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I’m a Belfast-based infrastructure and site reliability engineer with 10+ years designing, deploying, and managing resilient, secure, and automated cloud and on-prem environments. I’m proficient with DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes, and I’m skilled at driving cost‑effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in remote setups and have experience collaborating with globally distributed teams. Outside work, I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and tinkering with custom PC hardware. I’m passionate about video games and the games industry, running a gaming blog, and I share life with my wife and two Wheaten Terriers, Maggie and Éabha, who love park days and trips to the North Coast.…I’m a Belfast-based infrastructure and site reliability engineer with 10+ years designing, deploying, and managing resilient, secure, and automated cloud and on-prem environments. I’m proficient with DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes, and I’m skilled at driving cost‑effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in remote setups and have experience collaborating with globally distributed teams. Outside work, I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and tinkering with custom PC hardware. I’m passionate about video games and the games industry, running a gaming blog, and I share life with my wife and two Wheaten Terriers, Maggie and Éabha, who love park days and trips to the North Coast.

Richard Rea

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I’m a Belfast-based infrastructure and site reliability engineer with 10+ years designing, deploying, and managing resilient, secure, and automated cloud and on-prem environments. I’m proficient with DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes, and I’m skilled at driving cost‑effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in remote setups and have experience collaborating with globally distributed teams. Outside work, I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and tinkering with custom PC hardware. I’m passionate about video games and the games industry, running a gaming blog, and I share life with my wife and two Wheaten Terriers, Maggie and Éabha, who love park days and trips to the North Coast.…I’m a Belfast-based infrastructure and site reliability engineer with 10+ years designing, deploying, and managing resilient, secure, and automated cloud and on-prem environments. I’m proficient with DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes, and I’m skilled at driving cost‑effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in remote setups and have experience collaborating with globally distributed teams. Outside work, I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and tinkering with custom PC hardware. I’m passionate about video games and the games industry, running a gaming blog, and I share life with my wife and two Wheaten Terriers, Maggie and Éabha, who love park days and trips to the North Coast.

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I’m a Belfast-based infrastructure and site reliability engineer with 10+ years designing, deploying, and managing resilient, secure, and automated cloud and on-prem environments. I’m proficient with DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes, and I’m skilled at driving cost‑effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I thrive in remote setups and have experience collaborating with globally distributed teams.

Outside work, I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and tinkering with custom PC hardware. I’m passionate about video games and the games industry, running a gaming blog, and I share life with my wife and two Wheaten Terriers, Maggie and Éabha, who love park days and trips to the North Coast.

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Work Experience

Observability and Automation Engineer at Liquidnet

September 1, 2025 - Present

Monitoring and logging systems worldwide, managing alerts and rules, diagnosing issues from monitoring, migrating monitoring from Windows applications to a web-based dashboard, reducing alert noise, and conducting post-mortems to prevent reoccurrences.

Infrastructure Engineer at Hughes Insurance

October 1, 2023 - August 31, 2025

Migrated 5+ years of email data to Mimecast cloud archive, migrated production and DR VM environments to modern Dell VMware ESXi, decommissioned legacy servers, automated Windows 11 rollout via InTune and PowerShell, implemented disaster recovery replication with Zerto, managed backups with Rubrik, consolidated SQL workloads, migrated FTP systems to a new server with automation to reduce human error.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Optiva

January 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023

Provided infrastructure support for dev/test environments and assisted with CI/CD configuration; collaborated in globally distributed teams using remote-first tools (Slack, Jira, Git, VPN).

Infrastructure Engineer at Blue Zinc

November 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022

Migrated 1200+ SQL databases, apps, and 10TB+ of data from local servers to GCP; evaluated cost-performance for platform choice; automated backups and health checks for ZFS and cloud databases; hardened servers with Ansible; supported Kubernetes workloads and CI/CD pipelines in Azure and Ubuntu VMs; contributed to ISO27001 compliance.

Automation Engineer at Johnson Controls, formerly American Dynamics

November 1, 2013 - September 30, 2019

Introduced Jenkins to test department, built end-to-end CI pipelines integrated with TFS and VMware ESXi for testing different builds and workloads; planned and installed new rack ESXi hosts with GPU passthrough; automated regression testing, smoke tests, and VM provisioning.

QA Engineer at Andor Plc

March 1, 2013 - November 30, 2013

Created automated test cases in Python, SpecFlow, Ranorex and shell scripts; managed test servers and CI environments; built test infrastructure using Windows Server, Jenkins, and SQL databases; performed regular release and patch testing.

QA Analyst at NYSE Euronext

November 1, 2011 - March 31, 2013

QA Analyst involved in testing processes and automation support within the Belfast office, collaborating with CI/CD practices.

Testing Engineer & Test Department Systems Administrator at Meridio

January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2006

Created automated test cases, managed test environments and infrastructure, built test infrastructure using Windows Server, Jenkins, and SQL databases; performed regression testing and system administration.