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Career Profile

  • Extensive experience of designing and assuring secure IT solutions in large multi-million
  • Pound enterprise infrastructure projects
  • Excellent technical writing skills and proven ability to communicate complex technical subjects
  • to non-technical or semi-technical audience
  • Well versed with defining and communicating technical strategies and architectures
  • Strong specialism in VMware virtualisation technologies, datacenter tooling, PaaS, IaaS, security and Could computing
  • Good Knowledge of HMG-and CESG standards and guidelines.

Experiences

Head Of Infrastructure Engineering / Cloud Engineer

02/09 - Present
Home Office

Responsible for assuring suppliers design, documentation and implementation of a private cloud type infrastructure solution for the Home Office (project value circa £80m+). As the lead Technical Design Authority I assure, review and signed-off Datacentre related high and low level designs of;

  • DR capable CONTROL-M infrastructure, supporting development, test, production and DR environments across two datacentres
  • Design of SCOM and Patrol based alerting and reporting solution integrated with CA Unicenter service desk function
  • Creation of a protective monitoring solution and hardware classification approach ensuring the infrastructure could meet stringent government security guidelines
  • (GPG13) at IL3
  • Resilient NetBackup based archiving and vaulting solution
  • Automated resource discovery infrastructure using multiple VMWare/EMC Ionix ADM appliances
  • Sun based Oracle RAC infrastructure
  • Creation of a selection of IaaS and PaaS design patterns (Windows Server, Redhat Server, SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS) for use as the basis of a cost model from which the Home Office can choose standards based hosting solutions using a cloud-type model
  • Implementation of capacity planning to ensure VM resource optimization.

Skills & Proficiency

AWS

Terraforma

Golang

HTML5 & CSS