Nailsea, England, United Kingdom
AWS Certified Solutions Architect and TOGAF® 9 Certified enterprise architect with 3+ years delivering secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud platforms. Expert in ECS/Fargate, Lambda, EC2, API Gateway, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, and Terraform / CloudFormation IaC designing and deploying cloud-native and modernised enterprise architectures that achieve 99.9% production uptime and measurable cost efficiency. Delivered quantified outcomes at production scale: reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 30% through Terraform and CloudFormation automation; achieved 20% cloud cost reduction through AWS Trusted Advisor-driven rightsizing; improved infrastructure recovery time by 35%+ through Multi-AZ RDS failover, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing; and migrated monolithic Spring Boot systems to containerised AWS ECS/Fargate microservices, reducing deployment complexity at enterprise scale. Experienced across the full AWS Well-Architected Framework from cloud security (IAM, WAF, KMS, CloudTrail, Shield) and serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway) through to observability (CloudWatch), CI/CD pipeline automation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and enterprise architecture governance using TOGAF principles. Open to AWS Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect, and Principal Cloud Engineer opportunities across the UK particularly within financial services, enterprise technology, and cloud transformation programmes. Hybrid and remote arrangements considered. Let's connect.
• Architecting and delivering a cloud-native loan portfolio analytics platform on AWS — designing scalable application architecture layers using Java Spring Boot and PostgreSQL, achieving consistent 99.9% production uptime across Multi-AZ resilient environments serving global users. • Led end-to-end migration from monolithic Spring Boot architecture to containerised AWS ECS and Fargate microservices, improving deployment scalability, reducing operational complexity, and enabling independent service scaling across distributed application workstreams. • Architected highly available AWS infrastructure using 15+ AWS services — including EC2, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, VPC, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, and SQS — supporting resilient Multi-AZ production workloads with improved fault tolerance and operational stability. • Designed and implemented secure 3-tier AWS cloud architectures with VPC segmentation, IAM role-based access control, security groups, KMS encryption, and governance standards alignment — strengthening enterprise security posture across all production environments. • Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, reducing infrastructure provisioning time by 30% and ensuring consistent deployment repeatability across development, testing, and production environments. • Enhanced application resilience through Multi-AZ RDS failover, Auto Scaling Groups, and Elastic Load Balancing — improving infrastructure recovery time by over 35% during stress events and peak load conditions. • Reduced cloud operational costs by up to 20% through AWS Trusted Advisor reviews, rightsizing initiatives, and infrastructure utilisation analysis using AWS Cost Explorer. • Improved system observability through CloudWatch dashboards, structured logging frameworks, and automated alerting — reducing incident detection time and improving operational response efficiency across production workloads.
• 17 years of professional experience across operational, technical, and project delivery environments — developing foundational skills in complex problem-solving, stakeholder management, process governance, and cross-functional team coordination that directly underpin cloud architecture delivery. • Completed mandatory national service (NYSC) and additional professional roles that built the communication, documentation, and analytical capabilities applied to AWS architecture governance, solution design workshops, and executive reporting in the current role.