Alan Cooper

DevOps and Platform Lead

Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom

About

ISP Network & Hosting experience Red Hat Enterprise Linux Windows Server 2003 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 & 2005 ADSL and SDSL LLU Cisco equipment Juniper carrier class routers Allied Telesyn switches. Experience of team supervision (currently responsible for a team of 6 Network & Systems Administrators). Current career goal is to develop NOC into to become an industry leading organisation delivering service to the most demanding SLAs Specialties: Product and service development

Experience

  • Head of DevOps and IT at Traveltek Ltd.
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    Responsible for leading the DevOps, IT and Cyber Security functions within Traveltek

  • Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Sword Group
    Sep 2025 - Nov 2025 · 3 mos

    Preparation of High Level and Low Level Designs for on-premise and hybrid infrastructure in OT environments.

  • Exizent (Full-time · 5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Technology
      Aug 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      In August 2022 I took overall responsibility for Technology at Exizent, taking on ownership of the technology strategy and delivery across the business.

    • Head of Platform
      Jul 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Senior Platform Engineer
      May 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Responsible for cloud platform architecture and security as well as building a fully automated deployment pipeline.

  • Skyscanner (7 yrs 9 mos)
    • Principal Systems Engineer
      Nov 2017 - May 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Technical Manager - Business Resilience
      Jan 2017 - Nov 2017 · 11 mos

      Responsible for ensuring all Product and Business platforms and services in Skyscanner are appropriately resilient and recoverable in an ever-evolving Infrastructure landscape.

    • Infrastructure Manager
      Sep 2012 - Jan 2017 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Multrees Investor Services
    May 2012 - Sep 2012 · 5 mos