+ Fostering a culture of observability across the the Oak National Academy applications+ Creating a golden example of monitoring in multiple apps+ + Implementing Open Telemetry (OTel) to create an agnostic monitoring system

Using my strengths of understanding technology, business and people challenges, I work to ensure we have technology team that are always growing. - Creating and nurturing a strong Engineering culture- Assist with delivering of key business initiatives- Ensuring that the team have what they need to succeed- Giving visibility of career progression and nurturing growth- Creating a solid standard for hiring to ensure we get the best available talent- Community engagement via external and internal mentoring and speaking- If there's any time left, working on technical deliverables (Terraform, Go, Typescript)

After working as a hands on Senior Engineer, I began leading the Infrastructure area of the business with 4 direct reports.- Delivered a 400% increase of CI/CD principles to over 10,000 minutes to improve confidence- Unify technologies to improve understanding across the team- Push for the best possible Developer Experience (DX) to enhance productivity- Enhance deployment methods of Event Driven Serverless Architectures (AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, AWS EventBridge)- Improve monitoring and observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch)- Implementing and understanding tracing through complex Middleware (AWS X-RAY)- Reducing technical sprawl and divergence

- Full migration of key infrastructure over to AWS EC2 - Redefine the release process to use immutable infrastructure (Ansible, Packer)- Migrate to all in one Git and CI/CD offering (Gitlab)- Standardise on technical approach of key Infrastructure (Terraform, Serverless)

After a year with the Site Reliabiliy Engineering team, I progressed into the Cloud and Tooling team working to deliver new infrastructure which aims to deliver immense value to business capabilities.I worked on a greenfield project which involved building out a baremetal Kubernetes deployment, and integrating it with Google Cloud's Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and deploying AWS's Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service into a poly-cloud multi-region platform for improving developer experience and capabilities across the organisation. + Creating, maintaining and scaling Kubernetes with dev, stage and production clusters over multiple regions in GCP and AWS connected via a Service Mesh (Envoy)+ Creation of new services with an array of new tooling (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Helm)+ Maintenance of internal initiatives such as CIaaS (GoCD)+ Working with development teams to translate requirements into a plan for our technology stack+ Proof-of-Concept, creation and maintenance of an on-premise Openstack cluster for IaaS/DBaas+ Upgrading and re-design of business critical tools (Artifactory, Jira, Confluence, Bamboo)+ Long term monitoring, observability and tracing projects (Sysdig, Promethesus, Logicmonitor, Thanos, Jaeger)+ Inventory and system inspection of physical hardware (Foreman, VMWare)

+ Configuration management via Puppet+ Promoting devops culture and implementing devops practices+ Maintaining a large estate - Over 3000+ instances (AWS, vSphere/ESXi, Openstack, CentOS)+ Implementing monitoring platforms (Logicmonitor, OMD)+ Scripting (bash, ruby, python)+ Improving continuous integration and delivery (Bamboo, Jenkins)+ Maintaining complex booking path (Tomcat, Nginx, Apache, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Consul)+ Agile based workflow (Kanban, Jira)+ Creating concise documentation (Confluence)

Key skills gained and experienced during my time at ESL include:+ Configuration management (Puppet, Ansible)+ Development of a containerised platform (Mesos, Marathon)+ General management of the estate (Debian)+ Database maintenance and implementation (Pooled PostgreSQL, Cassandra)+ Modern virtualized management with Nutanix hypervisors+ Implementation of multi-region AWS environments+ Monitoring (Zabbix)+ Centralised logging (ELK Stack, unomaly)+ Network Device Configuration (Juniper, Fortigate, PFSense)+ Web Server management (Nginx, Apache)+ Message queue design and implementation (RabbitMQ, corosync)+ Implementation and discussion of key new ideasD

At Datacentred I worked on unique challenges that surround developing a Public Cloud which was deployed on Openstack and backed by Ceph. This time was extremely formational and I got insight to see real-world technology solutions increasingly less attainable due to the emergence of much large Public Cloud providers.Achievements: 1. Overseeing a piece work to store data for the The Forever Project for the National Holocaust Centre and Museum on the public cloud's storage network which saw ingestion of >50TB of HD footage.2. Upgrading Openstack Compute and scaling up to meet demand+ Maintaining and improving a public cloud Openstack platform + Baremetal provisioning via (IPMI)+ Developing a staging environment both physically and virtually+ Configuration management with Puppet+ Extensive platform monitoring (Icinga2, Zabbix, Riemann)+ Timeseries observability and monitoring via Grafana+ Datacentre Experience