Samantha Stairs is a Cloud Platform Engineer at Nationwide Building Society. She possess expertise in sql, java, mysql, powershell, it operations and 8 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I was line manager for Samantha while she worked in the SRE team, and worked closely with her within the operations team previously. Sam is a very dedicated, organised and approachable person. She is very knowledgeable within the operations team, and what she doesn't know she works hard to proactively go out of her way to learn it. She has proven herself many times within the SRE team, and quickly rose from junior operations engineer all the way to senior within only a few years. She is able to communicate well within different teams, and with different skills to ensure issues and risks are made aware promptly with explanation. Sam has also mentored interns and junior members within the team. Her confidence and knowledge truely shows during her training exercises. She has also spent many hours helping myself understand operational tools and methods during our time in the SRE team. Overall, it has been a great pleasure working with Sam. She has been a great colleague the past 5 years, and would highly recommend her for an engineering role." and "Sam joined my team in a junior engineering role while still completing her Masters. Having proved herself to be a quick learner with the ability to pivot and adapt to any scenario we threw at her, she became a hugely valuable member of the operations and reliability teams. Sam is very easy to work with, having a communication style that allows her to explain complex technical challenges in ways that are easy for stake holders to digest. Sam has never shied away from questioning what we do, or why we do it, and challenges others to do better, always leaving things better than she finds them. In a short space of time Sam progressed through the ranks to become a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, in that role she has played a huge part in enabling teams to become more empowered to create, deploy and support their own code. Sam is calm under pressure, with a very broad knowledge base, meaning that she can help teams quickly identify and resolve issues when they occur. In summary it is an absolute pleasure to work with Sam and I would happily recommend her for almost any engineering role."