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Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of infrastructure, systems, and software delivery experience across regulated, security-cleared environments. Strong background delivering and supporting Azure and AWS (EKS) infrastructure with a security-conscious, practical approach. Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline design, with a track record of rebuilding legacy/ad-hoc environments into consistent, auditable, idempotent systems. Comfortable working under strict access and environmental constraints, contributing to ISO 27001/9001-aligned delivery and security remediation from penetration testing findings.…Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of infrastructure, systems, and software delivery experience across regulated, security-cleared environments. Strong background delivering and supporting Azure and AWS (EKS) infrastructure with a security-conscious, practical approach. Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline design, with a track record of rebuilding legacy/ad-hoc environments into consistent, auditable, idempotent systems. Comfortable working under strict access and environmental constraints, contributing to ISO 27001/9001-aligned delivery and security remediation from penetration testing findings.

Jim Speir

DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, Web Developer, +2

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Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of infrastructure, systems, and software delivery experience across regulated, security-cleared environments. Strong background delivering and supporting Azure and AWS (EKS) infrastructure with a security-conscious, practical approach. Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline design, with a track record of rebuilding legacy/ad-hoc environments into consistent, auditable, idempotent systems. Comfortable working under strict access and environmental constraints, contributing to ISO 27001/9001-aligned delivery and security remediation from penetration testing findings.…Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of infrastructure, systems, and software delivery experience across regulated, security-cleared environments. Strong background delivering and supporting Azure and AWS (EKS) infrastructure with a security-conscious, practical approach. Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline design, with a track record of rebuilding legacy/ad-hoc environments into consistent, auditable, idempotent systems. Comfortable working under strict access and environmental constraints, contributing to ISO 27001/9001-aligned delivery and security remediation from penetration testing findings.

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Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of infrastructure, systems, and software delivery experience across regulated, security-cleared environments. Strong background delivering and supporting Azure and AWS (EKS) infrastructure with a security-conscious, practical approach.

Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline design, with a track record of rebuilding legacy/ad-hoc environments into consistent, auditable, idempotent systems. Comfortable working under strict access and environmental constraints, contributing to ISO 27001/9001-aligned delivery and security remediation from penetration testing findings.

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Full-Stack Developer

July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

Worked as part of a team designing and delivering a multi-tenant event booking SaaS application. Built using Vite with Preact/React components on the Bun JS engine with TypeScript transpilation, Prisma ORM with PostgreSQL, an Earthly-based build system, and GitLab CI with Playwright and Vitest for full test coverage.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Glider Technology

April 1, 2022 - Present

Architected solutions for AWS and Azure infrastructure issues and requests, including Kubernetes (EKS) and cloud-native services, within a security-cleared client environment with strict access and environmental controls. Delivered infrastructure in line with ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 standards and performed remediation following penetration testing findings. Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines across TeamCity, AWS CodePipeline, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Azure Pipelines. Built and customised infrastructure for a new Azure application under very strict client restrictions, modernising Terraform (including migrating legacy Terraform JSON to flat HCL). Streamlined build processes to reduce time-to-feature and implemented ephemeral testing environments for complex end-to-end testing. Contributed code and tooling using Python, Go, Node.js, and .NET as required and balanced delivery roadmaps with maintainability.

DevOps Engineer at Serial Affinity Ltd

August 1, 2020 - March 31, 2022

Rebuilt infrastructure from the ground up focusing on idempotency and collaborating with development teams. Worked with Azure infrastructure and AWS EKS within a security-cleared client environment. Overhauled legacy infrastructure to modern standards and dockerised multiple components to improve modularity. Helped drive a move to an Agile workflow, provided desktop support for developers, and responded to emergency incidents as required.

DevOps Engineer at Markup

January 1, 2020 - July 31, 2020

Implemented large-scale infrastructure upgrades and improvements to handle user influxes. Created and improved CI/CD pipelines integrated into Chef cookbooks and environments, with a view to migrating toward Docker containers. Primarily used Ruby and Bash to resolve urgent infrastructure and development environment issues, working with Redis, Apache, Varnish, MySQL, and Docker alongside AWS and traditional hosting technologies.

Web Developer / Consultant at Small Tea Company

October 1, 2019 - February 29, 2020

Improved a Shopify storefront based on client needs, providing feedback and proposed ideas aligned to sales strategy. Utilised customer service insights gained from a support background to inform changes and recommendations.

Technical Director at FreightGuys

October 1, 2018 - October 31, 2019

Developed the backend of a freight services platform and coordinated other developers to ensure prompt delivery. Migrated a .NET application from a single EC2 instance to AWS off-the-shelf services and ECS.

Software Support Engineer at School Cloud Systems

February 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019

Served as main technical contact for in-house applications, relaying issues between support and development teams and resolving them directly where possible. Built a C# MVC API to expose school data via an open-source project and developed a sync tool to bring that data into the in-house system.