their ambition to upskill / reskill in AWS technologies and land themselves an AWS related role within Atos.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Lead Cloud Architect within Atos’ Cloud Enterprise Solutions EMEA Practice. Leader of Atos’ AWS Coaching Hub, supporting colleague in upskilling and working with AWS.Working on the development of Atos’ managed service provider offering for AWS. Working with customers on public cloud adoption (specialising in AWS) application migration, application transformation and digital transformation.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Lead Cloud Architect within Atos’ Business and Platform Solutions.Working with customers on public cloud adoption (specialising in AWS) application migration, application transformation and digital transformation.Technically led the pre-sales engagement and subsequent delivery project for large global customer to upgrade SAP, replace Oracle with HANA and migrate to AWS. Implemented DevOps practices via deployment of Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management, Code Repository and CI/CD tooling. One of the largest SAP on HANA on AWS implementations in EMEA. Reference customer for launch of Atos OneCloud.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Lead Architect within Atos Engineering and Service Offerings Cloud Services department.Responsibility for development of UK&I cloud platforms, and UK&I customer adoption and deployment of global Atos portfolio offerings, across private and public cloud.Currently working on Digital Private Cloud (hyper converged infrastructure based on VMware stack) deployments for a large health sector customer and large media broadcasting customer and Managed Public Cloud AWS deployment for a large media broadcasting customer.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Lead Architect for Atos' Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Atos High Performance Security (AHPS) G-Cloud offerings (http://govstore.service.gov.uk/cloudstore). One of the first Pan Government Accreditor (PGA) accredited PaaS offerings at IL3, offering connectivity from private WANs, Public Services Network (PSN) and the Internet.Lead Architect responsible for developing the PaaS and AHPS services and associated tooling. Developing secure multi-tenanted services across a variety of customers. Technologies spanning compute, networks, storage, boundary protection services, service management tooling, system management and monitoring tooling and SIEM. Wide range of responsibilities including development of capabilities, working with key strategic suppliers, delivery to new and existing customers, pre-sales opportunities, roadmap developments, leading a team of architects.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Senior Infrastructure Architect within the Atos Managed ServicesInfrastructure Consulting and Architecture Practice. Providing architecture in server, desktop, storage, middleware and networking and technical leadership to Atos managed service clients in the UK.Reacently led a multi million pound 3,500 seat Windows XP to Windows 7 desktop transformation as Lead TA across two countries. Technologies including WDS, SCCM 2007, Riverbed WAN acceleration, NetApp filers, Windows Active Directory 2003 to 2008 upgrade, DFS-R, DFS-N, McAfee AV/ePO, Microsoft Lync 2010, BitLocker and BitLocker To Go. Project packaged over 200 applications for Windows 7 including traditional MSI and App-V packages.Previously led a multi-million pound data centre transition and transformation project as the Lead TA. Technologies including vSphere 4, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, HDS AMS and USP-V storage, Netbackup 7, PureDisk, SCOM, SAP, SQL (with VLDBs circa 5TB in size), Siebel and Exchange 2010.

95877 Bezons, Fr

Technical Consultant within the Atos Origin Infrastructure Consulting group, providing consulting in server, storage, middleware and networking.Infrastructure design for a large Business Intelligence project for the Highways Agency. Project included VMware VI3 infrastructure with Windows virtual machines, Red Hat Linux Clustering, HDS storage and Cisco networking infrastructure.Providing consultancy in-line with industry and company best practice, ensuring robust solutions meet client expectations, are manageable and cost effective.Clients have included the Highways Agency, Identity and Passport Service, The Ministry of Justice and The Legal Services Commission.Portfolio champion for Data Centre Optimisation, driving Atos Origin consulting strategy in DCO area and creating collateral for use in bids, customer presentations etc.

Global, Us

Architect designing enterprise wide data-centre solutions for BAE Systems including servers, storage, middleware and networking.Architectural governance of small, medium and large scale projects from the pre-sales stage through to implementation of solution, delivering conceptual, logical and physical technology design and associated costs.Strong communicator with all levels including key client stakeholders, account executives, 3rd party suppliers and technical resources.

Global, Us

Manager of a team of 19 engineers spread throughout the Midlands and South West of the UK. Effectively managing the workload of infrastructure engineers to maximize leveragability and profitability into 10 client accounts including Anglian Water, Ericsson, GE Capital and National Grid.Successfully identified and coordinated opportunities to reduce costs by better leveraging resources, restructuring 24/7 support, driving low value work to cost effective areas of the organisation and challenging offshore provision to work in more effective ways.Accountable for staff development, appraisals and pay reviews.Worked with bid teams providing input into proposals for new client business transformations and large infrastructure projects for existing clients. Notable successes included CSC winning the Network Rail contract.

Global, Us

Senior engineer designated as primary Wintel contact for the National Grid account. Worked closely with Solutions Architects providing the technical input into logical and physical technology models key to providing working, cost effective client solutions.Successfully delivered Wintel components of major, critical, pieces of project work to National Grid including transforming the legacy infrastructure UK wide to CSC’s standard environments, implementing the Gas Market Reporting System as required by the market regulator and creating a large new call centre in Northampton.Provided 24/7 3rd line support to National Grid’s business critical infrastructure across multiple data-centres. Regularly involved in the highest impact outages to ensure that service restoration occurred at the earliest opportunity. Considered a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ on National Grid’s infrastructure.Instrumental in training up offshore capability both technically and in business processes around day-to-day support to allow the UK engineers to concentrate on project delivery work or be redeployed on UK restricted accounts.Took on additional responsibility of handling client project requests to ensure work went to the most appropriate engineer and to maximize billable opportunities.

London, London, Gb

Senior member of a team of Wintel engineers responsible for keeping business critical IT infrastructure running 24/7.Accountable for large Wintel server estate throughout the UK. Major involvement in high profile infrastructure projects to refresh server estate and to deliver a new corporate headquarters post merger in 2002.

London, London, Gb

Member of team delivering desktop services to sites in the Midlands. Supported user base fixing issues with desktop PCs, printers and local file and print servers.Delivered projects to provision new offices, equip senior management with latest PDA devices and ongoing technology refresh of desktop estate.Impressed management and was taken on permanently as a Windows Server Engineer following the completion of 12 month fixed contract that formed part of university sandwich course. Completed university studies to gain degree.