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Details & Experience
Principal DevOps & Platform Engineering Leader based in London, focused on sovereign and national cloud infrastructure. I found platform gaps before they become incidents — governance, automation, and the CI/CD backbone that lets twenty-plus teams ship safely into regulated environments.
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Principal DevOps Engineer
currentSAP
Apr 2024 — 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.
Senior DevOps Engineer
SAP
Jun 2023 — 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.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Nordcloud, an IBM Company
Oct 2021 — 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.
Cloud Engineer
AND Digital
Sep 2020 — 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 Platform Engineer
Cloud Technology Solutions
Jul 2018 — 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.
AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Beauty Bay
Dec 2017 — 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.
Support Engineer
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Mar 2017 — Dec 2017
- ▸ Provided infrastructure support in a Linux- and Git-grounded role.
Support Developer
Inventive IT (acquired by ADVAM in 2014)
Jul 2015 — Feb 2017 · Manchester, UK
- ▸ Provided support engineering across AWS and Linux infrastructure, with hands-on Git-based version control.
IT System Analyst
Neste Oil
Feb 2014 — 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.
IT Support Technician
Neste Oil
Oct 2006 — 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.
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Cloud Platforms
Orchestration
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Security & Governance
Scripting & Ops
# open to
Principal/Staff platform engineering leadership
Full-time leadership roles or advisory work in sovereign cloud, platform governance and Kubernetes at scale — always glad to talk through a hard infrastructure problem first.
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