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Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Simultaneously worked in two teams: one as a Cloud Engineer embedded in a dev team, being the team's cloud specialist and carrying out any cloud infrastructure-related tasks. The other in a team of Cloud Engineers, maintaining and improving the department's cloud platforms.Created and maintained many shared infrastructure services including RDS and Aurora databases,EC2-based and MSK Kafka clusters, ADOT (Open Telemetry) collectors running on ECS, application loadbalancers with host-based routing to many different microservices running as ECS services on a sharedECS cluster.Created and maintained the GitHub repos, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, Ansible and CloudFormation code todeploy all the underlying infrastructure, utilizing many AWS services, for a large number of containerizedmicroservices.Carried out the scaling down and decommissioning of BetEasy's AWS resources after the company wasmerged into Sportsbet. This included usage and cost monitoring, detailed documentation and knowledgehandovers for remaining resources.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rolled out a multi-account AWS strategy, using CloudFormation to deploy VPC's and all their subcomponents, link VPC's through both Transit Gateway and Peering, set up Direct Connect and assessment of the accounts' configuration using AWS Config.Created a Golden AMI pipeline that would spin up an EC2 instance using Packer, configure it as per our security and compliance requirements using Ansible, scan it using AWS Inspector, create an AMI from it, encrypt the AMI's root volume using KMS and share the AMI across all of our AWS accounts for the developers to use.Created a CloudFormation template to set up hundreds of AWS Workspaces to enable the entire company to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins to build and deliver code changes.Created Ansible playbooks for configuration management of EC2 instances.Utilized ECR and ECS for containerization with Docker.Wrote Bash & Python scripts for many different ad hoc purposes.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Achieved significant costs savings by migrating applications to cloud infrastructure and utilizing auto scaling.Designed and implemented an incident response protocol using PagerDuty to ensure internal teams and clients are adequately notified of any service disruptions.Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins to build and deliver application changes.Created Chef cookbooks for configuration management of servers.Linux server administrationImplemented system and application monitoring using NewRelic.Managed an Akamai CDN.

Dublin, Ireland

Manually deployed Java web applications to Apache Tomcat on Linux servers.Set up system monitoring with Nagios.Set up application monitoring with custom-written Bash/SQL scripts.Server and network administration.

Dublin, Ireland

Tech support.Queried Oracle databases and checked Apache server logs to find resolutions to escalated customer service issues.Linux server administration.Backup management.

County Kildare, Ireland

Set up development environments for students.Assisted and graded practical assignments in Web Development and Computer Architecture.

Dublin, Ireland

Implemented enhancements and bug fixes to Java web applications.QA testing.

County Kildare, Ireland

Face to face customer service.Food preparation.Stock control.Cleaning.