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Hi, I'm Peter Beston, a Senior Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineer with over 20 years of experience spanning mainframe and cloud delivery. I currently lead platforms at theidol.com, building secure, highly available infrastructure to support UK insurance comparisons, with a focus on data integrity and scalable production delivery. In addition to hands-on engineering, I have led teams and applied ITIL and Agile methodologies to streamline project delivery. I'm passionate about designing robust, cloud-agnostic solutions, automating with Terraform, Ansible, and container orchestration (Kubernetes and Docker), and building observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.…Hi, I'm Peter Beston, a Senior Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineer with over 20 years of experience spanning mainframe and cloud delivery. I currently lead platforms at theidol.com, building secure, highly available infrastructure to support UK insurance comparisons, with a focus on data integrity and scalable production delivery. In addition to hands-on engineering, I have led teams and applied ITIL and Agile methodologies to streamline project delivery. I'm passionate about designing robust, cloud-agnostic solutions, automating with Terraform, Ansible, and container orchestration (Kubernetes and Docker), and building observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

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Hi, I'm Peter Beston, a Senior Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineer with over 20 years of experience spanning mainframe and cloud delivery. I currently lead platforms at theidol.com, building secure, highly available infrastructure to support UK insurance comparisons, with a focus on data integrity and scalable production delivery. In addition to hands-on engineering, I have led teams and applied ITIL and Agile methodologies to streamline project delivery. I'm passionate about designing robust, cloud-agnostic solutions, automating with Terraform, Ansible, and container orchestration (Kubernetes and Docker), and building observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.…Hi, I'm Peter Beston, a Senior Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineer with over 20 years of experience spanning mainframe and cloud delivery. I currently lead platforms at theidol.com, building secure, highly available infrastructure to support UK insurance comparisons, with a focus on data integrity and scalable production delivery. In addition to hands-on engineering, I have led teams and applied ITIL and Agile methodologies to streamline project delivery. I'm passionate about designing robust, cloud-agnostic solutions, automating with Terraform, Ansible, and container orchestration (Kubernetes and Docker), and building observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

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Hi, I’m Peter Beston, a Senior Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineer with over 20 years of experience spanning mainframe and cloud delivery. I currently lead platforms at theidol.com, building secure, highly available infrastructure to support UK insurance comparisons, with a focus on data integrity and scalable production delivery.

In addition to hands-on engineering, I have led teams and applied ITIL and Agile methodologies to streamline project delivery. I’m passionate about designing robust, cloud-agnostic solutions, automating with Terraform, Ansible, and container orchestration (Kubernetes and Docker), and building observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

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Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer at theidol.com

June 1, 2021 - April 30, 2024

Led infrastructure delivery for UK insurance comparison software, focusing on security and data integrity. Designed and implemented highly available, scalable platforms, and collaborated with development teams to enable reliable production delivery.

Senior Platform Engineer (VME Mainframe Delivery) at DXC Technology

May 1, 2024 - Present

Technical lead designing VME Mainframe delivery for UK Government workloads. Planned migration of 26 VME mainframes and virtual tape to DXC-owned datacentres, established disaster recovery with SAN SRDF, and coordinated with Fujitsu, Dell EMC, IBM and HP. Managed a 33-strong team across 29 mainframes, focusing on security, SLAs and cost governance.

VME Mainframe Architect and Technical Lead at DWP

June 1, 2018 - January 31, 2020

Led base OS and filestore strategy, and managed core VME communications. Directed network and security projects, resolved complex incidents, and drove a major consolidation program, reducing 50+ applications across 4 systems into 2. Implemented FTP/TCP/IP and OSI-layer connectivity improvements.

Mainframe Delivery Lead at DWP

July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2018

Oversaw mainframe delivery across 29 systems, coordinating 50+ applications. Implemented ITIL-aligned change and incident management, managed cost centres and budgets, and served as SPOC for client delivery while coordinating with vendors on large-scale migrations.

VME Technical Lead at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

February 1, 2010 - July 31, 2014

Led VME technical delivery, patching, and OS-level management. Ensured service SLAs, contributed to on-call resolution, and guided changes to proactively manage the VME estate.

VME Technical Lead at EDS

October 1, 2005 - February 28, 2010

Developed expertise in VME system management, including filestore strategy, OS patching, comms cataloguing, and problem resolution. Served as primary escalation point for critical VME issues and led on major improvements and migrations.