Brian T.
Senior Cloud Engineer & Technical Architect
Salary / Daily rate
Bournemouth, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
Senior cloud engineer and solutions architect with over 12 years of experience in enterprise-scale cloud transformations across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven expertise in cloud migrations, secure architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevOps automation, achieving a 90% reduction in deployment cycles and an 85% increase in operational efficiency. Proficient in designing resilient, compliant multi-cloud environments and leading end-to-end delivery within remote-first distributed engineering teams.
Work experience
Senior Cloud Engineer
Colibri Digital
Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
4 months
Designed Azure landing zones using Terragrunt and Terraform. Delivered Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog and VNet injection. Implemented zero‑trust networking using private endpoints, NCC and custom DNS.
Cloud Engineer
Freelance
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
3 months
Built cloud infrastructure using multi‑stage Docker builds and GitHub Actions. Implemented secure Azure Terraform state management with automated validation. Provided DevOps coaching and pair‑programming support.
Senior Consultant
Airwalk Reply
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
2 years 6 months
Migrated a multinational SWIFT banking application to AWS with zero downtime. Engineered secure AWS infrastructure using ALB, NLB, PrivateLink, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway and multi‑region RDS Oracle. Developed Terraform modules for closed‑network environments. Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, ECR and ECS. Automated Terraform deployments across 20+ environments.
Platform Engineer
Capgemini
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month
Delivered SRE automation using Python and Ansible, improving observability by 65%. Automated hybrid‑cloud deployments using Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Dynatrace, CloudWatch and ELK. Supported secure infrastructure automation for government programmes.
Senior Cloud Engineer
ITC Compliance Limited
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
4 years 2 months
Bristol, UK
Built and maintained distributed applications across multi‑cloud platforms supporting 100K+ daily transactions. Reduced deployment times by 70% using Docker, Packer, Jenkins and Ansible. Reduced critical incidents by 70% through proactive monitoring with ELK.
Systems Developer
Multiplay
Mar 2013 - Oct 2017
4 years 8 months
Southampton, UK
Developed backend systems using Django, Go and PHP for 250K+ concurrent users. Built cloud provisioning systems using AWS EC2 and Google Cloud SDKs, reducing costs by 35%. Engineered resilient game server infrastructure supporting 10× traffic spikes.
Education
Whitehead‑Ross Education
NVQ Level 2, Hospitality, Leisure & Travel
2025 - 2025
1 month
Basingstoke Training
NVQ Level 2 Certificate, AutoCAD Design
2008 - 2008
1 month
North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College
Foundation Degree, Computing
2001 - 2002
1 year
Grade: A
Licenses & certifications
Scrum Foundation (CertiProf)
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Cisco Cybersecurity Pathway & Threat Management
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CSA CCSK v4
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Cloud Digital Leader
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Systems Engineer (Intermediate)
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Google Cloud Architect (Professional)
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Data Fundamentals
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Azure Fundamentals
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Azure Administrator (Associate)
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Azure DevOps Engineer (Expert)
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AWS Data Analytics
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AWS Networking
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AWS Security
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AWS DevOps Engineer (Professional)
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AWS Solutions Architect (Professional & Associate)
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