Tom Pride Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

leveraging CBA's new private cloud capabilities to build a solution that will provide platform development teams with a self service solution to provision their own isolated pre-integration environments. Driving the goals of greater agility to speed up the delivery of new features and products to CBA customers.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Worked as a member of the Automation Team within the Development and Release Transformation project at IAG. The main deliverable for the project was the capability to automatically provision IAG development environments into AWS and a private vCloud. In addition to the cloud technologies, I also working with the following to successfully deliver this capability:- Python/Boto for cloud orchestration.- Puppet for configuration management.- Rspec, serverspec, capybara and selenium for test automation and test driven development.- Bamboo for code compilation, testing and application deployments.- Packer for automating AMI's and VM images.- Git/Stash for source control management.- Nexus for Artefact management.- Sensu and Splunk for monitoring and log analysis.- Jira and Confluence for tracking, sprint management and documentation.My responsibilities include:- Release/Sprint Planning sessions, story estimation, Daily Stand-ups- Participating in showcases & retrospectives- Writing puppet modules- Test Driven Development (TDD)- Automating application, database, and middleware servers on a variety of OSes including: RHEL 6&7 and Windows 2008 R2 and 2012- Working closely with SME's to understand their applications and systems in order to then automate them into the virtual environments.My achievements included:- Helping develop Puppet Coding Standards- Implementing Bamboo Jobs to check for Puppet Standards- Building a VM for developers that provided a consistent IDE envronment for writing code with automated linting and syntax checking.- Uplifting/refactoring code to adhere to standards- Developing capybara based selenium tests for automated end to end smoke testing of the VE's

Sydney Area, Australia

As a Senior DevOps Engineer/Consultant for Cevo I work with clients to help them achieve their business goals of greater efficiency and agility within their IT operations through the leveraging of cloud technologies, automation tools and agile processes.My responsibilities include:- Consulting/technical implementation - Thought leadership- Pre-sales- Content writing - proposals, blog posts

London, United Kingdom

Build out, manage and support the BBC News Web server farm, BBC iPlayer Platform, the Platform that runs the BBC Homepage and countless other BBC online services.Building out and supporting the BBC's Search services, which mostly use Autonomy search backendsExtensive use of Cobbler and Puppet to build server farms from bare metal into production, manage and maintain configuration and the deployment of new applications to the platform.Work closely with Application developers to help design and build the platforms to run their apps.Work closely with Database Engineers to build out MySQL database clusters and Oracle DB servers. Also assist them to diagnose and resolve database/application faults & performance issues.Manage & support proprietary content delivery systems for the BBC News Website.Provide after hours 3rd line support for all these services as part of an On-Call rotaExtensive use of Riverbed Stingray Traffic ManagersWriting traffic scripts to manipulate http requests and responsesSupport, configuration and tuning of Apache web servers, Tomcat web apps, PHP web apps and Mod Perl web appsSupport and run Couchdb, memcache and ActiveMQ servicesBuild support and maintain Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 & 6 serversDesign and build Linux HA clusters using Corosync, Pacemaker and DRBD shared filesystems.Basic Cisco switch config management. (vlans and switchport config)Build, configure, support and use Zenoss, Nagios and Cacti monitoring systemsDaily systems administration of mostly RHEL servers, including script writing from one liners to extensive scripts written mainly in Bash and Perl.Build configure and support Squid proxies, Postfix and sendmail servers and bind/named DNS serversBuild out data centre server farms with a mix of blade servers and standalone servers and shared storage systems.Determining server specs based on application requirements, capacity planningExtensive use of ticketing systems and wikis for documentation

London, United Kingdom

Build Linux based servers for the managed security services offeredInstall servers and network gear into data centresProvide 1st and 2nd line support for the managed security services offered. Including onsite visits.Provide technical presales support for the sales teamBuild development and test environmentsProvide technical support to the java development teamTroubleshooting of server and network issuesBuilding Oracle 10g servers and carrying out all DBA tasksConducting support training for internal staff and resellersTechnical document writing including installation and user guidesScript writing for a wide variety of system administration and service specific tasks (bash, perl, SQL)End to end testing of Java and web applicationsConfiguration and management of Apache web serversConfiguration and deployment of Tomcat web applicationsConfiguration and deployment of Weblogic serversManagement of mail servers, including Qmail and sendmailInstallation and configuration of various proxies, gateway and firewall devices (Microsoft ISA servers, squid proxies, bluecoats, Cisco PIX

Tasmania, Australia

Note: DPIWE stands for the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment. It is a department of the Tasmanian State Government.Duties:Design and build Linux and OpenBSD based serversConfigure and put into production SUN Solaris serversAdministrate Solaris, Linux, and OpenBSD serversConfigure and manage Oracle schemas for application developersConfigure and manage DHCP, CVS, Bind DNS, Apache, Tomcat, Squid Proxy and mail serversAssist in the management of LAN and WAN networks, diagnose network faults and liaise with the telecommunications provider.Configure and manage server firewalls Provide IT support to Java application developers, Graphic artist Apple users, Photographic and mapping users, Linux desktop users, and general windows 2000 desktop usersBuild high capacity, completely hard disk based, file and backup servers, to replace tape solutions. (NAS servers)Build, configure and lockdown public Internet terminals using Linux, KDE and Mozilla Integrate file sharing and authentication with Microsoft Windows based domains using sambaWrite Shell and Perl scripts for a wide variety of purposesProvide web site statistics to various clientsConfigure, compile and use Open Source software to satisfy most business requirementsConduct research to determine the best hardware/software solutions for specific business requirementsPlan and manage the Rollout of over 400 new desktop PCs within a multi-story buildingSetup and manage an in house registration and certificate authority.Assist in the development of a Java and JSP based web application using an Oracle back end database.Prioritise tasks and work to dead lines within a dynamic team environment.

Tasmania, Australia

Diagnose and repair vehicle faults (mechanical & electrical)Assist in the training of apprentices and work experience studentsGeneral office work including taking telephone bookings, ordering parts, and filingEntering invoices into the finance systemMaking warranty claims

Bachelor Of Information Technology And Computer Science Major, Computer Science, Information Technology, Unix Systems Administration

Attained results for entry into honours

Certificate Of Automotive Technician (Trade), Automotive Mechanics And Electrics

Certificate Of Stock And Station Skills, Jackeroo, Competent

Tasmanian Certificate Of Education (Tce)

Attained University Entry Levels