Kevin Tomlinson

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer | Cloud Native Infrastructure | Kubernetes · Terraform · ArgoCD | Open to Remote & Hybrid

Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom

About

DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer with 20+ years of experience building scalable systems across AWS, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments. I focus on automation, platform reliability, and enabling developer productivity — and thrive in remote, collaborative teams. My current stack centres on EKS, ArgoCD, Karpenter, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Helm — with observability through Grafana and Kibana across large multi-cluster environments. Open to senior DevOps and platform engineering roles, fully remote or hybrid.

Experience

  • Senior DevOps Engineer at Opus 2
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • BR-DGE (Full-time · 4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior DevOps Platform Engineer
      Jun 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Technical team member delivering cloud infrastructure to support the companies kubernetes hosted micro service applications. Day to day includes engineering project work to deliver improvements and new technologies in a fully infrastructure-as-code cloud native environment. Delieverables are across multiple cloud providers enabling a 'multi cloud' solution where appropriate. The role also includes general operations work and incident triage.

    • Platform Engineering Manager
      Aug 2022 - Jun 2023 · 11 mos

      Reporting to the CTO, I am responsible for the planning and prioritisation of work across a team of six staff spanning the Platform Engineering team and the companies IT Support team. All work is planned and delivered in an Agile framework using Kanban or Scrum techniques where appropriate. Additionally I remain part of the Platform Engineering technical resource.

    • Senior DevOps Platform Engineer
      Apr 2020 - Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Linux Engineering Lead at Tesco Bank
    Aug 2019 - Apr 2020 · 9 mos

  • University of Edinburgh Information Services Group (10 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Infrastructure Architect & System Team Manager
      Dec 2017 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Technical manager for a team of five staff responsible for the design, implementation and support of several core University research platforms. These platforms included large scale storage clusters at the multi petabyte scale, HPC clusters, a private Openstack Cloud platform and associated tertiary services (inc VmWare and multiple web services). Primary lead in the development of the sections automation and management stacks.

    • Research Systems Team Manager (Acting)
      Oct 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Senior Research Systems Administrator and Architect
      Feb 2013 - Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Linux System Administrator at Sopra Steria
    Jun 2006 - Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos