Design and configuration of solutions on public cloud platforms, and providing practical solution advice and technical consultation to stakeholders and colleagues.Authoring detailed design artifacts compliant with applicable frameworks, patterns and other requirements, and then implement as designed within a delivery team or individually.Key Focus on cloud finance principles (FinOps), and how to keep cloud consumption sustainable.

Contract position with federal government agency, encompassing architecture, design & build of new solutions as well as refresh and uplift of existing solutions in the Linux and AWS space.

Short contract delivering Unix & Linux support to customers of a managed service provider, both on-prem and in the cloud.

Design of bespoke migration strategies for Unix platforms to facilitate data centre exits for multiple end-clients across all market sectors, as required by migration architect where no existing approach was suitable, as well as working with designers in other specialties to close out gaps and ensure end-to-end design interlock.

Contract position during a period of rapid expansion and growth into an ASX top-15 company.Authored Unix standards documentation from scratch across multiple disciplines. Designed and implemented AIX and Linux patching strategy for enterprise-level server fleet to recognised industry standards.Unix lead on project to integrate disparate road tolling platforms into a single strategic platform.

From January 2014 this is a projects role, targeted at transitioning big-four bank’s legacy Solaris & RedHat Linux infrastructure to a new private cloud. Inputting into architecture and design decisions, right through to technical lead and escalation point in implementation phase under ITIL.Linux technical lead rolling out VMware SRM for disaster recovery, leading to accelerated recovery times capable of meeting extremely demanding RTOs, resulting in increased customer satisfaction.Authored design documentation and runbooks for DR remediation of Oracle Linux under Oracle VM.Onshore escalation point for Solaris 11 rollout on T3, T4 & T5 hardware, configuration of OVMSS, LDOMs, nonglobal zones & branded zones, OpsCentre (aka EMOC).Technical lead working closely with project architect for complex Linux migrations, encompassing an upgrade of platform and storage, as well as rationalisation of filesystem, volume manager and clustering software. Thus enabling the migration of multi-terabyte source systems within a single outage window, and delivering a simplified software stack and reduced support and licensing costs.From 2011 to 2013 my role was in supporting 1000+ Solaris and RedHat Linux hosts (many under Veritas Cluster Server) within a global wholesale banking environment. Maintaining Solaris and Linux server estate operational health and troubleshooting BAU issues, always working to strict SLAs.Authored the handover process for receiving newly commissioned hosts into BAU support, including ensuring that proper documentation and knowledge transfer was a deliverable.Technical lead on cyclic maintenance, patching (and upgrading storage and/or clustering software where appropriate) to very tight outage windows, using Live Upgrade (Solaris) and YUM (Linux).Principal member of the team participating in full-scale disaster recovery exercises every three months, drawing on EMC storage skills (SRDF & Solutions Enabler).

Professional Services position invovled in the design, build and execution of Unix and storage solutions across all market sectors. Enforced security policies across hundreds of Unix hosts across ANZ. Led a project to upgrade and reconfigure a HDS/Brocade SAN.

Maintaining and upgrading more than 300 RedHat Linux hosts (physical and virtual) and HPUX systems and associated backups, SAN storage, and high-availability software. Maintaining and growing VMware ESX infrastructure.

Administration, maintenance, upgrades and migrations on Solaris and Linux for the world's leading insurance broker and risk advisor.

Short contract administering Solaris & RedHat Linux for a previous employer who asked me to come back due to my high performance the previous year.

Data Centre migration project, building and configuring servers running Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86) with Veritas Volume Manager, VxFS, VCS, EMC storage.

Maintaining, upgrading, migrating and replatforming an estate of 500+ Sun Solaris servers for leading media and publishing company.

Co-ordinated disaster recovery exercises for an extensive customer base spread across all market sectors, both planned tests and real-world invocations after disasters.Used jumpstart and flash archive to constantly install and re-install – always to tight turnaround schedules - multi-host Sun server environments ranging from E420R, V120, V490, V880 through V1280 and T2000 to high-end E4900, SF6800 and E10K.

Provided second- and third-level support to Sun’s gold and platinum contract holders across EMEA, gaining exposure to the majority of Sun’s volume product line, both hardware and software, concentrating on data storage solutions.

Provided Unix support to the UK’s second largest fixed-line telephone operator(*). Installed and maintained Sun Solaris servers, and administered Unix servers running HP-UX and AIX. Administered Legato NetWorker and EBU/RMAN backups of a data warehouse, and backups of other Unix servers, using NetWorker and hand-written scripts. Implemented regular disaster-recovery tests.(*) outsourced from Cable & Wireless in September 1998

24x7 production environment, administration of a LAN with 60 Ultrix and Digital Unix servers delivering desktop PC facilities to 800 users via Pathworks. User account setup and maintenance, printer maintenance, monitoring of nightly backups using Legato NetWorker and cron scripts.