Details & Experience

SAP

Apr 2024 to Present · Greater London, UK · On-site

• ▸ Founder and technical lead of the SAP BTP Operational Delivery team: operational reliability and platform governance for SAP’s Sovereign Cloud platform.
• ▸ Leading DevOps and platform operations for 24/7 production delivery, service onboarding and infrastructure automation.
• ▸ Partnering with 20+ SAP product teams on secure, reliable deployment into a sovereign cloud environment built for regulated, national infrastructure use cases.

SAP

Jun 2023 to Mar 2024 · London, UK

• ▸ Stepped into platform operations for SAP’s sovereign cloud offering, laying the operational groundwork later formalised into the Operational Delivery team.

Nordcloud, an IBM Company

Oct 2021 to Mar 2023 · United Kingdom

• ▸ Embedded with the WebOps team on the NHS App’s Azure infrastructure, building Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines and managing Akamai edge configuration.
• ▸ Led a GCP security audit for AXA Insurance against GCP and HashiCorp best practices, covering Terraform IaC and CI/CD pipeline review (Bash/Python).
• ▸ Delivered core GCP infrastructure for Lloyds Banking, including a Terraform landing zone deployment and Istio integration across IAM, GKE and SCC.

AND Digital

Sep 2020 to Oct 2021 · Manchester, UK

• ▸ Modernised AWS infrastructure for CEF (Electrical Wholesalers), building the AWS Landing Zone in Terraform.
• ▸ Integrated GitLab CI runners on AWS Fargate, connecting Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, SQS, SNS and CloudWatch into the deployment pipeline.

Cloud Technology Solutions

Jul 2018 to Aug 2020 · Manchester, UK

• ▸ Designed and implemented BeyondCorp, a Zero Trust security model for accountant applications on GCP, integrated into the Jenkins pipeline with Terraform and Packer.
• ▸ Built a new Kubernetes (GKE) environment with Terraform and Argo CD.
• ▸ Delivered an MS RDS High Availability cluster for a retail application, deployed via the Jenkins pipeline.

Beauty Bay

Dec 2017 to Jul 2018 · United Kingdom

• ▸ Built and operated AWS infrastructure as code across CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, S3, ASG, Elasticsearch, VPC, Route53, Lambda, SSM, Direct Connect, IAM and CloudWatch.
• ▸ Administered Linux and Windows servers and ran configuration management, deployments and monitoring via Docker, Chef, TeamCity/Octopus and Zabbix.

Mar 2017 to Dec 2017

• ▸ Provided infrastructure support in a Linux- and Git-grounded role.

Inventive IT (acquired by ADVAM in 2014)

Jul 2015 to Feb 2017 · Manchester, UK

• ▸ Provided support engineering across AWS and Linux infrastructure, with hands-on Git-based version control.

Neste Oil

Feb 2014 to Jul 2015

• ▸ Delivered corporate and local IT solutions end-to-end, from project management through development, implementation and ongoing support.
• ▸ Supported Neste Oil’s payment card and invoicing systems, plus international user and infrastructure operations across Windows Server 2008/2012, Unix, Active Directory and telephony (PBX).
• ▸ Contributed to IT strategy and cost-saving initiatives as the team’s IT security specialist.

Neste Oil

Oct 2006 to Feb 2014 · Latvia

• ▸ Provided user and infrastructure support (desktop builds, imaging, storage and backup) for the Latvia office.
• ▸ Managed Windows (XP/7/8) and Windows Server 2008/2012 / UNIX environments, including virtualisation.
• ▸ Supported customer payment card authorisation and invoicing processes.