United Kingdom
Public Cloud (AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Developer, AWS SysOps and also Azure) Redhat Enterprise Linux - RHCSA/RHCE Certified in RHEL6, RHEL7 Redhat Cluster Redhat Satellite 5/6 Centos 5.x, 6.x, 7.x Open Source - Apache, Nginx, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Packer, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, CI/CD, Nagios, Cacti, MySQL, Grafana, Postfix, Dovecot, Confluence, Jira IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert specialising in AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 & 6.1, 7.1, 7.2 PowerVM Virtualization (VIO) - NPIV, VSCSI, LPM, DLPAR IBM POWER hardware (P4, P5, 5+, P6, P7 & P8 Enterprise class). PowerHA SystemMirror v5.1, v5.2, v5.3, v5.4, v5.5, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2 IBM SVC, DS4000, DS5000, DS6000 and DS8000 Enterprise Class Storage. SC clearance.
Working as part of the M&S Operations Infrastructure Team to deliver rock solid, reliable core IT Infrastructure and related services to M&S business areas. Technical governance of a portfolio of Infrastructure services, ensuring: Quality of service and value from managed service providers Services meet the expectations of their customers across the IT group Defining, reviewing and managing performance KPIs to control day-to-day performance and stability across the portfolio of Infrastructure Services Identifying continuous improvement opportunities and ensuring they are implemented in a timely and controlled manner via Managed Service Providers and Third Party Vendors Governing and Assuring Technical Change and Technical Proposals from Managed Service Providers and Third Party Vendors Governing Life Cycle Management across Infrastructure Portfolio’s Driving technology innovation. Driving technology automation and standardization through open source tooling (IAC)
Working as a CTA (Trusted technical advisor/architect) for a large UK retailer with predominantly Power/AIX virtualized, Wintel/Redhat Linux VMware based infrastructure, with SVC virtualized storage running SAP and Manhatten PKMS warehouse management applications.