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UBSSenior Engineer - Cloud/DevOps
Apr. 2020London, England Metropolitan Area · RemoteKey Responsibilities • Working in Market Regulations migrating massive product portfolios to cloud from on-prem. • Former Member of Tiger Team providing internal consultancy to help Developer Teams onboard to cloud rapidly • Mentoring and sharing knowledge with colleagues and other teams • Ownership and maintenance of the DevOps cloud knowledge base • Working with teams across multiple countries/time zones to deliver services to the business
Key Achievements • Creation of terraform code to perform common cloud tasks and deploy frequently used resources • Rolled out UBS Investment Banks first ever cloud infrastructure deployment using Gitlab, terraform, ADO and Azure • Creation of customised docker images (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash) to connect Azure Data Factory to Elasticsearch via Logstash • Devised and deployed Linux based system for receiving incoming files from multiple upstream datafeed sources for ingestion into databricks
Kindred Group plcSenior Engineer, Platform Engineering and Automation
Jul. 2011 - Jan. 2020Wimbledon, UK / Stockholm, SwedenKindred (formerly Unibet) is one of the largest online gambling operators in the European market with over 7.0 million customers worldwide in over 150 countries. Founding team member for development of "Pipeline" deployment of Java/Glassfish/Springboot and other applications with CI/CD using GitOps, Thoughtworks "Go", Jenkins, Python, Puppet, Ansible, Liquibase, Foreman, RHEV, Artifactory, Vagrant, Docker, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Openstack and other fun stuff in a DevOps/Agile/Kanban environment. Created deployment pipelines in Jenkins for rollout of Openstack/TripleO undercloud and components. Migrated large numbers of java components from bare metal to AWS/Kubernetes Reduced production deployment times to under 1 hour from bug report. Fluent with most of Atlassian product suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Artifactory etc). Designed and implemented rollout mechanisms for CI pipeline deployments into production PCI-DSS systems. Implemented tools and pipelines to automate deployment of Big Data components (Hortonworks Ambari, Datastax/Opscenter) Developed automated vulnerability scanning with OWASP ZAP into CI pipeline to provide change managers/security officers with reports of product susceptibility to known attacks prior to approving releases.
IMG MediaLinux/Cloud Specialist Consultant
Mar. 2011 - Jun. 2011Chiswick, West London, UK* Designed and built a private/hybrid cloud infrastructure using CloudStack Community Edition hosting RHEL5.6/6/CentOS 5.6 guests.
* Automation using Cobbler with scripting in bash, perl and python, many custom snippets created
* SAN infrastructure using XFS and iSCSI over Brocade switches,10Gb bonded interfaces to provide 20Gb bandwidth, tens of Petabytes of storage
* Supermicro Blades and management
* Huawei Blades and management
* Monitoring using Nagios and Opsview
CrowdSurge.comCloud Systems Consultant
Nov. 2010 - Jan. 2011* Triaged existing AWS web and database servers to provide capacity for 5K hits/second, upgraded to CentOS 5.5 from Fedora 9 - Zend PHP framework supporting custom application
* Delivered strategy document to scale to 10K concurrent users, ensuring ticket allocations are sold in the available time at optimum cost/benefit levels using AWS autoscaling, memcache and db sharding
BetfairInfrastructure Systems Consultant (Logica Associate)
Feb. 2010 - Oct. 2010London, EnglandWorked in the Partner Development Team, acting as central liaison point to coordinate environment problem resolution, interfacing with multiple (and multinational) internal teams such as Infosec, Networks, Linux, Windows, Integration and also various outsourced suppliers. Provided guidance and setup support to new outsourced developer partner companies, gaining authorisation for access to Betfair internal environments, APIs and components and mentoring their developers in getting set up. As a consultant, assessed security, network and stability issues with Development/QA Environments consisting of over 1000 Xen hosted Virtual Machines spanning 4 global Datacentres. There were mainly running CentOS 5.x, Apache, MySQL, JBoss as a base platform. I drove resolution and improvements for specific network and security issues with IS Senior Managers and Teams. I created a script toolkit to troubleshoot SSL certificate problems and provide advance warning of specific element failures and drove problem resolution in the gaming and arcade application environments. Also provided delivery assurance to the marketing department for product development and rollout of key, critical event specific website promotions such as Cheltenham, Aintree Grand National, Football World Cup, and also larger projects such as BetChecker, which compared odds from online betting companies over the past 5 years.
TVTLinux Specialist/Consultant
Dec. 2009 - Dec. 2009Provided consultancy on firewalls with RHEL 5.3/iptables, web content filtering with squid as a transparent proxy, squidguard and viralator
Greener SolutionsConsultant Technical Architect
Jun. 2009 - Sep. 2009Deployed Amazon EC2 Cloud based web servers to service trading requests generated by prime time TV advertisements in Spain taking over 5000 hits/second. Platforms based on Centos (RedHat) 5.3, Apache, MySQL 5, Squid reverse proxy. Created perl interface to courier web services to arrange collection of unwanted mobile handsets. Created perl modules to interface with Spanish Banks and make batch payments in cuardino34 format
Sirius Corporation plcLinux Consultant
May. 2009 - May. 2009Worked on a desktop migration project for a Sirius client.
TIBCO SoftwareInterim Technical Project Manager
Mar. 2009 - Apr. 2009Planning and quote preparation for Vodafone Regional Integration Gateway Project
Reviews of high and low level designs incorporating multple protocols
Creation of acceptance criteria and associated process documentation
Vierfire Software LtdInterim CTO
Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2009Vierfire is a company specialising in providing innovative security products for IT services.
Alcatel-LucentTechnical Project Manager
Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2009Ran 3 interrelated complex technical projects with 22 workstreams for their customer, Vodafone. These involved deployment of business critical systems based on RHEL Linux & MySQL for over 16M additional subscribers capacity (Prepay, HLR and IN), decommissioning over 100 legacy network elements to reduce OPEX and managing a software development project for a new prepay marketing proposition.
Land Securities plcIS Technical Lead
Oct. 2007 - Dec. 2007IS workstream lead on flexible working programme, responsible for delivering VOIP, Flexible Computing, WIreless Networking, Document Management, Resource Booking, Online Collaboration, Location Independent training and Audio Visual solutions.
Systems Mechanics LtdTechnical Project Manager
Apr. 2007 - Aug. 2007Responsible for managing delivery of a number of Network Management Products into Vodafone to deliver network simplification, upgrades, systems integration and consultancy & training services.
Vodafone UKTechnical Project Manager
May. 2005 - Mar. 2007Senior Technical Project Manager for Vodafone UK, May 2005-May 2007.
Initial brief was management of complex project in PRINCE2/MSP environment with virtual teams, multiple dependencies and at least 3 concurrent 3rd party suppliers to design and implement a revised architecture for the TeMIP and SMARTS network management systems. The goal was to reduce complexity, support costs and provide high availability solutions and fault tolerance for a priority 1 mission critical service by reducing the number of geographically distributed servers from 65 to 28 high availability clusters in reorganised data centres. The role was subsequently expanded to take in transitioning further related Network Management Systems projects into live.
Open Source Migrations LtdCTO
Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2007Designed and deployed internal infrastructure
Created product range based on FLOSS Software
Created Web Sites based on Drupal for CMS, OSCommerce for online sales, Moodle for online training courses, SugarCRM for CRM and Scalix OS for internal groupware use.
Comet StoresTechnical Consultant (Paul Mason Consulting - Associate Consultant)
Nov. 2004 - Feb. 2005Designed and delivered innovative rapid deployment mechanism for Windows XP and underlying application suite on laptops and desktops. Deployment time reduced to under ten minutes, exceeding customer expectations.
Vodafone UKTechnical Lead
May. 2002 - Sep. 2004Asked by a main board director to assess a stalled project to provide field engineers with rapid access to the “Clarify” workflow tool. Re-engineered the technical design, introducing Blackberry handheld devices and a middleware layer. Responsibilities included preparation of the business case, design documentation, technical assurance criteria, project documentation and chairing design and project meetings, planning of pilot and live infrastructure deployment and liaison with 3rd party suppliers such as IBM. The revised project was sponsored by main board directors with high visibility. Presented the project to the CTO and senior executives, sales/marketing departments and external customers such as the NHS, Barclays and Bank of Australia. Deliverables were successfully rolled out on time and budget during 2003 and hailed as “a fantastic achievement” by VF marketing, who now use the product as a showcase. The end result was a significant cost reduction of £1.7m p/a.
Greener Solutions LtdInterim I.T. Director
Jun. 2001 - May. 2002A co-founder of this company, Jack was responsible for the complete IS strategy of this now pan-european leader of electronics recycling services, including internal office infrastructures for London and Munich offices, external communications and international VPN. Also managed the design and implementation of a bespoke RDBMS system for capturing data on recycled mobile phones and integrated this with several clients MIS systems. Designed and implemented additional modules to interface with the German banking system to handle volumes from 10,000 partner high street phone dealerships. Also dealt with 3rd party suppliers, external datacentre hosting, operational resilience issues, attended and presented at pre-sales meetings in UK and Germany. The brief involved operating within strictly limited budgets providing maximum value for money. The company has now trademarked the RDBMS system and uses it successfully as a competitive edge in sales discussions with new clients.
English HeritageConsultant
Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2001Part of a team to provide independant guidance on supplier and product selection for a new membership system. My role was to provide input on the networking and integration aspects.
Genie InternetLead Technical Architect
Oct. 2000 - Jun. 2001Led the design of a new web/wap portal system for this ISP’s customer base of 4.5m users, planned the infrastructure deployment of 60 Sun servers, firewalls, load balancers, switches and fibre cabling etc. into BT data centres. Regular liaison with senior management, 3rd party suppliers and partners such as Sun, Network Appliances, Phone.com, Cisco, Oracle, Sybase and BT Syncordia (Outsourced IT service providers).
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