Work Experience
7+ years in IT · 5+ years in DevOps across cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering.
DevOps Engineer
Frontiers Media Ltd
Key Responsibilities:
- Championed an AI-first mindset by adopting Cursor with MCP servers for Confluence and Jira, and shared practical workflows with colleagues to improve ticket handling and documentation efficiency
- Configured and deployed monitoring solutions with Fluent Bit, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic
- Analysed platform spend and identified a backup storage misconfiguration saving an estimated $250,000 per year in Azure costs
- Deployed and configured Azure Front Door for performance optimization
- Troubleshot and improved platform availability and resiliency
- Implemented proactive monitoring and alerting systems
- Collaborated with development teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines
- Deployed third-party applications such as Retool, Airbyte, and Gotenberg via Helm charts
- Took part in blameless post-mortems and incident reviews
- Created and maintained SOPs and platform documentation
- Created and maintained effective communication channels with the team and stakeholders
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DevOps Engineer
Graphnet Health Ltd
Key Responsibilities:
- Deployment and availability of National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) - processing 279M+ vaccination events across England
- Implemented blue-green deployment model for Covid-19 England vaccination programme ensuring zero-downtime deployments
- Drafted and implemented geo-redundant disaster recovery solutions with active-active failover for critical healthcare systems
- Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines for microservice deployments supporting 89+ NHS Trusts and organizations
- Deployed proactive monitoring alerts and dashboards ensuring 99.9%+ system availability during peak vaccination periods
- Created reusable Helm charts for Azure Kubernetes Services supporting billion+ API requests from third-party systems
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Junior DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Graphnet Health Ltd
Key Responsibilities:
- Migrated CI/CD pipelines from TeamCity and Octopus to Azure DevOps
- Migrated infrastructure to Platform as a Service (PaaS) model
- Created Terraform scripts with PowerShell DSC for infrastructure automation
- Compiled and built Dockerfiles for containerized applications
- Performed Azure administration including infrastructure, subscriptions, and Azure Active Directory
- Implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions
- Administered Windows Server including group policy, Active Directory, and IIS troubleshooting
Technologies Used:
IT Graduate
Graphnet Health Ltd
Key Responsibilities:
- Check data feeds and maintain
- First line support for IT systems
- Shadowing over team members of Support, Database Administrators, Cloud Engineers and Software Engineers
- Administered Windows Server including group policy, Active Directory, and IIS troubleshooting
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Career Highlights
National Healthcare System
Deployment and availability of National Immunisation Management System (NIMS), during Covid times, which eventually processed 279M+ vaccination events across England with 99.9%+ uptime during peak periods.
Cloud Migration
Successfully migrated infrastructure from on-premises to Platform as a Service (PaaS) model, improving scalability and reducing operational overhead.
Disaster Recovery
Implemented geo-redundant disaster recovery solutions with active-active failover for critical healthcare systems. Utilising such Azure services as: Azure Site Recovery, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway and Azure Managed Instances.
CI/CD Optimization
Migrated CI/CD pipelines from legacy tools (TeamCity & Octopus Deploy) to Azure DevOps, implementing blue-green deployment strategies for zero-downtime releases.
Cloud Cost Optimisation
While reviewing resource group spend at Frontiers, identified a resource costing far more than expected. Root cause analysis revealed a backup storage misconfiguration that was increasing costs each month. After remediation, the fix delivered an estimated $250,000 in annual Azure savings.
Monitoring Excellence
Deployed comprehensive monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic, significantly improving system observability.