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Cloud Infrastructure & Systems Engineer
Building, breaking, and automating things at scale.
// About Me
I'm a cloud infrastructure and systems engineer with over eight years of experience specialising in the design, implementation, and operation of large-scale distributed systems. My expertise spans AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, security, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation.
I currently operate at AWS as a Systems Engineer on Amazon S3, where I build tooling to automate fleet remediation, regional resource deployment, and operational processes across globally distributed infrastructure.
I'm a passionate advocate for observability, automation, and operational excellence. I maintain an extensive home lab across four geographically distributed sites with separate WAN links — covering virtualisation, containerisation, networking, security, and monitoring — and write about it on my blog, Building, Breaking & Automating Things.
// Skills & Technologies
Infrastructure & Cloud
Automation & Tooling
Networking & Security
Observability
Certifications
Education
// Projects
A selection of recent work — click any card for a development deep dive.
// Experience
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Systems Engineer — Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Designed and implemented permissions replication tooling to rectify resource permissions across multiple AWS regions, automating the creation and alignment of team and group resources to ensure consistent access control at scale.
- Developed a diagnostic and automated remediation system for S3 storage server initialisation failures — programmatically identifying failure points across server build workflow steps and remediating fleets of servers, saving $18 million.
- Leading a project to automate regional resource deployment in regions that previously required manual provisioning, using Managed Resource Creation (MRC) and pipeline-based deployment for scalable, repeatable IaC workflows.
- On-call rotations, incident response, and operational improvement — applying Python and Bash to reduce toil, improve observability, and enhance team efficiency.
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IT & Business Systems Manager
Marshall Slingsby Advanced Composites- Led projects to network-enable plant machinery, extracting operational data over the network for monitoring and reporting.
- Conducted business process mapping and ERP customisations for migration from MAX (legacy SSA Global / Infor ERP), achieving a reduction in processing time.
- Directed a team of IT professionals through ERP integration, ensuring seamless data flow across departments.
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IT Support Engineer
Afinite- Delivered expert technical support for complex IT infrastructure, resolving 95% of tickets within SLA.
- Implemented proactive maintenance strategies and advanced monitoring, reducing incident rates.
- Led deployments of new technologies and upgrades, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
- Performed root cause analysis on recurring problems to prevent regressions.
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IT Technician / IT Manager
Intercontinental Brands (ICB) Ltd- Acting IT Manager for technology operations across 3 distributed sites with clustered infrastructure for a £30m manufacturing business.
- Designed and implemented Zabbix monitoring with custom templates for real-time observability, alerting, and telemetry.
- Built Python & Bash automation for patching, server builds, cleanups, and IFS ERP safe shutdown/startup procedures.
- Designed a hybrid HA/DR architecture using Hyper-V clusters with multi-site failover — 99.99% uptime, RTO < 30 minutes.
- Migrated legacy systems to AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean — 15% maintenance cost reduction, 40% scalability improvement.
- Resolved critical network incidents (broadcast storms) via packet analysis and VLAN segmentation, with new monitoring & alerts.
- Implemented IDS/IPS, endpoint management, network isolation, and led data protection compliance initiatives.
// Contact
Find me on the network.