Hello
I'm a Senior Platforms Engineer for on-premises and cloud platforms. I specialise in creating innovative solutions to existing infrastructure deficits to make them more efficient for both engineers and users.
Key Projects
I have worked on an automated provisioning process for Linux VMs onto a VMware estate using Ansible to allow users to fill out the details in a survey then end up with a fully CIS hardened server from a single click.
Was project lead on creating a large dockerised Elastic Search environment on bare metal Linux servers.
Upgrading a large SAP estate which included building 300+ VMs using Red Hat clustering.
Experience
June 2023 - Present
Unix Engineer - University of Liverpool
Managing all Unix Operating Systems & Server Hardware for both business application and research departments
Oct 2020 - June 2023
Senior Platforms Engineer - United Utilities
Senior Engineer managing Linux, Windows & VMware infrastructure
Sep 2016 - Oct 2020
Linux Engineer - United Utilities
Starting off as an apprentice in the Unix team I then progressed to a full role managing the Red Hat and Solaris environment of over 1000 servers
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