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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Commonwealth BankSenior Site Reliability Engineer
May. 2024Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaProvide SRE guidance to the greater CBA team and build and support platforms that make the adoption of the SRE principals less burdensome
Head of DevOps
Legal & GeneralHead of DevOps
Feb. 2023 - Nov. 2023London, England, United Kingdom
Head of DevOps
CheckitHead of DevOps
Aug. 2021 - Jan. 2023London, England, United Kingdom
Vice President - SRE
CitiVice President - SRE
Aug. 2020 - Aug. 2021London, England, United Kingdom* Partnering with Citi’s DevOps and Infrastructure organisations to develop and deliver best-of- breed solutions for development environment, automated QA (functional, capacity, performance and regulatory testing), CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring and alerting, resilience and disaster recovery. * Working across Development, QA and Production Support teams to reduce toil by automating all repetitive, predictable tasks. * Producing concrete, automatic measurements of key metrics such as uptime, mean time between failures, mean time to recovery, release frequency and size, change-related incidents and others; use them to target and track improvements. * Diving into the application code when required and encouraging shared ownership of the platform across functions. * Developing shared tools across functions so that all teams have the same toolset and ability to enact change.
Unemployed
Unemployed at this timeUnemployed
Jun. 2020 - Aug. 2020London, England, United Kingdom* Australian needing visa sponsorship * I'm eligible to apply for ILR, but the Home Office is not accepting applications because it's not possible to do the "Living in the UK" test. * Currently trying to convince the Home Office to create Provisional ILR's for people in my position, as I don't look forward to being forced to go back to Australia if I can't get sponsored.
Lead Devops Engineer
BeameryLead Devops Engineer
Jan. 2020 - Jun. 2020London, United Kingdom
DevOps Engineer
ArachnysDevOps Engineer
May. 2019 - Dec. 2019London, United KingdomImplement strategic architecture in next phase of the company’s growth: • Re-architecting and automating the implementation of an EKS-based Kubernetes cluster using Ansible and Terraform. The automation included the support for ephemeral blue/green clusters, where the “blue” environment is always created via IaC and tested before automated swapping to become the “green” environment. • Assisting in the development of a new Microservice Architecture via DDD • Implemented an Istio-based Service mesh on Kubernetes pods • Implemented Kong API Gateway as an ingress controller in Kubernetes • Creation of an Elastic Search cluster and daily loading jobs all defined as IaC.
Principal
MYJARPrincipal
Apr. 2018 - Oct. 2018London, United Kingdom• Internal Thought Leader in Digital, and DevOps • Support the Risk team for Architecture and DevOps • Research, design and build the next gen application environment based on Kubernetes and made cloud agnostic via Rancher • Successfully migrating a manual build and deploy of a critical microservice in a single Docker container, to an automatic blue/green deployment of multiple docker containers in AWS Elastic Beanstalk for 3 environments • Improvement of the AWS AMI build pipeline for Elastic Beanstalk based solutions
Principal
ThoughtWorksPrincipal
May. 2017 - Dec. 2017London, United KingdomThought Leadership within and externally on DevOps and Agile delivery Technical Lead in Digital Transformation Delivery
Director - Cloud Foundation Services
CapgeminiDirector - Cloud Foundation Services
Jul. 2016 - May. 2017London, United KingdomWorking with management and colleagues to create the Cloud Consulting and Delivery Strategy, as well as influencing the DevOps offerings for CapGemini UK.
Agility Professional Services Manager, EMEA
CSCAgility Professional Services Manager, EMEA
Aug. 2015 - Jul. 2016London, United KingdomManage and grow the EMEA Professional Services Team for the Agility Cloud Management Platform. Participate in significant Bids Liaise with large and important clients
Principal Architect
Akana by PerforcePrincipal Architect
Apr. 2011 - Aug. 2015World Wide responsibility for Major Corporate Customers in the installation and customisation of SOA Software's API Management and SOA Governance Products
SOA/ESB Architect
WestpacSOA/ESB Architect
Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2010REsponsible for the SOA Governance solution and implementation
Partner
AmberPoint SoftwarePartner
Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2009Sold AmberPoint products and design and delivered SOA Governance solutions based on these products
Architect
Deutsche BankArchitect
Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2002helped design white label platform
Lead Architect
SurfboardLead Architect
Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2000designed nd helped implement a white-label financial platform
Solutions Architect
eServGlobalSolutions Architect
Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2000designed and help implement CSS platform for IP phone network
CTO
Japara SolutionsCTO
Mar. 1998 - Dec. 2011Chief Designer of J2EE and SOA based solutions. Enterprise Architectures a specialty
Enterprise Architect
Zurich Financial ServicesEnterprise Architect
Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2000Enterprise architect responsible for distributed computing, including OMG representation
Cheif Architect
Westpac, Zurich, Optus, Deutsche BankCheif Architect
Jan. 1990 - Dec. 2001various positions os cheif or senior Architect or Designer for large Financial Services or Telecommunications companies
various
BHP Information Technologyvarious
Jan. 1984 - Dec. 1998

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