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I'm a Belfast-based Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of designing, deploying, and managing resilient cloud and on-prem environments. I specialize in DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes. I'm adept at driving cost-effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I'm currently seeking a remote UK/IE-based role in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering. In my free time I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and building a gaming-focused blog.…I'm a Belfast-based Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of designing, deploying, and managing resilient cloud and on-prem environments. I specialize in DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes. I'm adept at driving cost-effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I'm currently seeking a remote UK/IE-based role in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering. In my free time I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and building a gaming-focused blog.

Richard Rea

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I'm a Belfast-based Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of designing, deploying, and managing resilient cloud and on-prem environments. I specialize in DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes. I'm adept at driving cost-effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I'm currently seeking a remote UK/IE-based role in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering. In my free time I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and building a gaming-focused blog.…I'm a Belfast-based Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of designing, deploying, and managing resilient cloud and on-prem environments. I specialize in DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes. I'm adept at driving cost-effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines. I'm currently seeking a remote UK/IE-based role in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering. In my free time I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and building a gaming-focused blog.

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I’m a Belfast-based Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of designing, deploying, and managing resilient cloud and on-prem environments. I specialize in DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), automation (PowerShell, Bash), and Kubernetes. I’m adept at driving cost-effective migrations, system hardening, and supporting CI/CD pipelines.

I’m currently seeking a remote UK/IE-based role in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering. In my free time I enjoy building home-lab environments, following cloud innovation trends, and building a gaming-focused blog.

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Work Experience

Observability and Automation Engineer at Liquidnet

September 1, 2025 - Present

Monitoring logging systems worldwide for issues while managing alerts and rules. Diagnosing issues raised by monitoring. Migrating monitoring from Windows application to web-based dashboard. Managing and filtering our unnecessary alerts to reduce alert noise. Conducting post mortems on incidents to prevent reoccurrences and improve monitoring.

Infrastructure Engineer at Hughes Insurance

October 1, 2023 - August 31, 2025

Migrated 5+ years of email data from Mailmeter to Mimecast cloud archive using semi-automated ingestion tools avoiding large migration fees and increased licensing costs. Migrated production and DR VM environments to modern Dell VMware ESXi infrastructure with minimal disruption and downtime. Decommissioned legacy servers, consolidating workloads, reducing licensing and improving performance, security and reliability. Automated Windows 11 rollout via InTune deployment profiles and PowerShell scripts. Implemented disaster recovery replication using Zerto and managed backup policies with Rubrik. Consolidated SQL workloads to reduce licensing and replication overhead. Migrated FTP systems to new server, increasing security and reliability while adding automation to reduce human error. BAU support for non-IT staff including PDQ rollout of new/updated applications.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Optiva

January 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023

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

Infrastructure Engineer at Blue Zinc

November 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022

Migrated 1200+ SQL DBs, apps, and 10TB+ of data from local servers to GCP. Made the platform choice based on cost-performance benchmarks. Used Terraform, Bash, and PowerShell for cloud provisioning, DB exports/imports, and scheduling automated rollouts. Automated backups and health checks for ZFS and cloud DBs using g cloud CLI and custom scripts all still in use. Hardened servers using Ansible and enforced security best practices across VMs. Supported Kubernetes workloads and CI/CD pipelines in Azure and Ubuntu VMs. Replicated internal build pipelines in Azure for large clients to do early testing. Provided self-service tools and documentation for users to manage DBs and infrastructure, all still in use. Participated in on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 uptime and incident response. BAU processes such as scheduled releases, access, permissions, scaling systems as needed. Participated in ISO27001 compliance procedures to maintain certification.

Automation Engineer at Johnson Controls

November 1, 2013 - September 30, 2019

Introduced Jenkins to test department, streamlining test processes and automating massive workloads. Built and maintained daily end to end CI pipelines integrated with TFS and VMware ESXi environments for testing different builds, OSes and workloads using full DirectX video testing. Planned, purchased and installed new rack ESXi hosts with passthrough GPUs, expanding automated testing capacity. Automated regression testing, smoke tests, and VM provisioning using PowerShell and custom scripts. Reduced manual testing time by 50% via end-to-end virtualised automation frameworks. Regular release and patch test smoke testing for BAU releases.

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 environments including Jenkins for continuous integration. Built test infrastructure using Windows Server, Jenkins, and SQL DBs. Automation feed handler test tool maintenance maintaining stability of test environments. Regular release and patch testing.

QA Analyst at NYSE Euronext

November 1, 2011 - March 31, 2013

Managed test environments and supported QA activities.

Testing Engineer & Test Department Systems Administrator at Meridio

January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2006

Performed testing duties and administered test systems.

Laboratory Demonstrator and Assistant at Queen's University Belfast

January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2010

Demonstrating, tutoring, marking & invigilating; supported students with practical assignments in Java, XHTML, CSS, ASP, JavaScript; assessed student work and supporting undergraduate exams.