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Principal Cloud, DevOps and Platform Engineer with 23 years in IT and 12 years hands-on contractor experience, specializing in AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, SRE, cloud governance and platform engineering. Strong engineering-first background with consulting capability to define standards, improve engineering maturity, shape organizational cloud structures, and mentor teams.
Experienced in building secure, governed landing zones, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and GitOps-driven delivery, plus operational resilience via SRE practices (monitoring, incident readiness, DR, chaos testing, and SLA/SLO alignment). Holds multiple AWS and Azure certifications including security-focused credentials, and consistently delivers large-scale transformations, migrations and platform modernization programs.
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AWS Principal DevOps Engineer at Red Badger / Barclays
October 1, 2025 - April 1, 2026Principal engineer supporting an PCI-DSS-aligned AWS platform for Barclays, providing hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and cloud governance across a multi-tenant environment supporting 200+ developers and a shared platform processing ~£250M annual transaction volumes. Subject Matter Expert for PCI-DSS multi-tenant architecture, defining AWS account structure, service mapping, path-to-production model, security governance and tooling, logging architecture, and multi-tenant hub-and-spoke network capabilities (including secure connectivity patterns).
Contributed infrastructure delivery via Terraform PRs across organizations for security services, SCPs, networking, IAM and compute; co-led security tooling governance in the AWS control plane with organization-wide operational management capabilities; created and implemented logging governance model detailing capture/routing/access/control per roles/teams. Helped build containerized application delivery platforms for development
AWS / Azure DataBricks Platform Engineer at Unify.ai (DataBricks partner)
February 1, 2025 - June 1, 2025Principal cloud data platform engineering for DataBricks lakehouse foundations across AWS and Azure: Terraform landing zones, secure networking and managed client delivery. Implemented governed connectivity patterns (PrivateLink/endpoints), RBAC/IAM patterns, catalog/metastore provisioning and repeatable environment creation; reduced deployments to less than 5 minutes via modular Terraform and standardized templates.
Principal Cloud Data Platform Engineer at Unify (Data Bricks platform engagement)
February 1, 2025 - June 1, 2025Principal cloud data platform engineer supporting a DataBricks partner build of secure and repeatable AWS/Azure foundations for DataBricks lakehouse environments. Focused on Terraform, landing zones, secure networking, IAM/RBAC, Unity Catalog, Metastore, compute, and governed client delivery.
Architected and deployed AWS and Azure landing zones for Unify, implementing standardized secure governed environments with enforced control policies for users and roles across sandboxes and subscriptions. Applied AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate Terraform scaffolding, documentation, design validation and repeatable patterns. Delivered scalable compliant cloud infrastructure for DataBricks lakehouse platforms with reduced deployment times to less than 5 minutes. Implemented greenfield AWS & Azure Infrastructure as Code for dual-vendor/customer demands using 25+ custom Terraform modules supporting DataBricks IaaS/PaaS/SaaS offerings.
Built Terraform configurations from the ground u
Azure DevOps / MLOps Engineer at DigyCorp Consultancy
August 1, 2024 - December 1, 2024Azure DevOps/MLOps engineer supporting a sustainability-focused technology organization building an image-processing capability to identify early coral reef health threats. Provided Azure platform engineering for AKS, Terraform, CI/CD and DevSecOps support for scalable ML pipeline delivery and cloud-hosted application workloads.
Supported Azure-based MLOps and platform engineering for image-processing workloads designed to detect early coral reef health threats from visual data. Redesigned Azure infrastructure-as-code into modular multi-environment Terraform structures to improve reuse and simplify pipeline-based deployments. Designed and implemented highly available multi-node AKS clusters supporting containerized applications and ML pipeline workloads including ACR integration, networking and deployment automation. Improved Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for container services (troubleshooting build/deploy errors and environment inconsistencies), defined CI/CD and branching standards
Azure DevOps / MLOps Engineer at Lantern.ai
February 1, 2024 - May 1, 2024Azure DevOps/MLOps engineer supporting a cloud-based data science and insights platform using Azure OpenAI, Machine Learning, Synapse and DataBricks. Provided hands-on Azure engineering to automate, secure, deploy, monitor and manage ML/data workloads plus cloud infrastructure and model-supporting environments.
Contributed to a GitOps-driven approach using Terraform and Flux CD for Git-managed automated infrastructure, code testing and release processes into AKS Kubernetes stacks. Delivered value by improving and extending existing infrastructure-as-code backlog items and creating new templates with a more reusable modular approach compared with monorepo/polyrepo patterns. Managed AKS clustered pod scaling requirements from ~400 active pods to ~800. Supported the ML team with sandboxed data-driven environments for model testing using Synapse Data Warehouse and Cognitive Services. Conducted multi-environment releases including production, simplifying pipelines by unifying and using sou
AWS DevSecOps Engineer at Fin Legal
November 1, 2023 - February 1, 2024AWS DevSecOps engineer supporting a secure information-gathering platform for legal and claims processing. Provided hands-on AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, security tooling and compliance improvements across cloud infrastructure and deployment processes.
Overhauled infrastructure-as-code to reduce nested stack complexity and technical debt in a microservices-based infrastructure structure. Implemented continuous integration using YAML pipelines covering development lifecycle processing, deployment standards and improved security gatekeeping via container scanning, code analysis and integration testing. Reviewed and implemented IAM/RBAC and a Zero Trust approach for user and policy management. Provided IaS/PaaS/SaaS security scanning solutions and defined an aggregated automated compliance framework test approach covering CIS, SOC2, GDPR, AWS, AWS WAF, ISO, and NIST CSF. Produced configuration management scripts for hardening containers from CIS and OWASP as part of a continuous integration Fa
Azure DataOps DevOps Engineer at Salford University
March 1, 2023 - June 1, 2023Azure DataOps DevOps engineer guiding design and implementation of ETL data platforms and pipelines; initiated a landing zone foundation for the organization and facilitated an organization-wide digital transformation to cloud.
Collaborated on design and implementation of multi-region landing zone estates under the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), using AD Pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. Participated in infrastructure-as-code projects for implementation and promotion processes across environments for teams within Azure. Involved in migration requirements for data-center to cloud approaches, assessing current state and providing a seamless secure migration path. Implemented continuous integration and deployment of multiple YAML ETL pipelines across projects using DataBricks Python notebooks, Data Factory and Data Lake. Upskilled IT Ops for SRE-based role management of AD Pipelines usage and management within infrastructure-as-code development. Managed third-party engagement
Education
Multiple GCSEs (A-C) and VQ qualifications at University of Manchester (attendance mentioned; degree not specified)
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2003Qualifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer (SC-100)
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026Microsoft Certified: Azure Architect Expert (AZ-305)
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Expert (AZ-400)
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026HashiCorp Terraform Associate
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026DataBricks Data Engineer Associate (Databricks)
January 1, 2020 - August 20, 2026Industry Experience
Financial Services, Professional Services, Education, Other, Software & Internet
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