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Delivering Infrastructure as Code components at the LSRC in Blandford for SiXworks. Technologies: Ansible, Docker/Podman, Packer CIS Hardened Images, Vault, GitLab + GitLabCI, Ubuntu, Windows, Terraform and ProxMox.

Architecting and implementing a High Availability deployment of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5. Ansible evangelist. Technologies: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Ansible Tower, Satellite, OpenShift, HAProxy, PostgreSQL (HA & replication), RHEL 8/9, Terraform, VMware vSphere, GitLab, Docker/Podman.

Helped established a new Platform Engineering team to streamline MOD systems. Technologies: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible & Molecule, Docker/Podman, VMWare, Python, Ubuntu, CentOS/Red Hat, Packer, Chef InSpec, PowerShell/Bash.

Developing the Digital Assets project to deliver solutions for blockchain technologies (BitCoin/BTC, Etherium/ETH). Technologies: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Ansible Automation Platform(AAP)/Tower, Docker/Podman, Terraform, Azure, RHEL, RPM Development.

Design and implement Cloud solutions for public sector clients. Technologies: AWS (especially ECS, EKS), K8s(Kubernetes), Terraform, Ansible Automation Platform(AAP)/Tower, Python, GitLab CI.

Automating bare-metal deployments for MOD systems. Technologies: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible & Molecule, VMWare, Python, Ubuntu, PowerShell/Bash.

Implemented automated deployment systems and CI. Technologies: Ansible, Puppet, RHEL/CentOS, Terraform, Jenkins, SkyScape/UK Cloud, Git, PowerShell/Bash and Ruby.

Built an eCommerce business for electric bikes. Technologies: Web design, digital marketing, Shopify, sales.

Automated CI/CD for DIY.com (and others) within AWS environments utilising Terraform and Ansible. Tech Lead, involved in Training and Mentoring. Technologies: AWS (EC2, ALB/ELB, RDS, Route53, etc), Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Bash, Groovy, RHEL/CentOS, Molecule (TDD).

Built CI systems using Puppet and Ansible. Technologies: Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Puppet, Linux (RHEL/CentOS), PowerShell/Bash.

Puppet Development and Automated Azure infrastructure deployments. Technologies: Azure, PowerShell, JSON ARM templates, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, WebLogic, Foreman, BitBucket, RSpec, Packer, VMware, RPM Development.

Migrated legacy RHEL systems and built automation workflows using Puppet. Technologies: Puppet, RH Satellite, Vagrant, Python, Bash, Red Hat Subscriptions Manager, Packer, RHEL, Nagios, Bash.

Introduced Infrastructure as Code using Puppet and Foreman. Instrumental in the process of moving to DevOps. Technologies: Puppet, Foreman, Rspec, Jenkins, Nexus, Kickstart, RPM development, Vagrant, Packer, VirtualBox.

Designed and built Linux servers to align with Tesco global standards. Automated server build/rebuild processes. Technologies: RHN Satellite, Cobbler, RPM development, StorNext, Citrix Xen Server, RH Cluster Suite(GFS2), integration of Linux Auth with Windows(LDAPS/IPA).

Supported and improved JBOSS-based websites. Delivered production improvements and implemented best practices for RHEL and JBOSS environments. Technologies: JBOSS, Apache, RHEL, RH Satellite.

Linux/Unix System Admin of a large Linux Red Hat (RHEL) estate, plus Oracle DB Servers, JBOSS Application servers and Apache Web Servers. BAU and On-Call Rota, Documentation. Technologies: RHEL, RH Satellite, Puppet, Nagios, NetApp, VMWare, Bash, CheckPoint FW, F5s.

Nagios maintenance and management. Implemented YUM repos, upgrades and migrations(Wordpress). NetApp rebuilds and upgrades. Auditing & BAU. Technologies: Nagios, RHEL/CentOS, VMware, NetApp, Perl.