Philip Hynes Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Team Lead for the EMEA Network Engineering team, responsible for the management and constant evolvement of FNZ's network infrastructure, encompassing a Hybrid Cloud architecture. This includes day-to-day management of the team and on-going project streams/BAU, working closely with the architecture team to deliver the global FNZ network strategy, as well as providing 24/7 on-call support for all network issues.- Rollout of a new Megaport Global WAN to provide reliable inter connectivity between FNZ sites, migrating away from internet VPNs. This encompasses our on-prem and cloud presence, as well as enabling seamless 3rd party integration through global POPs.- Global firewall refresh from Forcepoint to Fortigate, including multi-domain FortiManager deployment for single pane of glass management.- Ongoing automation development using Terraform and Ansible to streamline processes and improve efficiency for network infrastructure tasks.- Ongoing management of the EMEA network infrastructure, including optimisations, hardware and software upgrades, plus security hardening.- Supporting the wider infrastructure team to help progress and deliver projects within agreed timescales.

London, Gb

Member of the EU Network Engineering team, responsible for providing 24/7 on-call support for all network issues as well as managing the teams handling of day-to-day BAU and business continuity.Key Achievements:- Designed and deployed a brand new Data Centre build, which included producing design documentation, configuring Cisco Nexus Switches, complex BGP/OSPF routing resilience, ISP peering, Checkpoint/Forcepoint/Fortigate Firewalls, full NSX-T build making use of Terraform for a full IaC deployment, as well as F5 GTM/LTM clusters.- Managing the team from a day-to-day BAU perspective, ensuring all service requests are promptly dealt with and offering technical expertise on advanced requests.

Liverpool, Gb

Member of the Tech Ops Infrastructure team, responsible for the management and migration of The Very Group’s infrastructure from on-premise to a cloud-first approach. This included providing 24/7 on-call support for all infrastructure issues, including key revenue streams in Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.co.uk.Key Achievements:- Reviewed and migrated all third-party IPsec VPNs from a third-party provider into our Equinix Data Centres using FortiGate NGFW. This involved liaising with multiple third parties to arrange migrations.- Maintained, updated and standardised the Remote Access VPN solution during the COVID-19 pandemic, including migrating all user access from one legacy DC into our Equinix DC.- Regularly reviewed and suggested changes to be made to firewall policies across the estate to heighten security and tighten controls across all facets of the TVG network estate.- Liaised with multiple third-parties to remove the need for IP whitelisting by integrating SAML SSO where applicable.- Managed the Global DNS estate for The Very Group as well as SSL certificate renewals across multiple domains.

Birchwood, Gb

Member of a team of 6 responsible for maintaining Betfred’s international network estate, providing 24/7 on-call support for all aspects of the company, including key revenue streams in Betfred.com & Oddsking.com.Key Achievements:- Designed and implemented a brand new resilient website infrastructure network running on VMware NSX-T, leveraging Ansible and Terraform for a fully automated and scalable Infrastructure as Code deployment.- Designed and implemented a brand new office network for our sister companies in Manchester, including network segmentation and VRF isolation.- Designed and implemented a secure business-wide Remote Access VPN solution to enable efficient remote working for all users. This provided ongoing, seamless productivity during the Coronavirus outbreak.- Ongoing automation of network tasks using Ansible / Jenkins to heighten efficiency and improve outputs.- Reviewed and migrated all IPsec VPNs onto new hardware, improving security standards and liaising with multiple third parties to arrange migrations.- Managing and implementing third-party DDoS and threat mitigation platform to protect key revenue streams from external attacks and vulnerabilities.

Technical Contractor specialising in Large-Scale Network Management and Design, supporting multiple businesses concurrently.

Birchwood, Gb

Member of a team of 4 responsible for maintaining Betfred’s international network estate, providing 24/7 on-call support for all aspects of the company, including key revenue streams in Betfred.com & Totesport.com.• Acting as a technical lead and mentoring junior members of the team, peer reviewing work and advising on implementation best practices.• BAU network management, implementing changes through an ITIL based service plan.• Providing 24/7 on-call cover for all network related incidents.• Effectively planning and designing all project-related work, identifying tasks, risks, resources and dependencies; analysing and managing them to ensure the most efficient outcome.• Adapting to constantly changing network requirements, providing exceptional quality and consistent implementation in line with network team standards & procedures.• Being highly flexible and able to change priorities as work dictates, ensuring business continuity with minimal disruption time.• Reviewing, designing and upgrading infrastructure to comply with strict PCI DSS and Gambling Commission standards.• Configuring Cisco Routers & Switches, Cisco ASA/Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco FirePOWER and Cisco WLC infrastructure for LAN/WAN deployments.• Managing, load-balancing, manipulating and policing traffic through Pulse Secure Traffic Managers.• Configuring Brocade infrastructure for data centre redundancy, cross-site SAN replication and fibre channel integration through a VPLS overlay.• Managing a complex EIGRP/BGP topology using advanced concepts for network simplicity and consolidation.• Preparing documentation to support all project work, producing high quality reports and Microsoft Visio network diagrams to ensure accurate documentation is available for future reference.

Birchwood, Gb

Member of a team of 5 responsible for maintaining Betfred’s Cisco network estate, providing 24/7 support for all aspects of the company with significant focus on key revenue streams such as Betfred.com and Totesport.com.

Matlock, Derbyshire, Gb

Member of a team of 16 responsible for the management and maintenance of the Council's converged Cisco network, supporting in excess of 400 sites county-wide. Day-to-day responsibilities consisted of:• Acting as lead technical engineer for project-related work, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring good relationships and best outcomes.• Delivering work to strict deadlines, providing exceptional quality and value for money in line with project budgets.• Producing documentation to support all compliance aspects of the business including ISO and PSN accredited network designs and implementations.• Reviewing other team members’ documentation to ensure consistency and thoroughness.• Implementing changes through an ITIL based service plan.• Managing a complex Data Centre infrastructure, acting as technical lead for all Network Team related tasks.• Configuring Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewalls and Wireless for LAN/WAN deployments.• Configuring ACLs, IDS/IPS, NAT, AAA, Cisco ACS, and VPN technologies.• Configuring VLANs, RSTP, QoS, SNMP, AAA, Syslog, L2 Security.• Configuring Multi-area OSPF routing supporting over 50 areas.• Deploying wireless technologies through Cisco WLC infrastructure and Cisco NCS Prime solution.• Integrating a Mitel VoIP system into a converged network design.