Devops

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions on time and within budget. Implemented containerisation and orchestration technologies to improve service scalability, reliability, and availability of applications. Configured a comprehensive logging and monitoring system that quickly identified and resolved performance issues using Prometheus & Graphana. Automated Infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and configuration management, reducing deployment time by 85%. Developed a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that reduced time-to-deployment from 2 days to couple of hours. Facilitated environments planning and strategy for post go-live phase of the project by outlining accounts and environments logical grouping. Implemented automation of self-service portal to drive business value by reducing repetitive manual tasks such as IP white listing etc. Experience using Git as a version control system that enabled the team to track changes to cloud infrastructure and quickly rollback undesirable changes. Implemented security policies and best practices to ensure system compliance with regulatory requirements such as addressing security vulnerabilities via AWS Inspect component. Configured AWS services such as route53, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, VPC’s, IAM and managing S3 buckets. Successfully migrated the DNS solution from self-managed DNS servers to Route 53 Resolver endpoints.

Building out the HPE Helion OpenStack Cloud environment in a Client Data Centre by automating the deployments globally using cobbler for bare metals. End to end build out of virtualized solutions within a cloud environment, using technical experience of the following products: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SQL server, VMWare vSphere suite (vCenter, vSphere Web Client, SSO, vSphere Client, ESXi). Developed Ansible playbooks to configure HPE Synergy infrastructure from 2 weeks to a couple of hours. Research & Development of containerisation such as developing Docker containers and Kubernetes managed nodes. Planning, designing and implementing High-availability and Disaster Recovery for each system.

Managed the configuration, deployment, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure services. Provided technical support for cloud-related issues, including incident resolution and root cause analysis. Analysed the entirety of cloud usage and spending to identify opportunities for cost optimisation. Served as the initial point of contact for resolving P3 issues in the production environment. Developing Archimate Architecture models such as detailing application functions, goals and viewpoints etc. Developing BPMN's Architecture models to explain the business views as well as processes for cloud transformation. Contribution to updating HLD and LLD to facilitate iteration of the document. Automating the built of the Managed Private Cloud (MPC) environment in the Reading Data Centre. Developing automation software and integration with client systems using HP Cloud Service Automation, HP Operations Orchestration and Server Automation.

Advising users on how to repair faults and providing possible outcomes to solutions. Conducting hands on technical maintenance and repairing computer systems. Setting up Active Directory domains, workgroups, configuring servers and DHCP. Investigating, diagnosing and resolve all network problems.