Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom
Seasoned technology executive with over 25 years IT industry experience and 15 years experience in establishing and leading distributed, multi-site, cross-functional teams. A strong focus on building, developing, architecting and managing modern cloud-native and cloud agnositic CI/CD platforms.
Built and leading specialized Cloud Technical Operations focused DevOps team of 6 to keep the mission critical Azure CI/CD 24x7 pipelines and on-premise systems and services stable and optimized. Defined and applied standard environment setup (Test/Dev/Prod) and user/security/audit procedures for Azure, GCP and AWS. Managing end to end large scale optimization and enhancement/maintenance/upgrade projects in all core areas for DR/BCP, security, logging/alerting/monitoring: -Artifactory Binary repository Server HA solution replicate for DR/BCP and upgrade testing -Cloudbees Jenkins/CloudBees Jenkins Distribution/Jenkins LTS OS and application upgrades/migrations/optimizations Vendor relationships: Microsoft,RedHat,Oracle; jFrog; CloudBees, AWS, IBM,Microfocus - Customer Success Account Manager and Technical account regular synchronizations for reviews and optimizations/engagements - budget proposals/reviews and contract negotiations Strong Project/Delivery & Technical Manager with hands-on technical expertise in UNIX & Windows Systems Administration, SAN management, Virtualization, Cloud Management & Network management/administration & Network Solutions Architecture
Built and lead specialized Infrastructure focused team of 6 to keep the Mission critical UTP (CI/CD) systems and services on 24x7 on Azure and with on-premise connectivity/interoperability Managing large scale optimization and enhancement projects in all core areas Guided and trained other UTP Teams (Business Operations, On Boarding and Engineering), e.g. structured logging and reporting of issues, cost and performance optimizations and security enhancements. Clouds: Azure (primary), AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud Security: Custom roles & permissions, Azure RBACs, AWS ABACs; Azure Security Centre, Management Groups, Policies DR/BCP: Recovery service vaults, rsync, storage blobs, infrastructure as code (cattle not pets) HA: VMSS, Load Balancers, Availability Sets, Availability zones, GRS, RA-GRS Cost Analysis & Optimizations: Advisors Recommendations, Reservations, Storage Types & Culling, ACR culling; Monitoring and optimizations of all (including dynamically automated provisioned) resources Infrastructure as Code: ARM templates, az cli, powershell: VMs (from marketplace & custom images), Storage, VNets, VPNs, Custom roles, inventories, monitoring, AKS, ACI, Azure DevOps Log-Alert-Monitor: Nagios, log analytics workspace, Agent Groups, Network Watcher, NPM, OMS, Connection Monitors; Automate alerts/reports to emails, MS Teams & Jira Service desk Network Architecture Design & Optimization: hub & spoke, BGP, GW Transit, multiple dedicated subnet structures (e.g. /20 VNet comprising /21,/22,/23,/24,/25,/25,27 & /28 subnets), ASM to ARM migrations Mission Critical Applications: Artifactory, Jenkins (IaC templated & Dev/Prod setup) Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Orchestration: Jenkins & Infrastructure as code, iterative increments fast feedback loops
Built and lead team of 10 DevOps Engineers in creating, managing and supporting the Unified Temenos Platform for 24x7 Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery of the core Temenos Products Using CloudBees Jenkins (including Operations Center) for 6 interdependent Jenkins Masters dynamically provisioning short lived Microsoft azure resources, deploying applications, testing, storing logs/results and dynamically de-provisioning via infrastructure as code. Associated DR/BCP; security audit tracking optimization, monitoring/alerting/remediation's, cost optimizations and performance/resilience optimizations.