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I am a DevOps engineer with 5+ years of experience delivering modern, scalable and secure cloud solutions. I drive cloud transformations and automation initiatives from discovery through implementation, building high-performing DevOps cultures and mentoring teams to deliver with agility and purpose.
I specialise in migrating legacy systems to the cloud, designing resilient infrastructures, and enabling observable, automated operations. I enjoy collaborating across teams to solve complex problems and continuously improve delivery and security.
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Work Experience
Consulting DevOps Engineer at Version 1
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025Delivered scalable cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions for public and private sector clients using Terraform. Line-managed engineers, mentored teams, and completed the Empowered Manager Programme. Led legacy application migration to AWS with automated CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Windows provisioning (PowerShell) and Terraform-based infrastructure; established DataDog monitoring, disaster recovery and backup testing. Modernised a monolithic web application to a scalable AWS/Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, created containerised CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, implemented Grafana/Kibana observability and alerting, and defined security-compliant authentication/authorization strategies. Led Agile delivery, authored Confluence documentation, and acted as Tech Lead mentoring engineers.
Consulting DevOps Engineer at Automation Logic
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2023Delivered large-scale cloud projects across public sector and financial services. Mentored junior engineers, supported Agile delivery and led knowledge-sharing sessions. Managed Terraform-based cloud migrations and optimised AWS environments (cost reductions, right-sizing, automation). Deployed Kubernetes clusters and containerised deployments with CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI); implemented Grafana/Kibana monitoring and incident response. Performed system provisioning, database deployments and security monitoring; produced technical documentation and coached teams.
Education
MEng Aerospace Engineering at The University of Manchester, UK
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2019Qualifications
Empowered Manager Programme
January 1, 2024 - February 5, 2025Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Professional Services, Government, Financial Services
- Maintained cloud infrastructure across 30+ projects (Windows/Linux systems), ensuring performance, reliability and security; extensive use of Bash & PowerShell scripting for system admin
- Provided daily operational support(access, networking, database issues and CI/CD pipeline failures).
- Performed regular application releases, data refreshes and system updates.
- Designed, built and deployed the infrastructure for various apps from inception to production using ARM templates and Ansible
- Built and managed CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Octopus) for automated and consistent deployments across environments.
- Wrote technical documentation; trained and coached engineers to share expertise across teams.
- Managed infrastructure(Terraform) for multiple cloud-native apps, improving availability & reliability.
- Reduced cloud costs by 75% (optimisation strategies - right-sizing, automation, resource cleanup); automated processes and setup systems using Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Led migrations to client’s modernised AWS platforms, minimising downtime and ensuring continuity.
- Delivered Kubernetes clusters, containerised deployments, set up helm charts and CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI) depending on app and developer requirements
- Implemented system monitoring and incident response procedures (Grafana, Kibana)
- Handled system-level tasks (server provisioning, database deployments and upgrades, security monitoring and incident response).
- Produced technical documentation, peer-reviewed code, conducted knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Led end-to-end migration of multiple Azure servers to AWS and set up infrastructure using Terraform; ensured automation setting up and maintaining pipelines (GitLab, AWS CodePipeline)
- Handled access management and permissions using Domain Controllers and Active Directory.
- Improved operational efficiency with scripted automation of routine tasks(using PowerShell, Python).
- Collaborated across project managers, architects, UX and engineering teams to modernise and migrate a monolithic legacy web application to a scalable AWS-based microservices architecture.
- Designed Kubernetes-based infrastructure, enabling scalable containerised CI/CD pipelines(GitLab).
- Led troubleshooting as SME; implemented Grafana & Kibana observability and set up alerting strategies to support SRE best practices.
- Evaluated and integrated Authentication & Authorisation solutions aligned with security and compliance standards; set up infrastructure using Terraform
- Established Agile WoW and delivery frameworks, produced technical documentation on Confluence.
- Acted as Tech Lead, mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, resolving critical issues.
- Migrated and modernised legacy on-prem application to AWS, improving performance, scalability, cost-efficiency and eliminating licensing issues.
- Automated deployment via CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), cutting release time from 8 hrs to 50 mins; automated processes and setup Windows systems using PowerShell
- Set up infrastructure using Terraform; set up monitoring (DataDog), disaster recovery and backup strategies with regular testing to validate recoverability.
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