Surjit Virk Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

York, England, United Kingdom

Providing 24/7 Platform and Infrastructure Engineer services for a Tier 1 Banking client. Mycurrent activities include (but not limited to); Linux/Wintel support, Database administration, root cause analysis, platform observability management, platform virtualization management/configuration, incident management, automation, BCM/DR failover planning and implementation, patch management, and configuration management.

St. Ives, England, United Kingdom

In this position, I developed, deployed, and managed cloud-hosted SDLC platform on AWS using IaaS, enabling subscribers to deploy code to both physical and cloud-based hosts. I also managed CI stack utilising Git, GitHub, and Jenkins, employing Maven for code building. Additionally, I administered CD stack through Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Docker, DockerHub, and Kubernetes.Some of my key achievements in this role include:• Successfully created end-to-end cloud-hosted SDLC stack within 5-daytimeframe, achieving this with zero incurred costs.• Implemented ELK stack for monitoring, integrated with Kubernetesdashboard.• Configured and implemented AWS observability tools, including CloudWatchand X-Ray.

London, England, United Kingdom

As a Senior Lead DevOps, Lead Linux Engineer, and Java Specialist, I served as the Senior Platform Engineer and System Administrator for the FICC E-Trading XASF/GRET environments. My responsibilities included configuring and supporting development, QA, and production environments. I was a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in SDLC tools and took charge of monitoring servers and applications across all GRET environments.

London, England, United Kingdom

I worked as a Senior Lead DevOps & Platform Engineer and managed the software delivery platform for non- production environments. I oversaw the transition to new DevOps tools and ensured platform engineering tasks for non-prod hosts were efficiently managed. I was responsible for host and application monitoring and alignment of software/application build versions, and deployment of the new SDLC platform.

England, United Kingdom

In the role of Senior Build and Configuration Engineer, I took charge of managing the Software Delivery Platform for Securities and Bank. My responsibilities included migrating jobs to a uniform toolset, configuring jobs in TeamCity, user administration, Artifactory repo management, and license management.

London, United Kingdom

I served as a Senior Unix/Linux DevOps and Build & Configuration Manager in the FICC Global Rates Electronic Trading division. I managed development, QA, and production environments, worked closely with development teams to enhance build pipelines, and administered critical tools like Jenkins, Nexus, and AMPS.

London, United Kingdom

My role as a Senior Production Environment Engineer in the eSupport team at UBS Investment Bank involved providing level 2/3 support for the UBS Neo platform. I was a Subject Matter Expert for the UBS Neo E-Commerce platform and took on responsibilities in QA and Pre-production Environments. I also acted as the lead engineer for the Optier UBS Lead and played a pivotal role in BCM work.

Dusseldorf

I served as a Country Solutions Architect/Engineer and Technical Project Manager for Vodafone in Malta, Turkey, and Greece. I managed the launch of the Vodafone Live mobile portal on the Apple iPhone and was responsible for Vodafone Live upgrades, maintenance, and deployment projects.Was deployment and operational owner for the Instant messaging components of the Vodafone 360.com product.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Administered the VV&T integration environment for BT.Created and managed the Radius Mediation DataWarehouse in the BT VV&T environment.Created, tested, and managed the Oracle DB migrations for Oracle 8g to Oracle 9g, and from Oracle 9g to Oracle 10g for the RMD DB; for the VV&T and production environments.

As the Lead SW QA Engineer, I was responsible for validating all prototype systems with the company's branded software.

Camberley, England, United Kingdom

I was part of a team at Sun Microsystems that managed and administered over 1500 systems, configured and administered private test networks, and was involved in Design Verification Testing and Reliability Qualification Testing.